In the era of simple folk customs and frugality as a traditional virtue, if the tableware is cracked and cannot bear to be discarded, or accidentally breaks the heirloom, or there are commemorative ceramics, please repair the porcelain craftsman.

The porcelain repaired by curium porcelain does not leak. Of course, in the past, curium porcelain was not only used to restore porcelain, curium porcelain itself was a kind of decoration.

Due to the rapid development of the modern porcelain industry, the porcelain is broken, thrown away, and then bought new, generally will not go to the curium repair repair, so that the folk ordinary curium work skills have nothing to do, and gradually fade out of people's lives.

I remember when I was a child, I could often hear the strange foreign accent shouting of "curium pot, pot and bowl, curium vat" on the street, which has almost disappeared now.

Since there is a "curium live show", the curium porcelain industry has a place in the antique and antique shop, from passive repair to the main action show, from a single curium repair to curium repair repair, inlay pieces, inlaid accessories and other special styles.

A unique skill with unique artistic charm has become a professional trade for the antique and antique shops to show off the old porcelain, and the reputation of the craftsman has also been greatly enhanced.

However, with the change of history, the smoke of war is everywhere, to modern society, with the development of society, people's production and lifestyle changes, the original traditional life has undergone great changes, porcelain is broken and then buy new ones, no one visits the old business of curium porcelain.

"Curium" refers to something made of copper, iron, etc., with hooks at both ends that can join the cracks of the utensils, also known as "curium". In the past, curium craftsman was a very common occupation, mainly curium pots, curium jars, curium urns, curium pots, curium bowls, curium teapots, curium jars, etc., as long as the family can curium, curium craftsmen are curium.

"Curium work" is also divided into thick and thin, ordinary people's pots and pans belong to "rough work", "fine work" refers to "curium work". The curium craftsman is gradually approaching from the long river of history, and silently drifting away.

Walking into the Jichengxuan Folk Skills Museum of Weihai Ceramics Factory, 46-year-old Geng Haisheng holds a hammer in his hand and carefully carves a butterfly nail.

Geng Haisheng began to learn art at the age of 16, he said, curium porcelain can be roughly divided into five processes: ballast finding, holding porcelain, punching, nailing, and dense seams. Clean the dust on the damaged place, tie the rope and fix it according to the damage, and then make the curium, and then drill and beat the curium. In addition to cleaning, every other process requires technology.

In front of him, is a famous calligraphy porcelain about 40 centimeters high, the porcelain mouth in the process of firing fission, resulting in a small mutilation, according to the porcelain vase on the orchid pattern and poetic conception, Geng Haisheng decided to make a special butterfly nail.

Composition, drying, carving, cutting, nailing..... Every process went back and forth, and the old table clock in the corner of the house was ticking, and the hours passed like this......

After curium, the golden butterfly is vivid, like stopping on a porcelain vase for a rest, which not only makes up for the original defects, but also adds a lot of color to the porcelain.

With the improvement of people's living standards and cultural literacy, artistic and personalized things are gradually sought after, Geng Haisheng believes that private customization will become the mainstream of high-end consumption in the future.

The current antique collection fever has also made the curium porcelain technique shine in the repair of cultural relics, and the curium porcelain has changed from the original "rough work" to "fine work".

While inheriting the old craftsmanship, Geng Haisheng keeps pace with the times, combines the practical needs and aesthetic needs of modern people, and looks for artistic ingenuity.

An old teapot was broken into two, and the dragon body used a nail in the shape of an auspicious cloud.

Pieces of injured porcelain, under the hands of Geng Haisheng, the dead wood blooms in spring, and the charm of art blooms again.

Among the curium porcelain techniques, the best technique is "curium in the chamber", as the name suggests, it is to punch curium in the stomach of damaged utensils, and from the outside, there is no curium and there are almost no cracks.

"Many people are afraid that the craft will be passed on to their apprentices and that they will starve their masters. I'm different, and I hope that curium art can be truly revived in such a spring of collecting. The inheritance of craftsmanship is far from enough to rely on the efforts of one or two people, and I hope that people who are interested in curium porcelain and are interested in inheriting this old craft will work together to excavate and inherit the essence of this craft, so that the ancient and traditional craft of curium porcelain can be preserved. Geng Haisheng hopes to pass on the traditional craft of curium art forever.

