It has a long history and is famous at home and abroad.
Ancient glass, also known as glass.
It was fired at a high temperature of 1400 degrees. After more than ten manual processes, the whole process is handmade. The mother stone of crystal glass naturally condenses into noble and gorgeous glass after melting in a high-temperature furnace with a temperature of 1000 degrees.
Its colors are colorful and beautiful; The quality is crystal clear and dazzling.
The earliest written records of glass production can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.
In the Tang Dynasty, Li Kang recorded in "Duzhi" that during the Kaiyuan period, there were people who sold husbands, kings and dogs in Chang 'an, trying to sell silk to and from Zi County, but they made a small profit.
One day, the lonely museum was robbed and all the property was lost.
Two dog sighed: God helps me too.
So I hanged myself and tried to kill myself.
I met an old man with a crown and a red robe, pale face and a long beard. Left hand "Ruyi", right hand "Yuanbao", rich star Li Xianggong, high-impedance reward.
Xing Jun said, "When you are rich, you can't kill yourself! I wonder if Zizhou has colored glasses? " Give up one more ingot and go.
Two dog later sold glass and became the richest man in Ann.
I am also grateful for the gift from Xing Jun and changed my name to Yuanbao.
By the Yuan Dynasty, Boshan glass production had formed a certain scale.
Its early products were mainly beads and buttons, as well as hairpins and buttons.
The color is mainly blue, and there are other colors such as crystal, black, white and tea crystal.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the "outer factory" set up by the Inner Palace Supervisor here to produce "green curtains" and other tributes for the court, the production of folk glass also developed day by day.
During Jingtai period, there were four furnaces in Xiye Street, Boshan, which produced parallel imports and enamel materials.
Before and after Jiajing, the production of pearl lamps, pearl screens, chess pieces, tent hooks, pillowcases and other products was increased.
By the Wanli period, Boshan glass production has become a larger industry.
16 1 1 year (thirty-nine years of Wanli in Ming Dynasty), Boshan Furnace Temple was built by Xu Yingyuan and others.
16 17 (forty-five years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), Sun Yanshou and others initiated the establishment of the first trade organization in Boshan glass industry-Furnace Association.
During this period, products were not only sold locally, but also exported to Beijing, Jiangnan and southwest minority areas.
Boshan has become the center of domestic glass production.
At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Boshan glass products had developed to dozens, and the sales range was as far north as Beijing, south to Guangdong and Guangxi, east to Korea and west to Hetao.
During the reign of Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, snuff bottles and cigarette butts gradually became the bulk products in glass production, and glass products filled with jade began to flourish, and the types of glass pigments increased greatly.
During Daoguang period, Boshan glass industry entered a prosperous period.
During the Xianfeng period, there began to be shops specializing in selling glass, which gradually changed the sales of Boshan glass from fair trade and long-distance trafficking to fixed-point sales around Boshan.
During the Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, almost every household in Xiye Street of Boshan and its western area took glass as their industry and became a veritable "hometown of glass".
In addition to the original products, we began to produce screen printing, bottles, cups and other products.
At this time, as a semi-finished raw material for making glass products, strips are also shipped in bundles.
During Guangxu period, Boshan produced internal painting products. By the end of Guangxu, silk-screen printing of chandeliers, silk-screen printing, cigarette holders, groceries, beads, bracelets and other products. It is exported to the south economically in the amount of about 7000 tons every year.
19 10, at the Nanyang persuasion meeting held in Nanjing, the glass products such as screen printing displayed by Boshan Craft Workshop won excellent medals.
19 14, at the first supplies exhibition in Shandong province, Boshan's silk products and other products won the best praise gold medal.
During the period of 1924, Boshan glass production once experienced a rare short-term prosperity of "Yangzuizi market" because "Ai Guo brand foreign cigarette holders" were marketable.
By the early 1930s, Boshan glass production had 4,000 employees and about 50 large furnace households.
1934 The flower ball made by Kong Xianzhi won the prize in the commodity exhibition along the Ji Jiao Railway.
1937, after the Japanese army invaded Boshan, the production of glass collapsed, and the number of employees decreased to more than 640, with an annual output of less than 700 tons, only 5.4% before the war.
1943 The number of employees decreased to less than 150, and the annual output was only 100 tons.
After Japan surrendered, civil war broke out again, and Boshan glass industry was further damaged.
By the time Boshan was liberated in March 1948, the glass in Boshan was in a state of ruin, with 7 large furnaces 16, less than 100 employees, about 20 round furnaces, and more than 0/00 craftsmen/kloc.
Only a few varieties of products can be produced, and work is stopped from time to time, and most of the furnace workers are unemployed.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the glass production in Boshan recovered rapidly and the number of employees recovered to 800.
195 1 At the beginning of the year, some furnace workers set up Boshan furnace branch supply and marketing cooperative.
Later, a 10 big furnace household set up Boshan glass joint company.
In 1952, nine families with water-sounding stoves formed a glass feeder production cooperative.
At the beginning of 1956, all private furnace households and individual furnace workers are public-private partnerships or join cooperatives.
After 1957, Boshan glass joint company and glass feeding production cooperative successively switched to daily-use glass equipment and lighting equipment, which broke away from the track of Boshan traditional glass production.
When the Furnace Branch Supply and Marketing Cooperative (Boshan Art Liulichang) was first established, it mainly produced beads, cigarette holders and groceries.
1957 began to produce color-coded carved products.
During the period of 1958, the artist Xue Jingwan completed two reforms, changing the bamboo pen used for interior painting into a brush pen and baking flowers for interior painting.
The successful experiment of changing bamboo pen into brush pen laid the foundation for improving the artistic level of Boshan's inner painting and forming a unique style. The appearance of baking flower painting pots has expanded the use of painting pots as containers for liquid substances such as perfume and increased the export volume.
Since 1980s, Boshan glass products industry has entered a new development period.
The art of interior painting has developed to middle and high-end products, and has successively created Luoyang Travel Code, You Xian's Birthday, Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, Bai Zi Tu, Eight Doctors and so on.
At the same time, a large number of paintings with the theme of "Hundred Flowers" have appeared, such as "Hundred Flowers", "Hundred Flowers", "Hundred Kings" and "Hundred Tigers".
Since 198 1, Boshan glass products have been exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, the United States, France, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. Artists of internal painting have also gone abroad for many times to perform internal painting techniques.
By 1985, Boshan Fine Arts Glass Factory has developed into the largest fine arts glass manufacturer in China, with 2 143 employees.
The annual output of glass handicrafts is/kloc-0.40 million pieces, the total industrial output value is/kloc-0.3 million yuan, and the profit and tax are 33/kloc-0.5 million yuan.
Products have increased from more than 300 kinds of flowers and paintings before the founding of the People's Republic of China to 16, with more than 3,000 kinds of colors.
Exquisite snuff bottle painting was named "Shandong Painting School" by the International Snuff Bottle Association, which caused a sensation in Europe and America. The crystal clear glass ball is wonderful and is known as the "invincible flower"; All kinds of bead curtains, flower arrangements and smoking utensils are deeply loved by people.
Products sell well in more than 40 countries and regions such as Europe, America, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong.
Painted flowerpots and flower balls won the provincial and provincial arts and crafts products Hundred Flowers Award.