A Study On Modern Zibo Folk Porcelain Kilns And Its Products Which Based On A Peculiar Folk Culture

As an important part of the Chinese porcelain culture, Zibo folk pottery art is oneof the most fascinating cultural form with regional character. As early as 8000 yearsago, just in the Houli Cultural Period, Zibo began to make pottery products, and hasbeen keeping production till nowadays. This is peculiar in China. There are two primeperiods arisen in Zibo folk pottery making history, i.e. the Song-Jin dynasty period andmodern times respectively. The former reflected the technical progress Zibo potterymade till then. The latter signalized that Zibo pottery has mixed into the daily life oflocal people.People can get to know the primitive pottery wares produced by Zibo folk kilnthrough the kiln relics, documents related to it and the wares itself. But that is notenough. There are lots of ballads, stories and legends about the ware-making, whichhave high cultural value, needed to study for those who want to get its panorama.Roughly speaking, it is the resource endowments that decides the final products ofan area. This is especially true in a society almost with no commodity circulatingsystem. So it is rational for Zibo to product primitive pottery wares according to itsresource endowments in a long period. But roundly speaking, other factors decide either.Among them, the folk culture takes an active part in Zibo pottery industry. Acts ofinnovations, emergence of the government financed kilns, recurrence of the tea-powderglaze, etc., are absolutely the outcome of the folk culture functioning.Due to this, we cannot just narrow the scope to only the phase of techniques inZibo folk pottery study. On the contrary, scholars should bring knowledge related toculturology, sociology, folklore, etc., into their studies, so as to get an comprehensiveimpression to Zibo pottery art. In this thesis, the scholar takes the historical documents,relics and pottery antiques as material foundation, with methods of both positiveanalysis and normative analysis, deeply studied the route of development of Zibo folkpottery art, its material and cultural composition, and its significance for modernpottery art.