, in spite of the protests of eighteenth–century purists.[295]
The word t'ao
is a term even more comprehensive than our word "china." In the Han dictionary it appeared in the form
t'ao or yao (previously pronounced fou), composed of
fou (earthenware) and the radical
pao (to wrap), and its meaning was kiln, and by extension the products of the kiln. At that time the word in its modern form was only used as a proper name.