中国是一个修史极早的国家,早在公元前一百多年的西汉时,司马迁著《史记》,蜚声遐迩;再上溯二百多年的春秋时,孔丘著《春秋》、左丘明著《左传》《国语》等,这是系统写史的开端;再提前千百年,奴隶制度统治者设有专职史官。这比西方文明国家要早几百年或千多年。而被世界公誉为“瓷国”的中国,在旧社会却没有一本像样子的陶瓷史。中国陶瓷的发展,是华夏文明史实的重要组成部份。它在较长的历史时期中以其辉煌成就雄居世界,代表着人类文明进化的历程。因而,百多年来研究中国古陶瓷的专家、学者,遍及世界,队伍之大、研究内容之广和取得的成就之多,都属少见。我国的专家、学者和有识之士,为“我们自己的事,却要别人研究”而痛心疾首。但,在旧社会只有望洋兴叹。解放初期,由于党、政府的重视、科学工作者的努力,在极端困难的条件下,迈出了可喜的一步。它分为两个方面。一是,以周仁同志为首的科学家,用科学手段对中国古陶瓷进行研究,二是,以陈万里同志为首的考古专家以其渊博的知识进行多方面的考证。俟后,这两位老专家又各自带出一支队伍——以李家治等人为骨干的一批人,继承周仁的衣钵,以冯先铭为首的一批人承奉陈万里的传统。这两支大军,利用各自的手段,驰骋在祖国古文化遗址。他们相辅相承,互为补充,短短的四十年的研究成果,远远超越早我们动手百来年的西方国家。考证之详实,论证之精辟,使国外专家为之叹服。迄一九七五年,中国硅酸盐学会纵览全局,认定编写中国陶瓷史的时机已经成熟。于是,首先倡导,并邀请文物、考古、工艺美术、科技等方面的全国古陶瓷专家、学者六、七十人进行编写,并组成五人主编小组,历时七年,于一九八二年我国第一部《中国陶瓷史》出版问世。全书五十多万字,彩图三十二版、黑白图三十二版,可谓蔚然巨著。它是党的安定团结局面下的产物,是广大科研、考古等专家忘我劳动的产物,是炎黄子孙翘首以盼的产物,也是偿还先辈夙愿的产物。它给予人们的不仅仅是陶瓷方面的广博知识,还弘扬了光辉灿烂的华夏文化和宣告祖国儿女无所不能的博大胸怀。冯先铭教授是《中国陶瓷史》五人主编小组的组长。他致力于中国古陶瓷研究四十余年,硕果累累,深受海内外同行的赞誉。本文简要介绍他的生平和工作片断,读者不难发现这位老专家学识渊博,治学严谨,思考周密,工作踏实。读后希望能使广大读者受到启迪。 China was a country with a very early history of history. As early as in the Western Han Dynasty a hundred years BC, Sima moved to the “Historical Records” and became famous all over the world. When he went back more than 200 years in spring and autumn, “Zuo Zhuan” “Mandarin” and so on, which is the beginning of the system to write history; another hundred years ahead of schedule, slavery rulers have full-time historian. This is several hundred years or more than a thousand years earlier than in western civilized countries. China, which is hailed as a “porcelain country” by the world, does not have a decent history of ceramics in the old society. The development of Chinese ceramics is an important part of the history of Chinese civilization. It has lived in the world with its brilliant achievements in the longer historical period and represented the course of the evolution of human civilization. Therefore, more than a hundred years to study China ancient pottery experts and scholars, all over the world, the ranks of large, extensive research and achievements made are rare. Our experts, scholars and people of insight are saddened to “study for ourselves but for others.” However, in the old society only hopeless. In the early days of the liberation, thanks to the importance attached by the party and government and the efforts of scientists, it took a gratifying step under extremely difficult conditions. It is divided into two aspects. First, scientists led by Comrade Zhou Ren conducted a study of ancient Chinese ceramics by scientific means. Second, archaeologists led by Comrade Chen Wanli conducted extensive research with their profound knowledge. Afterwards, the two old experts each brought out a team - a group of people with Li Jiazhi and others as the backbone, inheriting the mantle of Zhou Ren and the group led by Feng Xianming bearing Chen Wanli’s tradition. These two armies, using their own means, ride in the ancient cultural sites in the motherland. They complement each other and supplement each other. The results of a short period of forty years have far surpassed that of the western countries where we started a hundred years ago. Detailed textual research, argumentation brilliant, so that foreign experts were impressed. As of 1975, the Chinese Society of Silicate has made an overview of the situation and concluded that the time has come to compile a history of Chinese ceramics. Therefore, we first advocate and invite the ancient pottery experts and scholars in the fields of cultural relics, archeology, arts and crafts, and science and technology to compile six or seventy people and form a group of five chief editors for seven years. In 1982, China The first “History of Chinese Ceramics” published. The book more than one hundred thousand words, color thirty-two version, black and white version thirty-second edition, can be described as a magnificent masterpiece. It is a product of the unity and stability of the party and a product of the work of a large number of specialists such as scientific research and archeology. It is a product that the descendants of the great descendants of the great descendants aspired to and is the product of repaying the wishes of the ancestors. It gives people not only extensive knowledge of ceramics, but also promote the brilliant Chinese culture and declare the motherland’s children’s omnipotent broad mind. Professor Feng Xianming is the leader of the group of five chief editors of “History of Chinese Ceramics”. He devoted himself to the study of ancient Chinese ceramics more than 40 years, fruitful, praised by peers at home and abroad. This article briefly describes his life and work pieces, the reader is not difficult to find the old expert knowledgeable, rigorous scholarship, thoughtful, practical work. After reading hope that readers can be enlightened.