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Chaozhou ware

潮州陶瓷
（枫溪）

Cháozhōu táocí

Traditional 潮州陶瓷（楓溪）

Ceramics of Chaozhou in eastern Guangdong, centred on Fengxi, which the heritage record calls a ceramic centre from the Song onward.

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Forms, use and context#

For tea, the key product is the hand-thrown red-clay (zhuni) teapot used in Chaozhou gongfu tea; that craft was added to the national heritage list in 2014. Fengxi porcelain and Chaozhou overglaze porcelain have their own listings, and the Song kiln site at Bijiashan is nationally protected.

Body#

Local red clay high in iron oxide for teapots (see clay fengxi-hongni); porcelain bodies for Fengxi porcelain.1

Methods#

  1. Teapot forming Hand throwing on a wheel (手拉), in about sixty steps; unlike Yixing slab building.1
  2. Porcelain decoration Carving, modelling, openwork and pinching; openwork and pinched figures are the best known.2
  3. Overglaze painting Painted over the glaze and refired at 700–850 °C, with gold paste.3

Typical objects#

Not yet verified: shape ids for 梨形壶, 水平壶, 扁灯壶, 扁鼓壶 named in ihchina-fengxi-zhuni-pot-craft

Periods#

  1. Song – presentFengxi a ceramic centre from the Song.2
  2. Song – presentThe teapot record traces red-clay pots to the Song Bijiashan kiln and says they became common from the mid-Qing.1

Kiln sites#

SitePeriodSources
Bijiashan Chaozhou kiln site (笔架山潮州窑遗址), ChaozhouSong (as listed in 2001)5

Heritage listings#

2014

China national intangible cultural heritage list (国家级非物质文化遗产代表性项目名录), traditional crafts1

Item
Ⅷ-98 (序号 881)
Batch
fourth

陶器烧制技艺（枫溪手拉朱泥壶制作技艺）, declared by Chaozhou.

2008

China national intangible cultural heritage list (国家级非物质文化遗产代表性项目名录), traditional crafts2

Item
Ⅷ-96 (序号 879)
Batch
second

枫溪瓷烧制技艺, declared by Fengxi district.

2014

China national intangible cultural heritage list (国家级非物质文化遗产代表性项目名录), traditional crafts3

Item
Ⅷ-218 (序号 1332)
Batch
fourth

潮州彩瓷烧制技艺.

2008

China national intangible cultural heritage list, folk customs (民俗)4

Item
Ⅹ-107 (序号 1014)
Batch
second

茶艺（潮州工夫茶艺）: the tea practice these pots serve; its procedure names a clay stove and a sand kettle (砂铫).

2001

Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (全国重点文物保护单位)5

Item
5-97
Site
笔架山潮州窑遗址 Bijiashan Chaozhou kiln site
Batch
fifth
Era as listed
宋 (Song), 广东省潮州市

Designation 5-97 from enwiki-mhcs-guangdong.

Related#

Paired teas on Cha.fyi

Phoenix Dancong 凤凰单丛Mi Lan Xiang Dancong 蜜兰香单丛Ya Shi Xiang Dancong 鸭屎香单丛Lingtou Dancong 岭头单丛Wuyi rock tea 武夷岩茶

Tea regions on Cha.fyi

Guangdong 广东Fenghuang 凤凰镇

Clays

Chaozhou red clay

Wares

Yixing ware

On Cha.fyi

Phoenix Dancong 凤凰单丛

Mentioned in

How to read a Yixing clay nameBuying a teapot: checks you can do yourselfChaozhou gongfu teawarePear-shaped potMengchen potChaozhou hand-thrown potShuiping

Sources#

  1. 陶器烧制技艺（枫溪手拉朱泥壶制作技艺） — 881 / Ⅷ-98 (2014, extension)China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (中国非物质文化遗产网) · Government and heritage records · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  2. 枫溪瓷烧制技艺 — 879 / Ⅷ-96 (2008)China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (中国非物质文化遗产网) · Government and heritage records · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  3. 潮州彩瓷烧制技艺 — 1332 / Ⅷ-218 (2014)China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (中国非物质文化遗产网) · Government and heritage records · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  4. 茶艺（潮州工夫茶艺） — 国家级非遗代表性项目 1014 / Ⅹ-107China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network · Government and heritage records · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  5. 中国第五批全国重点文物保护单位完全名单 (2001-07-16)中国新闻网 · Journalism and features · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  6. List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in GuangdongEnglish Wikipedia · Reference works · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
Status and editorial notes draft

Sources are listed below. Their presence does not certify every claim; source-specific interpretations and unresolved questions are identified in the text. This page has not received independent expert approval.

  • shape ids for 梨形壶, 水平壶, 扁灯壶, 扁鼓壶 named in ihchina-fengxi-zhuni-pot-craft
  • Draft: written 2026-11-02 from the sources listed, all read on that date. Region id is proposed; no region entries exist in teaware data yet, and cha.fyi's region ids were not checked from this thread. Still to do: shape entries for the four named pot forms; a museum or academic source for the Bijiashan kiln's products.