Yaozhou Kiln Museum

Yaozhou Kiln Museum is located in Huangpu town, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. It is the site of Yaozhou Kiln site, a national key cultural relics protection unit. Yaozhou Kiln Museum is currently the largest museum of ancient ceramic relics in China, which integrates the display of relics, specimen display and demonstration of ancient porcelain making technology. It covers an area of 6000 square meters, with an exhibition area of 8000 square meters. It now has more than 500000 pieces of cultural relics. The exhibition hall consists of "three color workshops and kilns in the Tang Dynasty", "porcelain making workshops and kilns in the Song Dynasty" and "porcelain making workshops in the Jin Dynasty", which visually shows the production scale and technological process of the kiln. The main exhibition hall is divided into three parts and seven exhibition rooms. "Yaozhou Kiln history exhibition" displays more than 1000 pieces of cultural relics, reflecting the glorious history of the kiln; the "demonstration room" audience can participate in the ceramic production; the "reference research room" displays more than 1000 pieces of specimens for professionals, teachers and students to practice and relevant experts and scholars to study. Yaozhou Kiln Museum is expected to be a classroom for you to pursue history and knowledge, a temple for you to experience beauty and cultivate interest, and a bridge between history and future. Yaozhou Kiln was founded in the Tang Dynasty, developed in the Five Dynasties, flourished in the Northern Song Dynasty, continued to burn in the Jin Dynasty, and finally in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 800 years of continuous firing of ceramics. "The tide of Shili kiln left an extremely precious ceramic cultural heritage. The site covers an area of more than 10000 square meters. More than 3 million pieces of cultural relics and more than 200 workshops and kilns have been excavated. The large scale of excavation, the large number of unearthed cultural relics, the complete preservation of ruins and the rich cultural connotation are rare in the world. It is a huge treasure house of ceramic culture.

Yaozhou Kiln Museum

Yaozhou Kiln Museum is located in the south of Huangbao Town, Wangyi District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. It is the largest museum of ancient ceramic relics in China, which integrates the exhibition of ruins, the display of cultural relics, the demonstration of simulated ancient porcelain making process and the trinity of ancient ceramic relics. It is a national AAA scenic spot.

Development history

On May 23, 1994, it was officially completed and opened to the outside world. It is located on the "Shili kiln" of ancient Yaozhou Kiln in the south of Huangpu town, Wangyi District, Tongchuan City. The Xi Tong Expressway and national highway 210 pass through the gate, so the traffic is very convenient. Yaozhou Kiln is one of the famous kilns in China's history. Its representative product, carved blue and white porcelain, is "as clever as gold and as exquisite as jade". It has the reputation of "the crown of northern carved blue and white porcelain"

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Yaozhou Kiln Museum is the largest museum of ancient ceramic sites in China. It is a national AAA scenic spot and a typical representative of ancient ceramic culture tourism in China. On October 11, 2009, our museum began to carry out a comprehensive transformation and upgrading of the exhibition. On July 23, 2010, the new exhibition was launched and opened to the public free of charge. The total area of the new exhibition is 4000 square meters, and it is divided into 15 exhibition areas, including 9 cultural relics exhibition halls. A total of more than 1000 precious cultural relics, workshop tools, kiln tools and some cultural relics of Yaozhou Kiln were displayed. This is the first public exhibition of Yaozhou Kiln From Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Northern Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty to now, Zhou kiln has a continuous porcelain firing history of more than 1300 years and its brilliant historical, cultural and artistic achievements.

The simulated restoration scenes in the exhibition include the grand event of "Shili kiln", the fire never sleeps, the demonstration of ancient porcelain making process, the firing scene inside the kiln, the sacrifice of kiln God, the special exhibition of porcelain and folk custom, which give visitors the feeling of going through time and space, entering history and being on the scene. It shows the Chinese civilization with a long history from one side.

The new exhibition adheres to the design concept of new creativity and high starting point. It not only comprehensively grasps the layout as a whole, making the color decoration, lighting control, picture matching, visiting routes refreshing, but also adopts many new domestic advanced display means, such as sound, light, electric control and virtual scene, to create a unique and attractive boutique Exhibition for the public All walks of life offer a cultural feast with "color, fragrance and taste".

The exhibition uses high-tech display means to greatly enhance the interactivity and entertainment. It uses "phantom imaging" technology to demonstrate ancient porcelain making process and kiln firing scenes, "side suspension imaging" to demonstrate the precious cultural relics of Yao porcelain, "360 ° suspension imaging" to show the magic principle of flip pot, and "virtual e-book" to show the relevant knowledge of Yao porcelain, so that visitors can "Browse" with their arms ”Books, which can arouse tourists' great interest; "electronic touch screen" and "film and television projection hall" are used to introduce Yaozhou Kiln Museum and ceramic relics knowledge, "electronic map" introduces the dissemination and exchange of Yaozhou porcelain around the world, which is convenient for tourists to enjoy and retrieve.

