Ceramics is the floorboard of pottery and porcelain, and it is also a kind of arts and crafts in China. As early as the Neolithic Age, there were rough and simple painted pottery and black pottery in China. Pottery and porcelain have different textures and characteristics. Pottery, made of clay with high viscosity and strong plasticity, is opaque, with fine pores, weak water absorption and turbid tapping sound.
Porcelain is made of clay, feldspar and quartz. Translucent, non-absorbent, corrosion-resistant, hard and dense, with crisp knocking sound. China traditional ceramic handicrafts are famous for their high quality, beautiful appearance and high artistic value.
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The emergence and development of ceramics are actually closely related to people's life and production practice. In primitive times about 700,000 years ago, people dried the soil and barbecued the hard containers used to hold water and store food with fire.
Is the beginning of pottery. According to the latest archaeological data, the earliest pottery sites in China are Xianren Cave in Wannian County, Jiangxi Province, Qingtang in Yingde, Guangdong Province, Slippery Stone Cave in Lingshan, Pipiyan in Guilin Town, Guangxi, etc.
Its main varieties are gray pottery, painted pottery, black pottery and geometric printed pottery. The technique is rough and the composition is novel and smooth, which shows the technical level of pottery making at that time.