Pottery and Porcelain

 Four important things helped the making of the Chinese Pottery 
and Porcelain 

*Clay

 *Fuel

 *River Systems

 *Markets

 Huge mounds of clay and huge amounts of fuel are used to make 
pottery and Porcelain.   A big 
fire is set up and it usually makes pottery and porcelain for hundreds of years. 
Great Grandmothers, Grandmothers, Mothers, Children. All the knowledge is passed 
down of making the fires and moulding the clay, so that each generation can 
develop their own decorating technique and style. Prepairing the fire and and 
glazing the clay are passed down from generation to generation
  aswell.

 The types of things that people use to make out of pottery and 
porcelain are 

·       
Sculptures

 ·       
Vases 

·       
Pots
 ·       
Wine 
jugs
 ·       
Plates 

·    
Dishes 
 
A lot of pottey and porcelain were exported from china to Korea, 
Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Southeast Asian peninsula, Philippines, Indonesia, India, 
Middle East, Eastern Coast of Africa, Europe, Great Britain, and the United 
States of America. 

Tomake porcelain they mixed porcelain stone with Kaolin they 
grinded the material and then soaked in water for years. That made it stickier 
easily moulded which made it be able to be stretched and twisted and shaped so 
it was able to be put on the potter’s wheel to be made into lovely pottery. Once 
it was half way dry a knife for that activity only shaved it until it was thin. 
Then they would paint it and design it how ever they liked and then they would 
have a beautiful piece of pottery.  
 
Back in the old days it was extremely hard to make pottery and 
porcelain because there was shipping and fires and heavy 
clay.

 Today it is much easier because of all the machines and 
technology so it is much easier.