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Why is Chongqing Rongchang Anfu Pottery called "Four Famous Pottery"? What are the characteristics?
Rongchang pottery has a history of 800 years. Rongchang pottery has a profound cultural heritage. "Anfuchang is five miles long, with fine mud in rows" and "Before the mountain and behind the mine, the kiln burns pottery pots". These folk songs, which have been circulating since the Song and Qing Dynasties, vividly describe the scale of production and the grand occasion of sales of Rongchang pottery at that time.

Therefore, Rongchang District, together with Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, Yixing in Jiangsu and Foshan in Guangdong, is called the Four Tao Dou.

2. Features: It is understood that the traditional production method of Rongchang pottery has at least 20 processes, including mud drying, mud grinding, pulping, blank making, polishing, kiln loading, kiln burning, kiln viewing and kiln closing. Chongqing Rongchang red mud and white mud are rich in mineral resources and are excellent raw materials for making ceramics. They have good quality, positive color, strong plasticity and good sintering performance. The fired Rongchang pottery is crisp and pleasant, with beautiful and exquisite shape and smooth enamel, and enjoys the reputation of "excellent clay".

Selected as a national intangible culture

Rongchang ceramic art has attracted many domestic and foreign ceramic masters and enthusiasts to study ceramic art here. In addition, Chongqing Rongchang pottery, Yunnan Jianshui pottery, Guangxi Qinzhou pottery and Jiangsu Yixing purple sand pottery are also called the four famous pottery in China. Rongchang Pottery Craft 20 10 was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Famous Pottery in China.

The above contents refer to China News Network-exploring the intangible skills of Tao Rongchang, four famous pottery artists in China.