“土陶”不土

Earthenware:Not Just a Mound of Earth

秋色渐浓,泗水县柘沟镇变得车水马龙,商客们纷纷汇聚于此.随着社会的发展,现代旅游业的日益昌盛,使得拥有“土陶之乡”的柘沟闻名全国.“拿起一个陶器,仔细端详制作工艺”“讨价还价”“运送货物”,这些场景在这里似乎是日常一般.柘沟镇素有千年古镇之称,自古以制陶闻名,被誉为“土陶之乡”,是东夷文化、大汶口文化的重要衍生地,早在6000年前的新石器时代,就已成为中国早期制陶地之一.据了解,这里很多家庭三代同堂都会做土陶,而关于到底做了多少代的陶,烧了多少年的窑,老人们总是说法不一,他们只知道爷爷的爷爷也是制陶人,奶奶的奶奶年轻时就会打理陶具.

Zhegou Town in Sishui County is known as an ancient town existing for thousands of years. It has been famous for making pottery since ancient times, being honored as “the Hometown of Earthenware”. As early as the Neolithic Age six thousand years ago, it became one of the early pottery-making areas in China. In the early 1980s, the industrious and wise Zhegou people made Zhegou pottery clay into hundreds of pottery products in constant development.