Puning inlaid porcelain

Guangdong
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Inlaid porcelain, commonly known as "Ju Rao", "Tie Rao" or "Kou Rao" by Chaoshan people, is a variety of ethnic folk arts and crafts with local characteristics and a unique architectural decorative art in the Chaoshan area. According to experts' research and evidence from existing temples, ancestral halls and houses in Chaoshan with historical periods, Puning inlaid porcelain appeared among the people of Puning during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1572-1619) and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, temples, ancestral halls and houses in Chaoshan, such as "Si Dian Jin" and "Xia Shan Hu", are decorated with inlaid porcelain. In the Ming Dynasty, Puning inlaid porcelain only used broken porcelain pieces to inlay simple floral, dragon and phoenix patterns on the roof ridge. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, porcelain workshops and porcelain inlay artists combined to produce low-temperature porcelain, painted it in various colors, and cut and inlaid it into flat stickers, reliefs or standing sculptures (also known as round bodies), figures, insects, fish, antiques, etc., which were decorated on the roofs, eaves, gatehouses, wooden shelves and screen walls of temples, ancestral halls, pavilions, towers and houses, or as wall-mounted reliefs and three-dimensional round sculptures. It is a unique handicraft art. It has bright colors and a solid texture; it will never fade after being exposed to wind and rain and the sun. If it is not damaged by human or natural disasters, it can last for thousands of years and keep its luster forever.

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