[Explanation] On October 21st, during the 17th China Jingdezhen International Ceramics Fair, Shan Jixiang, the former director of the Palace Museum, appeared in the Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln and Folk Customs Expo Area and gave a speech at the Chinese Traditional Culture 2020 Gold Porcelain Salon. Later, he participated in the traditional ceremony of re-firing in the Ming Dynasty gourd kiln.
In an interview with a reporter from China News Agency, Shan Jixiang talked about the relationship between the 600-year-old Forbidden City and Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of the millennium, and how he felt every time he came to Jingdezhen.
[Concurrent] Shan Jixiang, Former Dean of the Palace Museum
We (The Palace Museum) have approximately 367,000 pieces of ceramics, 90% of which are produced in Jingdezhen. This has established the Palace Museum and Jingdezhen as a natural one. This kind of cooperation and exchange is an opportunity that I feel every time I come. In order to promote the traditional Chinese culture and the ceramic civilization of ancient ceramics in Jingdezhen, there are some new ideas.
On the same day, Shan Jixiang participated as the main guest in the Ming Dynasty gourd kiln re-burning and ignition ceremony. He said that behind the simple re-burning and ignition ceremony, a large number of research results and efforts of Jingdezhen people and ceramics were condensed, which has important practical significance.
[Concurrent] Shan Jixiang, Former Dean of the Palace Museum
It can really be reburned first of all to restore the traditional crafts, traditional techniques, and traditional materials in the past, so that it slowly accumulates to the present, so today our ancient kilns of all ages can be reburned to achieve ignition. This is an important way to protect heritage It is also that people can more intuitively understand the splendid culture created by our ancestors and what it means to people in real life today.
Reporter Jiang Tao Wang Haoyang reports from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]