The TV series Jingdezhen tells the legendary story of Zhang Tiansan, the head of the kiln in Jingdezhen in the early Ming Dynasty, and his father, brother, and colleagues who fired kilns and made porcelain. The play takes the protagonist Zhang Tiansan's unique and complicated life as a clue to show their various hardships and pursuits in firing rare porcelain and strange objects. In addition to Zhang Tiansan and several of his peers, it also shows the first generation of the Zhang family, the rigid and stubborn Zhang Zechang, Zhang Tiansan's elder brother, the selfless Zhang Tianyi, the inheritor of Ding porcelain, the "porcelain monster" Hu Laojiu with strange behavior, the rigorous and sincere, childish master of antique appraisal Yan Buyi, the master of antique imitation Zhou Danquan who hates officialdom and is extremely smart, and the royal descendant, antique dealer Sima Xun, with different personalities and proud integrity.