What industry does ceramics belong to?

The traditional concept of ceramics refers to all artificial industrial products with inorganic non-metallic minerals such as clay as raw materials. Ceramics are various products made of natural clay and various natural minerals through crushing, mixing, molding and calcination. In the past, people called things made of clay and fired at high temperature in special kilns ceramics, which is the general name of pottery and porcelain.

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Ceramics include various products made of clay or clay-containing mixture through mixing, molding and calcination. From the roughest earthenware to the finest exquisite ceramics, it belongs to its scope.

Its main raw materials are silicate minerals (such as clay, timely, etc.). ) is taken from nature, so it belongs to the category of "silicate industry" together with glass, cement, enamel, refractory and other industries. The main producing areas of ceramics are Pengcheng Town, Jingdezhen, Liling, Gao 'an, Fengcheng, Pingxiang, Lichuan, Foshan, Chaozhou, Dehua, Zibo, Tangshan and Beiliu. Besides, Jingdezhen is one of the "porcelain capitals" in China.

The invention of pottery is an important symbol of Neolithic Age in primitive society. In China, the remains of early Neolithic pottery were found about 10000 years ago. The pottery fragments found at Nanzhuangtou site in xushui county, Hebei Province were identified as relics from10800 to 9700. In addition, pottery fragments dating back to 10000~7000 years were also found in Wannian County, Jiangxi Province, Pinpiyan, Guilin, Guangxi, and Qingtang, Yingde, Guangdong Province.

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