Dehua: China's contemporary famous porcelain production area, in 2003 was called "the hometown of Chinese folk (ceramics) art, won the title of "Chinese porcelain capital".
White-glazed porcelain is, it, by the time of the Sui Dynasty, it had already matured. In the Tang Dynasty, white glazed porcelain had a new development, and the whiteness of porcelain also reached more than 70%, close to the standard of modern high-grade fine porcelain, which laid a solid foundation for underglaze and overglaze porcelain.
White porcelain is a type of traditional Chinese porcelain classification (celadon, blue and white porcelain, colored porcelain, white porcelain). It is made of porcelain blanks with low iron content and fired with pure transparent glaze.
Dehua white porcelain because of its fine production, dense texture, crystal like jade, glaze moisturizing like fat, so it has "ivory white", "lard white", "goose down white" and other reputations, in China's white porcelain system has a unique style, in the history of ceramic development occupies an important position, in the international "oriental art" reputation.
The fame of Dingyao white porcelain began in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the firing of Dingyao white porcelain began in the Tang Dynasty. The site of Dingyao Kiln is located in Quyangjian Magnetic Village, Hebei. The Dingyao white porcelain of the Tang Dynasty has similar characteristics to the Xingyao white porcelain, and the shapes include bowls, plates, trays, filling pots, basins, three-legged stoves and toys. Compared with the works of the Five Dynasties period, the edges of the vessels have thick lips, full shoulders, flat bottoms, and round cake-like solid bottoms, and some have jade bottoms. Most of the white porcelain of Tang dynasty Dingyao is similar to the white porcelain of Xingyao at that time, the fetal bone section is thinner, the fetal color is white, and there is another type of fetal bone is thicker, the section is relatively thick, but the sintering is better.
There are many varieties of porcelain tea sets, the main ones are: celadon tea sets, white porcelain tea sets, black porcelain tea sets and colored porcelain sets. These tea utensils have had a glorious page in the history of the development of Chinese tea culture.
