Lan Eucalyptus listened to Jay Chou's song: "Azure color, waiting for the smoke and rain, and I'm waiting for you to ......" The "azure" in the lyrics of "Blue and White Porcelain" is actually not a description of blue and white porcelain, but Ru porcelain.

The face is like jade, the cicada wing pattern, and the stars are scarce.

Ru, official, brother, Ding, Jun, and "Ru kiln as the leader" - Geng Baochang

Ru porcelain, is Huizong's dream of rain over the sky, is a will to burn close to the jade texture of porcelain - since ancient times Ruzhou has been rich in agate stone, which provides a glaze basis for the firing of jade porcelain; In the early Song Dynasty, the north was still a porcelain-making center, with advanced production technology and excellent porcelain craftsmen. This day is the right time and place, and the cause is sufficient, so that Yurun Ru porcelain has been achieved.

Ru porcelain fetal quality is delicate, the fetal soil contains a trace amount of copper, welcome the light, slightly see red, the tire color gray is slightly yellow, commonly known as "fragrant gray tire", see Ruzhou Python Chuan Yanhedian, Dayu Donggou, Ruzhou Confucian Temple, Qingliang Temple and other kiln sites; Ruzhou Zhanggong Lane Ru kiln, the tire is gray-white, slightly whiter than the tire color of other kilns, is the main feature of the Northern Song Dynasty official kiln.

Ru porcelain for the court monopoly, regardless of the cost, agate glaze, glaze azure, pink blue, sky blue, there are also bean green, green, moon white, orange peel pattern and other glaze colors, the glaze is moist and soft, pure as jade, there is an obvious feeling of ghee, the glaze is slightly translucent, mostly milky or crystalline.

In order to avoid the pollution of impurities in the kiln, it is necessary to pack the sagger well, and the utensils are padded with gaskets and nails to prevent adhesion with the sagger.

Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Eight Notes" said that Ru kiln "has sesame seeds at the bottom and a small needle". At the bottom of the utensils, you can see three, five, and seven nail marks as thin as sesame seeds, and there are very few six nails, and the traces are very shallow, and the size is like corn.

The utensils in Zhanggong Lane are round nails. Python River Yanhedian, Dayu Donggou area Ru kiln ware has no nail marks, individual bowls, boxes, concave bowls, washing, covers, etc. with cushion cake firing process.

Ru kiln ware has bottles, respect, trays, bowls, plates, washing, Xi, narcissus basins and other daily utensils, a few also pile flowers, printing and other decorations, the bottom of the blue and white year model, mostly with a knife and pen to depict, and printing, stencil printing and other processes.

Such as: azure grass pattern gooseneck bottle, pink green lotus tray, azure lotus petal deep belly bowl, azure peony flower dragon pattern bowl, lotus pattern bowl, radial pattern lotus leaf base, radiation pattern mouth flower bowl (Tibetan Henan), dark flower double fish porcelain plate (Tibetan Britain).

In addition, there are also words on individual artifacts that have been handed down. For example, the word "Fenghua" is mostly seen in respects, bottles, and plates. "Cai Bing" and "Ning" are seen on small dishes and washes. Although the text is not decorative, it still improves the appreciation of utensils, among which "Fenghua" should be the special object of Fenghua Palace in the Song Dynasty.

The shape of the instrument is divided into wrapping feet, flat bottoms, three-legged, concave feet, sunflower mouths, narrow plate edges and wide plate edges. There are several kinds of plates: wrapped feet, concave feet, flat bottoms, straight mouths and lotus mouths. There are also three-legged wash, string pattern Zun (奁), set of boxes, respect, square pots, round pots, etc., as well as a few lotus seats, lotus leaf seats, perforated wares, birds, dragons and other porcelain handicrafts. It is also decorated with flowers, birds, insects, and fish to satisfy the leisure and leisure of the royal family and nobles.

It is further clearly established that the Yusong brand should not only inherit the Ru porcelain of the Song Dynasty at the material level, but also revive the Ru porcelain of the Song Dynasty in terms of cultural aesthetics.

