Ceramic cups are cups made of ceramics, which are used for drinking, water, tea and so on. The so-called ceramics refer to ceramic products that are made of clay or other inorganic nonmetallic raw materials and processed by molding and sintering, and are used to decorate and protect the walls and floors of buildings, and are plate-shaped or blocky in shape. After drying, it is heated to a certain degree to make it hard and no longer soluble in water.
The main components of ceramic cups are kaolin, clay, porcelain stone, porcelain clay, colorant, blue and white materials, lime glaze, lime alkali glaze and so on. Jingdezhen ceramic cups are mainly kaolin ceramics, and kaolin is a kind of clay mainly kaolinite. It was first discovered in gao ling cun, northeast of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. Pure kaolin is a dense or loose block with a white and light gray appearance. When contaminated by other impurities, it can be dark brown, pink, beige, etc. It has a satiny feeling, is easy to knead into powder by hand, is white after calcination, and has high fire resistance. It is an excellent raw material for making porcelain.