Ji Chengxuan Folk Skills Museum is the first handicraft museum in Weihai without threshold, which is transformed into a factory building with red brick and large tile houses, mainly displaying, inheriting and disseminating curium porcelain, embroidery, hand-hooked flowers and other handicrafts with Weihai local characteristics.

How do you repair a porcelain bowl that is broken in two to the point where it does not leak?

1. Find ballast

I find ballast, and I fix the damaged porcelain and prepare for repair.

2. Hold porcelain

Pair the porcelain tiles together, first to the large and then to the small, first to the acute angle and then to the obtuse angle. Tighten it tightly and then tie it tightly with a thread to form a rice shape.

3. Punching

Punching is a very critical step in the art of curium, thin porcelain, only a millimeter difference, curium through even losing. At this time, it is a critical stage to test the use of diamond diamonds to do porcelain work, and it is necessary to have a heart like water, and a heart and object are one.

4. Nailing

The production of curium nails can best reflect the level of craftsmen, and the toughness of curium nails determines the service life of curium repair utensils. Curium nails are divided into gold nails, copper nails, flower nails, and the size of curium nails has to be calculated according to the size of the utensils and the degree of damage.

5. Tight seams

Use egg white and porcelain powder to reconcile and fill the leak, the copper nail expands after oxidation, and the broken cracks continue to fuse, and the cracks will slowly become smaller. Finally, pour water for testing.

During the Qing Dynasty, the "curium porcelain" technology began to divide into two categories, one is called "line work", also called rough work, pure curium porcelain repair rough work based on folk daily necessities, usually called curium pots, curium bowls, curium vats of furnace craftsmen, the tools used diamond drills, curium nails are relatively large, rough, single, all the same color of iron nails.

The other type is the fine work of curium porcelain that has been artistically processed for the enjoyment of officials, princes, nobles, and children of the Eight Banners, that is, "when it is lived", also called Xiuhuo.

The tools used are small and exquisite, the curium nails are completely processed by the folk unique forging copper process, wonderful, there are flower nails, plain nails, gold nails, silver nails, copper nails, bean nails, rice nails, sand nails, etc., "Xiuhuo" has gradually become a unique style in the antique and antique shop, and the artistic charm is unique.

With the continuation of the thriving development of China's porcelain industry, the curium porcelain industry has gradually formed Shandong, Henan, Hebei three major schools, Shandong's gold and steel drills for skin drills, Henan's gold and steel drills for bow drills, and Hebei's gold and steel drills for stone drills.

The three kinds of gold and steel drills of the three major schools, although the shape is different, the operation is different, but the material of the punching drill bit is the same, all are diamonds or diamonds, and the nails are roughly the same, but the nail feet are different, and the process of curium porcelain is also similar.

His first work, which is still in his possession, is a teacup that was once broken into seven petals, two fingers wide, and nails of various sizes are densely covered with cracks.

The finished teacup is completely aesthetically pleasing compared to any of his current works, but it is these small nails of different sizes that carry his dreams and inspire him to continue to innovate and progress.

The tools for curium repair are simply as follows: drills, pliers, tweezers, hooks, and hammers.

According to Mr. Huang, the common tools for curium repair include drills, tongs, tweezers, hooks, hammers, etc., and there can be thousands of subdivided tools. Every time the curium is repaired, the tools should be placed in an orderly and neat manner. For the curium replenishment industry, the most basic requirement is that there is no water leakage after curium.

In terms of technique, the first is to find the ballast to the seam, and the sewing requirements of the seal cannot be touched with fingers. After the broken utensils are fixed with adhesive tape or rope "tripping", drill the hole with a diamond drill, the drill hole can only hit two-thirds, first put on the left foot of the nail, hook the right foot with a hook knife, and then go up the right foot after cutting the nail, and finally carefully knock it with a small hammer.

What Mr. Huang needs to mend today is a firewood kiln tea bowl that has been broken into three petals and is still notched. When he got the utensils, he first examined them, and after conventing the repair plan, he began to cut nails, punch holes, and nail nails.

