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Jingdezhen 景德镇Jǐngdézhèn
Hand-thrown porcelain, wood-fired kilns and a World Heritage listing from 2026
About Jingdezhen
Jingdezhen has made porcelain for more than a thousand years and was named in 1004 after the Jingde reign period; the Ming and Qing courts ran imperial kilns here for over five centuries. The word kaolin comes from Gaoling, a village in Fuliang county whose mine site is on the map, and the Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Museum shows traditional kilns. In July 2026 the Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites joined the UNESCO World Heritage list, and young potters gather at Taoxichuan Creative Quarter.
What to eat in Jingdezhen
- Wontons in broth with sweet osmanthus rice cake (清汤泡糕)
- Jingdezhen cold rice noodles (景德镇冷粉)
- Fuliang gongfu black tea (浮梁功夫红茶)
Featured places in Jingdezhen
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Jingdezhen, Porcelain Capital 景德镇
The city that fired porcelain for China's emperors, and still has clay on its hands
Listed sites in Jingdezhen
15 sites in Jingdezhen are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Museum, Jingdezhen 古窑民俗博览区 5A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An open-air museum complex built around the Zhen Kiln, a Qing-dynasty porcelain kiln that can fire dozens of kinds of ware at high and low temperatures and was lit again in June 2014. - Fuliang Ancient County Yamen 浮梁古县衙 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The government compound of Fuliang, the county town that long administered the Jingdezhen porcelain area, built in the Daoguang reign (1821–50). - Guaishilin Stone Forest, Leping 怪石林 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area of strangely shaped rock formations on the Wenshan hills where Leping meets Wannian county. - Hongyan Xianjing Cave, Leping 洪岩仙境 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone cave in the foothills of Mao Mountain in north-eastern Leping, about 1.6 km long, with stalactites, an underground waterfall and more than 120 named rock formations. - Huangyao Ceramics Park 皇窑 4A scenic area · on the map
A ceramics culture park of about 14 hectares (210 mu) in Xianghu town, laid out in grey-brick, dark-tiled buildings with workshop scenes of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing periods. - Jiangxi Helicopter Science and Technology Museum 江西直升机科技馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A science museum of about 10,000 square metres inside the grounds of a helicopter maker in Jingdezhen's high-tech zone; the city is one of China's helicopter-building centres and the Z-8 first flew here in 1985. - Mingfangyuan Ceramics Park 名坊园 4A scenic area · on the map
A ceramics-craft park built in traditional style in the Changnan New District on the north-western edge of Jingdezhen, with a planned area of 1.3 square kilometres. - Taoxichuan Creative Quarter 陶溪川文创街区 4A scenic area · on the map
A former state porcelain-factory district east of the old centre, redeveloped from the mid-2010s as a creative quarter. - Yaoli Ancient Town 瑶里古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A mountain town in northern Fuliang that made porcelain before the Ming and later supplied porcelain clay and tea to Jingdezhen; its old name was written with the character for "kiln". - Gaoling Kaolin Mine Site 高岭瓷土矿遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Gaoling ("High Ridge") is the hill village whose name gave the world the word kaolin: its white clay, mixed with local porcelain stone, made the thin white porcelain of Jingdezhen possible. - Hutian Kiln Site and Folk Kiln Museum 湖田古瓷窑址 National heritage site
Hutian was a large folk (non-imperial) kiln complex that fired from the Five Dynasties period into the Ming, best known for the pale blue-white qingbai porcelain of the Song dynasty. - Mingfentang Opera Stage, Hu'an 名分堂戏台 National heritage site
The Mingfentang is the ancestral hall of the Cheng family of Hu'an village, begun in 1817, and its stage was added later and took three years to build. - Red Pagoda, Fuliang 浮梁红塔 National heritage site
A nine-storey hexagonal brick pagoda, 40.47 m high, on the river road south of the old county yamen in Fuliang, also known as the Dasheng Pagoda. - Shuangfeng Pagoda, Fuliang 浮梁双峰塔 National heritage site · on the map
A six-sided, five-storey brick pagoda 19 metres high, built in the Tiansheng era (1023–32) of the Northern Song by the Huang family of Legong village on the site of the vanished Shuangfeng Temple. - Xiangjilong Ming Houses 祥集弄民宅 National heritage site
Two timber-framed Ming houses, Numbers 3 and 11 in Xiangjishang lane, built in the Chenghua reign (1465–87) in the old quarter around the Imperial Kiln site.
On the map
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