柴窯 ，在今河南鄭州，據文獻記載，柴窯為五代后周柴世宗（柴榮）時所燒造。器物具有“青如天、明如鏡、薄如紙、聲如盤”的特點。薄如紙一語，指釉汁而言，青如天一語，指柴窯以天青為主。俗話說“家有萬貫，不如柴窯一片”
柴榮，河北省邢臺人，瓷器世家，史稱世家豪佑。柴榮皇帝，青年時期，以經營瓷器為業，非常富有。柴榮、趙匡胤、鄭恩為桃園三結義的把兄弟。柴榮領著兩兄弟一起經營柴氏瓷器商行，在鄭州管城唐子巷設立柴氏瓷器商號，在管城窯、新密窯、鞏縣窯設立柴家窯口。柴榮曾派二弟趙匡胤在新密窯溝窯督辦瓷器燒造。柴窯曾對汝窯、鈞窯、定窯有過較大影響，其中，汝窯的釉和定窯的胎最具柴窯風格。
柴窯瓷是中國傳統名瓷，屬于中國古代瓷窯“柴窯”所燒制的瓷器。柴窯創建于五代后周顯德初年（954年）河南鄭州（一說開封），為周世宗柴榮的御窯。柴窯至今未發現實物及窯址。周世宗曾御定御窯瓷，“雨過天青云破處，這般顏色作將來”，據此推斷，柴窯瓷應為天青釉瓷。現代所說的柴窯瓷，即為采用松木柴作為燃料的窯所燒制的瓷器。
特點
1、稀缺性：柴窯瓷燒制成本高、成品率低、現代所存在的柴窯數量少，因而具有稀缺性。一是政府明令禁燒柴窯，沒有松柴供應，如果沒有專門的資金保證和目的，誰也不敢輕易動火柴窯燒制風險大成本高；二是一窯下來，燒掉近2000斤松柴，成本相當高；三是燒一次窯要有一整套經驗豐富班子集體協作，柴窯的火候與溫度完全依賴人工來控制，特別是把樁師傅，沒幾十年成功經驗是不行的，稍有疏忽就會出現“塌窯”意外，經濟損失動輒以數10萬元計算；四是窯爐內前端的溫度偏高，后端偏低中間溫度最為適中，因此同一爐燒出來的瓷器質量有很大差異，成品率低。
2、潤澤度：.柴窯燒窯使用松木燃料對陶瓷有滋潤作用 ，窯體燒爐過程中形成的窯內氣體氛圍非常適合瓷胎原料，能燒制出白里微泛青的瓷胎效果，使陶瓷具有白如玉的獨特風格。柴窯燒瓷傳統上一直采用松木，松木富含松脂，在燃燒過程中揮發出來的松脂對陶瓷有滋潤作用，其燒制原理是通過不斷添加柴火讓溫度慢慢上升，使窯中的器皿慢慢受熱，加上爐內的水汽與瓷器釉料的有機結合，使燒出來的瓷器釉面含蓄、滋潤。
因此廣為流傳出一句佳話，“家有萬貫 ，不如柴窯一片”可見柴窯在人們心目中的至高地位
Chai kiln, in today's zhengzhou, henan province, according to documents, chai kiln was built by chai shizong (chai rong) in the later zhou dynasty. It has the characteristics of "as green as day, as bright as mirror, as thin as paper, as sound as plate". As thin as paper language, refers to glaze, green as tianyi language, refers to the chai kiln mainly tianqing. As the saying goes, "a chai kiln is better than a home"
Chai rong, hebei province xingtai people, porcelain family, history known as the family hao you. Emperor chai rong, in his youth, was rich in porcelain. Chai rong, zhao kuangyin, zheng en for taoyuan three sworn brothers. Chai rong led the two brothers to manage chai's porcelain firm, in zhengzhou guan cheng tangzi lane set up chai's porcelain shop, in guan cheng kiln, xinmiyao, gongxian kiln set up chai kiln mouth. Chai rong once sent his second brother, zhao kuangyin, to supervise the firing of porcelain in xinmi kiln. Chai kiln had a great influence on ru kiln, jun kiln and ding kiln, among which the glaze of ru kiln and the tyre of ding kiln had the most chai kiln style.
Chai kiln porcelain is a famous traditional Chinese porcelain, which belongs to the porcelain fired by chai kiln in ancient China. Chai kiln was founded in zhengzhou, henan province (no. 1 kaifeng) in early zhou xiande (954) after the fifth dynasty. It was the imperial kiln of chai rong of zhou shizong. No material objects and kiln sites have been found in chai kiln. Zhou shizong used to set the imperial porcelain, "after the rain, the sky will be blue, so the color for the future", according to this inference, chai kiln porcelain should be azure glaze porcelain. The so-called chai kiln porcelain in modern times is the porcelain fired by the kiln using pine wood as fuel.
The characteristics of
1. Scarcity: the porcelain firing cost of chai kiln is high, the yield of finished products is low, and the number of chai kiln in modern times is small, so it has scarcity. First, the government ban burning firewood kiln, there is no pine wood supply, if there is no special fund guarantee and purpose, no one dare not easily fire firewood kiln fire risk high cost; Second, one kiln down, burning nearly 2000 jin pine wood, the cost is quite high; Third, a kiln should have a set of experienced team to work together, the temperature and temperature of the kiln completely rely on manual control, especially the pile master, not decades of successful experience, a slight negligence will occur "kiln collapse" accident, economic losses are often calculated at several hundred thousand yuan; Fourth, the temperature in the front of the kiln is on the high side, while the temperature in the back end is on the low side and the middle temperature is the most moderate. Therefore, the quality of porcelain fired in the same furnace varies greatly and the rate of finished products is low.
2. Moistening degree: pine wood fuel is used in chai kiln to moisten the ceramics. The gas atmosphere formed during kiln body firing is very suitable for the raw materials of porcelain tire. Maintain porcelain has traditionally used pine, pine is rich in resin and volatilization in burning out of resin for ceramics has moisturizing effect, its firing principle is through constantly add firewood to temperature rise slowly, slowly heated in the kiln ware, combined with water vapor inside the furnace and the combination of porcelain glaze, make porcelain glaze implicative, moist burn out.
As a result, there is a saying widely spread, "home is not as good as a chai kiln," it can be seen that chai kiln in people's minds the highest status
