Why do tableware usually use ceramics?
China's ancient pottery industry has brilliant and unique achievements. A large number of pottery and pottery fragments have been unearthed in the Neolithic sites of the the Yellow River basin and the Yangtze River basin. Many of them have not only is the daily necessities of life, and has an obvious tendency to become art, ceramic art, such as pottery pottery and pottery industry outstanding achievements. With the development of ceramics, pottery from clay strip casting progress to wheel has the advantages of simple structure, horizontal hole kiln and earthen kiln has been replaced by the backward burning from the ground, control of temperature and atmosphere on the kiln has gained some experience, the highest sintering temperature to 1100 DEG C that is close to the pottery and porcelain of the "critical" temperature. Since the early Shang Dynasty, which has appeared in the white porcelain pottery material and the firing temperature of 1200 degrees Celsius stamped hard pottery, began the transition from pottery to porcelain.
Origin：In the history of the development of China's ceramics, there are pottery, porcelain, porcelain from pottery. China is one of several ancient civilizations with a long history in the world. It has made many important contributions to the progress and development of human society. In ceramic technology and art achievements, especially of special significance. In China, potteryart can be traced back to the era before the 4500 years to 2500 before era, it can be said that an important part of the history of the Chinese nation in the history of ceramics, Chinese in science and technology achievements and the pursuit of beauty and shape, are reflected through the ceramic production in many ways, and the formation of technology and art features of each era is very typical.
Use:1. ceramics for daily use: such as tableware, tea set, jar, altar and basin. Pots, etc..2. art ceramics: vases, sculptures, furnishings, etc..3. industrial ceramics: ceramics used in a variety of industries. It is divided into the following 6 aspects:(1) building a sanitary ceramic: such as brick, drain pipe, brick, wall tile, sanitary and so on;(2) chemical ceramics: acid resistant containers, pipes, towers, pumps, valves, and acid bricks, ash, etc. used in lining reactors;(3) chemical porcelain: Porcelain crucibles, evaporating dishes, burning boats, grinding bodies, etc. used in chemical laboratories;(4) electric porcelain: insulator used for high and low voltage transmission line of electric power industry. Bushings for motors, insulation for insulators, insulators for low-voltage appliances and lighting, insulators for telecommunications, insulators for radios, etc.;(5) refractory materials: refractory materials used in various high-temperature industrial kilns;(6): special ceramic, special ceramic products thrown in various modern industry and advanced science and technology, high alumina ceramic, porcelain, stone magnesium titanium magnesium porcelain stone, zircon porcelain, porcelain, and lithium ferrite, metal ceramic etc..
As early as one thousand years ago, before Europe mastered porcelain technology, China could produce quite fine porcelain. Judging from the history of China's ceramic development, the term "ceramics" is generally divided into two categories: pottery and porcelain. Usually the matrix is not dense sintered clay and porcelain stone products, whether colored or white, collectively referred to as pottery. The firing temperature is higher, the better the degree of sintering part called "hard pottery", calls a "glazed glazing". Relatively speaking, firing at high temperatures, the more dense matrix sintering, glaze of good quality clay or porcelain stone products referred to as the "porcelain". The development of China traditional ceramics, experienced a very long historical period, the type of complex, special technology, so, in addition to considering the classification of mandatory technical indicators of the China traditional ceramics, but also need to consider the traditional habit classification method, combined with the changes of ancient and modern science and technology knowledge, in order to more effectively draw the conclusion classification.
