Ru Ci 1

Ru Ci is the first of the five famous kilns. The kiln site is located in Zhanggong Lane, Ruzhou City, Henan Province, 30 square kilometers in Fiona Fang and 40 square kilometers in Fiona Fang, in Jiandian Village, Mangchuan Township, which was then under the jurisdiction of Qingliangsi Village, Daying Town.

2. Ge Yao

Ge kiln is similar to the official kiln, with purple mouth and iron feet, but its kiln site is still unknown, and there are differences in academic circles about its firing age. Some people think that it is not the Song Dynasty, but the Yuan Dynasty.

3. Jun kiln

The main firing periods of Jun kiln are Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, but some scholars believe that the furnishings porcelain which is now named Guan Jun kiln in Song Dynasty was fired in Yongle Xuande period in the early Ming Dynasty.

4. Ding kiln

Ding Kiln was the first kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty to burn imperial palace porcelain, and it was also the only kiln among the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty to burn white porcelain. Ding Yao Kiln is located in Quyang, Hebei Province.

5. official kiln

In Song Dynasty, the official kiln porcelain was mainly plain, with neither gorgeous carving nor colorful painting, and mostly decorated with concave-convex straight edges and chords.

The mystery of ge Yao

Ge kiln is one of the most mysterious porcelain in existence, and the kiln site has not yet been determined. Some say it's in Henan, some say it's in Jingdezhen, some say it's in Hangzhou, and some say it's in Longquan, Zhejiang.

According to the "Seven Manuscripts" published during Jiajing period, both Ge Kiln and Longquan Kiln were fired in Longquan County. In the Southern Song Dynasty, he and his two brothers were engaged in firing porcelain. My brother Zhang was called Ge Kiln because of his thin and hard tires and many fragments.

Brother's celadon won't open, so it's called Longquan kiln. However, some later studies found that the soil colors of the two did not match, which made it difficult to judge the kiln site of Geyao.

Phoenix Net-The Forbidden City damaged the national treasure "Five Famous Kilns", which was the most mysterious in previous lives.

Phoenix Net-Five Porcelain Kilns in Song Dynasty