Jingdezhen, the millennium-old porcelain capital, tells the world the symbiotic code between “China” and porcelain.
As the only “City of World Handicrafts and Folk Arts” named after ceramic culture in China, Jingdezhen, with its 1,700-year legacy of unquenched kiln fires, witnesses intangible cultural heritage craftsmen transforming clay into jade through 72 processes, embodying the Oriental aesthetics of “white as jade, bright as mirror, thin as paper, and resonant as chime.”
Itinerary Highlights
Ceramic Museum: A “porcelain epic” spanning millennia, with 6 floors of exhibitions from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the present
Here you can visit the prototype of the internet-famous “Speechless Bodhisattva” meme. As China’s first large-scale ceramic art museum, it houses 36,000 ceramic treasures from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to modern times.
“Royal Porcelain Blind Box” of fragment restoration,Imperial Kiln Museum
The red-brick arched complex, designed by Zhu Pei, won the “Oscar of Architecture” Architizer A+ Award, with a night light show blending ruins and light art.
Porcelain Palace: A “fairy-tale castle” built by a 90-year-old grandmother using 60,000 pieces of broken porcelain
You can rent Hanfu and take ancient-style photos among the glass domes and blue-and-white colonnades.
Yaoli Ancient Town: Secrets of Ming-Qing porcelain making hidden in bluestone lanes
Hike through the millennium-old town, where Ming-Qing Huizhou-style buildings nestle by mountains and rivers—this is where the line “Azure skies wait for misty rain” comes to life.
Taoxichuan Night Market: Hunt for unique porcelain cups and meet “wild”artists
The night market gathers over 500 original ceramic stalls, where you can find one-of-a-kind works by young artists.
Sanbao Village: A “utopia” of food and pottery
Stroll along the “Taoyuan Path” by the stream, admiring mud walls inlaid with ancient porcelain shards and wood-fired kiln ruins.
Bingding Wood-Fired Kiln, visited by international supermodel Liu Wen
Capture stunning architectural light-and-shadow shots from the same award-winning perspective featured in ArchDaily’s Annual Architectural Photography Awards, and experience the artistic beauty of wood-fired kilns.
Jiangxi Spicy Experience: Taste authentic local cuisine
Must-try intangible cultural heritage snacks include “Fried Dough Stick Wrapped in Glutinous Rice Cake,” “Cold Noodles,” and “Dumpling Pastry”.
Spice Challenge: Try Nanchang dishes and experience the charm of Jiangxi stir-fries sweeping the nation.
Pottery Class Experience: From wheel-throwing to glazing, unlock your “craftsman DNA” and take home your creation as a keepsake
Make your own delicate blue-and-white rice-pattern porcelain, or sign up for a wood-firing workshop to experience every step: clay collecting, glaze mixing, and wood firing.
Designed by British architect David Chipperfield, the hotel integrates porcelain-making inspiration, artfully combining red-brick architecture with ceramic cultural elements, andwon the Architizer A+ Award.
