Penholder Hill Song kiln, locates at Xiang Bridge, west foot of Penholder Hill. Ancient site north from Tiger head moutain, south to Mark Hill, continuous for 2 kilometer, kiln site row upon row of, mass at the foot of Penholder Hill, still called “Hundred kiln villages”.
Penholder kiln field early set up in Tang Dynasty, prosperous in Song. Its products far sold in and overseas, become one of the China porcelain export base, praised as “Guangdong Porcelain City”. Various products, main has daily vessel, bottle, character, toy includes bowl, box, calyx, lamp, stove, bottle, calyx, kettle, bath, pillow, puff box, etc, its padding quality hard and dense, having a unique style. Take image green glaze as the main color, also has green, white, yellow, catsup brown, glaze quality crystal and moist, like silver and similar with jade, most not opening line or only thin fish lines; adorn veins mainly take flower, also has engrave and carved hollow. New Zealand Ai Li, after visiting Chaozhou ancient porcelain item on display, said excitingly: “I have seen lots of porcelain in foreign countries, originally its hometown just here!” Penholder Hill Song kiln add a splendid page to ancient China and foreign culture communication, to China civilization history.
Since 1953, Guangdong museum and Chaozhou culture operator, assort capital construction project carry excavate to Song kiln site time after time, liquidate 11 kiln sites successively, among them has rank shape dragon kiln, still has slope dragon kiln. The longest No 10 is about 78 meters long, about 3 meters wide, except for kiln head and fire chamber were destroyed, kiln wall, end, fire wall, rank separate girder are all preserved well, besides also excavated large quantity porcelain, among them has Zhang article “Ma aunt forward wine”, little foreigner and Pekinese, still has Kwan-yin joss adorned with handlebar. Moreover most precious is the year “Zhi Ping”, “Xi Ning” and craftsman’s name “Water east middle kiln A” posy carved on entablement of Sakymuni Buddha.
In recent years, Chaozhou porcelain production base already move to Fengxi, ancient alley, phoenix pond, along with Saorao, Jiuchun. Chaozhou porcelain especially famous for industrial arts porcelain, possess rec praise “White like jade, flimsy as paper, bright like mirror, sound as bell”. Also get rid of the stale and bring forth the fresh on colored drawing. Forming Chaozhou style that originality elegant, pattern clear, line fluency, arrangement evidently, color rich, fill color and pile gold, light and golden, unique manner. From Penholder hill Song dynasty “Hundred kiln village” to maple brook porcelain's renewedly grow up, refract Chaozhou profound human details and porcelain culture's glitter brilliance. |
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