Rongchang pottery: a product on a list, and the process behind it
What the district record says about Rongchang's pottery, and the ceramic sequence that a kiln anywhere in the country would follow.
Rongchang District is the westernmost of Chongqing's county-level divisions, called the pearl of western Chongqing, and it borders Sichuan province to the west. County history begins under the Tang, when Changzhou was set up in 758 over a county of Changyuan; the county of Rongchang itself was carved out of Ba County in the Ming. Six subdistricts and fifteen towns cover ground that a 1941 county survey measured at 899.28 square kilometres. Four lines carry the farming economy — pigs, sericulture, hemp and tea — and the list of products includes folding fans, pottery and tea. It is described as the home of the white pig.
What the district record says about Rongchang's pottery, and the ceramic sequence that a kiln anywhere in the country would follow.
The pottery on the product list of a district that also counts pigs, hemp, tea and folding fans.
Ramie cloth named from the hemp that Rongchang lists among its four farming lines.
A township renamed in 2013, holding four units between the county seat and the Sichuan border.