There are three common crafts of curium porcelain, namely: curium nails, mouth wrapping and inlay. There is a gap in today's artifact, so one of the links to be added is the inlay.

According to the shape of the notch, Mr. Huang inlaid a lotus leaf and two frogs, adding a different interest to the dark porcelain bowl.

During the whole process, Mr. Huang did not say a word, his hands were unhurried, and the studio was unusually quiet.

Curium is not leaking after the most basic requirements, and a good curium repair work will be intriguing, there is another kind of perfect beauty, according to Mr. Huang's master Wang Laoxi's saying, is "sewing life, repair art". Speaking of this, Mr. Huang took a sip of tea and said: It only takes seven days to learn curium work, and it takes a lifetime to do curium work well.

The skill of curium repair relies on the accumulation of time, and "the fine intention of curium repair is like raising children", Huang Baiyan said that this is the deep teaching of Mr. Wang. In this line of work, they think that life is like children traveling, and they are about to be separated from them, and there is a lot of reluctance in their hearts, but it is like children to grow up.

Over the years, looking back at the millennium of time, porcelain has brought people emotional sustenance in the process of people's practicality and furnishings. "When the sediment is kneaded, the light and color are different from the ordinary."

In the years of civilization, porcelain has been rejuvenated from a handful of pure clay through batching, molding, drying, roasting and other processes, and the soil has since been born on the surface of the earth and shines in the long river of culture.

It is also because it is made of soil, so that although it is hard and wear-resistant, it cannot withstand the impact and cannot tolerate the slightest sloppiness. It is useless to stay, it is a pity to abandon it, in the hearts of people who like ceramics, there is always such a sigh between the damage and the helplessness.

Curium porcelain craftsmen make preliminary preparations for the restoration of the original state by finding faults and seams in damaged porcelain. Consider the porcelain ornamental structure to locate and dot, determine the number of saw nails and the location of the drilling.

Punching with diamond drill is a big test for curium porcelain people, in the millimeter of craftsmanship, the requirements for stability are extremely strict, while keeping the hole symmetrical, can not have a little deviation, a process is stable and accurate.

Curium repaired porcelain can also withstand the heat of hot food without cracking, in that era when porcelain was particularly precious, they did so to devote ingenuity to craftsmanship and save the decay from dust.

Clarify the will with things, and preach with things. The millennium scene is the companionship of ceramics on the side, how many elegant things are bleak in the mortal dust, and how many people regard them as family treasures and take care of them.

Curium porcelain, with the passage of time has gone through a long time, it has been passed down from the initial restoration skills to today, sublimation has become a reinvention art, on the one hand, it is the pursuit of beauty by curium porcelain craftsmen.

The aesthetic curium porcelain is to modify different curium on different utensils, and the appropriate pattern on the curium is completely a process of artistic re-creation, and the clever use of punching or mutilation creates a more beautiful art.

"Cherish porcelain and cherish blessings, and continue a certain emotion." Many guests came to Feng Jie to repair things, all because this artifact carried a deep feeling.

As the saying goes, blue is better than blue. Suo Zhenqi has been honed, and curium fine porcelain has become a specialty. He used the cracks to go to the color of the vessel to choose gold and silver nails, and to create patterns such as plum blossoms, peach blossoms or flying birds.

It has been carefully polished so that no cracks can be seen. These beautiful curium patch patterns will make the utensils more elegant. There are also utensils that have been repaired and added with patterns to make them more valuable.

In the face of imperfect things, Zhu Feng treats them with near-perfect craftsmanship. He believes that every artifact has a life, and when it is used, it is inevitable to bump and bump, just as a person has been inevitably injured in the course of his life.

Curium represents such a realm, in the face of defects do not try to cover up, calmly accept the imperfections in life, turn the imperfections into beauty, pursue perfection in the imperfections, and let life continue again with another beautiful attitude.

"If you are interested in curium porcelain, you have to start with tea." Because of his love of tea, Qin Jian has collected many teacups and teapots. In the bumps, many beloved tea sets were damaged in daily use, but Qin Jian was reluctant to lose them. Three years ago, he accidentally came into contact with curium porcelain, and he was moved by the skill of "repairing defects".

