History of Pottery in china
1 min readThe emergence of pottery in ancient China took place in dawn of the agriculture age approximately ten thousand years ago，which sparkled in the course of early Chinese civilization，as well as in the world history.Flame of kilns rapidly spread across the country，with pottery gradually stepped into human life as an essential element to carry on the civilization.
Although nobody could tell who the first pottery inventor was，it is for certain that pottery and its making technology is not the mere outcome of a sudden thought，but the fruit of gradual development of technology and art.After our ancestors managed to grasp the characteristics of fire and clay，they cleverly mixed them to produce all kinds of potteries，and worked up to the splendor of the pottery age.
Unlike any previous utensils such as stone ware，bone ware，tooth ware and mussel ware，which are all made through simple processing of natural materials，pottery used an entirely new material which completely altered the material configuration of clay through high temperature heating.It can be said that pottery is the first “scientific and technological invention”in human history.
Since its emergence，pottery has not only brought about many conveniences tohuman life，but also become a carrier of culture and art that keeps on human civilization through vicissitudes of time.
