Taoxichuan: A Porcelain Factory Reborn
A 19 century porcelain factory turned into Jingdezhen's beating creative heart — brick workshops and kiln chimneys now full of studios, galleries and cafes, and a weekend maker's market where hundreds of young ceramic artists sell what they threw that week.
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The imperial kilns tell you how porcelain was made for the emperor. Taoxichuan tells you what the city is doing with clay right now. Built inside the shell of a state-owned porcelain factory that fell silent in the 1990s, it is the place where Jingdezhen turned its industrial past into a living arts district — part museum, part maker's market, part night out — and where thousands of young ceramicists from across China and the world have come to build a life around the wheel.
御窯告訴你，瓷曾如何為帝王而造；陶溪川則告訴你，這座城此刻正用泥土做些什麼。它建於一座於上世紀九十年代歇業的國營瓷廠之中——景德鎮將工業遺產轉為一片活著的藝術街區，既是博物館，是手作市集，也是夜晚去處。來自全國與世界各地的年輕陶藝家，在這裡圍著拉坯機安頓下生活。
From "Universe" factory to creative district
Taoxichuan grew out of the Yuzhou ("Universe") Porcelain Factory, one of the ten great state-run porcelain works that mass-produced tableware for the country in the mid-twentieth century. When the planned economy wound down, factories like it closed, leaving whole quarters of empty brick workshops. Rather than demolish them, the city restored the best of the complex from 2016 onward — keeping the sawtooth-roofed halls, the sooty kilns and the tall chimneys — and let studios, galleries, shops and cafes move in. The result is often called China's ceramic answer to Beijing's 798 art zone.
陶溪川脫胎於宇宙瓷廠——上世紀中葉為全國量產日用瓷的十大國營瓷廠之一。隨著計劃經濟退場，這類瓷廠相繼停產，留下成片空置的磚砌廠房。自二〇一六年起，城市不拆而修，保留了鋸齒形屋頂的廠房、燻黑的窯爐與高聳的煙囪，讓工作室、畫廊、店鋪與咖啡館遷入。人們常稱它為中國陶瓷版的北京七九八藝術區。
The architecture is the exhibit
What makes Taoxichuan special is that the industrial fabric was kept honest. Red-brick halls with rows of north-facing sawtooth windows — a Bauhaus-influenced factory design meant to flood the workshop floor with even daylight — now shelter design shops and studios. Old tunnel kilns are left in place as sculpture; a chimney becomes a landmark you navigate by. The patina of the working factory — scorched brick, iron beams, worn concrete — was treated as something to protect, not paper over.
陶溪川的難得，在於它讓工業肌理保持真實。排排朝北鋸齒天窗的紅磚廠房——那是受包浩斯影響的廠房設計，為的是讓勻勻的天光漫遍廠房——如今容納著設計店與工作室。舊隧道窯原地保留，如同雕塑；一座煙囪成了你辨向的地標。燒焦的磚、鐵梁、磨損的混凝土——這些工廠歲月留下的痕跡，被當作需要保護的事物，而非粉飾掩蓋的對象。
The market & the "Jingdezhen drifters"
The soul of Taoxichuan is its market. Several times a week — and in far larger spring and autumn fairs — the central square fills with stalls run by young makers selling their own work: cups, teapots, jewellery, sculpture, the odd and the exquisite side by side. Many of the sellers are "Jingpiao", the drifters who moved to Jingdezhen to make ceramics, the way painters once moved to Paris. Prices are set by the maker, most pieces are one-offs, and you are buying directly from the hands that threw them — which is the whole point.
陶溪川的靈魂，是它的市集。每週數回——更有規模遠大的春秋大集——中心廣場滿是年輕匠人的攤位，販賣自己的作品：杯盞、茶壺、首飾、雕塑，奇趣與精美比肩而列。許多攤主是「景漂」——為了做陶而遷居景德鎮的人，一如當年畫家們流向巴黎。價格由匠人自定，多為孤品，你直接向拉出它的那雙手購買——這正是意義所在。
You don't buy a factory cup here. You buy the week someone spent making it.
在這裡，你買的不是一只工廠的杯子，而是某人花一週時光做出的那件東西。
After dark
Come in the evening. The market runs late, the chimneys are floodlit, and the square fills with music, food stalls and people — students, collectors, families, travellers. Bars and cafes spill out of the brick halls, there is often live music, and the whole district takes on the easy, unhurried mood of a place that belongs to young people. It is one of the few sights in Jiangxi that is arguably better after sunset than before it.
傍晚來最好。市集持續至深夜，煙囪在泛光下矗立，廣場滿是音樂、小吃與人群——學生、藏家、家庭、旅人。酒吧與咖啡館自磚房中溢出，常有現場演出，整片街區洋溢著屬於年輕人的從容與悠閒。在江西，這是少數日落之後反而更動人的去處。
Beyond the market
Even on a quiet weekday the district rewards a wander. There is a serious contemporary-ceramics art museum, permanent design and studio shops where you can watch makers at work, a well-known bookshop, roasteries and restaurants, and a boutique hotel built into the old factory. If you have time and interest, ask about the short hands-on classes — an hour at the wheel here is the best souvenir Jingdezhen sells.
即使是平日的清靜時分，這片街區也值得漫步。這裡有一座認真的當代陶藝美術館、可看匠人實作的設計與工作室店鋪、一家知名書店、咖啡烘焙坊與餐館，以及一家建於舊廠房中的精品酒店。若你有時間也有興趣，不妨問問短期的手作體驗課——在拉坯機前的一小時，是景德鎮最好的伴手禮。
Visiting
Taoxichuan sits in the city and is free to enter; you only pay for the museum, classes and whatever you buy. It works beautifully as the evening half of a Jingdezhen day — imperial kilns and the ceramics museum by day, Taoxichuan and its market after dark. Time your visit to catch a market day if you possibly can; it is a different, livelier place when the stalls are out.
陶溪川位於市區，免費進入；只有博物館、體驗課與你所購之物需要付費。它恰好可作為景德鎮一日行的傍晚半場——白日看御窯與陶瓷博物館，入夜逛陶溪川與其市集。若行程允許，務必將日期對準市集日；攤位擺開時，這裡是另一個更鮮活的地方。
The old heart of Jingdezhen, where the imperial kilns fired for the court for six centuries. Excavated workshop ruins, a hilltop pavilion, lanes built from kiln brick — and the striking new museum raised over it all.
Read the guide · 閱讀攻略 →The largest ceramics museum in the country lays out ten thousand years of clay in one building — from Neolithic black pottery to imperial blue-and-white and the painted masterworks of modern Jingdezhen. How to read it, and when to beat the crowds.
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