Observe with a magnifying glass, you can see the sparse bubbles under the glaze like the morning star, the glaze caresses it like silk, warm and simple, bright and moist, the glaze is like a pile of grease, quiet and elegant, the color is moist and pure, and the grain is crystal clear and the main characteristics. It is regarded as the emerald color of the blue peak, and it has the beauty of jade and non-jade.

The glaze is more than red halo, some are like the morning sun out of the sea, some are like the sunset, some are like the rain and the sky is clear, some are like the rainbow hanging in the air, the world is called "the azure is precious, the pink blue is still the sky, the sky blue is precious." ”

Ruzhou Zhanggong Lane Ru porcelain, glaze azure, pink green, glaze moist, feel like jade. It has the typical characteristics of blue as the sky, the face as jade, and the morning star as scarce.

In order to avoid the pollution of impurities in the kiln, it is necessary to pack the sagger well, and the utensils are padded with gaskets and nails to prevent adhesion with the sagger.

Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Eight Notes" said that Ru kiln "has sesame seeds at the bottom and a small needle". At the bottom of the utensils, you can see three, five, and seven nail marks as thin as sesame seeds, and there are very few six nails, and the traces are very shallow, and the size is like corn.

The utensils in Zhanggong Lane are round nails. Python River Yanhedian, Dayu Donggou area Ru kiln ware has no nail marks, individual bowls, boxes, concave bowls, washing, covers, etc. with cushion cake firing process.

Ru kiln ware has bottles, respect, trays, bowls, plates, washing, Xi, narcissus basins and other daily utensils, a few also pile flowers, printing and other decorations, the bottom of the blue and white year model, mostly with a knife and pen to depict, and printing, stencil printing and other processes.

Such as: azure grass pattern gooseneck bottle, pink green lotus tray, azure lotus petal deep belly bowl, azure peony flower dragon pattern bowl, lotus pattern bowl, radial pattern lotus leaf base, radiation pattern mouth flower bowl (Tibetan Henan), dark flower double fish porcelain plate (Tibetan Britain).

In addition, there are also words on individual artifacts that have been handed down. For example, the word "Fenghua" is mostly seen in respects, bottles, and plates. "Cai Bing" and "Ning" are seen on small dishes and washes.

Although the text is not decorative, it still improves the appreciation of utensils, among which "Fenghua" should be the special object of Fenghua Palace in the Song Dynasty. The shape of the instrument is divided into wrapping feet, flat bottoms, three-legged, concave feet, sunflower mouths, narrow plate edges and wide plate edges.

There are several kinds of plates: wrapped feet, concave feet, flat bottoms, straight mouths and lotus mouths. There are also three-legged wash, string pattern Zun (奁), set of boxes, respect, square pots, round pots, etc., as well as a few lotus seats, lotus leaf seats, perforated wares, birds, dragons and other porcelain handicrafts. It is also decorated with flowers, birds, insects, and fish to satisfy the leisure and leisure of the royal family and nobles.

Ru porcelain glaze color is quiet and elegant, the light one is like the blue sky, it is called the azure, and the deep one is like the rain over the sunny clouds, which is called the sky blue. In addition, there are glaze colors such as bean green, turquoise green, and moon white; There is a saying in the world that "azure is precious, pink blue is still precious, and sky blue is precious".

The Ru porcelain glaze layer is translucent, pure and soft, smooth and delicate. The addition of agate to the glaze reduces the degree of vitrification during the firing process, so that Ru porcelain lacks obvious glass texture and presents a smooth texture like jade.

With the change of light, the glaze color of Ru porcelain, "the rain after the sky and clear clouds**, the blue waves of thousands of peaks and green colors" are beautiful, and it is rated as "like jade, non-jade, and better than jade", which shows the delicacy of its texture.

The glazed surface of Ru porcelain has small and dense openings with different shades and overlaps. "Open piece" is a glaze defect that naturally cracks in the process of high-temperature roasting. Ru kiln craftsmen made this glaze disease a decoration for porcelain through human manipulation.