The ceramic art center is commonly known as the "ceramic bar", with a construction area of 500 square meters, including 400 square meters for demonstration and sales, 100 square meters for production, and 9 sets of drawing machines. Here, you can not only enjoy the superb performance of ceramic craftsman, but also experience the extraordinary pleasure of making porcelain by playing with clay, drawing and making ceramics.

Yaozhou Kiln Museum is an ecological Heritage Museum with green grass, beautiful flowers and elegant environment. In addition, there are also large square sculptures of blue glazed inverted pot in imitation of Song Dynasty, which are known as "the first pot in the world", and large art buildings of spring bottle in imitation of white ground and black flower jade pot in Yuan Dynasty, which are known as "the king of bottles". This is an ideal place for you to enjoy ancient ceramic culture, leisure, sightseeing, ceramic making, teaching practice and ceramic shopping.

With the unique charm of ancient ceramic culture, Yaozhou Kiln Museum has become a resort for cultural exchange and tourism, attracting more and more tourists from home and abroad to explore and enjoy!

Song ceramic kiln

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Yaozhou Kiln is one of the famous kilns in China's history. It was founded in Tang Dynasty, developed in Five Dynasties, flourished in Northern Song Dynasty, continued to burn in Jin Dynasty, and finally at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 800 years. Yaozhou kiln is one of the famous kilns in China's history. Its representative product, carved celadon, is "as clever as gold, and more exquisite than jade". It has the reputation of "crown of northern carved celadon". Yaozhou Kiln site is listed as "national key cultural relics protection unit", and is also rated as "one of the top 100 archaeological discoveries in China" and "one of the top 10 archaeological discoveries in Shaanxi" in the 20th century.

The Song Dynasty is an era of competition and blooming in the history of Chinese ceramics, and it is also a golden period of perfection and scientific development of porcelain manufacturing process. During this period, the Ding kiln system, Yaozhou Kiln system, Jun kiln system, Cizhou kiln system, Longquan celadon system and Jingdezhen celadon system were formed, which were famous both at home and abroad. Among them, Yaozhou Kiln in Shaanxi Province was known as the "crown of northern carved celadon".

main products

Bowls, plates, bottles, jars, pots, pots, stoves, pillows, color combinations, aromatherapy, Zhuzi, zhantuo, bowls, etc., all of which are needed in daily life.

Product features

In the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the fetal quality was slightly loose and gray, and the enamel was opaque; in the Song Dynasty, the celadon body was firm and thin, the fetal color was gray brown or gray purple, the enamel was transparent, the glaze color was green as olive, and the thin part of the glaze was ginger; in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the fetal quality was slightly thick, the fetal color was light gray or gray, and the glaze was mostly turmeric, but few were turmeric. The enamel is thin but not moist. The decorative techniques are mainly engraving and printing. The engraving is particularly exquisite. The knife technique is sharp and smooth, vigorous and powerful, and the three-dimensional sense is strong. Decorative art, rich and colorful patterns. Patterns include animals, people, flowers and patterns. The animals in the patterns are dragon, Phoenix, lion, rhinoceros, horse, sheep, dog, crane, goose, duck, fish, mandarin duck, etc. The characters include baby play, Buddha image, and Lishi. Flowers are lotus, peony, chrysanthemum, plum, water plants and so on. Pattern patterns are: Bagui pattern, triangle pattern, Huiwen, etc. In terms of ornamentation, it was simple and generous before the Five Dynasties; it was rich and varied in the Song Dynasty, with exquisite skills and outstanding; it became simpler and simpler in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. Yaozhou Kiln's firing technology and decoration techniques have a great influence on all parts of the country. In addition to a large number of imitated kilns in Shaanxi Province, its skills also spread to Linru, Yuxian, Baofeng, Neixiang kilns in Henan Province, Xicun kiln in Guangdong Province and Yongfu kiln in Guangxi Province, forming a huge kiln system headed by Huangbao Town kiln.

Historical evolution

Yaozhou Kiln site is known as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in Shaanxi Province in the 20th century and one of the top 100 archaeological discoveries in China in the 20th century. It was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in China in 1988.

Yaozhou Kiln Museum is built on the Yaozhou Kiln site in Huangpu town, Tongchuan City. It was officially completed and opened to the public on May 23, 1994. The main Museum covers an area of 46000 square meters, with a construction area of 8000 square meters, a display area of 4800 square meters, a total investment of more than 10 million yuan, a collection of more than 500000 pieces of precious cultural relics in various historical periods, and a display of more than 1000 pieces of Yao porcelain treasures. It has a high historical value and research value.

Yaozhou Kiln Museum began to carry out a comprehensive transformation and upgrading of the exhibition on October 11, 2009. On July 23, 2010, the new exhibition was launched and opened to the public free of charge.

Display items

The basic display of the museum is divided into four parts: sequence display of ruins, Yaozhou Kiln history display, reference research room and demonstration room. The "exhibition of relics" is composed of three color workshops and kilns in Tang Dynasty and representative porcelain making workshops and kilns in five historical periods from Tang Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty, vividly and intuitively representing the grand production scale and advanced production process of the kiln. Exhibition of Yaozhou Kiln history

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