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Introduction: Ding Kiln is the earliest kiln for the Northern Song Dynasty court firing imperial porcelain, but also the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty in the only kiln firing white porcelain, kiln site in Quyang, Hebei Province.

Artistic features: Ding kiln can be prominent in the world, on the one hand, is due to the tone of the warm white, thin lubricated glaze white slightly glittering yellow, giving a person the beauty of wet and quiet, on the other hand, it is because of its good use of printing, carving, scratching, and other decorative techniques, will be the white porcelain from the plain white decorations to a new stage.

Unique technology: the most important achievement of the Song dynasty porcelain kiln firing technology, is the invention of the over-firing method and "fire lighting", Ding kiln on a large number of over-firing method, but also used a gasket type combination of sagger. The advantages of this firing method is to maximize the use of empty space, not only to save fuel, but also to prevent the deformation of the apparatus, thereby reducing the cost, substantially increasing the yield, the north and south porcelain kilns have had a great impact on the promotion of the development of China's porcelain industry has played an important role.

Ding kiln impact: due to the popularity of Ding kiln and popularity, its modeling, decoration, firing methods for all over the porcelain kiln imitation, during the Northern Song Dynasty all over the imitation of Ding kiln. This gave birth to the "soil Ding", "new Ding", "North Ding", "South Ding", "powder Ding" and other imitations. Powder Ding" and other imitations. The quality of the products in many areas was not inferior to that of Quyang in Hebei. Ding kiln on China's later porcelain industry has had a far-reaching impact: the world-famous Jingdezhen was deeply influenced by its Beijing Longquan kiln, Shanxi Pingding formed the Ding kiln system; Egypt, Europe, Southeast Asia, cultural relics in the heritage sites have Ding porcelain relics.

Heirloom masterpieces: In the Palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, there are Ding Kiln white-glazed engraved peony dish with folded rim, Ding Kiln white-glazed engraved cinder block, Ding Kiln white-glazed stamped chrysanthemum and phoenix dish, and so on.

Ding kiln white glaze incised peony dish with folded rim

White glaze child pillow of Song Ding Kiln