The opening pattern is like cicada wings, like ice cracks, like crab claws...... Naturally, ever-changing, and beyond human control, each piece of Ru porcelain is unique.

Ru porcelain has the reputation of "the crown of Song porcelain". Ruguan kiln only fired for more than 20 years, due to the short firing time, the acceptance of the finished product is strict, so the Ruguan kiln porcelain survives very little.

Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the court Ru porcelain utensils are all hidden by the inner library, regarded as treasures, and Shang Yi Zhou Ding is more expensive. In 2017, a 1,000-year-old Northern Song Dynasty porcelain "Ru Kiln Azure Glaze Wash" was auctioned at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center for HK$260 million, including commissions of HK$294.3 million, which also conveys the enthusiasm and admiration of today's people for Ru porcelain.

As a generation of famous porcelain, the texture of Ru porcelain is extraordinary, since the Ming Dynasty, Ru porcelain has been imitated, but it is difficult to be surpassed. During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory had begun to imitate the firing of Ru kiln porcelain.

Nowadays, Jingdezhen also has a good kiln factory with agate glaze, inheriting the mature process of Jingdezhen precipitation since the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, after five years of repeated trial firing, showing a delicate and warm Ru porcelain like mutton fat jade.

Only by seeing the Ru porcelain manufacturing process of the good kiln factory, will be moved, the jade run in hand, from the blend of nearly 30 kinds of natural minerals, these glazes in the high temperature baptism of about 1300 degrees, and then reconstituted into ingenious, such as jade texture Ru porcelain.

The whole set of ceramic processes of clay training, glaze matching, type development and presentation, and kiln firing kiln are all based on the core team, all completed independently, presenting the characteristics and charm of Ru porcelain that are difficult to copy, and repeatedly producing collections with epochal significance, becoming a hot spot for the collection of porcelain friends.

"Ru kiln is quiet, calm, gentle and elegant, in the simple glaze, conveying the ultimate aesthetics of the Song Dynasty, born noble, the more you look at the more beautiful, the more moist you are! It's a feeling that I've been destined to devote myself to since I met her. ——Li Shanming, the founder of Shanyao Factory, expressed his Ru porcelain complex.

For five years, he studied and understood the charm and texture of glaze, and went back and forth to Ruzhou, Henan Province, where the Ru porcelain kiln site is located, dozens of times, analyzed the glaze color and material through genuine porcelain pieces, and understood Ru porcelain from heart and hand.

He continued to improve the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty and the firing technology of Ru porcelain, and led the team to push the shape design, glaze matching, and firing technology of the good kiln factory to new heights year by year;

He successfully re-fired the highest standard of Ru porcelain in the Song Dynasty - thin tire without grain (no open piece) azure Ru porcelain;

He combined the skills of blue and white, ink color, enamel color, carving and Ru porcelain to create a series of works such as antique blue and white glaze red Ru porcelain, and truly refined the Ru porcelain handed down to the world, writing the history of Ru porcelain manufacturing in this era.

"Ru porcelain is especially precious to azure, pink and blue, sky blue is precious", the kiln works for the good kiln factory classic "Shanyin" azure flower mouth cup, respectively, plum blossom cup, five elements cup, Baoxiang cup and azure pear-shaped pot.

Azure presents the jade turbidity characteristic of the good kiln factory - the enamel is delicate and oily, the feel is silky, and the opening piece can gradually emerge with the nourishment of the tea soup for a long time, which can conjure up the charming charm of the gold wire!

There will be a 2–3 day kiln firing process. After that, when waiting for the kiln to open, you can see what the result is of this treasure you bet.

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The firing of Ru porcelain is a little random, even if it is the official kiln Ru porcelain of the Song Dynasty, there are some differences between each piece.

This is because the expansion coefficients of the billet and the glaze are different during the kiln firing process, and at the same time, due to the relationship between weather temperature and humidity, heating rate in the kiln and glaze humidity, different raw materials change in the high-temperature reduction process. Because of this, there are very few genuine imitation Ru porcelain products.

