ZHANG Qingzhuo, DENG Yi
(Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen 333403, Jiangxi, China)

Abstract: This article takes the interviews with more than ten ceramic painting artists and industry practitioners, and analyzes the ways in which skills were passed down within the Jingdezhen ceramic families in the 1970s and 1980s by combing the oral content of the interviewees with documentary and historical information. The article argues that the roots of the family's inherited skills in this time lie in the traditional framework of clan narratives, the collectivist system of "replacement", and the expectation of kinship, all of which together organized a strong family inheritance network. At the end of the twentieth century, along with the country's transition from industrial society to post-industrial society, and the arrival of the commodity economy, the close family inheritance relationship is gradually invalidated, representing the era of industrialization of Jingdezhen ceramics in the major porcelain factories ceased production one after another, tens of thousands of workers out of the factories to choose a job again.
Key words: family heritage; oral history; technique; porcelain painting