"I learned the craft, and my heart calmed down." Qin Jian said that the slightest difference in thin porcelain can also lead to failure, so in the process of curium porcelain, you need to be as calm as water, "the process of repairing porcelain can make people stay away from the impetuousness of society, just like the imperfection of life, to be more careful and patient." ”

In the studio of several square meters, drills, tongs, tweezers, hooks and other tools are in order, and the word "curium porcelain" engraved on the wooden plaque is particularly conspicuous. At the beginning of this year, Qin Jian returned to his hometown of Changde and became a professional "curium porcelain craftsman", spending most of his time in this small workspace.

To repair curium porcelain, the first thing to do is to find the ballast to the joint, clean up the garbage and dust on the porcelain section, and fix it with a rope. Subsequently, according to the structure of the porcelain, do a good job of positioning, point marking, punch holes with diamond drills, set the nails flat, and nail them into the cracks horizontally, but not through the nails.

"The production of curium nails is a great test of technical level." Qin Jian said that curium nails are divided into flat nails and flower nails according to the form, and are divided into copper nails, silver nails, gold nails, etc. according to different utensils, and different kinds of nails need to be made, "The curium nails used in modern porcelain restoration should not only take into account the toughness and service life, but also design different styles to make them integrate with the utensils, and even more chic."

The broken purple clay pot has a lotus flower in the crack, which is full of elegance; The hollow exquisite porcelain, the copper nails are dotted, and there is a unique charm. "Things have the beauty of pleasing people, and people have the heart to cherish things." For each piece of porcelain sent for restoration, Qin Jian was gentle, looking at the broken porcelain "reborn", he was full of gratification, "broken but not abandoned, as if retained for a period of time." ”

After returning to his hometown, Qin Jian's curium porcelain craftsmanship slowly became famous in the circle, and many porcelain lovers admired the broken utensils to be sent over for him to repair.

"Picking up work is like parents coming, and sending work is like a child traveling far away." Qin Jian is full of affection for every artifact he delivers, and sometimes he is reluctant to send it back, "Depending on the size and degree of damage, it takes days or even weeks to repair the porcelain. In this process, we have to know the kiln temperature and the thickness of the tire quality of the utensils, as if we have become old friends with porcelain, and we always want to stay more. ”

Not every artifact restored by Qin Jian is measured by value. "Some old objects are not worth much, but the people who use them have feelings, so they are reluctant to throw them away." Qin Jian said that in the industry of "curium porcelain", repairing things is also cultivating the mind, so that the damaged porcelain can be restored to its integrity and beauty, which is also a kind of emotional compensation and maintenance.

"This is a wandering ghost firewood in Yunnan, when the courier mailed him when it was broken, at that time it was this place, the glaze was missing a lot, and it couldn't be covered with nails, I made a bamboo shape with silver, and covered the place where the glaze was missing at the bottom, and it was done, it looked a little monotonous, and it was a moon, and the moon shadow of the bamboo was sparse."

The fair cup of Chunhua and Autumn Fruit, inlaid with "lotus pod" flower nails in the damaged place, has a better meaning; A lotus leaf, let it be integrated into the whole, there are more highlights, beautiful and harmonious without losing practicality. In Yang Peihao's curium porcelain experience, there are countless such examples.

There is still a problem with the Tang Dynasty white glaze twig pattern holding pot in his hand, that is, a large porcelain piece on the belly of the bottle is missing a corner, so that after several pieces of porcelain pieces are pieced together, there is a clearly visible hole on the bottle belly. The hole is diamond-shaped, about the size of the tip of a little finger. The missing piece of porcelain has long been lost and cannot be recovered.

Guan Xiangwei took a thin copper sheet of the same material as the curium nail, cut and twisted a small piece, which could just cover the hole and cover it. However, it is not possible to make up for it at will. This small piece of thin copper has been shaped and polished, and the stripe pattern has been engraved on it with a hammer chisel. Take a look at the latest chapters of "Dream Claw Book House in the Great Era" and read it for free for the first time.