Half of the ceramic history is written in Zhejiang. The Shabu Kiln, located in Huangyan District, Taizhou City, holds the key to understanding the celadon civilisation of Zhejiang Province.
Upon the discovery of the Shabu Kiln, a long-held preconception was shattered that “Taizhou hadn’t been a porcelain-producing area”. Furthermore, as the ruins of a well-preserved dragon kiln built in the mid-late Northern Song Dynasty, it fills a gap in the evolution of celadon craftsmanship from the Yue Kiln to the Longquan Kiln. As an “important archaeological site discovered in Zhejiang in the new era”, the Shabu Kiln saw how ceramics reached its peak in the ancient Wu-Yue region. It was an indispensable part of the Song Dynasty’s celadon production system in Zhejiang.
As Zhejiang Province is implementing the “Song Culture Inheritance Project” and “Wu-Yue Culture Protection and Inheritance Project”, the Huangyan District Party Committee and Government takes Shabu celadon as a medium to deeply explore the profound historical heritage of the Song culture and Wu-Yue culture, sparing no effort to build a county-level practice model for the modern civilisation of the Chinese nation. The upcoming drama commission The Story of Celadon is exactly a vivid continuation of the thousand-year-old kiln fire on the contemporary stage.
Cast:
JIANG Ning as SUN Zhenxi
WEI Peng as Third Uncle XIA
GUO Chong as ZHONG En
ZHANG Fan as YUE Ding
TAO Yifan as CHEN Minghong
WANG Yajing as ZHANG Xiaomin
FENG Yafan as TIAN Qingxu
LI Yuanqi as CHEN Jiusheng
QI Xinyuan as CHEN Xiaomei
HU Yujia as XIA Xiuxiu
LIN Xia as SU Chunlan
WEI Xin as ZHAO Jingping
ZHANG Yu as SHEN Lanshu
YANG Yang as XU Wan
ZOU Jiewen as XU Shun
Chorus:
LIU Xiaorong
YING Wei
ZHOU Yuxin
WANG Tingting
HOU Chenlu
ZHANG Xuyi
CAI Jiaxi
LI Yanqi
YANG Liu’er
WU Yufei
XU Shaojia
XU Huling
There is a historical gap between the Yue Kiln and Longquan Kiln. What happens during this missing period? The only remaining clue is nothing more than a legend known as “Nine Dragons Soaring into the Sky”. What kind of unknown truth is just hidden behind this legend?
SUN Zhenxi, a contemporary celadon expert, follows her mentor’s footsteps to fill this gap, because she believes that the answer lies behind the legend of “Nine Dragons Soaring into the Sky”. During the middle Northern Song Dynasty, YUE Ding, a ceramist who travels everywhere, hears about the legend of “Nine Dragons Soaring into the Sky” and comes here to learn the Shabu celadon technology. These two persons, living in different times, begin their respective journey of discovery...
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