Why do people call their ceramic wares "china"? And why the name of our ancient country in English is also called "China", instead of "Central Nation" or "Middle Kingdom"?

Several centuries ago, when European people saw the first batch of the fine pottery shipped from a mysterious nation in the Orient, they were marveled at it. They decided to give the works the name of their place of production--"Changnan", which they began to pronounce as "China". Possibly out of the conventional practice of referring to a country by that for which it is best known, "China" came into use to refer to the whole nation.

Changnan gradually fell into oblivion, but Jingde town being in the very same place, is still the capital of ceramics. Jingde town porcelain production reached its all time high in the early Qing Dynasty.Traditional Jingde town china art can be categorized into four schools, with the most famous one being the "blues and whites" porcelain.