Celebrating Celadon

Shanglin Lake area was once a production hub for fine mise porcelain. Now it's an archaeological park firmly on the tourist trail. Wang Kaihao reports in Cixi, Zhejiang province.

It is cloudy, drizzling and slightly chilly. The weather here in early winter echoes with the simple but elegant celadon, a symbol of Shanglin Lake in Cixi city, East China's Zhejiang province.

Taking a boat across the water, visitors stepping onto an island there will probably be astonished to find a landscape littered with layers upon layers of broken porcelain.