Amazing Pottery

how did hong kong make pottery back in 1800?

What did they use pottery for? What do you need to make pottery?

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1. In 1800, Hong Kong was not developed. "...the area was hilly and relatively barren. People had to rely on salt, pearl and fishery trades to produce income. Some clans built walled villages to protect themselves from the threat of bandits, rival clans and wild animals. The famous Chinese pirate Cheung Po Tsai also had many legendary stories in Hong Kong." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Colonial_Hong_Kong_(1800s_-_1930s) It's unclear whether pottery was made locally in Hong Kong at that time. The fact that residents could build walled villages implies that they had the capacity to do so, and that should guide your search.
2. I don't know why you need pottery, but I use it to eat and drink from maybe they used it for the same reason in Hong Kong
3. Pottery comprises three distinctive types of wares. The first type, earthenware, has been made following virtually the same techniques since ancient times; only in the modern era has mass production brought changes in materials and methods. Earthenware is basically composed of clay--often blended clays--and baked hard, the degree of hardness depending on the intensity of the heat. After the invention of glazing, earthenwares were coated with glaze to render them waterproof; sometimes glaze was applied decoratively. It was found that, when fired at great heat, the clay body became nonporous. This second type of pottery, called stoneware, came to be preferred for domestic use. The third type of pottery is a Chinese invention that appeared when feldspathic material in a fusible state was incorporated in a stoneware composition. The ancient Chinese called decayed feldspar kaolin (meaning "high place," where it was originally found); this substance is known in the West as china clay. Petuntse, or china stone, a less decayed, more fusible feldspathic material, was also used in Chinese porcelain; it forms a white cement that binds together the particles of less fusible kaolin. Significantly, the Chinese have never felt that high-quality porcelain must be either translucent or white. Two types of porcelain evolved: "true" porcelain, consisting of a kaolin hard-paste body, extremely glassy and smooth, produced by high temperature firing, and soft porcelain, invariably translucent and lead glazed, produced from a composition of ground glass and other ingredients including white clay and fired at a low temperature. The latter was widely produced by 18th-century European potters. Their uses included: burial statuary, tea sets and everyday ware, decorative pieces for storing fans or jewelry, gardenware, pottery bells, water pitchers, decorative pieces for trade use with America such as small statues of people, animals, children, birds, plates to hang on the wall, dinner sets, large elaborate tea sets, ink wells. The list goes on and on.