The Tangshan Ceramic Museum, using the millennium kiln fire as its core, connects China’s ceramic art into a brilliant galaxy. The Ming and Qing ancient porcelain has a moist and lustrous glaze, the blue-and-white porcelain patterns hide the poetry of literati, and the Jun kiln porcelain flows with the azure glaze of the Song Dynasty’s Ru kiln. The core exhibition “Echoes of Porcelain” unfolds along a timeline, from Han Dynasty terracotta figures to Qing Dynasty imperial porcelain, each piece a living fossil of craftsmanship. An interactive experience area features a pottery studio where visitors can hand-throw and fire pottery, experiencing the craftsman’s ingenuity of “taking chestnuts out of the fire.” In the ancient porcelain exhibition hall, the Ming Dynasty Yongle blue-and-white lotus pattern plum bottle and the Qing Dynasty Qianlong imperial poems and calligraphy shine together, witnessing the dialogue between porcelain and literati for a thousand years.
