Ou kiln is one of famous kilns in ancient China. The ancient poets once wrote elegant verses which goes, "the selected exquisite porcelain and pottery wares are all from kiln in Dong’ou", to praise the Ou Porcelain. In this video, Sandra from Russia, a foreign anchor of Wenzhou Overseas Media Center, takes us to explore the beauty of Ou Porcelain.

"Ou" is the ancient name of Wenzhou, and the porcelain wares produced in Ou kiln are called Ou Porcelain. The making of Ou porcelain wares began around the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty. During the video-filming,Mr. Chen Jingwei, the inheritor of the municipal intangible cultural heritage - Ou Porcelain, told Sandra that the traditional Ou porcelain wares are mainly tea sets. And the workmanship has been constantly innovating. Now our artisans not only inherit the making of traditional statuary porcelains, but also ingeniously create porcelain wares like coffee cup, vases, etc, which have Wenzhou local dialect imprinted on the bodies. These innovative wares are helpful for promoting Ou Porcelain to the entire world.

Under the guidance of Mr. Chen, Sandra made a traditional Ou porcelain ware by her own hands. Mr. Chen said that the production process of Ou porcelain wares generally consists of three steps. First, shape the porcelain wares with the mud collected from the riversides of Oujiang. Second, glaze the air-dried wares after one week. Third, bake the glazed wares with a high temperature. Then, Sandra visited Ou Porcelain Town, which is a characteristic town themed with “Ou Porcelain”. It combines tourism and cultural industry and takes into account the history and inheritance of Ou Porcelain. Sandra told us that she is more and more fascinated by Ou Porcelain. And she hoped that more people could understand the immortal charm of Ou Porcelain through this video.

The film crew also invited several cultural celebrities such as Mr. Zhang Ren, the president of Wenzhou Ou Porcelain Society, Mr. Cai Gangtie, the vice president of Wenzhou Historical Society, and Mr. Jin Baidong, the former curator of Wenzhou Museum, to explain more about the past and the present of Ou Porcelain.

The series of bilingual short videos "Wenzhou intangible culture to be seen by the world", which is sponsored by Wenzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting and Tourism, and produced by Wenzhou Overseas Media Center, invites foreign anchors to serve as narrators, showing audiences at home and abroad the charms of Wenzhou intangible cultural heritages. This episode "Ou Porcelain", which is released today, is the last one of 12 episodes in the first season. Aside from being broadcast through "Overseas Release", the media platform of Wenzhou Overseas Media Center, these bilingual short videos were also posted on Xinhua News Agency's "China Story" and the homepage of “China Daily”, and several new media platforms as “CMG Mobile", "Wenzhou Release", etc. What’s more, these videos have also been posted onto overseas media such as "Chinese Headline", Italian "Chinatown", Portuguese "SAPO", "European Times", "The China Press", as well as social media platforms as Instagram, YouTube and Facebook. Numerous netizens have placed their attention and praises. Now, CCTV-4 is cooperating with Wenzhou Overseas Media Center to produce the documentary "Falling in Love with Wenzhou Intangible Cultural Heritages".