During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty (1403 ~ 1424), residents of Jiexiu, Shanxi Province and Zaozhuang, Shandong Province successively moved to Tangshan, brought cylinder making technology, clustered in two sections in the northeast of the urban area, and used local raw materials and fuel to produce cylinder products. The two places are named East cylinder kiln and West cylinder kiln respectively. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (1875 ~ 1908), the production of brown glazed coarse bowls began, and gray fetal white porcelain with makeup soil and a small amount of antique porcelain were introduced to the market. Later, under the influence of modern industry, Qixin porcelain factory, Desheng porcelain factory and east-west cylinder kiln ceramic factories successively adopted mechanical equipment and new technology. In the 1920s, Qixin porcelain factory began to produce white porcelain without makeup soil, and various colors of ground and ceramic tiles were exported. In 1935, sanitary porcelain began to be sold to Singapore, Malaysia and other places. The ceramic industry in Tangshan declined in the 1940s and did not recover until the 1950s. It formed a comprehensive ceramic production system and entered the ranks of large ceramic production bases in China. Domestic ceramics began to be exported in 1956. On July 28, 1976, a great earthquake occurred in Tangshan, and all the ceramic industry was destroyed. However, with the support of the state and all localities, production soon recovered rapidly. In 1979, Tangshan porcelain began to enter the international market. Tangshan porcelain belongs to K2O-Al2O3-SiO2 series. In addition to the local high alumina bauxite, hard clay, soft clay (zimujie, etc.), quartz and feldspar, the raw materials used in Tangshan porcelain also include kaolin, porcelain stone and other raw materials produced in this province and other provinces, such as Zhangcun soil, Kuancheng soil, Xu soil and water, Hengshui soil, Datong sand and stone, magnesium raw materials and Haicheng Talc. Tangshan has successfully developed bone porcelain and white jade porcelain fired twice. Since the 1950s, it has produced large-scale ceramic products, such as bathtub, electric aqueduct, etc. In the 1980s, the plastic extrusion ceramic forming method was adopted, and the new microcomputer controlled firing technology of tunnel kiln was successfully trial produced.
Tangshan Ceramic Decoration Technology and style have a great impact on northern ceramics. It pioneered the carving gold decoration of etching patterns with hydrofluoric acid and then filling them with gold, and the spray color decoration of painting with spray gun or fountain pen.
With the increasing number of enterprises, employees and product exports, Tangshan Ceramic production area has also established a certain scale of ceramic research institutes, decal production plants, raw material treatment plants and training schools for ceramic technicians, making Tangshan a relatively complete ceramic production base.