The predecessor of the porcelain house is a century-old French building, which was built in the late 1920s. It is a four-story building with brick and wood structure, European-style mansion-style building, Italian-style veranda and eclectic architectural style, with a building area of 4,200 square meters.
In 2000, Zhang Lianzhi invested heavily in buying a century-old foreign building and decided to turn it into a porcelain building, so as to promote the porcelain culture of the Chinese nation and set up a monument of porcelain culture. At first, Zhang Lianzhi just wanted to put tiles on the eaves. In 2005, when Zhang Lianzhi attended the Asia-Europe Finance Ministers' Meeting in Tianjin, he went to Huayun Museum for dinner and was stunned by a wall inlaid with ancient porcelain fragments. Inspired by this, Zhang Lianzhi thought that if all the houses were pasted with ancient porcelain, the effect might be even more amazing.
Building structure
The porcelain mansion used more than 4,000 pieces of ancient porcelain, more than 400 pieces of white marble stone carvings, more than 700 million pieces of ancient porcelain,13,000 pieces of ancient porcelain plates and bowls, more than 300 pieces of porcelain cat pillows, more than 300 pieces of white marble, Tang and Song stone lions, more than 300 pieces of historical stone carvings, more than 20 tons of crystal stones and agate. Decorate a French mansion into a priceless porcelain house.
More than 700 million pieces of porcelain inlaid in Porcelain House cover various historical periods, including Jin celadon, Tang tri-colored porcelain, Longquan porcelain, Yuan and Ming blue-and-white porcelain, and Qing Dynasty pastel. Almost all kinds of official kilns and folk kilns can be found on the wall, all of which are poured with cement and fixed with marble glue as part of the building. A pair of very unique stone piers guard the entrance of the porcelain house tunnel.