Chapter 754: Pottery Making
If you are one step higher, the situation is often very different.
Just like the heavy rain is pouring down, the pedestrian wolf bèi bèi is discolored, and if there is an umbrella, you can be at ease, strolling in the rain, or in the pavilion, you can do your best to stand up and down, look into the distance, see the water and gas, see the water and sky, and see the country and mountains like a picturesque picture.
If you earn 3,000 a month, you need to eat and wear, and you must think about each item repeatedly and plan well, such as expensive buns, cheap steamed buns, or expensive rice, and cheap flour.
And if you have a monthly income of 30,300,000 yuan, you can put all of these aside, regardless of which one is expensive and which one is cheap, if you like steamed buns, you will eat steamed buns, pork and beef, whether it is ten yuan a pound or a hundred yuan a pound, throw it into the basket if you like it, and take it all. Walking into a restaurant or restaurant, starting with the menu, you don't have to care about the price at all, if you like it, you can order it, you can eat three plates, but you can order it 30 plates, just one sentence - I like it!
If the grade is higher, if you like to eat pork, you can set up a pig farm by yourself, if you like to drink milk, you can set up a cattle farm by yourself, and if you like to eat rice, you can contract a good field of 800 acres by yourself, plant low-yield and high-quality fragrant rice and rice, and by the way, you can raise some rice and fish in the field. I am afraid that the edible oil sold outside is not clean and genetically modified, so I grow my own peanuts and squeeze peanut oil......
This is "one step higher".
Standing tall, the poor will turn into abundance, the wolf will turn into calm, the confusion will turn into sobriety, and the pain will turn into freedom.
This height can be brought by background, can be brought by appearance, can be brought by long-term operation, or can be brought by luck. In short, the cause is not important, what matters is the effect.
It's like Fang Tian who came to this world. In the face of the world's current coarse clay pots, which cannot be put on the table, you only need to gently stretch out your hand and play with it a little, and you can transform it into a noble, gorgeous, and colorful treasure.
Making zuò pottery, in simple terms, is just three steps, one is to take soil, and the other is to prepare samples. The third is burning, which is simpler than papermaking. But it is also the same as papermaking, and there is a lot of attention to detail in every step.
1. Take soil
What kind of soil do you take? coarse or fine soil? clay or river soil, black clay or red clay? I don't use soil. Can I use sand? I don't use sand, can I use stones to grind into fine powder? I don't even use stones, can I use shells by the river to grind into fine powder?
2. Sample preparation
How do you make a sample? I will make a bowl of water and good soil, and I will make a sample by hand. So he carved a mold out of wood to make a bowl. Put the clay into this mold and press it directly into a sample? Or is there any better way?
3. Burning
How do you burn it? Light a pile of firewood like cooking, and then put the prepared sample directly on the firewood to burn? Also, what kind of firewood is used? Is there a difference between different firewoods, for example, wheat stalks or pine segments, which is better?
Such an analysis and dismantling seems very simple. In a past life, even for elementary school students. It's not that difficult. But in fact, there is a kind of thinking permeated in it, a kind of thinking that many old workers may not be able to think of after operating all their lives.
For small workshop-style handicrafts, generally speaking, there will not be too much exquisiteness, which leads to the fact that many workshops, even if they have been inherited for a hundred or thousand years, are likely to have the same technical level as at the beginning.
In other words, for thousands of years, it has been standing still, or the amplitude of the step, is very small.
Because there is no idea, there is no action, and therefore, there is simply no possibility of a specialized "research institute" like this. Therefore, any small workshop-style production and production has great limitations, and it is easy to inherit and difficult to open up.
Let's go back to the ceramic zuò.
There is no need to visit the pottery workshop on the spot, just according to the jars that hold wine in the Fenglin compound, from its mixed sand and stone, different thicknesses, different styles, etc., Fang Tian can simply and directly judge that the current pottery technology in this world is still in the extremely primitive stage.
In one word, poor!
In two words, it's scum!
In three words, this is okay?
In four words, miserable!
In terms of a total of 10 words, one plus two plus three plus four, of course, that is bad! Very scum! This is okay? Miserable!
Well, this is from Fang Tian's eyes. In fact, purely from a practical point of view, those pottery are actually not so bad, not to mention wine, it is not a problem to say that it is used to serve vegetables and rice as bowls and plates every day.
However, there is not a single pottery bowl in the maple forest compound, all of them are wooden bowls.
The reason for this is not because the pottery bowl is expensive, but because it is easy to break, if the wooden bowls in the courtyard are replaced with pottery bowls, let Little Berg and Little Dick and other bear children use it, it is estimated that ten or eight can be dropped in a day.
Not to mention Owen Anderson and other big guys with rough hands, eating heartily, and then putting the bowl on the table, only to hear it, bang. - Oh, damn it, I'm using too much strength if I don't pay attention......
How many bowls are enough to fall?
Therefore, in this place where wood is everywhere, pottery bowls are very few and wooden bowls can be found everywhere. If you were in the inland or other places, maybe the situation would be different.
On this day, Fang Tian took a group of little guys and played with mud.
It was the most ordinary soil by the river, as well as the water in the river, Fang Tian took the lead and made bowls, plates, and basins.
Playing with mud, this is the most loving for the little guys in the compound! Not to mention, there is also their big brother Fang Tian taking the lead! So, one by one, they had a good time.
It's the little Loli who loves cleanliness Little Ivy and the little sisters who came with her, they couldn't help but mix in one hand, playing with their hands and sleeves, all muddy water.
For a while, there was frolic and laughter.
"Little brother, are you going to burn the earthen jar?" Anderson watched from the side, and then asked Fang Tian.
"Hmm. Fang Tian nodded, "Uncle Anderson, have you seen people burn it before?"
This is actually nonsense.
Therefore, Anderson also nodded, and at the same time, there were several brothers in the courtyard such as Owen who nodded, "Ha, little brother, I have not only seen people burn it, I have also helped with the work, and I burned it myself!"
Needless to say, the next thing is naturally that these big guys also followed and played with the mud.
When it is done, it is burned, and there is no kiln, but it is directly burned on the fire, and it is not burned for 7749 days or anything, but it is only half a day, even if it is completed. -- Of course, what is made like this is, of course, not scum, oh no, it is dirt that gets rid of slag.
It's really scum!
I don't know which little ones made it, put it on their hands, rub it casually, and the outer layer of floating soil fell to the ground.
This is the most primitive and least elaborate "pottery".
Of course, this is the experiment, or rather, it is designed to let the little ones play around. And then, it's time to really pay attention to the system from the beginning to the end. (To be continued......)