School revitalizes Yue celadon culture in Ningbo

Students learn to make celadon works in a class at Baidu Primary School, Fenghua district, Ningbo. [Photo/Ningbo Daily]

Baidu Primary School in Ningbo, Zhejiang province is currently promoting intangible cultural heritage among students.

Baidu Primary School is located in Baidu village, Fenghua district. The village was a major production area of Yue celadon in the past, and many ruins of Yue Kiln Sites have been discovered in the area.

To promote and revitalize Yue celadon culture, Baidu Primary School set up a course to teach students how to make celadon works of their own.

Yue celadon are ceramics with a greenish sheen which were first made in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) in locations including Ningbo, which was part of Yue prefecture in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).

A student displays her celadon work, a celadon figurine of an ox. [Photo/Ningbo Daily]

A celadon figurine of traditional Chinese architecture created by a student at Baidu Primary School. [Photo/Ningbo Daily]