The two of them didn't have breakfast, and there were pancakes and fruits sold here, and the aroma and the sound of sizzling suddenly they felt hungry, so they came one by one. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

They didn't take it and went inside, but stood in front of a shop that sold birds, and simply finished eating.

In a large bird cage near them, a macaw tilted its head to look at them for a while, and suddenly screamed: Pancake fruit!

"Hey!" Sun Zhongyuan and Chen Danyang couldn't help but tease when they heard it.

At this time, Sun Zhongyuan noticed that the bird food jar in this big bird cage actually had the money of "Ming Xuande Year System"!

This is a blue and white bamboo bird food jar, with a beautiful shape, and the glaze and blue and white hair color are not bad.

However, Sun Zhongyuan took a closer look and found that it was a modern imitation.

Chen Danyang also noticed the paragraph on this horizontal bamboo bird food can, but after looking at Sun Zhongyuan a few times, he didn't look at it anymore, and he understood.

Bird food jars were very particular in ancient times. Because those who can afford to raise birds are generally unlikely to be ordinary people.

The bird food jar in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty is probably the most famous, not only rich in variety, but also excellent craftsmanship. Special official kiln bird food cans, things from the imperial kiln factory, needless to say.

In 1993, a large number of porcelain pieces were unearthed in the porcelain capital, among which there were a number of exquisite bird food jars after finishing and restoration.

Xuande official kiln bird food can, so famous, there are naturally many imitations, put in the bird cage, even if it is an imitation, it looks a bit classy, at least the cultural awareness is in it.

But since it's a modern imitation, they won't ask too much.

The two of them finished eating the pancakes and went inside.

"Xuande bird food cans are so famous. Moreover, Xuande's cricket jars are also very famous. Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji, he really likes to play with birds and insects!" Chen Danyang said as he walked.

He knew about the fame of Xuande bird food jars and cricket jars. Because although he didn't know antiques before, he grew up in Yanjing, and there are too many things circulating in the market in this regard.

"Emperor Xuande has been in power for ten years, and Renxuan's prosperity mainly depends on him, and he is a good emperor. However, there is no contradiction between a good emperor and a fond of playing with birds and insects. I love to play, it's just my leisure time, and it's equivalent to changing my brain. Sun Zhongyuan replied.

Emperor Xuande was diligent in government affairs, not lustful, and had no other hobbies, so he loved to raise a bird and fight a cricket in his spare time. Who doesn't have a hobby? These two things are considered leisure and fun, and they are definitely not bad hobbies.

It's just that there are too many things that are partial and comprehensive in later generations, and the "elegant name" of the cricket emperor is called like this. It seems that he usually loves to fight crickets when he doesn't do anything else.

In fact, the emperor who is a little interesting is more capable and better.

Emperor Xuande raised birds, parrots, thrushes, pigeons, etc., but he liked parrots the most. And he once rewarded the parrot to the minister. The most interesting thing is that he once gave things to parrots!

This is a bird food jar.

There are many types of Xuande bird food jars, in addition to the imitations of the horizontal bamboo bird food jars they just saw, there are also water bowl types, bowl types, melon types and so on. But this bird food jar given to the parrot is more special.

According to historical records, one year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the palace began to prepare some items according to custom. Dragon Boat Festival, pay attention to avoiding evil and driving away drugs.

Xuande suddenly thought that his beloved parrot did not have any items to ward off evil and drive away poison! So he asked the craftsman to make a bird food jar.

Blue and white toad with five poisonous ornaments.

Ming Xuande blue and white toad-shaped five-poison bird food jar, one of which was repaired after the porcelain was unearthed and fragmented, and it was also exhibited.

"If I have the chance, I have to go to the Palace Museum to see the real products of the Xuande bird food jar and the cricket jar. After Chen Danyang listened, he became interested.

"You won't see it even if you go. Sun Zhongyuan said with a smile, "Although there are a large number of Xuande official kiln porcelain in the Forbidden City, there are very few bird food jars and cricket jars, and they are not necessarily on display." ”

Sun Zhongyuan is right, the Xuande bird food jar has very few collections in the Forbidden City, whether it is the Forbidden City in Beijing or the Forbidden City on Taiwan Island.

And the Xuande cricket jar is basically a scorpion - a poisonous (alone) part. Because Yue Lao told Sun Zhongyuan that in the Palace Museum, there is only one imitation Ru kiln cricket jar of the "Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty", and there is no one in the Forbidden City on Taiwan Island!

In this, there is the "credit" of Xuande's wife.

Emperor Xuande handled political affairs well, and it was not a problem to play crickets. But the emperor has a small hobby, what to do with the people below, it's different. It is also true that many local officials, while looking for crickets, extort money from the people and make trouble.

After the death of Emperor Xuande, Zhu Qizhen, who ascended the throne, was only eight years old, and the Empress Dowager was afraid that he would also be obsessed with fighting crickets and fall in love with playing with birds, so she ordered the cricket jars and fighting cricket utensils in the palace and the utensils for playing with birds to be destroyed.

"Everything in the palace that is good to play with is not urgent, and everything that is not urgent is gone."

At the same time, all of the porcelain imperial kiln factories that have been done have been broken and buried.

Therefore, in 1993, a batch of broken porcelain pieces of bird food jars and cricket jars were unearthed.

Therefore, these two things are more popular among the people.

The palace and the imperial kiln factory have been broken, and they can still be spread out, roughly for two reasons, first, the rewards are out, such as for ministers, princes and nobles.

Second, the emperor is in the capital, and the imperial kiln factory is in the porcelain capital. Before the Empress Dowager ordered it all to be broken, although it was difficult to flow out, it didn't mean that there was none. Especially at that time, these two things were not small.

Although the regulations of the Imperial Kiln Factory are very strict, there are people who take risks at any time.

In addition, the cricket jar in the Forbidden City, which imitates Ru kiln, has not been broken for some reason, perhaps because it is a rare boutique antique vessel.

However, there is a comparison here, bird food jars are smaller than cricket jars, relatively easy to hide, and easy to preserve, so the number left should be larger.

The least, for sure, is the cricket jar. The preciousness of the Xuande official kiln cricket jar has been recognized by the collection community.

The number of cricket jars handed down from the Xuande official kiln is less than that of Ru kiln porcelain, and even less than the number of Yuan blue and white jars.

Of course, the value can't catch up with Ru kiln porcelain and Yuan blue and white jars, which are two different things.

Several scholars once believed that in addition to the one in the Forbidden City, the number of cricket jars handed down from the Xuande official kiln should not exceed three.

There is a sit-on-lid blue and white melon leaf pattern cricket jar that was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1989, and a twig-wrapped peony pattern cricket jar without a lid, which is in the Suzhou Museum. In addition, there is also a flat-lid Tianma-patterned cricket jar in an art museum in the Japanese country, and it is said that the lid is not the original match.

The scholars' evidence is well-founded. But this can't be said that there are no more people, some people quietly collect it, keep it secret, and it is possible.

The two chatted and chatted, and then entered the stall area of the Eagle Mountain Antique Market.