Jian Kiln is a famous kiln for making black glazed tea in Fujian in Song Dynasty。Kiln sites are Luhuaping, Niupilun, Daluhoushan, Yingchanggan and other places, relics distribution area of about 120,000 square meters。Jian kiln was founded in the late Tang Dynasty, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing four generations, the history of porcelain as long as a thousand years, and has a great impact on Fujian and the vast areas of Jiangnan。

       Jian Kiln's main products are cups, bowls, plates and dishes, as well as burning boxes, POTS, kettles, lamps, furnaces, bowls, plum bottles, burial vessels, etc. It is famous for its rich black glaze in the Song Dynasty。The inscriptions of "for the imperial" and "into the cup" on the sole of the foot should be the tributes fired for the court of the Song Dynasty。The characteristics of black glaze: high iron content in the tire, has always been known as "iron tire", the fetal body is heavy, black gray, purple black, the fetal material is rough and hard, the color of the exposed tire is heavy and dull。The shape is diverse, with different forms such as the size of the mouth, the opening, etc., the circle foot is small and shallow, the repair tire is careless and strong, the knife method is natural, the enamel is just moist, the enamel is black, the ware is glazed inside and outside, the outer glaze is near the bottom foot, the sole is unglazed and the tire is exposed。The glaze has obvious vertical flow and kilter phenomenon, there are "rabbit hair", "oil drop" and "obsidian" and "partridge spot" and other famous varieties。

       The Song Dynasty was the development period of Jian kiln, which was famous for burning black glaze ware。Rabbit hair spot, partridge spot, obsidian and other famous enamel color out here, to the tea cup for many。Under the influence of the reputation of the black glaze in the kiln, there are many imitation kilns around, in addition to dozens of kilns in Fujian province to Fuqing City in the south and Wuyi Mountain in the north, there are also Jizhou kilns in Jiangxi Province, Sichuan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan and other places have imitation kilns, forming a kiln system led by the construction of kilns。

       The black glaze of Jian kiln belongs to the category of crystalline glaze, and the iron content is higher than 8%。In the process of high temperature melting of more than 1300 degrees, the change of kiln temperature makes the glaze produce a strange pattern。Due to the popularity of tea fighting in the Song Dynasty, the main fire is suitable for the black glaze tea cup, also known as the building cup, to the water Ji town kiln products as the most, the late Northern Song Dynasty has been for the court to fire the black glaze cup used for tea fighting, and engraved on the bottom of the "into the cup", "for the royal" words。Jianyang Kiln products use raw materials with high iron content to make tires, so the tire color is deep black and hard, and it is commonly known as "iron tire", or it is called Wu mud kiln, black construction, Wu mud construction, etc。Black glaze is applied inside and outside the cup, and the outer wall glaze is not in the end, revealing black embryo。