Chapter 628: Chenghua Doucai
The development of porcelain in ancient China began to be born in the Jin Dynasty, and in the following hundreds of years, it continued to develop and evolve, and finally accumulated and developed the ancestors in the sense of modern porcelain.
In the development of porcelain in the Song Dynasty, it can be said that thousands of schools competed for beauty, and at that time, there were no less than thousands of kiln factories in the north and south of the river, and the porcelain produced could also be said to be various.
However, because of the preferences of the Song Dynasty officials at that time, the mainstream porcelain of the Song Dynasty at that time was generally porcelain with azure glaze characteristics.
In the Yuan Dynasty, because of the victory of the Mongol Crusade, they brought back very distinctive natural dyes from the Middle East, and the porcelain masters of Jingdezhen at that time fired the blue and white porcelain that created a precedent in the era under such circumstances.
By the time the Ming Dynasty ruled the world, Jingdezhen had become a veritable porcelain capital in the world, and the kilns in other places had declined for various reasons, but Jingdezhen maintained its lasting vitality.
All kinds of innovations are emerging here.
Because of the special preferences of the Mongols during the Yuan Dynasty, the porcelain masters here have mastered a variety of different porcelain-making techniques.
For example, special natural dyes are used to paint on the fired porcelain, and then sent to the kiln to be burned, so that the fired porcelain will have a variety of beautiful figures, flowers, or animal patterns.
During the period of Emperor Yongle and Emperor Xuande, the development of the Ming Dynasty had reached its peak after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which was the most glorious period of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to show the difference from the previous dynasty, as well as an innovation. Emperors no longer liked porcelain in a single blue and white color with the characteristics of the Yuan Dynasty. So the porcelain masters in Jingdezhen racked their brains to curry favor with the emperor.
It's in this environment. Colored porcelain was born.
In the earliest days, those porcelain masters used the amount of dye to control the firing temperature after the porcelain blank was sent to the kiln to make colorful porcelain by using the amount of dye and controlling the firing temperature after the porcelain blank was sent to the kiln.
In fact, this method of firing. It is equivalent to a variant of the glaze firing method when the Song Dynasty kiln fired porcelain.
This kind of porcelain, also known as colored glazed porcelain, is also known as underglaze color.
Later, with the continuous improvement of firing technology, the continuous improvement of white porcelain firing technology, and the production process of glaze color was also invented.
And the so-called glaze color, in fact, is that the porcelain masters, when firing porcelain. First, the white porcelain with a light tire is fired as the bottom tire.
Then use various dyes on these white porcelain blanks to paint, and then these secondary products. The porcelain obtained by sending it to the kiln to be overfired is also called glaze color.
The earliest overglaze color is called painted porcelain, and it is also the ancestor of all Chinese colored porcelain!
And this world-famous Chenghua Doucai is a mixed variety fired on the basis of these two kinds of porcelain.
That is, underglaze color, in the glaze color as one of the top painted porcelain.
This is the top innovative production in the history of ancient Chinese porcelain, and because of its small number, it has always been the top collection of collectors from all walks of life.
Emperor Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty was the eighth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and during his reign, the Ming Dynasty also happened to enter the middle of history, but it was also the end of the most glorious period.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty could be said to have developed well, and this Chenghua Emperor was also one of the most popular emperors in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and he liked porcelain the most in his life.
So the officials in Jingdezhen at that time racked their brains to burn a unique porcelain to please the emperor.
In this case, the idea of combining the underglaze color with the overglaze color to make a novel style of porcelain was born in the porcelain kiln in Jingdezhen.
However, this Chenghua Doucai, when it was just burned, there was no clear relevant record.
It was not until the Wanli period that the grandchildren of Emperor Chenghua appeared in front of future generations for the first time.
At that time, there was a record in the "Records of Shenzong": "Shenzong is fashionable food, and there is a pair of Chenghua colored chicken bowl cups in front of the emperor, which is worth 100,000 yuan"!
From the beginning of this book, Chenghuacai appeared in front of the world for the first time, and it is precisely because of the above record that the porcelain of Chenghuacai is worth thousands of gold, which also caused the imitation of the people at that time.
Even the emperors of the Qing Dynasty followed suitably to imitate and become Doucai porcelain.
Starting from Kangxi to his great-grandson Daoguang, this habit has continued for hundreds of years, which shows how profound the historical influence of this Chenghua Doucai has on the development of Chinese porcelain.
However, even if many imitators later competed to imitate Chenghua Doucai porcelain, but no one has ever been able to really imitate the real Chenghua Doucai genuine masterpieces.
