Although Liu Dabin is not a shrewd businessman, he is definitely not a stupid person, and after listening to Zhang Tianyuan's words, he naturally understands the problem that he has been puzzled all along. I started by imitating, but the goal is to surpass my predecessors, once this thing has its own characteristics, better than its predecessors, it is too much.

Of course, this kind of thing is not a bad thing, and it can even be said that he Liu Dabin is very talented in this area. But in terms of high imitation, it has become a fatal weakness.

still remembers that a few days ago, there was a plot in a very popular TV series "The Pretender". It's said that Ming Lou asked Ah Cheng to investigate who the lone wolf was, and one of the targets was Ah Cheng's mother, and then Ah Cheng asked what to do if he found that there were no flaws in the lone wolf's information.

At that time, Ming Lou replied that if there was no flaw, that was the biggest flaw.

In fact, this matter is very easy to understand, and it can also be placed on Liu Dabin's body.

Liu Dabin's Tang Sancai and purple clay pots are absolutely perfect, but in fact, the ancients due to some conditions, so that Tang Sancai or purple clay pots will have some flaws more or less, and sometimes these flaws will be regarded as key evidence to verify the authenticity of future generations.

In this way, the high imitation made by Liu Dabin after the improvement of technology is not as good as what he did before, which is probably one of the reasons why he is gradually giving up high imitation now.

"I believe that at a certain stage, after Brother Da Bin, the high imitation you made was taken out, no one found any flaws, and no one dared to say that there was a problem. But recently, some experts who often deal with ceramics say, "You can't get these things, right?" Zhang Tianyuan asked with a smile.

"God, that's really the case. Some people even think there is something wrong with my stuff after going through the carbon 14 test, but what is the problem? But I can't say it. Liu Dabin hurriedly said.

"Brother Dabin, don't praise me, what is not a god. In fact, this is a good thing, although there are profits to be made by high imitation, but you can't live on high imitation all your life. If you want to truly become a master of ceramics, you must have your own style! And knowing this reason, you should be able to hold the scale when you make high-quality imitations in the future. The level that others can't reach, you just passed, and since you have passed, then you can do a little worse, which is easy to control. But if someone wants to reach your level, it's very difficult. "Zhang Tianyuan was just curious and admired Liu Dabin before he came here, but after coming here, he simply had a sense of admiration for Liu Dabin, and he relied on imitation of words to imitate 100% of the like, and now he can't do it, it is even more difficult to have his own style, but Liu Dabin is stunned to achieve this goal by his own ability, isn't this amazing?

"Hey, hey. I'm embarrassed about what you said, I thought I wasn't good at it, but I didn't expect it to be too ......"

Liu Dabin is a little proud in his heart, of course, he also has the capital to be proud. In today's society, it is very rare to be able to have such excellent ceramic skills in your thirties. What's more, the level of the purple clay pot he made can surpass his idol Shi Dabin. This is really admirable, can't you be proud to do this?

"I see that you still have some fragments of Ming blue and white flowers in this place. Aren't you studying Gao Fangming blue and white now?" Zhang Tianyuan felt that Liu Dabin couldn't be too proud, because if he was too proud, it would be easy to get carried away. So the topic was shifted elsewhere.

"That's right, it's not studying now, Ming Qinghua I think it's been imitated very well, I'm now studying Chenghua Doucai, this thing is valuable, I've heard my father say, and it's hard to imitate it well. But I don't believe in it. It's a pity that I don't have a real Chenghua Doucai as a template, so I can only look at the pictures on the Internet to imitate, and it will definitely not reach the level of Tang Sancai, purple clay pot, Ming blue and white and plum bottles. Liu Dabin was very excited at first, but after he started to say this, he shook his head helplessly, obviously a little helpless.

"You don't want to imitate all the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty one by one, you can't chew it if you are greedy!"

Zhang Tianyuan was really surprised by this Liu Dabin, this person's liking for ceramics is definitely far beyond his, well, it can't be said that, it's not a liking for ceramics, it should be a liking for the production technology of ceramics. After all, this kid didn't know how to protect antiques, so Tang Sancai and the purple clay pot were broken by him.

It is estimated that even if Zhang Tianyuan gave him a pair of Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cups, this guy would dare to break it directly.

And what made him unbelievable was that Liu Dabin wanted to imitate the entire porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, which was a very vast project.

You must know that in the Song and Yuan dynasties, porcelain was dominated by monochrome glaze, and in the Ming Dynasty, Wucai, Doucai and various color glazes gradually developed and became popular. Blue and white porcelain has matured in the Yuan Dynasty, but there are very few surviving quantities. After the improvement and innovation of the Ming Dynasty, blue and white porcelain was popularized and became the mainstream of the development of China's Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and modern porcelain industry.

That is to say, the entire Ming Dynasty, not only blue and white porcelain, including the birth and development of five-colored, doucai and other color glazes and characteristic porcelain, Liu Dabin to completely imitate, it is absolutely impossible.

It is very difficult to collect the objects of imitation, let alone explain the complicated production process of porcelain of the dynasty.

You must know that the development of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty surpassed that of any previous dynasty. At that time, porcelain kilns were used all over the country.

