China's Liling Ceramics Shine in the World [antikvár]

Classic China Begins with Liling - u DuoForewordLiling is located in tlie east of Hunan province, close to the Golden Triangle Economic Zone of Changsha, Ztiuzfiou and Xiangtan. With an area of 2,157 km^ and a population of 1.05 million, the world-famous 'underglaze five-color proceiain' is the city's symbolic cultural caliing-card.Liling Kiln is the youngest famous liln in Chinese history, since she is the latest to become famous. Liling started to produce ceramics since the Han Dynasty, and there were already celadon and whiteware in the Song Dynasty, which makes it become a ceramics capital for thousands of years. However, it was the underglaze five-color porcelain created in the late Qing Dynasty that made Liling Kiln become famous, and ranked among the list of famous kilns of China.The sudden rise of Liling Kiln in modern times is an inevitable result of innovative development. In the face of the advancement of Western modern industrial civilization, the Chinese ceramics that had enjoyed extensive fame in the world was nearly eliminated. Since 1904, pursuing the dream of saving China with industry, Xiong Xiling created the Hunan Ceramics Academy and Hunan Ceramics Company in Liling, taking the lead in exploring the integration of Chinese ceramics with industrial civilization, which was the beginning of Chinese ceramics going forward from ancient times to modern times. In 1908, the Ceramics Academy succeeded in creating underglaze five-color porcelain. By means of new processes,the traditional processes of underglaze single porcelain, double-color porcelain and three-color porcelain were developed over more than a thousand years. Five primary colors of red, green, blue, yellow and black were adopted to achieve multiple colors, the unique skill of 'water diversion with double hook' was used, and then 'three-firing' at the highest temperature in global ceramics-firing history (ranging from 1380 to 1420 ° C) was finally finished. The glaze of underglaze five-color porcelainis glittering and translucent, moist and transparent, and of high aesthetic, artistic and collectible value. In addition, underglaze five-color porcelain wouldnever fade and contains no lead, cadmium or other heavy metal elements that are harmful to people' s health. With the advantages of being non-toxic, wear-resistant and corrosion resistant, it is truly the most environmentally friendly, safe and healthy ceramic.In 1915. after the 'Panama Vase' won the Gold Award at the Panama Pacific International Exposition, it was praised as 'the peak of Eastern Ceramics Art'. After the establishment of New China, Liling underglaze five-color porcelain produced by the Liling Kiln have been selected as Special Living Ceramics by Party and State leaders, as national gifts when visited other countries, as State banquet ceramics for the Great Hall of the People and the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, and as display ceramics for the Cultural Palace of Nationalities, the Military Museum of the Chinese People' s Revolution and the Workers' Stadium as well, winning the praise as 'Contemporary National Ceramics' and the Liling Kiln as the 'Official Red Kiln'. Underglaze five-color porcelain have been listed among the 'Intangible Cultural Heritage of China' already, initiating the new era of China' s ceramics history, which has been being called as the modern 'milestone of ceramics history'by ceramistsi