What do Chinese call their prize crockery ?

Question

In the West we are acclimatised to calling our best crockery "China" due to China being long associated with premium production of this product.

But what do the Chinese call it ?

Do they accord crockery with a regional name ? England? Limoges? Waterford? Something else?

Answer 1

As early as the Eastern Han period, the ancients in the South-chang (now the Jingdezhen) construction of kiln Square, firing ceramics. By the Tang dynasty, as Chang South soil, and also to absorb the people of the South celadon and white porcelain north to the merits of creating a green white porcelain. Green crystal moisture white porcelain, jade leave the reputation and thus known, and large export to Europe.

18th-century ago, the Europeans will not manufacture of porcelain, Chang Nan Zhen China, especially in the exquisite porcelain very popular. In Europe, Chang Nanzhen porcelain is very cherished by the people of valuables, people with access to a porcelain-chang Nanzhen proud of. In this way the Europeans on "Chang South" as porcelain (china) and porcelain production of "China" (China) in lieu of that, over time, the Europeans put Chang's intention to forget the South, just remember that it is "porcelain", that is, "China."

Western porcelain was originally imported from China. The Ming Dynasty, a large number of Chinese porcelain products began to the Western world. Persians said as China's porcelain chini, European businessmen in the Persian purchase of Chinese porcelain also the word back to the West. Later, they again chini to china, china and the production of China is also known as China. Europe and the United States when people talked about China, often think of China (China) is the china (porcelain) village. Jingdezhen is the most popular argument is the Chinese-chang china South (the original name of Jingdezhen)-. With the fine white porcelain in Jingdezhen spread to a large number overseas, makes porcelain (china) become a synonym for China.

Answer 2

瓷 , cí : 'high-fired ceramics', 'fine, compact pottery'

瓷器 , cíqì : 'porcelain'