On August 24, I walked into the pottery studio of Guze Kiln in Taocheng District, Hengshui City, Hebei Province. Fang Lijiang, the inheritor of the traditional pottery making skills of Guze Kiln, a municipal intangible cultural heritage, was drawing blanks.
Pottery making dates back to the Neolithic Age.
Guze kiln takes the meaning of the ancient swamp in Hengshui Lake, uses local cement and high-temperature pottery mud as raw materials, and mixes quartz, borax, feldspar, and clay to make glazes. Advanced features.
After batching, molding, trimming, glazing, biscuit firing, and kiln installation, it takes about 15 hours to burn the temperature to 1200 degrees.
The pottery art of Guze kiln absorbs the cultural essence and innovative ideas of Chinese traditional and contemporary art.
Its style is characterized by strong ancient folk customs, rough pottery, natural glaze, simple texture and clear texture.
In 2019, the traditional pottery craftsmanship of Guze kiln was included in the fifth batch of intangible cultural heritage list of Hengshui City.
(Cui Zhiping, Shang Changzhi, Li Xinpeng, Sui Zhiyuan)
Responsible editor: [Bian Liqun]