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| China is among the first countries to have invented potteries. Pottery slips unearthed from the Gods' Cave in Lishui County, Jiangsu Province are acclaimed as the representative remains of the world's earliest pottery. They are part of the pottery products in the Paleolithic Age and have been recog-nized as over 10,000 years old. Not until the beginning of the Neolithic Age did the Chinese pottery become further developed. At that time various types of wares began to flourish, including red clay pottery, red sand pottery, and gray, black and white pottery. Meanwhile the production techniques and the firing methods were becoming more mature. More designs and patterns start-ed to appear. Pottery workshops emerged in the Shang and the Zhou dynasties in China, producing building pottery as well as potteries for daily use and ap-preciation. In the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods, potted could also serve as gifts or burial articles, and pottery kilns had made a bi step from the low-efficiency cave kilns to the high-efficiency round kilns. Dur-ing the Qin and Han dynasties, pottery ware was used more widely and got more developed as to the artistic level. Millions of terra-cotta warriors and horses in the Tomb of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty have been ac-claimed as "the World Wonder. " After the Han Dynasty, a group of cities and towns famous for pottery production emerged gradually; namely, Gongxian County in the Tang Dynasty, and Foshan City and Yixing City from the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. |
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