The antique chinaware mining area, is located Dongxiang county the high Range village, is apart from the city to govern 49 kilometers. The international general clay mineralogy special-purpose name kleit (KAOLIN) names the place, presently for nation key cultural relic preservation organ. The main historical vestige has the Ming and Qing Dynasties two generation of mining ruins, the elutriate pit, the drainage opening pavilion, the ancient street, the ancient road and so on. The kleit elutriate stays behind after in particular the white tails pile up splendid sight, has the reputation of “the green hill to float white snow”, is scenic area which the Jingdezhen most important ceramics culture and the natural ecology unifies.
Far when Southern and Northern Dynasties, here produces the high quality produce porcelain raw material — kleit. In Yuan, Ming, Qing all previous dynasties historical data writes down, mentions the kleit many times. Ming Dynasty person SongYingxing glutinous rice earth high Liangshan which center records in “the sky kill to produce the thing, Ceramic Torch”, namely refers to the mining area GaoLing mountain. In 1712 the French fathers Angteleiher to introduce to the foreign country here porcelain used the raw material, from this time on the high range was well-known the world. Still was retaining Ming Dynasty’s Wanli until now in GaoLing village to the Qing Dynasty Yong Zheng time related mining kleit carved stone. The present high range, many has bright, the clear mine pit ruins, as well as an earthen mound earthen mound snow white tail sand-flood, is thickest place amounts to 50 meters. In here, the people not only might inspect the ancient times to excavate and the ceramic wash the porcelain clay the situation, moreover also could appreciate to the green hill sets off the snow white tails the wonderful view. “The high range”, has become the world system porcelain raw material the general terminology.