Jingdezhen is famous as the origin of the word Kaolin, named after the nearby Kaoling Mountain, the source of the first pre white hard-burning clay. The traditional porcelain vessels produced here ha e been described as "thin as a sheer of paper, right as a mirror, white as jade and as beautiful sounding as a bell." Classic Jingdezhen porcelain ware is famous for its thinness, but many don't know that it is made thin not by throwing, but mainly by trimming because it is difficult to throw thin-walled wares with this clay body. This inside and outside trimming is a traditional skill that has been handed down from generation to generation for more than 1000 years.
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