景德镇
JingdezhenTravel Budget Guide
Tier 3·IATA: JDZ
When to visit
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Super-peak (national holiday)PeakShoulderOff-season
Holiday surges
- extremeSpring Festival· Lunar Jan 1–7 (late Jan / mid-Feb)
- highQingming (Tomb-Sweeping)· Apr 4–6
- extremeLabor Day· May 1–5
- highDragon Boat Festival· Lunar May 5 (~Jun)
- highMid-Autumn Festival· Lunar Aug 15 (~Sep/Oct)
- extremeNational Day Golden Week· Oct 1–7
Taxi flag-drop:¥7starting fare
Attractions
Hotels
Budget
$21.87 (CN¥148)
/night
Standard
$30.15 (CN¥204)
/night
Comfort
$57.94 (CN¥392)
/night
Tiers are grouped by hotel star rating — Budget ≈ 2★, Standard ≈ 3★, Comfort ≈ 4★ and up. Figures are citywide average nightly rates, so an individual hotel may sit above or below its tier.
Food
Budget meal
$2.76 (CN¥19)
/meal
Mid-range
$8.79 (CN¥60)
/meal
High-end
$31.28 (CN¥212)
/meal
Culture & Heritage
Time-Honored Brands (2)
MOFCOM-certified · cultural background, not a business endorsementChangnanBatch 3
A time-honored Jingdezhen porcelain brand whose name comes from the city's ancient name 'Changnan', specializing in traditional hand-made ceramics.
Tianxiang HaoBatch 3
A century-old tea house from Fuliang County in Jingdezhen, famed for its exported Fuliang gongfu black tea, which won gold at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Famous Snacks (4)
Jingdezhen Cold Rice Noodles (Lengfen)Famous Snacks
Jingdezhen's signature breakfast and street snack: thick rice noodles tossed cold with chili sauce and a medley of condiments, intensely spicy.
Porcelain-Clay Baked Chicken (Cini Weiji)Famous Snacks
A signature Jingdezhen dish in which a whole chicken is wrapped in lotus leaf and porcelain clay and slow-baked, said to have been invented by kiln workers using leftover kiln heat, leaving the meat tender and falling off the bone.
Jianshui Ba (Alkaline Rice Cake)Famous Snacks
One of Jingdezhen's most traditional rice snacks: rice batter set with lye into a cake, sliced and stir-fried with cured meat and garlic, soft and savory.
Jiaozi Ba (Rice-Skin Dumplings)Famous Snacks
A traditional Jingdezhen rice snack shaped like a dumpling but wrapped in rice-flour skin and steamed with a savory filling, with a chewy wrapper and fresh filling.
Intangible Cultural Heritage (4)
Jingdezhen Hand-made Porcelain-Making TechniqueNational ICH · Batch 1
A first-batch national ICH and the core craft of Jingdezhen's millennium of porcelain-making, spanning the four famous wares—blue-and-white, rice-grain (linglong), famille-rose and colored-glaze—across more than twenty steps.
Jingdezhen Traditional Porcelain Kiln and Workshop Building TechniqueNational ICH · Batch 1
A first-batch national ICH: the craft of building Jingdezhen's egg-shaped 'town kiln' and the workshops and kiln houses of the porcelain industry—known locally as 'luan yao'—unique among China's ceramic regions.
Jingdezhen Porcelain-Industry Water Mill Building TechniqueNational ICH · Batch 5
A fifth-batch national ICH: the traditional craft of building water-powered trip-hammers (shuidui) that pound porcelain stone into clay—a key stage in preparing Jingdezhen's raw materials.
A provincial ICH covering the glaze-mixing and high-temperature firing of colored-glaze porcelain, one of Jingdezhen's four famous wares, renowned for high-fired glazes such as 'China Red'.
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