ceramics
close Narrow sense ceramics (traditional ceramics): a general term for pottery, stoneware, porcelain and other products with clay as the main raw material. As early as more than a thousand years ago, Europeans mastered the manufacturing technology of porcelain, the Chinese people had already made very exquisite porcelain. China is one of the first countries in the world to use pottery, and Chinese porcelain is highly praised by the world because of its high practicality and artistry. The so-called pottery and porcelain (ceramics) can be divided into daily use, art, and architectural pottery. Archaeology finds that the Chinese invented pottery as early as the Neolithic Age (about 8000-2000 BC). The agricultural production in the late primitive society made the ancestors of the Chinese people live a relatively fixed life and objectively had a demand for pottery. In order to improve the convenience of life and the quality of life, people gradually fired pottery by burning clay.