There are only some imitations in the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, which look quite passable, but they cannot be called doucai, and can only be called pastel porcelain of the Qing Dynasty by later generations......
And because Emperor Chenghua liked porcelain back then, the officials in Jingdezhen at that time not only fired Chenghua Doucai porcelain for him, but also fired a lot of blue and white porcelain for him.
And those blue and white porcelain are also top blue and white porcelain works.
So that later, after the change of dynasty, the Aixin Jueluo family sat in the country, and Jingdezhen has become a place dedicated to their family to burn porcelain, but the Aixin Jueluo family is still not confident, so they can only let those craftsmen and masters sign the bottom of the Ming Dynasty on the fired porcelain.
It can be seen that the various porcelains produced during the Ming Dynasty had a profound influence on the historical development of Chinese porcelain.
After reminiscing about the history of the development of ancient Chinese porcelain, Jin Muchen also took a deep breath, and then flicked the cigarette butt in his hand into the night sky in the distance.
At this time, Lao Li Tou and Sixth Uncle on the other side seemed to have discussed about it, and Sister Tao seemed to have gotten a satisfactory result, and several people just shifted their attention to Jin Muchen's side.
"Mr. Jim, what do you think of these things?"
The sixth uncle asked him with a smile, but in fact, it was just a haha, and he didn't really want to do business with him.
Obviously, they have reached a perfect agreement with Sister Tao just now.
Jin Muchen smiled: "What an eye-opener, I really thought that you could find so many good things, it seems that you really stepped on the right point this time." ”
"Hehe, that's it, my sixth child is not bragging, in this area, when it comes to feng shui, looking for dragons and broken holes, my sixth brother said second, but no one dares to admit himself first in front of me."
Jin Muchen just said casually, and the sixth child opened the chatterbox, it seems that Jin Muchen's words have said his itch.
As long as people have some special skills, they will inevitably show off in front of others.
What's more, when they talked about business with Sister Tao before, although Sister Tao didn't say it explicitly, she also revealed her importance to Jin Muchen in and out of her words.
This makes the sixth uncle who is old and refined, and he can't help but pay attention to Jin Muchen.
To tell the truth, when Sister Tao introduced Jin Muchen, she said that he was her boss, and the sixth uncle and his son, Abin, really didn't take Jin Muchen too seriously.
After all, Jin Muchen is too young, and Sister Tao's reputation is there, how could she listen to such a hairless teenager.
But after talking to Sister Tao for a while, Sister Tao revealed her respect for Jin Muchen in and out of her words, which didn't look like cheating, which made Lao Liu even more compelled to pay attention to Jin Muchen.
"Oh? Is that so? Then Uncle Six, you are really capable! ”
Jin Muchen casually lifted it, and the sixth uncle couldn't help but be even more happy.
"By the way, Uncle Six, you have harvested so many treasures this time, so what did you steal the tomb of that celebrity this time? I see that most of the treasures unearthed this time are the treasures of the Ming Dynasty, is it possible that this generation has the royal tombs of the Ming Dynasty? But it's not like it, everyone knows that most of the tombs of those emperors of the Ming Dynasty are in the Ming Tombs in the capital, or in their hometown Fengyang, but what are the royal tombs of the Ming Dynasty here? ”
Jin Muchen asked tentatively, when he looked at those vases, porcelain bowls, and porcelain plates before, he knew that these porcelain were definitely not something that ordinary people could afford.
People who can use such a treasure, in the Ming Dynasty, must be relatives of the emperor.
At that time, it was only a preliminary inference, and I was not too sure.
But when he saw the last box of broken porcelain pieces of Chenghua Doucai, he basically concluded in his heart that the people who could afford such porcelain were definitely not ordinary people.
And the bucket that these six uncles stole this time must be the tomb of a person who has a lot of origin.
As soon as he thought of this, his mood couldn't help but stir again.
At this time, after the sixth uncle heard his question, he babbled with a look of confusion and began to pretend to be mysterious.
"Well, what do you mean by that? Hehe, anyway, it's really hard for me to say, I also know that the owner of this tomb must be from a lot of background, but you also know that I am a rough person, if you let me find such a tomb, it will be easy, but if you have to let me tell who the owner of this tomb is, then I can't say. ”
The sixth uncle was so stumbling, which also made Jin Muchen feel dizzy for a while, before this sixth uncle, he blew the ceiling, and he thought he was really capable.
But now that I look at this guy's style, isn't this just a trick?
In this way, it is a little difficult to figure out why this Ming Chenghua Doucai appears here...... (To be continued.) )