There was a "snap" sound, and as the last nail was gently pressed into the hole of the hammer, Lan Eucalyptus looked at the shocked purple clay pot that was about to be repaired. Curium porcelain craftsman Chen Jianguo chuckled.

At this time, the old craftsman will ask the owner for a cup of hot water to drink, and euphemistically verify whether the purple clay pot is repaired.

Chen Jianguo explained his doubts and said that after the curium was ready, he checked them one by one to confirm that there was no problem, and tested them on the spot with boiling water. Pour boiling water into the pot and it will swell hot. If the boiling water doesn't leak out, it's a good job.

Curium porcelain, is one of the ancient folk seventy-two lines, through drilling, nailing, leakage, so that the damaged utensils are repaired again, Fuzhou dialect is called "Qi Ma Nail", in the Song Dynasty "Qingming Riverside Map", there is the figure of the curium craftsman.

In Fuzhou, Fujian, there are very few curium porcelain craftsmen, and Chen Jianguo is one of them. However, his studio is tucked away in the alleys of Niumian Mountain in Cangshan District, far away from the city.

In the small studio, there are purple clay pots collected by Chen Jianguo, as well as objects that guests let him restore. This is a studio that is basically closed to the public, and the work he takes is introduced by word of mouth from friends.

Chen Jianguo said that now we should strive to retain the craft that is gradually drifting away, and strive to make this culture alive, taking advantage of the fact that there are still some folk curium porcelain memories in Fujian, and pay close attention to collecting tools, works, skills and techniques, and excavating traditional culture, so as not to turn the heritage into regret.

That being said, it is difficult to put it into practice. Although his ancestors knew this craft, it had been lost in his generation.

Chen Jianguo majored in mathematics as an undergraduate, and studied architecture as a graduate student.

Chen Jianguo said with a smile that at the beginning, he looked for information from the Internet to learn, and at the beginning, even if it was free curium porcelain, others didn't want it. Later, a friend gave him a purple clay pot and let him break it to practice, so he started slowly.

Chen Jianguo believes that curium porcelain is not only a simple repair, but also different appearances, thicknesses, cracks, clay and even glaze colors.

In fact, there are not many common tools needed for curium porcelain, such as pencils, tweezers, hammers, horns, pliers, files, diamond diamonds, etc. Due to the loss of craftsmanship, many tools can only be manually rubbed with a grinding wheel, on the second floor of Chen Jianguo's studio, there is a complete set of picks for curium repair, which he regards as a treasure.

Chen Jianguo said that the curium porcelain culture of the Fujian school has very strong regional characteristics, and Fuzhou calls the "curium nail" "the curium nail" "the horse nail", and the curium nail rides on the crack very vividly, and the two pieces of curium together are vividly expressed.

In the process of continuing the traditional curium repair technique, Chen Jianguo also explored a "new way", and he gradually integrated other types of art such as metalworking engraving, sculpture techniques, and lacquer lacquer art into the porcelain restoration technology.

Su Shixiong, an 80-year-old master of "glaze carving" in Taiwan, approached Chen Jianguo through an agent, hoping that he could "rejuvenate with his hands" and repair the broken peony vase.

Chen Jianguo said that after taking the vase, he began to look for ballast and make tires. In the restoration of the vase, the unique technique of Fuzhou reborn lacquerware is integrated to form a layered glaze.

After repeated color correction and color correction, the edge of the mouth is slowly filled. It took more than 3 months from making skeleton fetal porcelain to glazed traceless repair, and the vase was returned to Zhao.

Seeing the finished product, the master was amazed.

Chen Jianguo, who has now made a small achievement, continues to explore, research, and innovate this craft, but also attaches great importance to the inheritance and development of the craft, and his apprentices are all over the country.

"It only takes seven days to learn curium, but it takes a lifetime to do it well. Curium work first to find ballast, seams, then locate the point mark, punch, nail, and finally use egg white and porcelain powder to reconcile and fill the gap. It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do. Chen Jianguo said.

The times are developing, and the living space of old crafts is being squeezed less and less, and gradually disappearing with the years. It is hoped that more and more young people like Chen Jianguo will join the team of inheriting old crafts and pass on the traditional handicrafts that have been passed down for thousands and centuries.

There is an ancient Chinese saying, called "no diamond, don't do porcelain work", which is an ancient folk craft ——— "curium porcelain", that is, the broken porcelain, with a metal "curium" like staples, and then repair the technology, in the famous painting of the Song Dynasty "Qingming Riverside Map", you can see the scene of "curium porcelain" on the street.

According to the development of curium porcelain, the region gradually formed its own techniques, forming the three largest sources of China, Japan and Europe. Only Chinese curium porcelain can be called art. Therefore, it is called curium art.

Japan changed the traditional curium porcelain with egg white and white magnetic powder caulking to lacquer gold, so it can only be called willow nail curium, and in modern times, Tomi Masahiro continued to change the curium porcelain method, did not retain the ancient method, can not be called art.