At that time, the more famous porcelain kilns were: Jing ~ Dezhen kiln, Longquan kiln, Dehua kiln, Yi ~ Xing kiln, Guang kiln, etc., among which the development of Jing ~ Dezhen kiln is more prominent. Every emperor of the Ming Dynasty set up official kilns here, and civilian porcelain was also produced in large quantities here.

According to the literature, the kiln area of Jing ~ Dezhen is ten kilometers, and there are more than 30 official and private kilns, "white smoke covers the sky during the day, and red flames smoke the sky at night". The sight is spectacular.

The color of the Ming porcelain fetal bone is roughly the same as that of the Yuan Dynasty, all of which are white, and the Ming is whiter. In the early and middle stages of the Ming Dynasty, the fetal quality was finer, and the fetal wall was slightly thinner, while the late fetal material gradually turned rough, and the fetal wall became thicker; the fetal soil of Ming porcelain was finer than that of the Yuan Dynasty, so the impurities contained in the porcelain fetus were less than that of the Yuan Dynasty; the enamel of Ming porcelain was more compact and fine than before, and the glaze varieties were greatly increased; in terms of modeling, the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty was in various forms, and the varieties of plates, bowls, bottles, cans, furnaces, and boxes were complete.

Take the blue and white of Jingdezhen as an example: the color of the blue and white in the Hongwu period is black and dark, and the decoration has changed the style of the Yuan Dynasty with more layers and full of patterns, tending to be light and leaving more blank space; Zhengde blue and white tire thin glaze white, blue light and elegant, its green material is domestic equal green; Jiawan period blue and white blue in purple, hair color is bright and heavy, its green material is back to green or back to green and stone green mixed use; in the late Wanli period, from the apocalypse to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the blue and white blue is gray, and the green material is domestic Zhejiang material.

In addition, on the basis of the development of blue and white porcelain, the development of colored porcelain in the Ming Dynasty also had a new leap.

After Yongle and Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, colored porcelain prevailed, in addition to the reasons for color materials and painting technology, it should be mainly attributed to the improvement of the quality of white porcelain. The common colors of the Ming Dynasty glaze color are red, yellow, green, blue, black, purple, etc., the most representative is the Chenghua Doucai, which is a kind of colored porcelain process that combines underglaze blue and white and overglaze color.

For example, the glaze color of Chenghua Doucai ware has many color varieties and can be freely matched according to the content of the picture, the red of the cockscomb is almost the same as the real cockscomb, and the purple grapes are almost the reproduction of purple grapes. Therefore, colored porcelain is generally very delicate and precious, such as the world-famous Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup.

On the basis of Chenghua colored porcelain, the five-color ware of Jiajing and Wanli periods has opened a new chapter in the history of the development of colored porcelain. Chenghua Doucai porcelain, bright color, painting and dyeing style to win with sparse elegance; the five colors of the Jiawan period are red, light green, dark green, yellow, brown, purple and underglaze blue are common, the color is strong, of which red, green, yellow are mainly threefold, especially the red is particularly prominent, so that the five colors of the Jiawan period have a feeling of emerald red and bright on the whole, extremely gorgeous.

In addition to blue and white, doucai and five-colored, the Ming Dynasty's monochrome glaze also had outstanding achievements, the most representative of which were Yongxuan's red glaze, blue glaze, Chenghua's peacock green and Hongzhi's yellow glaze.

In addition to inheriting the shape of the previous dynasty, the shape of porcelain in this era was also newly produced due to the changes of the times, such as the hand pressure cup, amphora flat bottle, Tianqiu bottle and so on in the Yongxuan period. In the Chenghua period, the Doucai chicken bowl cup, the "Tian" word cover bowl and so on are typical utensils, and the big dragon jar, square bucket bowl, square polygonal jar, gourd bottle and so on of the Zhengde, Jiaqing and Wanli dynasties are also quite representative.

In addition, there are also all kinds of stationery utensils such as pen tubes, porcelain inkstones, water injections, paperweights, chess pieces, chessboards, chess jars and other porcelain handed down.

The decorative techniques have changed from carving, scratching, printing and plastic before the Yuan Dynasty to painting as the main technique. The content of the painting decoration is more complex and diverse, with plants, animals, words, landscapes, people, flowers, birds, fish and insects all included in the painting.

In the early period, freehand painting was the mainstay, and the painting style was free, unrestrained, and free and easy, while in the late Ming Dynasty, it was mainly realistic, and the picture was lyrical, simple and brisk, and very comic fun.

If Liu Dabin wants to really imitate such a complex Ming porcelain, it will not only take a lot of hard work, but more importantly, it will also require a lot of financial support.

Do you really think that high imitation is so easy to do?

Just go to the museum and see it, just touch it?

If you are only satisfied with that level, you will not be able to reach the top level of high imitation at all, which is obviously unsatisfactory for Liu Dabin.

Zhang Tianyuan believed in Liu Dabin's ability, but he also believed that Liu Dabin simply did not have that much money to buy so many expensive porcelain for his own imitation and research.

So Liu Dabin's idea can only be delusional and crazy, no wonder the factory went bankrupt and closed down in a short period of time, it is estimated that the money was spent on it. (To be continued......)