Production history of Wudibei porcelain

The activity of firing shellfish porcelain in Wudi County has existed since ancient times. According to the survey data of geographical names culture in Wudi County, in 1950s, archaeologists discovered an ancient well at Hanjiayao site in Wudi Town, Wudi County, from which a stone rammer, a stone mill, ceramic fragments and a relatively complete porcelain plate were unearthed. The porcelain of ceramics is exquisite, with high whiteness and good translucency. Later, a horizontal semi-elliptical ancient kiln was excavated at 1 km north of the ancient well. There are clear traces of stewed clay and blue bricks on the walls of the kiln. It is verified that this is the kiln site for firing shellfish porcelain in ancient times.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were sporadic folk kilns in Wudi County to produce shell porcelain, but the production technology and technology were very backward, with a single variety and a very low pass rate. After that, these folk kilns closed down one after another, and Wudibei porcelain almost disappeared.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, Wudi County Party Committee and government proposed to use the shell sand with local resource advantages to burn high-grade daily-use fine porcelain, and established Wudi County Shell Resources Development Company in 199 1. On the basis of absorbing folk production technology, we "collect the masterpieces of famous kilns all over the country and the essence of porcelain-making skills" and cooperate with Tsinghua University and other well-known domestic universities and research institutes. After three years of painstaking research, Wudibei porcelain was industrialized in 1994, won the national invention patent in 1999, won the second prize of national technical invention in 2000, and reached the production scale of more than 30,000 pieces of high-grade daily-use shellfish porcelain with an annual output of/kloc-0 in 2005. Products are exported to Korea, Germany, Australia, South Africa and other places. 20 1 1, Wudibei porcelain was selected as the porcelain for the central leading plane and the national gift porcelain. 20 1 1 1 During President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States, President Obama received four pieces of sea porcelain as a national gift.