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Black pottery is thetypical representative of Longshan culture during the China Neolithic age ***0 years ago, belong to date civilization. ***0 BC****0 BC, in the late Neolithic, with the painted pottery art of Yangshao BanPo decline more than ***0 years ago, the Chinese cultural history gave birth to a "black pottery culture". Black pottery also had a more than ***0 years history, is the highest grade in pottery, known as the "the interpretation of earth and fire civilization, and the crystal of force andbeauty". The black pottery of Guantao is the important part of longshan culture. The Guantao black potteries were produced in the GuanTao County, east of Handan city. According to history records: Guantao hence the name. Guantao Countylocate in the lower Yellow River, the Yellow River alluvial plain, and a lot of quality of clay is the natural raw material for making pottery, so it laid the foundation for prosperity of the ceramics industry. In China, many ofgrey potteries, black potteries and red potteries during Western Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty period had been found in many unearthed graves.Through the inheritance and innovation bypeople of Guantao, modernblack ceramic arts setin ceramic art, lacquer art and mosaic art, forming a series of hollowing out, anaglyph, line carved, carving, colored drawing or pattern, inlaid and lacquer painting, more than ***0 varieties. The finest black guantao black pottery have the feature "black as paint, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, hard like porcelain". Products are exported to southeast Asia, Europe, America, etc. in recent years GuanTaoXian was identified as the "township of China black pottery art ", "China of black and color pottery research base", etc.