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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From Jingdezhen it runs 343 km to Jingdezhen; allow about 6 h 42 of riding. It goes by way of Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site, Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi and back through Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site. The line favours views over speed.
Jingdezhen has been making porcelain for over a thousand years, and for most of that time it supplied emperors. The town lies on the Chang river in northern Jiangxi, and its name comes from the Jingde era of the Song dynasty, in the early eleventh century, when the court ordered porcelain from its kilns for the first time. From the Yuan dynasty on, the town made the blue-and-white wares that became world famous, and during the Ming and Qing the imperial kilns here produced porcelain for the court, while merchants shipped export wares to Europe and the Middle East.
Read the complete Town Area Porcelain Production Center write-up.
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Town Area Porcelain Production Center is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site write-up.
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Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi.
Xidi is a village that seems to have been left alone by the twentieth century. It lies in Yi county, on the southern side of the Yellow Mountains in Anhui, a landscape of green hills and rice fields where merchants of the Huizhou region made fortunes in salt, tea, timber and ink, and spent them at home on houses. The Hu clan, who founded the village, built lanes of whitewashed, black-tiled houses with high walls, carved wooden screens, small courtyards, and stone-framed doors, and in the sixteenth century they put up a great stone memorial arch in honour of an official of the clan. The name means west stream, after the water that runs through the village in channels beside the lanes.
Read the complete Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi write-up.
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about 172 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi. Next is back through Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site, late in the day. Next is Town Area Porcelain Production Center.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Town Area Porcelain Production Center write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Town Area Porcelain Production Center. That is the ride.
Town Area Porcelain Production Center → Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site → Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi → back through Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Changling Porcelain Stone Mining Site → Town Area Porcelain Production Center is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.