In Japan, only the "Grasshopper Stumbling Tea Ou Record" recorded that the curium bowl era appeared very late, and compared with China, it can only be regarded as a little brother. European curium porcelain is based on research to bring the technology to the early Chinese workers to Europe.

The emergence of curium repair porcelain is closely related to the development of Chinese porcelain. At first, it is impossible to verify when, but it was first seen in a scene of a curium craftsman working in the Song Dynasty Zhang Zeduande's giant handscroll "Qingming Riverside Map".

The curium porcelain industry has experienced six dynasties: Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic of China and New China. It spans more than a thousand years and has influenced the lives of many generations in China.

The industry of curium porcelain is called a furnace maker in the folk. It was originally a craft that was born to make a living. It is a member of the "street pickers", and it is also a profession that is looked down upon as a low-class business, but it is an indispensable thing in people's lives.

Because porcelain is the pet of the aristocratic class, from the foreigners' name for the Chinese, porcelain is China, China is porcelain, which fully reflects the value of porcelain in the hierarchy, while the common people and the poor have an unattainable luxury for porcelain, so the porcelain they own is regarded as a treasure.

Porcelain is hard and wear-resistant, and can be used for a long time, but the Achilles heel of porcelain is fragile, whenever a piece of porcelain is broken, there is nothing to be done, it is useless to keep it, and it is a pity to abandon it.

The craftsmen began to ponder how to repair the broken porcelain, and after arduous exploration and practice, they failed to succeed, and summarized, straightened out and standardized a set of reasonable curium porcelain skills in practice.

One of the greatest contributions was the invention of the unique "diamond diamond" and "curium nail", which led to the creation of curium repair and porcelain repair. The emergence of this trade was quickly accepted by the common people, the broken porcelain was regenerated, the owner reduced the cost of buying new porcelain, and at the same time allowed the curium porcelain craftsmen to get paid for their labor.

With the continuation of the prosperous development of China's porcelain industry, Shandong, Henan and Hebei have naturally formed three major schools, with Shandong's diamond being a leather diamond and Henan's diamond being a bow diamond. The diamond drill in Hebei is a stone drill. The leather diamond of Shandong school is stretched backward by three leather ropes, the rotation is stable, and the drill bit and porcelain are guaranteed, the three kinds of diamond diamonds of the three major factions, although the shape is different, the operation is different, but the drill bit is the same, all are diamonds or diamond diamonds, and the curium nails are roughly the same, but the nail feet are different, and the process of curium porcelain is also roughly the same.

In the prosperous period of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, it was divided into two categories on the basis of the three major schools, namely: regular life, which is called rough work, pure curium porcelain repair rough work based on folk daily necessities, usually called curium pots, curium bowls, saw vats of furnace craftsmen, the tools used are relatively large, rough, single, and all the 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: line work, also called show work. The tools used are small and exquisite, and the curium nails are completely processed by the folk forging copper process, which is wonderful, and there are flower nails, plain nails, gold nails, silver nails, copper nails, bean nails, rice nails, and sand nails. Due to the exquisite curium porcelain work of the curium craftsman, those dignitaries, princes, and children of the Eight Banners have risen up in the pleasure of "curium live show".

Since there is a "curium live show", curium porcelain shop in antiques, antique shop has a place, from passive repair to the main action show, from a single curium repair to curium repair, inlay to make pieces, inlay accessories and other style of peculiar, unique artistic charm of a unique skill, become antiques, antique shop in the old porcelain show of a professional industry, live, show the reputation of the craftsman has also been greatly boosted.

However, with the change of history, the smoke of war is everywhere, and the "curium live show" can no longer be shown, and the curium porcelain industry has also been depressed, just a simple curium to make up some daily necessities.

In the early days of the liberation of New China, only those lonely old craftsmen of curium porcelain had to walk the streets and alleys in order to live, shouting the bleak old tune of "curium pots, curium bowls, and saw vats". There is very little business for a few days or dozens of days.

In modern society, with the development of society, people's production and lifestyle have changed, and the original traditional life has undergone tremendous changes.

If the porcelain is broken and buy a new one, no one will visit the curium porcelain industry again, and there will be no market, which will bring difficult problems to the inheritance and promotion of curium porcelain skills, so it needs to be protected urgently and passed on to future generations.

The first step of curium porcelain is to find ballast, match the joints, restore the damaged porcelain to its original state, and prepare for repair

The second step is to locate the point, according to the ornamental structure and style of the porcelain, the position and position of the opening and closing, as well as the number and position of the nails.

The third step is to punch holes, with diamond drills.

The diamond is an iron drill pipe about 10 cm long, and the iron drill pipe is covered with a thick bamboo jacket with a brush rod, and the two ends of the jacket are fixed together with scissors and iron hoops, and then the diamond is inlaid in the head of the tool with brazing in the ordinary drilling tool.

Then use the diamond drill to drill, punching is also a big test for the curium porcelain people, some porcelain thickness is a few millimeters, when punching are millimeters difference; First, the hand should be held steadily, accurately, it is best not to penetrate it, sometimes accidentally pierced, and a few more processes are added to fill the hole; The second is that the hole should be symmetrical and there should be no deviation.

