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Pottery - Yixing tea pot

  
[ 2006-03-09 21:58:21 pm | Author: Admin ]
Chinese pottery, Chinese Yixing tea pot

Yixing ( pronounced Yee-shing ) is a small city that became famous due to a unique type of clay that is only found there. This unique clay is called Zisha. Zisha Clay is found in five different colors...red, yellow, green, black and purple. It has been used in pottery for over 3,000 years. The properties of the clay make it the perfect vessel for brewing tea. With use, the teapot
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Chinese handicraft - Chinese Cloisonné

  
[ 2006-03-09 21:54:18 pm | Author: Admin ]
Chinese Cloisonné vase

Cloisonné is a famous traditional enamelware with a history of over 500 years. Cloisonné is one of the famous arts and crafts of Beijing. The making of cloisonné requires rather elaborate and complicated processes: base-hammering, copper-strip inlay, soldering, enamel-filling, enamel-firing, polishing and gilding. 

Base-hammering of body is the first step

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A Brief History of Chinese Ceramics and Celadon

  
[ 2006-03-09 21:45:44 pm | Author: Admin ]
Chinese ceramics, Celadon, ceramics history

Ceramics began in China 6,000 years ago during the New Stone Age, whose advent was marked, among other things, by the invention of pottery. The earliest earthenware was moulded by hand; the potter's wheel came much later. At the beginning the clay was fired at a temperature of some 500-600 c. Painted pottery began to be known during the period of Yangshao and Longshan cultures. 

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Chinese handicraft - Anhui Xuan Paper

  
[ 2006-03-08 21:46:02 pm | Author: Admin ]
Paper was invented by Cai Lun (7-121), according to historical records. Paper is of many kinds, but Xuan paper has been considered best throughout the ages for Chinese calligraphy. Xuan paper is produced in Jing County, Anhui Province. The county was under the jurisdiction of Xuanzhou Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Jing County paper was first shipped to Xuanzhou, then transshipped ...

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Chinese handicraft - Anhui She Ink stone

  
[ 2006-03-08 21:37:24 pm | Author: Admin ]
The history of ink stone goes back to over 5,000 years ago. There is a lot of archeological evidence that Chinese used ink stone for grinding ink. There was a stone ink stone found in a 5,000-year-old archeological site in Jiazhai of Shanxi Province.


Chinese craft, handicraft - ink stone
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