The Xing kilns worked around Lincheng and Neiqiu counties in southern Hebei from the Northern Dynasties into the Tang. They made a hard, thin white porcelain from local red sandstone and a magnesia-rich glaze, and their bowls were used across the Tang elite and exported as far as Iran and Japan. They declined at the end of the Tang as the Ding kilns at Quyang took over the northern white market.
The Xing kilns in Lincheng and Neiqiu made white porcelain from a local red sandstone and a magnesia-rich glaze, and their thin bowls reached Chang'an, Iran and Japan. The ware ended celadon's monopoly in the north, and in the Song it was displaced by Ding ware from Quyang.