From the current knowledge of the archaeological materials, the fine pottery has upper Paleolithic dating back 10 thousand years of grey pottery, 8000 years ago Cishan culture of terracotta, with 7000 years of Yangshao culture pottery, with 6000 years of Dawenkou "eggshell black", has 4000 years of Shang Dynasty, white pottery 3000 years of the western Zhou Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty hard pottery, the Terracotta Army, the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty pottery, glazed pottery. In the Song Dynasty, the rapid development of the production of porcelain, pottery industry tends to decline, but there are some special pottery varieties still has its unique charm, like the song, Liao Sancai and Ming and Qing has the teapot, glass, and pottery Shiwan Guangdong flower method, all have a unique style, highly appreciated. But pottery has always been a low-grade product in the initial stage of civilization, and its own defects doomed its fate to be gradually eliminated by history. China is a great invention in ancient Chinese, in the long years of history, diligence and wisdom of the Chinese ancestors point into the territory, wrote the text made great shine with great splendor, contribution to human civilization. Enjoy the reputation of Chinese porcelain, has become the world's major museums in the Pearl, will also be more widely as the research object and China experts and scholars around the world, and by the majority of collectors and ceramic lovers treasure. The invention and development of China's porcelain have developed from low level to higher level, from primitive to mature. As early as 3000 years ago in the Shang Dynasty, China has appeared in the original porcelain, after 1000 years of development, the Eastern Han Dynasty to finally get rid of the original porcelain, produced a mature green porcelain, which is an important milepost on the development history of Chinese ceramics.
The invention of pottery is an important process of human civilization - the first human use of natural objects, according to their will to create a new thing. Discovered from the Nihewan Yangyuan County in Hebei province in the late Paleolithic pottery, in China pottery dating back more than 11700 years of history. Pottery is made of clay (clay), dried and burned with fire. It is the crystallization of mud and fire. Our ancestors of clay is long-standing, early in life in primitive society, our ancestors everywhere cannot do without clay, they found to be soaked in water after the sticky clay and plasticity, dried and hardened. The history of the use and understanding of fire is also very long, about 2 million 50 thousand years to 700 thousand years ago in the Yuanmou era, began to use fire. In their long primitive life, the ancestors found that the dried mud became stronger, harder and waterproof, so pottery came into being. The invention of pottery, which opened the human nature, the transformation of nature, and the struggle against nature of the new page, has a major historical significance, is a milestone in the history of human production.
