Mainly concentrated in Fanjiajing, Jingdezhen
Fanjiajing antique porcelain street recalls the past
Source: Cidu Evening News
Porcelain Capital Evening News: Fanjiajing, the original antique porcelain street, was originally a small passage in the urban-rural junction. After the 1980 s, with the change of production relations, several institutional porcelain workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Owners took a fancy to this undeveloped low-cost "dock" and flocked to build a front shop and a back shop here. However, after several years of hard work, a porcelain street with rows of shops soon formed. This street is about two Li Long from north to south, and there are hundreds of porcelain shops and workshops. There are countless small workshops of individual antique porcelain. It starts at 8 o'clock every morning until it gets dark at night. This is a busy scene with traffic and people coming and going. Its popularity in Jingdezhen is no less than that of Panjiayuan and Liulichang in Beijing, and it is well known by collectors and merchants.
Collecting masterpieces of world famous porcelain imitations is the biggest feature of this street. Five famous kilns in Song Dynasty, including Ru kiln, Guan kiln, Ge kiln, Jun kiln and Ding kiln, and imitations of six kiln systems, namely Yaozhou kiln, Cizhou kiln, Jun kiln, Ding kiln, Jingdezhen kiln and Longquan kiln, are available here. Imitations of blue-and-white porcelain, glazed red porcelain and colored glazed porcelain in Yuan Dynasty are dazzling. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was often seen that there were "imperial vessels" with inscriptions on money, and onlookers could not agree; Recently, imitations of some famous ceramic artists' works have also been impressively placed on the shelves. Of course, Jingdezhen, as one of the main producing areas of China porcelain industry since the Song Dynasty, has been inherited by porcelain-making workers in past dynasties and can be easily copied. Naturally, the main varieties are shadow blue, blue and white, glaze red, pastel, bucket color, multicolored, glazed, Ming and Qing imperial vessels, etc. Most of the imitations of other kilns come from Henan, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hebei, Guangdong and other places. For thousands of years, Jingdezhen has been an important town of porcelain production in China. It is no exaggeration to say that Fan Jiajing is the main distribution center of famous porcelain imitations in China today.
Openness is a style of this street. Everything is open, and everything does not avoid customers. You can see many wooden pots filled with muddy water to smear porcelain, bottles and cans filled with hydrofluoric acid and potassium permanganate to defile porcelain, and straws and plant ash to wipe porcelain out of date. Shopkeepers and guys not only fiddle with the porcelain in their shop in broad daylight, but also undertake the "processing" of porcelain sent by visitors from all directions. Walking along this street, advertisements for "making old porcelain" written on the wall with limewater and a brush can be seen everywhere. The address, house number and telephone number are clear and outspoken, and the business is very prosperous. Some shops write inscriptions specifically for customers or businesses. There are many full-time models here. After years of copying and practice, they can easily write the inscription of Ming and Qing imperial vessels, which is puzzling.
The good and the bad are mixed, the anecdotes are ups and downs, and the scenery is unique. The price of antique porcelain here is not high because there are many commodities. In Jingdezhen, there are several high imitation porcelain manufacturers scattered in other places, where high imitation porcelain is expensive, and merchants and collectors who do not reach a certain level will not patronize. Most people come to Fanjiajing for "treasure hunting".
Most of the bustling people in this street are foreigners. Many people come here with bags on their shoulders and bags in their hands to "pick goods". They just travel around the country with a few bags, or transport the goods to antique shops all over the country, or set up stalls for sale in antique markets in large and medium-sized cities. Generally two or three times a month, many people earn more than wage earners. In spring and autumn, businessmen from Hongkong, Taiwan Province and Southeast Asian countries also poured in. It is worth mentioning that among this group of businessmen, people from Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province are the new force. They can be found in shops and hotels in this street and in antique markets in some cities across the country. Fan Jiajing's shopkeepers affectionately call them "Fuzhou guys". It is true that it is difficult to trace the reason why Fuzhou people formed an army selling porcelain, but the environment of getting rich through reform and opening up is undoubtedly the premise.
When the sunset wiped the last blush on the horizon, the street of Fanjiajing began to calm down from the noise of the day. But in the quiet room with closed doors on both sides of this street, all kinds of work to meet another dawn are brewing and preparing. Fan Jiajing used to be a fertile ground for an active economy and rich human life. However, due to the uncontrolled circulation of imitations, it will definitely add a barrier to the identification of counterfeit works of art in Jian Zhen, and the merits and demerits will each account for a few percent. Only history will test this and future generations will judge it. References:
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