关于《中国瓷器》 的一篇 英文 演讲..
Chinese ceramic ware is an artform that has been developing since the dynastic periods. China is richly endowed with the raw materials needed for making ceramics. The first types of ceramics were made about 11,000 years ago, during the Palaeolithic era. Chinese Ceramics range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated porcelain wares made for the imperial court.
Terminology and categories
A qingbai porcelain vase, bowl, and model of a granary with transparent blue-toned glaze, from the period of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD).Porcelain it is a collective term comprising all ceramic ware that is white and translucent, no matter what ingredients are used to make it or to what use it is put.The Chinese tradition recognizes two primary categories of ceramics, high-fired[clarification needed] [cí 瓷] and low-fired[clarification needed] [táo 陶]. The oldest Chinese dictionaries define porcelain [cí 瓷] as fine, compact pottery [táo 陶]. Chinese ceramic wares can also classified as being either northern or southern. Present-day China comprises two separate and geologically different land masses, brought together by the action of continental drift and forming a junction that lies between the Yellow river and the Yangtze river. The contrasting geology of the north and south led to differences in the raw materials available for making ceramics.
Materials
Chinese porcelain is mainly made by a combination of the following materials:
Kaolin - composed largely of the clay mineral kaolinite.
Pottery stone - are decomposed micaceous or feldspar rocks, historically also known as petunse.
Feldspar
Quartz
Technical Developments
In the context of Chinese ceramics the term porcelain lacks a universally accepted definition. This in turn has led to confusion about when the first Chinese porcelain was made. Claims have been made for the late Eastern Han period (100 to 200 AD), the Three Kingdoms period (220 to 280 AD), the Six Dynasties period (220 to 589 AD), and the Tang Dynasty (618 to 906 AD）
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