For the welfare of its citizens, Jingdezhen, a small city in China’s Jiangxi Province with over 1700 years of history producing china, rolled out its new traffic lights on the 10th of March. As we can see in the picture, the new traffic lights poles are made of sheer porcelain. The patterns on the poles are from Qingming Shanghe Tu (Along the River during the Ching-ming Festival), a famous Chinese artwork painted by court painter Zhang Zeduan from the Northern Song Dynasty (960 to 1127 A.D.).
The new traffic lights will, no doubt, give the local drivers and tourists some refreshment and pleasure. But guys please bear in mind that it’s porcelain. So do drive carefully!
(Click on the images below to see parts of the painting that inspired the new Chinese traffic poles as well as a few other examples of civic china.)
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Wow. That’s an interesting use of porcelain. Personally, I don’t think it looks too attractive holding up a stoplight, and is actually sort of tacky, but I guess the region does have a great history in china.
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