Data of Maotai Liquor, Jiangnan Silk, Longjing Tea and Jingdezhen Ceramics

1. Kweichow Moutai is exclusively produced in Renhuai Town, Zunyi County, Guizhou Province, China. One of the three major distilled spirits, which are equally famous with Scotch whisky and French cognac, is the originator of Daqu Maotai-flavor liquor.

2. Silk is a natural protein fiber, which is spun from silkworm cocoons and then carefully woven into textiles. When people raise silkworms and prepare for emergence, they put their cocoons into boiling water and spin silk in time. A cocoon can extract 800- 1200m silk. The famous glossy appearance of silk comes from the fiber structure similar to prism, which enables cloth to refract incident light from different angles and scatter light.

3. West Lake Longjing, the top famous tea in China. Produced in the mountainous area around West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. For many years, Hangzhou is famous not only for the beautiful West Lake, but also for Longjing tea. Tea has been produced in the mountains of the West Lake for thousands of years, and it was very famous in the Tang Dynasty. However, it took nearly a hundred years to form flat Longjing tea.

4. The pottery of the Eastern Han Dynasty is "very coarse in quality, very thick in body and light and rough in glaze", "only for common use" and not exported. In the Song Dynasty, Jingdezhen porcelain was famous for its dexterity, elegance and beauty. Jingdezhen successfully fired blue-and-white porcelain and underglaze red porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty, which are two very distinctive and valuable categories. Jingdezhen in Ming Dynasty not only inherited the technology of the previous generation, carried forward the types of firing, but also digested and absorbed the excellent skills of the declining famous kilns, and widely absorbed the essence of foreign culture, boldly innovating and not sticking to one pattern. Jingdezhen porcelain industry in the early Qing dynasty, whether it is official kiln or private kiln; No matter the product modeling, decorative techniques, decorative themes, and decorative styles, they have all reached the peak of "participating in the past and bringing forth the new, and being ingenious, especially in drawing figures, landscapes, flowers and birds", and the porcelain-making technology has almost reached the point of perfection and superb.