NANCHANG, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Over 200 pottery and porcelain relics from two Song Dynasty (960-1279) kilns are on display in Dayu County, east China's Jiangxi Province.
The exhibition started Monday and will last for 20 days, said Huang Min, curator of the Dayu County museum.
The two kilns, which cover a total area of 1,600 square meters, were discovered in Xinyu Village, Dayu County in June last year at a road construction site.
Excavation of the kilns started in August this year, with more than 200 pottery and porcelain products unearthed.
"The relics unearthed are mainly daily life articles such as pots and bowls and tea grinding tools often used in the south part of Jiangxi," Huang said.
Dayu is located on the junction where Jiangxi, south China's Guangdong and central China's Hunan Provinces meet, and it became an important thoroughfare for inland regions to reach the ancient maritime silk road, Huang said.
Due to the long history of the kilns, many of the relics unearthed are broken. More than 30,000 broken pottery and porcelain pieces and over 30 complete objects were found. Most of them are from the Song Dynasty but a popular kiln tool in the southern part of China could be traced to the Five Dynasties (907-960).
