Chapter 491 Ru Kiln
The entire Gabala bowl is made of fine materials, beautifully made, and has exquisite craftsmanship. The meaning of cherishing it is very obvious.
After reading the introduction, Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded: "Voluntary?"
"Is it weird?" said the fourth cousin: "It is also happening now. After death, the body is donated to the medical school. Contribute to the cause of medicine.”
“But...it’s different in nature, right?”
"Do you understand Tibetan Buddhism?"
"I don't understand this."
"You can't make rash judgments if you don't understand it." said the fourth cousin.
“Judging from the inscription on this bowl, this is the story of a Tibetan cultivator imitating Moonlight King Buddha and beheading him, and voluntarily donated his bones as a magical instrument for the initiation and teaching of the teachings by those who came after him. "
"No matter what is unnecessary, this spirit of sacrifice can be regarded as a kind of compassion."
Zhou Zhi thought about it, no matter what level of knowledge and cognition, sacrificing oneself for others is compassion.
“Then these human skins are of the same nature as Gabala bowls?”
“I don’t know what these tattoo patterns mean, but to complete such a large area of delicate tattoos, The person who receives the needle will inevitably endure great pain, and it will also require a huge amount of pain. The endurance is not affected by the pain."
"If it weren't for anesthesia, it might be... some kind of ascetic practice."
"The main thing is that I don't understand Tibetan, otherwise I would know. What is the content on these skins?”
"Aren't you going to Shu University?" said the fourth cousin: "Tibetan cultural research is the traditional strength of Shu University."
"Ah this..." Zhou Zhi glanced at the place that was worth a glance The expensive Tibetan suitcase made me reluctant to part with the good money: "What if they force me to keep this suitcase?"
"You are obsessed with money, right?" said the fourth cousin: " porcelain You have already entered the art of calligraphy and painting. Of course, if you want to study it, you must have a collection.”
“But these two things are completely outside of your knowledge. In the eyes of researchers of Sichuan Tibetan culture, they may be priceless treasures. Besides being able to exchange money, what else is there of value?”
“So if Shuda wants to keep it, just donate it to them.”
"Then it's too late for me to say that I am also interested in Tibetan culture..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help but murmured softly.
Seeing that my fourth cousin was glaring again, he quickly said: "Okay, okay, if they want it, just donate it. It would be really scary to have something like this at home."
" Well, go to Shu University to find out what it is, and then come back and tell us."
"Okay..." Zhou Zhi's attitude towards these things is actually similar to that of his fourth cousin. The box is purely an unexpected thing, so I won’t worry too much: “Then I will take it with me when I go to Shu this time.”
“Cleaning this box actually has another purpose, that is, now we have air conditioning. "It can give your batch of calligraphy and paintings a better environment." The fourth cousin said, "After emptying the calligraphy and painting, I found a few things at the bottom of the box."
The fourth aunt opened the drawer and took out a few small things.
Zhou Zhi's eyes first fell on a small square porcelain box: "Ru kiln! This is Ru kiln with sky blue glaze!"
Pick up the small square porcelain box carefully and gently Turning it over, you can see that the bottom of the porcelain box is fully glazed and fired with nails, and the thin glaze is slightly yellowish in gray.
This is the famous feature of Ru kiln, the "incense ash body".
Looking at the light, the edge of the vessel and the embossed edge are slightly purple. The difference from the official kiln porcelain is that it is hidden and not exposed. This is the "copper bone" mentioned in ancient books, " Earth veins".
Cao Zhao of the Ming Dynasty mentioned in "Ge Gu Yao Lun": "Ru kiln wares came out of the north and were fired in the Song Dynasty. They are light blue in color and have crab claw patterns. Those without patterns are especially good. The earthy veins are charming and thin. It's very rare. "
On the bottom of the porcelain, there are also the characters "Fenghua" written in regular script with a bamboo stick after applying thick glaze with very delicate and beautiful brushstrokes.
"Is this...Fenghua Palace...an authentic Southern Song Dynasty product?" Zhou Zhi's voice was full of trembling, and he really couldn't believe that he could have such luck.
Ye Zhi of the Southern Song Dynasty said in "Tanzhai Biheng": "In this dynasty, Dingzhou white porcelain had awns and was unusable, so it ordered Ruzhou to make green kiln wares. Therefore, Hebei, Tang, Deng, and Yaozhou all have them. , Ru kiln is the leader." The legend about Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty that "after the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds break the virginity, this color will be the future", specifically refers to the azure glaze in Ru kiln.
