Yixing Ceramic Museum

Yixing Ceramic Museum is the earliest professional ceramic Museum in China, founded by Shi Shunhua, the first curator, with a history of nearly 50 years.

The museum area is built close to the mountain and is magnificent. It integrates exhibition, research, exhibition, tourism, shopping and academic exchange of ceramic art.

This is a collection of treasures from various periods, among which the works of famous purple sand artists and the exhibition of "five golden flowers" are all worth seeing.

The admission fee for the museum is 20 yuan. The most important thing is that there is no parking fee for parking nearby.

China Yixing Ceramic Museum

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Yixing Ceramic Museum generally refers to China Yixing Ceramic Museum

Yixing Ceramic Museum of China is the earliest professional ceramic Museum in China. Its predecessor is the exhibition room of Jiangsu Yixing Ceramic Company and Yixing Ceramic Exhibition Hall. It was founded by Shi Shunhua, the first curator. It has a history of nearly 50 years.

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The museum area is more than 20000 square meters, and the exhibition hall is more than 3000 square meters. It is a large-scale and influential Ceramic Museum in China, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad

Yixing has a long history of pottery making and splendid ceramic culture, which is fully reflected here through the collection of various historical periods. In the long period of more than 7000 years from the middle Neolithic period to now, ceramics are the praises of Yixing's life. Countless skilled craftsmen have bred exquisite art treasures, such as pottery of Han Dynasty, Celadon of Jin Dynasty, Jun pottery of song and Ming Dynasty and Jun pottery of Ming and Qing Dynasty Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, Yixing has always been a "window" for foreign publicity and a "business card" for the world.

Over the years, Yixing Ceramic Museum of China has played an active role in exhibition, dissemination, protection and research. It has undertaken many large-scale activities at home and abroad and received numerous important guests at home and abroad. As an important cultural carrier of Yixing, it is a four level patriotic education base in Jiangsu Province, Wuxi City, Yixing City and Dingshu town. It will play a greater role in the social development and historical progress.

Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is known as the "ceramic capital" at home and abroad. Known as "the Pearl of the Orient and the light of Tao Du", the China Yixing Ceramic Museum is located at the foot of the crane hill in Yixing, which covers an area of thirty thousand square meters and the exhibition hall area is more than 3000 square meters. The museum area is built on the mountain with grand momentum

Yixing Ceramic Museum of China, developed from the ceramic exhibition room set up in the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China, covers an area of 30000 square meters and exhibition hall area of more than 3000 square meters. The museum area is built close to the mountain and is magnificent. It integrates exhibition, research, exhibition, tourism, shopping and academic exchange of ceramic art. It is the largest and only local Ceramic Museum in China, where you can feel the greatness and brilliance of ceramic art creation of past dynasties, reflect the artistic characteristics and national style of ceramic art development in various historical periods, especially since the reform and opening up, and learn about the excellent design mood and creative methods of artists of past dynasties.

The collection in the museum systematically reflects the development and evolution of Yixing ceramics. All kinds of ceramic products with important academic value are valuable historical heritage. More than 8000 pieces of ceramic products on display throughout the year show today's splendid Yixing ceramic culture and exquisite pottery making art. There are 16 exhibition halls of ancient pottery, famous works of celebrities, purple sand, fine pottery, beautiful colored pottery, Jun pottery, celadon, industrial sanitary pottery, world ceramics and domestic ceramics. In the ancient pottery museum, the Han dynasty printed hard pottery, the two Jin Dynasty celadon, the Song Dynasty purple sand, the Ming and Qing Dynasties flowers and other ancient ceramic treasures unearthed in the area of the city are mainly displayed in different periods, showing the wisdom of the ancestors of pottery making. Among them, the national first-class cultural relic Qing Dynasty purple sand "black clothes Huiwen bottle" is a rare treasure. The Museum of famous artists' rare works, as well as the exhibition hall of Zisha, Juntao, celadon, Jingtao and meitao, which are known as five golden flowers, seem to be in the ocean of ceramic art. The plain Zisha, dignified Juntao, elegant celadon, gorgeous Jingtao and chic meitao are magnificent and beautiful.

Since the reform and opening up, Yixing Ceramic Museum has received numerous guests and friends at home and abroad with a brand-new attitude and a new look. Many party and state leaders have come to inspect and inscribe inscriptions one after another. Anyone who comes to Yixing must go to the Ceramic Museum to appreciate the style of the Ceramic City. Liu Haisu, a famous calligraphy and painting master, praised Yixing ceramics and Oriental Pearl at the age of ninety-six.

