Chengdu Museum of Kiln Ruins of Sui and Tang Dynasties
Excavated kiln site displaying black-glazed bowls once used to judge Song dynasty tea contests.
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This guide to the Chengdu Museum of Kiln Ruins of Sui and Tang Dynasties tells how Song-dynasty tea drinkers judged doucha, or tea-fighting, contests by whose foam clung longest to the rim of a near-black glazed bowl, fired at the nearby Qingyang Palace kiln. It traces that kiln's accidental discovery in 1954 beneath the city's ring road, and the seven kilns eventually uncovered spanning a thousand years, from Qin and Han ovens to a Sui-dynasty dragon kiln. Look closely at the black bowls in the case ahead, glazed to catch a taster's foam.
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