News from this newspaper (Reporter Li Jianbin)
The latest archaeological results of the Jinyang Ancient City Site recently released by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology and the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Ancient Architecture and Color Sculpture and Mural Protection said: In 2021, the archaeological team of the Jinyang Ancient City Site A Sui Dynasty porcelain kiln site.
According to Han Binghua, researcher in charge of the Jinyang Ancient City Ruins Archaeology Project, this is the first porcelain kiln site discovered in the 60 years of archaeological work in Jinyang Ancient City, and it is also the earliest porcelain kiln site discovered in Shanxi.
Jinyang Ancient City Site is located in Jinyuan Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, with Longshan and Tianlong Mountains in the west and Fen River in the east, covering an area of more than 20 square kilometers. It was built in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and was abandoned in the early Northern Song Dynasty.
It has been 60 years since the archaeological work of the Jinyang ancient city site has been carried out.
Because the site is deeply buried and well-preserved, it is a major site protected by the national "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" to "14th Five-Year Plan".
The Sui Dynasty porcelain kiln site discovered this time is located in the Jinyang ancient city site from the Northern Dynasty to the southern part of the Tang Dynasty palace area, superimposed under the Tang Dynasty cultural layer of the No. , tiles, slag and contemporaneous relics.
Archaeologists have cleared up 3 remains of porcelain kilns, 9 ash pits and nearly 10,000 pieces of porcelain.
More than 1,600 pieces of kiln furniture were unearthed, mainly for supports and cushions.
The support has a kiln column, a saggar and a round head strip support; the pad has a gasket, a gasket, a gasket, a block and a three-pronged nail.
The porcelain pieces unearthed in the excavation area are mainly celadon and white porcelain, and there are also 2 plain porcelain figurines.
Among the three kiln remains, the one that is relatively well preserved is the No. 2 kiln, which is 2.4 meters above the ground and is a horseshoe-shaped steamed bread kiln.
The plane of the fire chamber is nearly trapezoidal, and the section is also trapezoidal. The mouth is larger than the bottom and the bottom is flat. It is 3 meters long from east to west, 3.4 meters wide from north to south, and remains 1.06 to 1.26 meters deep.
There are many mushroom-shaped kiln columns, trumpet-shaped kiln columns, furnace bars, washers, gaskets, a large number of celadon-glazed porcelain pieces and a small amount of white-glazed porcelain pieces unearthed in the kiln.
From the analysis of the remaining relics of the porcelain kilns, the porcelain kilns are all horseshoe-shaped steamed bread kilns, which are composed of a fire chamber, a kiln room and a flue.
A large amount of charcoal ash was found in the fire chamber, proving that the fuel used in the kiln was charcoal.
Judging from the relics and unearthed relics, the use time of the porcelain kiln is very short, and there are not many kinds of fired products.
Han Binghua said that from the analysis of the unearthed artifacts, there are obvious characteristics of the Sui Dynasty or the early Tang Dynasty, and the era of the porcelain kiln may be the Sui Dynasty.
"It has not been used for a long time, but its technical level is high. Its location was located in the palace city of Jinyang Palace at that time, which shows that this is an important Sui Dynasty porcelain kiln, which is of great significance in the study of ancient Chinese ceramics." Han Binghua said.