Abstract
Chinese export porcelain was a great wonder in the long history of the world. During Ming and Qing dynasty, it was exported in large quantity beyond China, which led to a taste for Chinese designs and made different cultures encountered, exchanged and integrated. At the same time, Chinese export porcelain actively influenced passively recipient foreign consumers, which made the world civilization be promoted. The utensils are used to convey Daoism. While spreading Chinese culture, Chinese export porcelain carried the world's religious culture such as Christian culture, Islamic culture, Buddhist culture and Chinese local Taoist culture, bursting with colorful light. By collecting a large number of images of the Chinese export porcelain in religious culture during Ming and Qing dynasty, this article uses historical research method and the method of anthropology to make a specific and comprehensive analysis of the religious culture on exported porcelain so as to reappear the splendid global history. This article also elaborated on the design semantics, acceptance, and innovative development of religious culture on exported porcelains during the Ming and Qing Dynasties under the environment of the source language and target languages in China and beyond China. This article also analyzes the transportation routes and specific loading methods of porcelains during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which better reflects the movement of Chinese Ceramics and its appropriation in world history. The methods of iconology are used in this article and the narrative stories on porcelains are analyzed. Chinese exported porcelain is functional and its spiritual enlightenment is appreciated by human-beings. The world civilization, human-being’s wisdom, spiritual connotation, communication integration and mutual development of all the world’s nations are witnessed by Chinese export porcelains in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Highlights
Chinese ceramics have a special artistic charm
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the decorative patterns of many export porcelains were based on samples brought by foreign merchants from overseas and Chinese ceramic workers imitated the custom-made pattern on porcelains and fired them in the local kiln
As a diplomat of foreign cultural exchanges, Chinese export porcelain records the progress of world history and civilization, and demonstrates the diversity of world religious culture
Summary
Chinese ceramics have a special artistic charm. For over a thousand years, Chinese porcelain was the most universally admired and most widely imitated product in the world. [1] The ancient Chinese document Yin Liu Zhai Shuo Ci says that "sincerely, the beauty of Chinese porcelain is famous all over the world. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the decorative patterns of many export porcelains were based on samples brought by foreign merchants from overseas and Chinese ceramic workers imitated the custom-made pattern on porcelains and fired them in the local kiln. Europe normally had two kinds: one type was the Chinese local porcelains being exported outside, which expressed Chinese traditional cultures, religions and art; another one type was the custom made porcelains which were made according to the patterns and samples brought by someone from abroad. Chinese export porcelain clearly expresses and reveals the spiritual religious beliefs and cultural psychology of people from different countries in the East and the West with its concrete shapes, patterns and painting art, resulting in a world-wide cultural blending phenomenon. Chinese export porcelain is the messenger of Western religious thought, and the "westward" messenger of Chinese religion and folk beliefs
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