However, Mr. Li Shanming, who has many years of experience in making Ru porcelain, will personally escort the kiln with the most authentic Ru porcelain production skills. So, you can rest assured.

A good kiln is not necessarily the best when it is burned, and an ordinary kiln is not necessarily a defective product. We hold the intention to play the kiln, willing to gamble and lose.

But experience also tells us that a good kiln position will have a higher probability of producing the best.

The reason why Ru porcelain has become a rare treasure is also because of its glaze water and firing temperature. Even experienced masters can't pack tickets. It is precisely because of this that people are full of expectations and apprehension when they come out of the kiln

The soul of Ru porcelain lies in the four words "rain over the sky", but also aims at the elegance and calmness that fits with the heart, holding "Ru porcelain" and enjoying "Ru porcelain".

Ceramics have developed in China for more than 2,000 years, and the porcelain culture of the Song Dynasty is unprecedented in history, whether it is in the type, style or manufacturing process is the peak period in the history of Chinese ceramics, especially the five famous kilns "Brother Ru Junding".

As long as you know a little about the history of porcelain, you will definitely know these five kilns. The porcelain of the official kiln is smooth and gorgeous; The "defective beauty" of the opening of the kiln is pushed to the extreme; Jun kiln glaze colorful, or dignified or gorgeous; The white glaze of the kiln is like muscle; However, Ru kiln is the pinnacle of celadon and has exquisite workmanship.

The glaze color of Ru porcelain makes it famous for thousands of years, not to mention that the surviving works of Ru kiln are particularly rare, so there are often "even if there is a lot of wealth, it is not as good as a piece of Ru porcelain." ".

A fragment is worth tens of thousands. In the auction market, such fine products are even more rare, and once such utensils appear, they must be in demand.

In '92, a brush wash from Ru kiln was sold for $1.54 million. Ten years later, another sunflower wash appeared, which was sold for more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a new auction record for porcelain in the world. Such a high value also has its cause, let's take a look at the uniqueness of this porcelain.

The first is the azure glaze that has always been familiar to everyone. Such a color is between blue and green, with a light warmth and coldness, restrained and unassuming, just like the color of the sky after rain.

This color will be very comfortable when looking at it, and the elegant and plain Ru porcelain reflects the simple and elegant preferences of the literati of the Song Dynasty, which is an important reason why the Ru kiln was liked by the literati at that time.

Of course, it is not easy to burn such a color. This is going to talk about an emperor, and everyone will be no stranger to him, that is Song Huizong.

Legend has it that the unique glaze color of this kiln was also contributed to by this emperor, who once had a strange dream that the sky was a touch of blue after a heavy rain.

So when he woke up, he ordered the craftsmen of the time to make sure to fire such a color. This problem stumped many excellent craftsmen, but in the end, the craftsmen in Ruzhou succeeded in burning such a color. At that time, the secret recipe of such a beautiful color was something that future generations could not decipher, and it became a pity.

In addition to the glaze, the tire of Ru kiln is also very different, his tire is called "fragrant gray tire", which is an extremely uniform and dense and solid, gray color, just like the ashes left by the burning of incense.

It is said that in order to achieve such a texture, a lot of treasures are added to it, pearl amber or something will be ground into powder and added to it.

It is also fired with a sagger, so that when the whole vessel is fired, the carcass is heated very evenly and the color is very consistent.

The shape of Ru kiln is mostly small and fine, its diameter is between 10-16 cm, and there are many common plum bottles, gall bottles, three-legged washes, narcissus plates, lamps, imitating the shape of bronze ware.

This is also because of his production process, he used nail firing, so his porcelain is small, of course, this is also a kind of pursuit of simplicity of the times characteristics of people at that time, such things will not be outdated in modern times, but will be more and more beautiful.

In addition to being small, the number of his finished products is also very small, not only that his firing time is very short, only 20 years, but also that they have high requirements for this vessel, as long as it is flawed, it will be broken into pieces, and the yield is lower than that of other porcelain, as long as 17%. There are only about 60 surviving pieces, most of which are in the museum's collection. 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.