Wind chime Japanese glass wind bells known as "fūrin" () have been produced since the Edo period, and those at Mizusawa Station are one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan. Wind chimes are thought to be good luck in parts of Asia and are used in Feng Shui. Wind chimes started to become modernized around 1100 B.C. after the Chinese began to cast bells. A bell without a clapper, called a "yong-zhong", was crafted by skilled metal artisans and primarily used in religious ceremonies. Afterwards, the Chinese created the "feng-ling", which is similar to today's modern wind bell. Feng-lings were hung from
Chinese ceramics on a Western definition, is "a collective term comprising all ceramic ware that is white and translucent, no matter what ingredients are used to make it or to what use it is put". The Chinese tradition recognizes two primary categories of ceramics, high-fired [cí 瓷] and low-fired [táo 陶], so doing without stoneware, which in Chinese tradition is mostly grouped with (and translated as) porcelain. Terms such as "porcellaneous" or "near-porcelain" may be used for stonewares with porcelain-like characteristics. The "Erya" defined porcelain [cí 瓷] as "fine, compact pottery" [táo 陶]. Chinese pottery can also classified as being either "northern"