Yixing is the ancient capital of ceramics, and Yixing Ceramic Museum is the palace of ceramic art and one of the important windows of Jiangsu Province. There are purple sand Research Institute, Ancient Ceramics Research Institute and more than ten ceramic art studios in the museum. A group of professional designers represented by Chinese art master LV Yaochen have produced quite a number of excellent works every year, which attract the attention of the world. Every year, there are hundreds of thousands of visitors at home and abroad, which plays an important role in promoting the ceramic culture of the motherland, making friends with ceramics, expanding exchanges and promoting development.

Yixing ceramics is the crystallization of the great creation and wisdom of the working people, craftsmen and artists in the past dynasties, which makes our museum shine with brilliant brilliance. Looking forward to the future, we should inherit and carry forward this precious artistic heritage, make new contributions and play a greater role in the construction of spiritual civilization and material civilization, and strengthen patriotism education in the new historical period.

Ancient pottery museum

Pottery is the origin of human civilization. According to research, the ancestors of Yixing were engaged in farming and pottery making in the middle Neolithic period more than 7000 years ago. Yixing is one of the important birthplaces of prehistoric culture in the Taihu Lake Basin, with undulating mountains, crisscross rivers and canals, rich in ceramic raw material resources, and good conditions for the development of ceramic production. By the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.), it had become a pottery making center in the south of the Yangtze River, firing glazed, grey and red pottery; during the Jin Dynasty (265-420 A.D.), celadon production had a large scale and became one of the main producing areas of celadon, with 16 kiln sites; in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.), the production areas of Yixing ceramics were concentrated in Taihu Lake with Dingshan, Shushan and Tangdu (now Dingshu town) as the centers By the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911), the scale of production was expanded, and every household was busy making pottery. Thousands of years of pottery making history has never been interrupted, and the production skills are increasingly exquisite, enjoying a reputation at home and abroad.

Yixing, known as the "ceramic capital", is one of the main ceramic producing areas in China. The ancient ceramics of various historical periods displayed in the ancient pottery museum are found and unearthed in the territory, which reflects the track of Yixing's pottery culture with rich cultural characteristics. From it, we can appreciate its outstanding craftsmanship and strong local characteristics, and get the Enlightenment of knowledge and the enjoyment of beauty.

Boutique Museum

The emergence and development of ceramics is a splendid history of material civilization, and the development of Yixing ceramics has distinct cultural characteristics. The 7000 year history of ceramics is a glorious history of ceramic culture. Especially from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the rise of purple sand pottery and the maturity of Jun glaze pottery, the participation of a large number of scholars and the products with cultural characteristics made Yixing become a pottery capital with its unique style. With the progress of civilization, people are not only satisfied with practicality in the production of daily necessities, but also instinctively pursue the balance of modeling, the beauty of color and decoration, the pursuit of pleasant and cultural sensory effect, and begin to shape objects according to the law of beauty. The characteristics of pottery make people feel simple and warm, more in line with the psychological acceptance. The simple and dignified modeling of purple sand ware, the combination of calligraphy, painting and ancient gold, and the deep magnanimity and grace of even glazed pottery, as well as the elegant modeling and flower stacking decoration, bring about a cultural atmosphere. Other Yixing ceramics developed on this basis are the continuation and sublimation of this form.

The treasures of different categories and varieties displayed in the museum are the epitome and witness of Yixing ceramic culture. The precipitation of history and the famous craftsmen and teachers present us a gorgeous painting. Let's appreciate the wisdom of our ancestors, the elegant demeanor of masters, the masterpieces of celebrities and look forward to the future of Yixing ceramics.

Celadon Hall

Yixing celadon production began in the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century-771 BC); by the two Jin Dynasties (265-420 BC), the firing technology had been quite proficient; in the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907 BC), there were more varieties, larger output and better technology.

The texture of Yixing celadon is fine and moist, the glaze is crystal clear, the blue in the blue, like ice and water, like the green peak, like a lake of green water; its shape is elegant and elegant, and its decoration is dignified and elegant. Yixing celadon's outstanding achievements are reflected in various products with traditional characteristics and full of innovation of the times.

Purple sand Museum

Yixing purple clay pottery began in the middle Song Dynasty (960-1270), and the large number of purple clay pots began in the middle Ming Dynasty (488-1620). Besides pots, the main varieties are pots, bottles, stationery, sculptures, etc.

Purple sand is a kind of unglazed pottery with fine texture, high iron content and good plasticity. Its firing temperature is higher than that of ordinary pottery. The physical properties of the matrix are different from other pottery. It has proper air permeability and is not easy to crack when the temperature changes suddenly. The pot made of purple sand can make the best use of the pure aroma of tea.

The rise of purple clay pot is due to the literati class, which gradually endows it with the nature of literati art. It pays attention to the shape and practical function, engraved with calligraphy and painting or as a result of plastic, and left the author's printing money, is Yixing unique pottery crafts.

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