加拿大皇家安大略博物馆收藏磁州窑各类瓷器达一百六十余件。将瓷器的烧造和使用置于当时社会的政治、经济、文化脉络里审察,或许可以发现其背后丰富的内涵。磁州窑之“人”北宋首都汴梁和南宋都城临安,不仅是全国的政治中心,更是当时最大的商业经济中心,人口在百万以上。在这样一个堪称当时世界的超大城市中,商业贸易和消费成为城市赖以生存和发展的重 Royal Ontario Museum of Canada collection of porcelain Cizhou all kinds of porcelain up to one hundred and sixty pieces. The burning and use of porcelain placed in the political, economic and cultural context at the time of the review, may be found behind the rich connotation. Cizhou kiln “people ” Northern Song Dynasty capital Lianglian and Southern Song capital Lin’an, not only is the political center of the country, but also was the largest commercial and economic center, population more than 1 million. In such an ultra-large city as the world at that time, commercial trade and consumption became the city’s survival and development