CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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On the way it passes Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S, Hutian Ancient Kiln Site, Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site and back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Jiaotan is a name that points back to fire. The area lies in the hills of northern Jiangxi, not far from Jingdezhen, and its role in history was to supply fuel, firewood and charcoal for the great kilns of the porcelain capital of China. Jingdezhen has made porcelain for more than a thousand years, and from the Ming dynasty it supplied the imperial court with blue-and-white ware, exported around the world. Making porcelain needs three things: fine clay, water and a huge amount of heat, and the kilns consumed whole forests of pine, which had to be cut in the hills and floated down the rivers to the town.
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Jiaotan Firewood Production Area is where the day begins. Next is Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S.
For a thousand years, the best porcelain in China, and for much of that time the best in the world, came from Jingdezhen. The city, in the north east of Jiangxi province, grew up around imperial kilns that produced fine ceramics for the emperors, and its blue and white porcelain was exported across Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The secret of its success lay partly in the hills around the city, where the white clay known as kaolin was mined. The word kaolin itself comes from Gaoling, a village in the hills north east of Jingdezhen, where the clay was first dug. The point on this ride lies in that countryside, between the city and the old clay mines, in a landscape of wooded hills, tea plantations, rivers and villages.
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Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hutian Ancient Kiln Site.
Jingdezhen has been making porcelain for more than a thousand years, and the Hutian kiln site is one of the places where that story began to turn into an industry. The kilns here produced fine white and bluish-white ware in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the heaps of broken shards and the remains of long dragon-shaped kilns show how potters adapted slopes of land to fire great quantities of pots at once. Later, in the Ming dynasty, imperial kilns were established in the town itself, and Jingdezhen became the porcelain capital of China, supplying emperors and, via the sea trade, markets from Japan to Europe.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Hutian Ancient Kiln Site. Next is Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site.
The word kaolin comes from Gaoling, a village in the hills north-east of Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi province, where the white clay used in making porcelain was mined for centuries. Porcelain needed two ingredients: kaolin and porcelain stone, a rock that, when crushed and refined, gave the paste its translucency. The hills around Jingdezhen were full of both, and the Changling porcelain stone mining site is one of the places where the stone was quarried, crushed by water-powered hammers and refined into bricks that were carried to the kilns of the porcelain capital of the world.
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Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site, about halfway. Next is back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site.
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Read the complete Hutian Ancient Kiln Site write-up.
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back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site sits at 158 km, about halfway. Next is back through Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S.
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Read the complete Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S write-up.
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back through Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S comes up about 224 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jiaotan Firewood Production Area.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jiaotan Firewood Production Area write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Jiaotan Firewood Production Area closes the day.
Jiaotan Firewood Production Area → Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S → Hutian Ancient Kiln Site is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hutian Ancient Kiln Site → Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site → back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site → back through Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S → Jiaotan Firewood Production Area is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.