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 298 km round trip from Jingdezhen - roughly 5 h 27 in the saddle. The stops in between: Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S, Jiaotan Firewood Production Area, Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mining Site and back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area. 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 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.
Read the complete Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S write-up.
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Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S comes up about 26 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 78 km into the recorded legs you reach Jiaotan Firewood Production Area. Next is Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mining Site.
Few words travelled the world quite like kaolin. It comes from Gaoling, which means High Ridge, a hill village in Jiangxi province where a pure white clay was dug for centuries and sent to the porcelain kilns of Jingdezhen. French missionaries in the eighteenth century took samples of this clay back to Europe, and the Chinese place name became the English and French word for the key ingredient in porcelain. So this ordinary-looking hillside is where one of the most famous materials in the world got its name.
Read the complete Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mining Site write-up.
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Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mining Site, about halfway. Next is back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area.
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Read the complete Jiaotan Firewood Production Area write-up.
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back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through 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.
back through Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S comes up about 272 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Town Area Porcelain Production Center closes the day.
Town Area Porcelain Production Center → Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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.
Jiaotan Firewood Production Area → Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mining Site is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mining Site → back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jiaotan Firewood Production Area → back through Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry S → Town Area Porcelain Production Center is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.