Ding kiln products are mainly white porcelain, but also other rare varieties such as sauce, red and black, such as black porcelain (black porcelain), purple glaze (purple porcelain), blue glaze (celadon) and red glaze (red porcelain), all of which are covered with a layer of high-temperature color glaze. "Gui Qian Zhi" written by Liu Qi in Yuan Dynasty said: "Dingzhou flowers and porcelain are all white." It can be seen that the kiln fixing device was not only loved by people at that time, but also produced a lot. When Su Dongpo, a great poet in Song Dynasty, was in Dingzhou, he once praised Ding Yao's colored porcelain with the poem "Dingzhou Flower Porcelain Carves Ruby".
Ding kiln is divided into Beiding and Nanding. Before the Northern Song Dynasty, Ding Yao's kiln site was in Dingzhou in the north, which was called Beiding. After the Song Dynasty moved south, some kiln workers went to Jingdezhen and some went to Jizhou, which was called Nanding. The glaze produced in Jingdezhen is powdery, also known as powder.
After the unremitting efforts of several generations of scholars, the varieties of Ding Kiln recognized by the academic circles are: white glaze, yellow glaze, brown glaze, black glaze, purple glaze, red glaze, green glaze, golden flower, partridge spot, coloring, white glaze carving, black glaze white flower, brown glaze carving, black glaze carving, white glaze carving, and internal and external carving.
Over the years, I found the remains in the ruins: imitation jun, twisted tire, twisted glaze, plain porcelain, Song San painted pottery, imitation Liao tri-colored pottery and so on.
Ding kiln has a large production scale and many varieties. Most of them are bowls, plates, bottles, plates, boxes and pillows, and they also produce pure bottles, conchs and other pre-Buddha offerings, but the quantity is very small, mainly as tributes. The "Dingzhou White Porcelain Baby Pillow" collected by the Palace Museum is one of the representative works of Ding Yao porcelain.