Purple pottery of Jianshui spurs industrial vitality

Whether you are walking in the hustle and bustle business streets, peaceful surrounding villages or in front of various workshops, you can come aross ‘potteries’ in Jianshui County, south Yunnan's Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture. 

The purple pottery of Jian shui, which is one of the most famous potteries in China, has a special artistic charm because of its main decoration method that adopts painting and calligraphy from traditional literati.

Combined with practicability and ornamental value, the purple pottery can assume the forms of teapot, cup, basin, bowl, plate, urn, steaming pot, pipe, writing kits and other products. 

In May 2005, Jianshui county listed its purple pottery as one of the two key cultural industries and started to support its development. With the guidance of policy, more and more people in Jianshui took up the traditional craftsmanship and rebuilt the prosperity of the purple pottery.

In September, 2015, the purple pottery street opened officially. In January of 2018, the market center was built in the pottery street, which is the biggest direct-sale store in Hong he Prefecture with the area of 2,000 square meters.

In July of 2019, the region of purple pottery cultural industry had the access to the qualification of national intellectual property demonstration zone. In September of the same year, The Light Industry Association of China entitled Jianshui the ‘Capital of purple pottery’.

Source: Xinhua; Trans-editing by Mo Yingyi and Wang Shixue