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Jun porcelain began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It is one of the five famous porcelain in ancient China, and it is famous for its unique glaze materials and firing methods. During the period of Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty, the government set up official kilns in the northeast of today's Yuzhou city in Henan Province to fire tribute porcelain for the imperial palace. Because the kiln site is close to the Juntai of the ancient Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so it is named "Juntai Kiln", referred to as "Jun Kiln", and the produced porcelain is called "Jun Porcelain".Jun porcelain is rare, in addition to the shape of dignified, the most prominent two aspects: one is jun porcelain in the firing phenomenon, containing copper glaze will form crabapple red, cinnabar red, chicken red, glaze color, each other, reflect, "kiln color, the kiln million color" said; the second is jun porcelain production process is complex, low yield rate, a jun porcelain from material selection to burn need to go through 72 processes. As an important symbol in the history of Chinese ceramic art, Jun porcelain occupies an important position in the history of world ceramics. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "gold has a price for jun" and "home is not as good as jun porcelain". Its unique kiln change art, with its artistic characteristics of "into the kiln one color, out of the kiln million color" is widely loved by ceramic lovers.