Ancient porcelain has the following forms of base inscriptions:

1. Chronological inscriptions

This inscription indicates the year in which the porcelain was produced. There are orderly numbers to record the years, such as "the second year of Xianping", "the fifth year of Chongzhen's supervision", "the forty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Meng Chun Yue Dan", etc.; there are stems and branches to record the years, such as "Shunzhi Dingyou Year", "Daoguang Wuxu" There are also special chronological inscriptions that only include the dynasty but not the year, such as "Made in the next year", "Made in the Qing Dynasty", etc.

2. Tang name inscription

It is the inscription signed with the name of the kiln where it is produced, and is used by both official and private kilns. There are elegance and vulgarity in style names. The elegant ones are like "Yayu Tangzhi", "Guayue Villa", etc.; the secular ones are like "Xiang Ji", "Zhangjiayao", "Songjia", etc. ?

3. Surname paragraph

Signed with the surname of a famous porcelain worker, such as "Zhang Nanshan", a famous porcelain maker during the Qianlong period. There are also models such as "Mo Twelve" and "Zha Xiaoshan System". There are also one-character inscriptions signed with only one surname, such as "Zhang", "Xu", "Zheng", etc. ?

4. One-character signature

In addition to the one-character signature of the surname, there are also common signatures with only one character, such as "She", "Tai", " "country", "profit", "dragon", etc. Some are the abbreviations of the hall name, and some are the abbreviations of auspicious words. Especially in the Yuan Dynasty, Longquan kiln has many single-character styles. ?

5. Auspicious words

refers to the auspicious words inscribed on the porcelain, such as "Fu Ru Dong Hai", "Number One Scholar and the First Place", "Hong Fu Qi Tian", etc. Porcelain products are common in Ming and Qing Dynasties. ?

6. Numbered style

This style is unique to Jun kiln in the Song Dynasty. There are 10 types from one to ten on the bottom of the object. The ceramic industry believes that these numbers are the numbers of the palace's custom-fired display porcelain, indicating the size of the utensils. The smaller the number, the larger the object.

7. Patterns

Patterns or marks engraved, printed, or painted on porcelain are also called mark models. Such as Tai Chi, Bagua, Ganoderma lucidum, Eight Treasures, Pisces, Conch, etc. Mostly used in folk kilns, it was most popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties.