Jiangxi is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east,it shares a border with Anhui to the north,Zhejiang to the northeast,Fujian to the east,Guangdong to the south,Hunan to the west,and Hubei to the northwest.
Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi,China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain,it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains,and on the east by Poyang Lake. Because of its strategic location connecting the prosperous East and South China,it has become a major railway hub in Southern China in recent decades.
"Blue and white pottery" covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment,generally cobalt oxide. The decoration was commonly applied by hand,originally by brush painting,but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer-printing,though other methods of application have also been used. The cobalt pigment is one of the very few that can withstand the highest firing temperatures that are required,in particular for porcelain,which partly accounts for its long-lasting popularity. Historically,many other colours required overglaze decoration and then a second firing at a lower temperature to fix that.
Yichun (Chinese:宜春;pinyin:Yíchūn;Wade–Giles:I2-ch'un1;postal:Ichun) is a mountainous prefecture-level city in the western/northwestern Jiangxi Province,China,bordering Hunan province to the west. It is located in the northwest of the province along a river surrounded by mountains. Yichun literally means "pleasant spring". Yichun has a profound Buddhist culture. "Can Lin Qing Gui",the monastic rules for Buddhists at the Buddhist temple,originated from Yichun. Yichun is also the birthplace of a number of literary figures,such as Tao Yuanming and Deng Gu,both of whom are famous poets in China history.
Xinyu,is a prefecture-level city in west-central Jiangxi province,People's Republic of China.
Chinese ceramics are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. They range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles,to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns,to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court and for export.
Transitional porcelain is Jingdezhen porcelain,manufactured at China's principle ceramic production area,in the years during and after the transition from Ming to Qing. As with several previous changes of dynasty in China,this was a protracted and painful period of civil war. Though the start date of Qing rule is customarily given as 1644,when the last Ming emperor hanged himself as the capital fell,the war had really begun in 1618 and Ming resistance continued until 1683. During this period,the Ming system of large-scale manufacturing in the imperial porcelain factories,with orders and payments coming mainly from the imperial court,finally collapsed,and the officials in charge had to turn themselves from obedient civil servants into businessmen,seeking private customers,including foreign trading companies from Europe,Japanese merchants,and new domestic customers.
Tongzhi porcelain is Chinese porcelain from the reign of the Qing dynasty Tongzhi Emperor (1862–1874),which saw the reconstruction of the Jingdezhen official kilns after the Taiping Rebellion of the 1850s completely devastated the cities of Nanjing and Jingdezhen.
The Northeastern Jiangxi Soviet,first known as the Xin River Soviet and later as the Minzhegan Soviet,was a soviet governed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that existed between 1928 and 1934 as part of the Chinese Soviet Republic. The core of the Soviet included the counties of Chong'an in Fujian,Kaihua in Zhejiang,Wuyuan in Anhui,and Yiyang and Hengfeng in Jiangxi. It was founded and led for much of its existence by Fang Zhimin and was the base of the Tenth Red Army.
Jingdezhen porcelain is Chinese porcelain produced in or near Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province in southern China. Jingdezhen may have produced pottery as early as the sixth century CE,though it is named after the reign name of Emperor Zhenzong,in whose reign it became a major kiln site,around 1004. By the 14th century it had become the largest centre of production of Chinese porcelain,which it has remained,increasing its dominance in subsequent centuries. From the Ming period onwards,official kilns in Jingdezhen were controlled by the emperor,making imperial porcelain in large quantity for the court and the emperor to give as gifts.
Fuliang is a county in the northeast of Jiangxi province,People's Republic of China,bordering Anhui province to the north. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jingdezhen.
Qingbai ware is a type of Chinese porcelain produced under the Song Dynasty and Yuan dynasty,defined by the ceramic glaze used. Qingbai ware is white with a blue-greenish tint,and is also referred to as Yingqing. It was made in Jiangxi province in south-eastern China,in several locations including Jingdezhen,and is arguably the first type of porcelain to be produced on a very large scale. However,it was not at the time a prestigious ware,and was mostly used for burial wares and exports,or a middle-rank Chinese market. The quality is very variable,reflecting these different markets;the best pieces can be very thin-walled.
Poyang County is a county under the administration of Shangrao city in the northeast of Jiangxi Province of the People's Republic of China,bordering Anhui Province to the north. It is located on the eastern side of Lake Poyang.
Jinxi County is a county of Jiangxi in the People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou.
The Gan-speaking Chinese or Jiangxi people or Jiangyou people or Kiang-Si people are a subgroup of Han Chinese people. The origin of Gan-speaking people in China are from Jiangxi province in China. Gan-speaking populations are also found in Fujian,southern Anhui and Hubei provinces,and linguistic enclaves are found on Shaanxi,Sichuan,Zhejiang,Hunan,Hainan,Guangdong,Fujian and non-Gan speaking southern and western Jiangxi.
Yaoli is a town of Fuliang County,in the north-east of Jiangxi province,China,located on the mountainous border region with Anhui. Yaoli is a popular tourism site for its mountain scenery,well preserved old buildings,and historic production of both Chinese porcelain and its main material,petuntse or "porcelain stone". Ceramic production seems to have begun as early as the Tang dynasty,but declined by around 1600 under the Ming dynasty,leaving several abandoned dragon kilns that have been preserved,and a town centre that was largely unchanged until recent years. Both mining of porcelain stone and the production of porcelain continue on a smaller scale,using rather traditional methods.
Leping is a county-level city in the northeast of Jiangxi province,China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jingdezhen.
The Anhui–Jiangxi railway or Wan'gan railway,is a single-track railroad in eastern China between Wuhu in southern Anhui Province and Guixi in northern Jiangxi Province. The line is 551 km (342 mi) long and was built between 1905 and 1985. Cities along route include Wuhu,Xuancheng,Ningguo,Jixi,She County,Huangshan City,Xiuning,Yi County,and Qimen in Anhui Province and Jingdezhen,Leping,Wannian and Guixi in Jiangxi Province.
Jizhou ware or Chi-chou ware is Chinese pottery from Jiangxi province in southern China;the Jizhou kilns made a number of different types of wares over the five centuries of production. The best known wares are simple shapes in stoneware,with a strong emphasis on subtle effects in the dark glazes,comparable to Jian ware,but often combined with other decorative effects. In the Song dynasty they achieved a high prestige,especially among Buddhist monks and in relation to tea-drinking. The wares often use leaves or paper cutouts to create resist patterns in the glaze,by leaving parts of the body untouched.
