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Show -Klngtehchen an Ancient City. Klngtelu-hen Ib ono of the four tartest tart-est towns of Chlnn. Technically it la not n city. It h a town, becnuso It haa no wull. In reality It Is a bus Industrial city, with a population of 800,000, Two-thirds of tlm people nra directly engaged In tho manufacture and solo of porcelain nnd pottery. Historically it dntes back to tho Ilan dynasty, 200 A. D. It Is during this period thnt wo find tho first records of the production of porcelain In China, though carthenwnro vessels were probubly produced some centuries cen-turies earlier. |