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¡¡¡¡According to the record in historical data, Southern Song Guan Kiln now has two places discovered: Jiaotanxia Kiln and Xiuneisi Kiln.
¡¡¡¡The Jiaotanxia Kiln is firstly discovered in the west foot of Hangzhou Turtle Hill in 1930. From 1985 to 1986, the archaeological studying group of Southern Song LinAn City carried a complete archaeological study of this kiln relic, and excavated out pugging pond, biscuit fire furnace, shaping workshop, glaze vats, and other relics, and discovered a dragon kiln, unearthed a good amount of practical specimens of porcelain shards and kiln tools. Based on this, the group established the first museum in China specialized in ceramics.
¡¡¡¡At present, the relic exhibition of Jiaotanxia Kiln of Southern Song Guan Kiln adopts the way of recovering its overall shape by earthing up, and showing its original appearance partially. Visitors may enter the relic areas to appreciate its historical figure with a short distance.

¡¡¡¡The excavating site of Guan kiln relic in Jiaotanxia
Exhibition of Guan kiln relic in Jiaotanxia
 
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¡¡¡¡The relic of Hangzhou TigerCave Kiln is located at the foot of Hangzhou Jiuhua Mountain. From 1996 to 2001, Hangzhou Archaeological Studying Institute of Cultural Relic investigated and excavated the relics for three times, and fully discovered its figure. In the relic, many porcelain shards are unearthed. The workshop of Southern Song Dynasty had an exquisite construction. Through studying, many experts on ceramics confirmed that it was the historically recorded ¡°Xiuneisi Kiln¡±.
¡¡In 2001, this kiln relic was appraised as top ten new discoveries of archaeological study. Since 2002, it was subject to the managing of Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum, and was opened to the public in October. At present, the surroundings of relic are piled with visiting path, and every site is connected with wood-frame plank road. Visitors may get known this mysterious ancient kiln in detail through reading explanation board.

The excavating site of kiln relic in Tiger Cave

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Exhibition of Southern Song Guan Kiln Relic in Tiger Cave
 
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