Chapter 616 - Shaped in the heart, formed with bare hands
Seeing his Lu Zi'an's posture, everyone was interested.
"Load!" someone shouted, rumbling and pushing a large wooden frame towards this side.
Since Huaxia decided to restore Jun porcelain, a large number of manpower has been mobilized to select various suitable minerals from the related minerals.
They sent experts to go to the mine in person to find raw materials with reliable performance, stable quality, and suitable for kiln transformation of Jun porcelain, and carefully selected.
Selection alone is not enough, the raw materials also need to be processed with the necessary care.
All kinds of porcelain clay mounds are classified and placed in the open-air yard for long-term, continuous winding, sunning, rain and freezing, so that they can be naturally weathered and moistened, and the performance can be improved.
All kinds of ore materials need to be rolled into wheels, crushed, and ground into sand or powder after repeated operations.
After these preliminary treatments, it is also necessary to classify and place these porcelain clays and minerals according to their respective characteristics.
Some need shade and rain, others need dust, and so on.
Day after day, but never waiting for a result.
So much so that they even thought they were doing a useless job.
Because the Jun porcelain process has long been lost, and the kiln site (Bianliang) has also sunk with the frozen water.
How enthusiastic the sensational effect of Jun porcelain was back then, the more it compares with how bleak the porcelain process is today.
Even if the local groups imitate each other and the kilns are lined up, they still do not have the essentials of Jun porcelain.
The research articles on Jun porcelain are full of sweat, and there are countless archaeological kilns.
However, because I have never seen this batch of Jun porcelain made by the Northern Song Dynasty officials, I can only peep at the leopard in the tube.
It wasn't until Lu Zi'an appeared that everyone who had been numb seemed to have new expectations.
Maybe only such a ghost can study the strange craft of Jun porcelain!
Piles of finely processed porcelain clay ores, divided into categories, each packed in a small urn, slowly pushed in front of Lu Zi'an.
The neat urns have their names pasted on them.
When Lu Zi'an opened an urn, a craftsman immediately stepped forward to explain how to handle it and what it was used for.
Most of the porcelain clay is mined in Yuzhou City, which is located in the central part of Henan Province, in the transition zone between the remaining veins of Funiu Mountain and the East Henan Plain.
There are many limestone, coal, bauxite, china clay, clay and scorched gemstones.
The famous porcelain town of Hòu is located in the southwest of Yuzhou City.
Here the mountains are undulating, surrounded by mountains, there are Jiaozi Mountain, Fengyin Mountain in the east, Niutou Mountain, Niujin Mountain in the west, Daliu Mountain in the south, Yungai Mountain in the north, and Qianming Mountain in the middle of the east-west direction.
The mountain is composed of carbonite and sand shale.
The reserves of porcelain clay, glaze, refractory materials and coal are very abundant, the covering layer is thin, and it is very easy to mine, and the production of Jun porcelain has very favorable conditions.
Just to understand and familiarize himself with these raw materials, Lu Zi'an spent a week.
But even so, it's amazing enough.
Just like a primary school student studying Chinese medicine, the first step is to memorize the names of herbs.
If you can memorize them well, and know them well, you will know what kind of medicine it is when you smell it, and you can quickly find the corresponding match and treatable diseases in your mind......
When you do this, the master will generally tell you: you can become a teacher.
Here, Lu Zi'an is also like this young apprentice, fully demonstrating his strong memory.
After a week, he was able to select the raw materials he needed and load them into the ball mill in proportion.
This step is called fine grinding in the Jun porcelain process.
Fine grinding requires patience and strict requirements for raw materials.
Lu Zi'an blended many kinds of mud, and finally selected a few piles of mud that met the quality requirements.
Because it was only a preliminary attempt, he didn't choose a shape that was too strange.
The shape is generally simple plates, bowls, bowls and other utensils, because he does not want to use ready-made molds, so he uses the method of drawing blanks.
Drawing blank forming, to put it bluntly, is to put a mud ball on the rotating roulette wheel and draw it by hand to make various round blanks.
It's just that Lu Zi'an does it, and he always has a little more charm than others.
The speed of the ship was actually very fast, but his fingers were always just right to shape the mud.
The index finger poked in slightly, and soon there was a hole in the center.
The fingertips are gently hooked inward, and the body has a smooth arc.
His movements are even very light, as if he has been precipitated for several years.
Even many onlookers had to shake their heads and sigh: "Master Lu has such a skill, why did he ask us to teach him how to make blanks?"
Not at all!
"I think it's funny. Someone frowned and looked very carefully: "Do you see, every time he shapes the arc, he always operates it with two fingers." ”
Adjust both inside and out, not just one side at a time.
As a result, the whole body can be smooth and complete, and there will be no unevenness.
After doing this for two or three pieces, Lu Zi'an put the original blank on one side, washed his hands, and picked up another mud ball.
After thinking about it, he turned off the roulette wheel and operated it directly on the workbench with his bare hands.
"Hey, what's ......?"
Everyone looked at each other.
"Could it be that Master Lu is actually ...... Forming by hand?"
Someone cautiously stepped forward to ask, but Lu Zi'an was also calm and nodded: "Although the roulette wheel is good, it has a strict control over the time, which is not conducive to my shaping." ”
Well, you're the big guy, you have the final say.
