刻瓷是一种传统民间手工艺术，秦汉时便有剥凿瓷釉的方法，称为“剥玉”。从魏晋开始，随着陶瓷业的发展，大量精美瓷器出现，帝王、官宦和一些文人墨客在玩赏瓷器之余，很想把咏诗题文的墨迹留存于其上，以便永久保存，于是当时的艺人们便在施釉前的瓷坯上，用直刀单线刻出诗文书画的轮廓，这便形成了最初的瓷刻。宋代定窑瓷器的装饰，就是在瓷坯上刻出花纹后施釉烧制的典型代表。
      
    真正的刻瓷（在瓷釉上雕刻）是从清初开始的。据记载，清初，在民间开始有了专门从事刻瓷的行当，但大多以平刻为主，点线构图等艺术表现力显得单调、平实，并没太多引起世人的注意。一直到了乾隆后期，由于经济的昌盛和统治者文化生活的需要，朝廷特意在皇宫中设置了“造办处”，专门制造宫廷使用的工艺品。由于当时社会各阶层的推崇，镌刻书法艺术有了进一步发展，甚至已有人能用刀在瓷板或其他器皿上雕刻山水、花鸟、草虫等，且栩栩如生。这个时期，刻瓷真正发展成为了一门新的瓷器装饰艺术。
      
     在上世纪初，刻瓷在中原地区流传甚广，尽管艺术水准参差不齐，但很多民间艺人都掌握着这套瓷上雕刻的本领。 后来，因为战乱，这门技艺逐渐失传。解放后，刻瓷技艺已经鲜有人掌握。虞城县刻瓷艺人申世德等经过多年努力探索，攻克了这一技术难关，使这一历史文化遗产得到再生和发展。



      
    Carved Porcelain artistry, called Peeling Jade in Qin and Han Dynasty, is a traditional folk artistry. From Wei and Jin Era, with the development of porcelain industry, the Emperor, officials and literati are willing to leave their poems and articles on them to keep forever. Thus artists carved poems and articles on them before they satin finished. These were the first carved porcelains. Ding porcelain in Song Dynasty is a representative of this making technology. 
        
    The real carved porcelains appeared in the beginning of Qing Dynasty. According to historical records, at that time there had been specialized artists to make this carved porcelain. However, they are mainly very simple pictures and had little and monotonous artistic expression. Coming to late Qianlong period, the imperial court established specialized Producing Bureau, which produced carved porcelains only providing for the Imperial Palace. With the advocation of all classes and the development of carved handwriting art at that time, carved porcelain art bloomed into a new porcelain-decorative art really. 
       
    In the beginning of 20th century, Carved porcelains widely prevail in Central Plain. While, the technology is almost lost because of wars afterwards. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the artist, Shen Shide in Yucheng County takes a little bit of trial and error and finally succeeds to make this technology reborn and develop.