Jiucun Kiln has been firing porcelain for more than 600 years. According to the local legend of the older generation, a Jiangxi man named Zhan fled the desert with his son and wife and came here to live in a small house on the hillside to make a living by planting. One night, it was raining cats and dogs. The man dreamed that his ancestors made excuses and said that there was silver buried on all sides of the hillside here. After dawn, he stood in front of the bed and looked at it. The mountains on all sides collapsed, revealing white mud. It suddenly dawned on him that this was the silver that his ancestors said, so he invited experts from his hometown to start building kilns and burning porcelain.
Jiucun kiln porcelain can be divided into four stages: the first stage is from the end of Yuan Dynasty to the end of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, the second stage is from Jiajing to the end of Ming Dynasty, the third stage is from the early Qing Dynasty to Jiaqing Daoguang, and the fourth stage is from Jiaqing Daoguang to the Republic of China.
In the first stage, the Three Tadashi Nakamura Houses have bowls, folding plates, straight plates and small bowls. Fetal ashes are white and loose, with thin glaze and blistering. Glaze colors are moon white, bluish white, bluish gray and bluish yellow. There are marks of rotary cutting on the edge of the foot, the chest nail protrudes from the insole, and the tire is exposed around the foot.
In the second stage, in Laoyaoke, Gonglou and Xiapingpu of Xikeng Village, this period was already a sand foot device full of saggers. The glaze is smooth and moist, and the blue and white are plain blue, but the color is unstable, sometimes deep, sometimes shallow and sometimes dizzy. Patterns are horizontal first and then flat, but the brushwork is natural and smooth, and the style is simple and unrestrained. Plates, bowls and bottles are painted with phoenix birds, clouds, rocks, ganoderma lucidum, bluegrass, flowers and leaves, ribbons and so on. , as well as blessings and poems, such as: "Penglai pine and cypress branches are beautiful, abbot hibiscus blooms, Shoushan is not old, and Fuhai is forever strong." This period can best reflect the social outlook of Jiajing period. Some small bowls are painted with celestial officials, with water bowls, boys, cranes, ladies and white rabbits inside and outside. In the third stage, from the original old kiln to Dongquan Village, Tieliaokeng, Nian Nianping, Yaobeigang and other places, the kiln is still full of saggers. The shape of this stage is larger than before, with a flower-covered bowl of more than 20 cm and a short chrysanthemum-patterned bowl. The body is heavy and dignified, and the color is bright and light blue. Painting began to gradually transition to sloppy and freehand brushwork, and it was still a sand-footed device.
In the fourth stage, the feet of the objects are smooth and tidy, slightly orange flint color, gorgeous blue and white, floating light exposed, and sloppy brushwork. The landscapes, animals and flowers are all freehand brushwork, and some patterns are even difficult to recognize, but in the circle, the trade names are written: "Zhengzheng", "People", "Yongyu", "Zhenyu" and "Playing with Jade". Jiucun Kiln is in the rolling mountains, with rugged roads and inconvenient transportation. Only a small river can flow into the Huanggang River, but the water is shallow and urgent, so porcelain has always crossed the mountain road more than 20 kilometers northwest to Gaobei Town, dapu county, and was sold together with Gaobei kiln porcelain. 1943 records of Dapu County: "The annual business volume of Gaobei Bowl Line is more than 2 million yuan, of which the annual output value of products in Raoping Zhongtian County is more than 700,000 yuan. The so-called Raoping transit refers to Jiucun porcelain, which is actually comparable to Gaopi porcelain. Many people are confused and regard Jiucun porcelain as high-quality porcelain.