Chapter 73: Bird Food Cans

"I won't fight with you, I'll wash and sleep. "Wu Dazhi is really tired today, and he drank again at night.

Wu Duo didn't drink much, so he took a shower and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, Wu Duo woke up and came out to see Wu Dazhi tending to flowers and trees in the yard. Wu Dazhi saw that Wu took it out, "When you have time, you have to buy some fertilizer so that this flower and tree can grow well." ”

"Good. Wu Duo answered, and asked, "What do you want to eat for breakfast, grandpa?" There is a good pie shop nearby, I ate it very well yesterday, and I will try it again today?"

"Let's go, I'm hungry after being busy for a while. ”

The grandfather and grandson went out, and after queuing, they had breakfast at the small table in front of the store, thinking that there was nothing to do, so they simply walked together to the flower and bird market to buy flower fertilizer.

Not far from the family courtyard of the Cultural Relics Bureau, the scale of this flower and bird market is not large, it is an old market, and it has been included in the plan, and it will be demolished within three years. Because it is in the downtown area, it is more lively every day.

After buying flower fertilizer, the two passed by a stall specializing in thrushes, and Wu Dazhi stepped forward to take a look and amused the birds.

Wu Duo was not interested in birds, so he lit a cigarette and waited.

After a while, an old man with a bird cage also came to the stall and began to watch the birds.

Wu Duo was idle, glanced at his birdcage, and couldn't help but be attracted.

In the birdcage was a starling, quite cheerful, suddenly fluttered twice, and shouted at Wu Duo: "Look at what!"

"I'll go!" Wu Duole said, "This bird is quite natural!"

In fact, Wu Duo was attracted by the birdcage, because this birdcage is particularly exquisite, and it is made of purple bamboo, the bird bar in the cage seems to be still ironwood, and the birdcage is a large copper grappling hook, and the shape is very beautiful.

When the old man heard the starling call, he couldn't help but turn his head and smile at Wu Duo, "It's not aimed at you, it will say two sentences, one sentence is 'hello' and one sentence is 'what to see'." ”

Wu Duo also smiled in response.

The starling didn't scream anymore, but lowered his head and ate bird food.

Wu Duo looked at the bird food jar in the birdcage again.

This bird food jar is bamboo-shaped, transverse, about 10 centimeters long and 5 centimeters thick, with two oval mouths. Blue and white porcelain painted with twiggling flowers.

Just below the opening, there is a horizontal six-character blue and white regular script: the Ming Xuande year.

This thing, without looking closely, knows that it is a modern imitation of the craft.

Xuande official kiln bird food jar, very famous, especially the blue and white bird food jar, is a very special category of Yongxuan blue and white. It's just that the authenticity is too rare.

In fact, there were still a lot of bird food jars made in the Xuande official kiln back then, but later there was an accident and most of them were destroyed.

Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji is a diligent emperor, and he is not too good a woman, and his hobby is mainly birds and insects.

Tease the birds, tease the crickets.

Emperor Xuande raised birds, liked parrots the most, and once made a blue and white toad-type five-poison bird food jar for parrots.

This is something clearly recorded in the historical data, it is said that the year is close to the Dragon Boat Festival, the palace began to prepare all kinds of festival items, the Dragon Boat Festival pays attention to a poison and evil spirit, Emperor Xuande let the imperial kiln factory make a batch of bird food jars for the beloved parrots, blue and white porcelain, the main body is one of the five poisons of the toad, and at the same time with the other four poisons of the ornamentation.

Emperor Xuande also loves to tease crickets, since there are official kiln bird food jars, then there are also official kiln cricket jars.

In the Forbidden City, there is a "Ming Xuande Year System" imitation Ru kiln cricket jar. The only one.

Why are very few bird food jars and cricket jars left in the Xuande official kiln? It was the old lady of the Xuande Emperor who destroyed them.

It is said that the emperor has a leisurely mood for amusing birds and crickets, and it is not a big problem; however, the emperor is very good at this, and it is easy to influence his subordinates, especially some local officials who take advantage of this opportunity to loot the people's fat and ointment, and there are also some moths.

Moreover, Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji died in his thirties, and the little emperor Zhu Qizhen was only eight years old that year; therefore, Zhu Zhanji's mother, Zhu Qizhen's grandmother, and the empress dowager issued an order to destroy all the bird food jars and cricket jars in the palace.

In fact, there are more than these two, what the historical data says: that is, all the things that are good in the palace are not in a hurry.

Moreover, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory has been done and has not yet been sent to the palace, and it has also been smashed and buried.

In 1993, a large number of broken porcelain pieces of bird food jars and cricket jars were unearthed, which also confirmed the records in the historical materials.

And now the genuine products handed down, some of them were rewarded by the emperor and some of them were sent out of the imperial kiln factory, and the number of both of them cannot be large.

Wu Duo looked at the bird food jar in the birdcage, and said in his heart that this old man is still very particular, although it is a modern handicraft, but it is always imitated by a very famous thing.

Just looking at the bird cage and thinking about the bird food can, but he didn't pay attention, Wu Dazhi bought a thrush, and brought the stall owner's bird cage!

"Let's go! Wu Dazhi greeted Wu Duo.

"Grandpa, you won't let me go at home, let me serve, right?" Wu Duo smiled bitterly, "It's okay now, a dog, a tank of fish, and a bird, I'm about to open the zoo!"

"If you don't like it, you can release it. Wu Dazhi smiled and walked ahead with the bird cage.

Wu Duo had no choice but to follow.

Out of the flower and bird market, Wu Dazhi said, "You just look at other people's bird food cans, don't you look at the bird food cans in my bird cage?"

Wu Duo was slightly stunned, he really didn't pay attention.

However, Wu Duo looked at the birdcage in Wu Dazhi's hand, which was far worse than the old man's birdcage just now, it was ordinary wood, and it was quite old.

"Why do you look so awk······ward in this bird food jar in your bird cage?" Wu Duo looked at the bird food jar fixed to one side in the birdcage again.

The main thing is that it is not like the shape of a bird food jar, it is a small blue and white flat bottle, just like the previous military kettle, with a small mouth, at most it can only be used by birds to drink water.

"Take a closer look!" Wu Dazhi stood still on the side of the road, raising the bird cage.

Wu Duo looked at the picture of this small flat bottle again, the blue and white hair color was a little elegant, and the painting was a small landscape scene.

Because Wu Dazhi was raised, Wu Duo could vaguely see that there was a paragraph at the bottom of the bottle.

Bent over and turned his head sideways to see the bottom paragraph clearly, the four-character blue and white regular script:

Chenghua year.

This one is said to be regular script, but it is scribbled than the regular regular script, especially the word "year", obliquely "body", and the grass is also very strong.

"This can't be a Chenghua thing!" Wu Duo straightened up, "You won't buy this bird because of this, will you?"

"Who said it was Chenghua?" Wu Dazhi lowered his hand, took a step and said, "I just praised your eyesight yesterday, and today it will be in its original form?"