On The Song Dynasty Kilns Porcelain Aesthetic Orientation

The handicraft industry of porcelain in Song Dynasty flourished, the civilian kilns mushroomed. The aesthetic tendency of the civilian kiln's porcelain in Song Dynasty was embodied in the combination of functional quality and artistic quality of the porcelain, the shapes, the techniques and the themes of ornament. The differences in natural environment as well as in cultural prevailing custom between North and South endowed regional features to the aesthetical tendency of the civilian kiln's porcelain. The working mode of the civilian kiln, the currency fields of the civilian porcelain and the social fashion influence the aesthetic tendency of the civilian porcelain. In turn, the aesthetic features of the civilian porcelain in Song Dynasty have far-reaching influence on the porcelain's making of the contemporary time and the later ages in home and foreign countries.