Liling, Hunan Province, with exquisite underglaze color and colorful porcelain products, is known as China's three major porcelain capitals together with Tangshan and Jingdezhen. Liling porcelain is involved in more than 4,000 varieties of daily use, and was established as a geographical indication protected product by the former General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China. The Hongguan kiln, which has the title of national porcelain, is the largest local porcelain manufacturing brand in Liling, and its brand story has also been flopped into film and television dramas.
The predecessor of the Hongguan kiln was the official kiln in the late Qing Dynasty, and its underglaze multicolored porcelain had won the gold medal of the Panama Exposition with the national liquor Moutai, and was known as the "pinnacle of oriental ceramic art". Hongguan kiln has undertaken the production of ceramics for many important events or banquets such as the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai World Expo, Milan World Expo, etc., and the porcelain and national gift porcelain produced by the brand still represent a landmark era of Chinese famous porcelain.
Hongguan kiln mainly uses high white jade porcelain, combined with its signature underglaze colorful process, to produce products as thin as eggshells, strong light transmittance, bright fetal quality, smooth and delicate surface. As the safest kind of glaze craft products, Hongguan kiln porcelain can be used in sterilizers, dishwashers, microwave ovens and other scenes, in the high-end porcelain tableware market dominated by glaze color, this characteristic of underglaze color greatly increases the practicality and durability of its dishes and tableware.
Although underglaze color is the safest glaze process, usually due to the lack of high-temperature pigments, the saturation of the products produced by ordinary manufacturers is not enough, and the finished product will show a dull color. However, Hongguanyao's products have broken through this technical barrier, although its design pattern is not dominant, but its highly saturated color presentation has saved the brand from the lack of a professional design team.
Mao porcelain is the abbreviation of "Chairman Mao's porcelain", which refers to the daily thin porcelain produced in Liling in the 70s of the 20th century. Because the porcelain is too thin, in the repair process, the craftsman needs to be stable enough and have a strong grasp of the thickness of the surface, so the technical requirements for the craftsman are very high, and it is difficult for ordinary manufacturers to complete. Hongguan kiln has passed down this craft, and the Hongmei Annunciation series is one of the representatives of this thin porcelain.
The Hongmei Annunciation series can be purchased in e-commerce, the price of the 4.5-inch (11.43 cm) rice bowl of the Hongmei Annunciation series is 89 yuan, and the price of the 30-head set is 897 yuan, compared to other Chinese porcelain brands, the price of this series is not expensive. The fly in the ointment is that because the porcelain is too light and thin, the product is easy to burn when serving hot soup and rice, and it is easy to crack when the temperature changes sharply, such as when rushing into hot water in a cold environment, and the broken dish fragments are also sharper than ordinary porcelain, so special attention needs to be paid when using.