Gao Lian, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, mentioned in "Yan Xian Qing Appreciation Notes": "I have tasted it in Ru kiln. It is actually agate powder put into the glaze. The juice is as thick as a pile of fat. However, the brown eyes in the juice are like crab claws. The glaze color There are sky blue, pink green, and Green and sky blue are the most popular ones. Sky blue is the most precious. It is said that the glaze can be seen as jasper when the sky is clear and clear. It is not an exaggeration to say that Ru kiln should be the best.
The fourth cousin smiled and said: "Don't ask me, what do you think?"
Now Zhou Zhi's eyesight has come out. After all, he already has several pieces of precious Song porcelain in his hand, including Longquan kiln plum green lotus leaf covered jars, official kiln string-patterned long-necked bottles, Hutian kiln drinking porcelain, and many ordinary lime glaze, green glaze, soy sauce glaze, celadon glaze folk kiln wares, which are very familiar with Song porcelain. familiar.
After seeing a lot of things, I have a great understanding of Song porcelain. It should be noted that the most difficult porcelain to imitate in the world is Song Ru kiln.
Ru kiln has one of the most striking features - glaze color.
The glaze color of your kiln is as green as the sky.
In fact, because of the different restoration environments, Ru kiln wares also come in a variety of colors, but the most unique one is the unique glaze color of the box in Zhou Zhi’s hand.
Although azure is the most famous color, the most precious color is actually one level darker than azure, which is called "sky blue" and is often called "emerald color" in ancient books.
But the sky blue glaze color is different from ordinary porcelain.
When observed under different lighting and different angles, the color will have magically different changes.
Zhou Zhi held the porcelain box under the bright sunshine, and the color turned green and yellow, just like the golden sunshine on the clear blue sky after the rain and the clouds cleared and the fog dispersed.
Put it in a place where there is no direct light, and the color of the porcelain becomes green and bluish, like clear lake water.
The color of the glaze is moist and pure, and it looks like green peaks, but there are some blushes in the glaze, some like the morning sun setting out over the sea, some like the sunset, some like the sky clearing after rain, and some Like a rainbow hanging in the sky.
The reason is that the Ru kiln produces unique twill openings at different angles when the agate is glazed, and the different reflection angles of light create an optical phenomenon.
Another characteristic of agate glaze is that the glaze is moist and soft, as pure as jade, with a distinct buttery feel, unlike ordinary porcelain glazes that are clear and have a strong glassy feel.
The glaze of this porcelain box is milky, like silk when touched, warm and simple, shiny and smooth like piles of fat, simple and elegant, with a beauty that is like jade but not jade.
This is the second important feature of Ru kiln, the face is like jade.
The key cause is the semi-opaque crystalline glaze on the surface of the porcelain.
This kind of crystalline glaze is extremely sensitive to color and light, but the green glaze can reflect a blush from within. Where the glaze is slightly thicker, it solidifies the verdant like grease, and like dripping wax, it melts the agate and then solidifies it.
Where the glaze is slightly thin, it is like a shy girl's face turning red, or like the dew of the morning sun, which slightly dyes the thin clouds red.
The luster of the glaze is not as crystal clear as that of Guan and Ge porcelain, and it is even worse than the tenderness and frivolity of Longquan celadon. This lack of obvious vitrified texture is precisely an important feature of agate glaze, which makes the enamel thick and shiny, like a pile of fat, creating a The unique beauty of Ru porcelain is more in line with the aesthetics of literati in the past dynasties.
Many imitation Ru kiln porcelains fired by official kilns in later generations cannot perfectly restore this point. Even if the glaze color is close to that of Song Ru kiln, it can be fake and real, but such a smooth and jade-like texture, But I can't imitate it no matter what.
It is easy to imitate color, but difficult to imitate ground. This is the lament of the imitators of Yongle, Yongzheng and Qianlong.
What's more, Ru kiln has another characteristic that is difficult to imitate - the special open texture.
The crab claw pattern on the Ge kiln of the Guan kiln is very obvious, like gold wire, while the opening of the Ru kiln has a very subtle beauty.
It's transparent.
Therefore, it may be more appropriate to describe it as "cicada wing pattern".
It’s like a cicada wing, lost in the glaze.
Getting a magnifying glass to observe, you can find that there are some sparse air bubbles hidden between the cicada wings under the glaze, as few as morning stars.
(End of this chapter)