"There are three elements to porcelain firing: kaolin, high temperature, and glazing techniques. Kaolin is a weathered granite, and kaolin could not be found in Europe at that time, but we have a lot of it. ”

"Another necessary condition is high temperatures, which can only be achieved by continuous heating, which involves the supply of oxygen. Craftsmen came up with a good way to take advantage of the hilly terrain in the south to build the kiln along the mountain. ”

"These porcelain kilns are usually tens of meters, and the high place can be about 10 meters higher than the low place, which is equivalent to a high chimney to absorb fresh air, so that the porcelain kiln with a large volume can be kept at a high temperature for a long time. ”

"The German Meissen porcelain factory still retains the data of 30,000 experiments, and today it is easy for them to restore the products of hundreds of years ago, but it is an impossible task for us to restore a piece of Tang and Song dynasty porcelain. ”

Later, they succeeded in finding kaolin, which could be used to make more high-quality and stable porcelain. The Englishman Wedgwood also discovered kaolin ore in China, and directly introduced the steam engine into the manufacture of porcelain, so as to solve the problem of mass production and stable quality. ”

Later generations also invented bone porcelain, adding beef bone powder to kaolin, making porcelain whiter and becoming synonymous with high-end now. ”

"Royal Copenhagen of Denmark, Arabia of Finland, Hermès of France, Herren of Hungary, Royal Dalton of England, Wedgwood, Wasses, Mason of Germany, ......"

"Even in the island countries of Zewu, Minghai, and Nikko, the price of a set of international brand-name coffee or tea sets is basically about 10,000 yuan. And high-end product series, such as the Danish Flower series in Copenhagen, the cheapest coffee cup costs 26,900 yuan, and a pair of black tea cups costs 110,000 yuan!"

Speaking of this, Mao Zhengcong gritted his teeth and said: "Those are mass-produced industrial products, 110,000 can buy two large cars of Longquan celadon!"

Su Yuan was silent, there was no way, this is the bloody status quo of porcelain, China has long been reduced to a low-end OEM base, and like Foxconn, all that is sold is labor.

Don't look at the auction house often tens of millions of transactions of the sky-high price, that is a rare ancient superb, a piece of porcelain can be passed down for hundreds of years, after the baptism of vicissitudes, in the natural and man-made disasters survived, well preserved to this day, this probability is far lower than winning the lottery!

It is different from calligraphy and painting, but all calligraphy and paintings that have been handed down for a hundred years must be framed, even if they are broken and meet masters, they can regain their vitality and be recognized by collectors.

And porcelain is not good, no matter how precious it is, it cannot tolerate the slightest flaw, and the jargon calls the remnants worthless. Now because the number is too small, the remnants are also starting to be valuable, barely a tenth.

Since ancient times, the research of Chinese people on craftsmanship is far greater than the management of the brand, and there is indeed nothing wrong with eating all over the world, but even if a person is awesome, it is impossible to fight the world alone.

A fence with three piles, a hero with three gangs. Even if you have a golden finger, you still need the help of all kinds of talents around you, otherwise you won't be able to do big things if you are tired.

Mao Zhengcong took Su Yuan's hand and said emotionally: "You can be regarded as a shot in the arm for our craftsmen, not only the craftsmanship, but also the courage to share, as well as the modern business model." ”

"We are old, and in the future, we will all rely on you to support the sky left by our ancestors, and as long as we use it in the future, just say it!"

Su Yuan is very grateful, he can feel the true feelings of the other party, for the old artist who is over the age of six, there is no successor who is more gratifying, without decades of perseverance, he can't experience the deep love at all.

Back in the workshop, he bought a full set of porcelain-making tools and opened up a separate open space that would later be used as a practice place. I bought high-quality mud from Mao Zhengcong and began to try to draw blanks for the first time.

Flowing Cloud Hand!

Take a deep breath and press the turntable with your feet, electric is not selected, it is easier to control the speed manually. Straighten the porcelain clay, hold the clay with both hands, and press down the thumb of the right hand from the center point of the top to set the center, which is the most important step in drawing the blank.

The left hand assists, the right thumb expands outward from the center of the bottom, and the well is flattened at the bottom. The left hand is inside, the right hand is outside, the middle finger of the left hand is opposite to the thumb of the right hand, slowly lifting up from the bottom, maintaining a constant speed, and pulling the body high.

Feel the touch of your hands with your heart and slowly move upwards to pull the body higher. The tips of the fingers are opposite to each other inside and outside, and the left hand expands slightly to gradually thin the body, which can repeatedly keep the thickness of the body even.

Su Yuan opened Liuyun Hand, his body seemed to have been practiced thousands of times, and his movements gradually became proficient, becoming more and more handy.

The master requires, the hand to the device, the instrument into the mud, after the pull of the mud just used up, there is no left.

In addition to the mud on the hands due to the blank, the cuffs and the body are clean, the table and the surrounding ground of the blank drawing machine must also be tidy, without the slightest mud splash.

Nowadays, the industrialization of porcelain mostly adopts grouting molding and single-knife machine wheel forming process, which is far from the ancient hand-drawn blank molding, which lacks the classic manual atmosphere and is difficult to meet the requirements of the light and thin body.

Mao Zhengcong once spent a whole year only making a small bottle with a carved flower lotus pattern. After mastering this shape, you can feel the artistic conception of the gurgling water flowing like a stream when you close your eyes by holding your hand on the finished body.

Later, in the Longquan Ceramic Skills Competition, he won the top prize in the blank, which was fast, nearly twice as fast as the second place, and the size and shape were not different from the regulations.

Not only that, but the mud he uses for the same specification work is only half of that of the other contestants, which shows how solid the old man's basic skills are.

The biggest difference between the level of the blank is to save materials. If the craftsmanship is high, the plain tire can reach the specified thinness almost without repairing, and at most one or two knives can be repaired on the surface.

It not only improves production efficiency, but also saves resources and reduces production costs. For example, after more than ten years of stale porcelain clay, with a little less, money can't buy it, and it is definitely a non-renewable resource.

Su Yuan quickly found the feeling, closed his eyes, and felt the touch of the soil flowing on his fingertips, no wonder it was called Liuyun Hand, as if the slightest thread was slicing across his fingers, which was wonderful.

"Zero-two?"

I opened my eyes, looked at the first result in front of me, and nodded with satisfaction. Fortunately, it was a person, if Mao Zhengcong saw it, he would definitely be scared of heart disease.

Good guy, for the first time, he can catch up with the level he has worked hard for half his life......

Let no one else live!

This is the egg curtain cup?

Su Yuan picked up the small teacup held by Ying Ying, there are very few surviving in the world, only the Forbidden City keeps one. The glaze is white and blue, and the jade texture is very strong. There are four white plum blossoms in the cup, which are as moist as jade and as light as paper.

There is no bottom paragraph, and there is a Great Wall pattern on the outer wall of the circle foot, if each convex and concave unit is regarded as a deformed nine characters, exactly nineteen, after expert research, it may be that Hao Nineteen cleverly hides the name in it.

Try to make an egg curtain cup, as thin as a curtain of chicken eggs, white and lovely, a weight of half a baht. According to records, in ancient times, one tael was equal to twenty-four baht, that is, one-twenty-fourth of fifty grams, less than two grams.

Su Yuan looked at it with an electronic scale, it was more than three grams, and it seemed that he still needed a lot of practice to reach the realm of integration.

If you analyze it according to the weight, the thickness of the egg curtain cup of Hao 19 will definitely not exceed 0.6 mm, excluding the weight of the bottom foot, or even thinner!

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