China is the hometown of porcelain, porcelain invention of the Chinese nation's great contribution to world civilization, in English, porcelain (china) with the Chinese (China) the same as the word. About business in the mid 16th century BC, the Chinese appeared in the early porcelain. Because both the lacquer, or in the glaze layer burning process is still noticeable on both rough and fired a low temperature, showing the original and traditional, it is generally referred to as proto-porcelain.