The fourth step is curium nails, the production of curium nails reflects the level of craftsmen, the toughness of curium nails and the level of making curium nails, but also determines the service life of curium repair utensils.

Curium nails are divided into gold nails, copper nails, flower nails, and the size of the nails has to be calculated according to the size of the utensils and the degree of damage. In this way, after the repair of the utensils, not only the water is not easy to leak, but also adds a bit of charm to the utensils themselves. Of course, these steps and details are closely related to the long-term experience of curium porcelain artists.

The fifth step is to use egg white and porcelain powder to reconcile and fill the leakage to prevent the porcelain from leaking, so that the complete curium porcelain is completed.

The art of curium carving porcelain has important historical significance for the inheritance of the traditional folk skills of the Chinese nation and the development of Chinese porcelain culture, as well as archaeology, restoration, antiques and old porcelain.

Curium porcelain technology can restore and regenerate broken porcelain, and transform it into another type of porcelain culture and arts with unique ornamental and artistic value.

Curium engraving porcelain technology contains the characteristics of the Chinese nation is the representative of the folk static cultural tradition, after six dynasties, more than 1,000 years of history, embodies the unique characteristics of national folk culture and skills, has the unique value of witnessing the development of Chinese porcelain culture, is the study of Chinese national folk and spot specimens.

Curium carving porcelain technology is not only a kind of embodiment of folk skills, is the sustenance of the spirit of the Chinese nation, but also a living fossil for the study of folk skills, economic and cultural characteristics. It has the role of promoting the development of Chinese national culture and promoting social and economic development.

The unique artistic style of curium engraving technology is an indispensable part of the cultural development of the Chinese nation, the invention of the diamond diamond fully embodies the wisdom of the Chinese nation, "no diamond diamond, don't do porcelain work" This sentence known to the world will be passed on forever, become a synonym for having the ability, having the ability, and solving the difficulties.

Porcelain is the re-sintering of rocks, can never be reused and regenerated, but also can not be degraded, once the porcelain is broken is waste garbage, and in the hands of curium porcelain craftsmen, the use of curium porcelain stunt has the miraculous use of resurrection, in the broken recovery, and then appreciation.

The art of curium carving porcelain has important historical significance for the inheritance of the traditional folk skills of the Chinese nation and the development of Chinese porcelain culture, as well as archaeology, restoration, antiques and old porcelain.

Curium porcelain carving technique is the most representative of the folk art in the cultural art, reflecting the unique artistic style of folk customs, porcelain collection enthusiasts and antique lovers at home and abroad, as well as archaeological restoration is indispensable, rescue, protection, inheritance of curium carving porcelain skills, will promote the development of local economy and tourism development.

With the introduction of science and technology, the curium porcelain industry has gained new vitality, and the operation principle of the curium porcelain machine developed in 2013 is to 3D scan the utensils and determine the drilling position under the mouse under 3DMax.

Generally, curium porcelain needs 3 to 5 minutes per hole, and the curium porcelain robot greatly shortens the curium porcelain time, and each hole is drilled in less than 7 seconds. Complete whole nail curium porcelain time is less than 18 seconds.

There is an ancient Chinese saying, called "no diamond, don't do porcelain work", which is an ancient folk craft ——— "curium porcelain", that is, the broken porcelain, with a metal "curium" like staples, and then repair the technology, in the famous painting of the Song Dynasty "Qingming Riverside Map", you can see the scene of "curium porcelain" on the street.

Curium porcelain craftsman Chen Jianguo chuckled after inspecting it, at this time, the old craftsman will ask the master for a cup of hot water to drink, and euphemistically verify whether the purple clay pot is repaired.

The master family background of "curium porcelain" is profound, and the porcelain repair tools have a long history, and they perform live with diamonds.

The guy gave up his high salary to make curium porcelain, and fixed the broken porcelain with iron sheets to repair it as before, which is amazing.

For the Chinese, porcelain does not just mean utensils, but also emotions. Therefore, repairing damaged porcelain is not only to give new life to damaged porcelain, but also to repair a broken emotion.

May all the broken things in the world be treated with tenderness like curium porcelain. Curium porcelain is a test of patience, because the restoration of a piece of porcelain depends on the physical and mental concentration of the curium porcelain master, and you need to be very focused on doing this.

The restoration of porcelain pays attention to not only repairing the sharp weapon, but also playing new tricks, when the curium becomes a decoration on the utensils, and the utensils are integrated, this is an artistic re-creation process.

Curium porcelain is actually a very dirty, very tiring work, generally in this industry, the proportion of women is very small. The reason why curium porcelain is insisted on is that the repair itself is actually produced in order to maintain and maintain the commemorative significance, artistic value, and commodity value of the object itself, or to maintain its own function.

But when the porcelain is repaired completely, people will find that it is more of a sense of satisfaction in their hearts, this object not only has artistic value, commercial value, it is also poured a lot of emotional value into it.

I am a very emotional person, I believe that many things are predestined, what should be experienced must be experienced, what should be encountered must be encountered, and what should be done must be done. Repair is also a practice!