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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A 322 km round trip from Fuliang - roughly 5 h 58 in the saddle. The stops in between: Hutian Ancient Kiln Site, Jiaotan Firewood Production Area, Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site and back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S write-up.
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Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S is where the day begins. 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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Hutian Ancient Kiln Site comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jiaotan Firewood Production Area.
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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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Jiaotan Firewood Production Area. 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 Jiaotan Firewood Production Area.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jiaotan Firewood Production Area write-up.
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back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area sits at 169 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hutian Ancient Kiln Site write-up.
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back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site comes up about 298 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S closes the day.
Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S → Hutian Ancient Kiln Site is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hutian Ancient Kiln Site → Jiaotan Firewood Production Area is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jiaotan Firewood Production Area → Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site → back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area → back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hutian Ancient Kiln Site → Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.