Someone inhaled lightly and sighed: "Perhaps, this is the shape of the heart, forming it with bare hands!"
There are cameras on the top, and the surroundings are crowded with people.
Lu Zi'an is like entering a no-man's land, and he is relaxed and happy.
Shaping is actually really fun, when asked if he had any experience in freehand molding before, Lu Zian smiled from the bottom of his heart: "Yes." ”
"Oh, I've only seen your wood and jade carvings, but I haven't seen any porcelain works. Someone said happily: "It turns out that Master Lu also hunts porcelain art?"
Lu Zi'an glanced at him in a busy manner and shook his head: "No, most people should have this experience of freehand molding, right? I played it when I was a child." ”
“……”
What?
Is it really from a family of craftsmen? Such a profound craftsmanship can even be played when I was a child.
Seeing that he really didn't react, Lu Zi'an smiled: "Playing with mud, many of our generation should have this kind of experience, right?"
Everyone was stunned for a few seconds, and after reacting, they laughed.
It's not, the clay embryo is naturally tall for porcelain craftsmanship, but if it is used for children to play, it is to play with mud!
I really didn't expect that this Master Lu had no stalgam, and he didn't mind mentioning his age at all.
Yes, I think back then, they also played with mud and made a lot of troubles.
For example, he took mud and pasted a whole wall, and was forced to be used as a human sandbag by his father for the first time to practice boxing.
For example, I smashed the glass of someone's window, and I was held up at night to apologize to someone.
For example, the beautiful dress of the little girl, for example......
The small talk of everyone greatly diluted the previous stiff atmosphere.
Such a down-to-earth topic also quickly shortened the distance between everyone.
When they looked at Lu Zi'an again, everyone had a feeling of being very close, and they began to boldly hand him tools, serve tea and pour water, and no longer had the previous restraints.
Lu Zi'an's smile was even quieter, he actually enjoyed this kind of nature.
After all, they still need to get along for a long time, so what's the point of holding the shelf all the time.
As he spoke, the teapot in Lu Zi'an's hand had already taken shape.
It's hard to imagine that the teapot formed by hand while talking and laughing has such a smooth and flat body.
Not only is the overall round and small, but there are no irregularities, which makes people wonder.
When Lu Zi'an took a knife to remove the excess mud from the spout of the pot and smooth the spout, some people were even a little distressed.
Because Lu Zi'an went down with a knife, he directly cut a large piece down.
Is......
And the piece he cut off did not throw away directly, but used it to reshape and pinch a pot lid with tight fetal bones.
With a slight twist of the carving knife, a smooth cross-section is created.
picked up the carving knife and turned around, and stabbed it directly, and he was even more unrelenting, and he saw that people's hearts twitched.
Even if this semi-finished product is made, Lu Zi'an has no idea of matching it with a teapot to see the effect.
I pinched the ring handle of the lid directly, glued it on, and then casually rested it on the semi-finished teapot.
The picture that really shocked everyone appeared.
Although it is a clay blank, this tea lid is placed on the body of the pot so tightly and perfectly!
Therefore, when making the filter of the spout next, Lu Zi'an pierced the perfect body with a few holes, and no one was surprised.
There's no way, Master Lu's operation really can't be learned.
Seeing that he pinched the spout and the handle of the ring pot again, they gently and skillfully stuck to the body of the pot.
In this way, a complete teapot is completed.
From beginning to end, the tool Lu Zi'an used was just a carving knife, and that's it.
If this was a showmanship, the crowd probably wouldn't have been so surprised.
But the problem is that Lu Zi'an has a very natural posture from beginning to end, as if he is really just using the roulette wheel is not smooth, and his hands are more controllable.
And it was true, after the teapot was placed together with the previous roulette wheel, the judgment was made.
This teapot is dignified and elegant, the fetal bones are tight, the lines are dripping, and every arc is just right.
Placed together with the bowls and plates next to it, it has a cold and noble temperament.
Words can't express it, it's just a feeling at a glance.
Everyone suddenly realized: No wonder Master Lu didn't use all kinds of machinery before, it turned out that his hand was so exquisite!
If you can have a pair of hands with such high precision, who will use machinery!
Of course, although there is a gap with the teapot, but in the end, it is from Lu Zi'an's hand, and those plates are still very good.
After getting used to using his hands, Lu Zi'an didn't use the roulette wheel anymore, because the speed was about the same anyway, and his hands were better controlled.
It's just that autumn is getting cooler, and the mud is very cold on your hands.
After doing it for a long time, Lu Zi'an felt a chill start to invade from his fingertips.
Therefore, every few pieces he makes, he needs to get up and move.
For this issue, the official also has thoughtful arrangements.
First, he washed his hands with warm water, and also arranged for someone to wash his fingers.
Apply the hand cream again and massage gently.
Although he was impatient with this process, Lu Zi'an still endured it.
Because...... Manman felt that his hand was very, very, very important, and insured him with three million.
is obviously such a strange reason, but many people support it, and Zhuo Peng even transferred a sum of money from the company's account for insurance.
For this strange result, Lu Zi'an couldn't help but laugh every time he thought about it: he actually has a work worth a piece of his hands!