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Chapter 1110 Modern Craftsmanship Far Surpassing the Ancients

For Chen Wenzhe, Chinese red porcelain is not a problem except that it is troublesome to fire.

Such as craftsmanship, hair color, vessel shape, glaze, porcelain clay, etc., he can perfectly win.

However, even if he is skilled in craftsmanship, under normal circumstances, this kind of Chinese red porcelain can only produce one finished product out of three pieces during firing.

Among the large-scale finished products, there can only be one finished product out of more than ten pieces of porcelain blanks. This is the so-called "nine out of ten kilns".

The almost harsh manufacturing process and extremely low yield rate further demonstrate the scarcity and preciousness of Chinese red porcelain.

Having learned how to make Chinese red porcelain through Suihou Zhizhu, Chen Wenzhe was a little bit emotional.

No wonder the ancients couldn't make bright red glaze, mainly because the process was too cumbersome and the randomness was too strong.

Even if he gains a lot of experience through inheritance, there is no guarantee of success rate.

After all, the inheritance he obtained was also explored by some modern masters. Even they can't guarantee the success rate. How can Chen Wenzhe, a reincarnation disciple, guarantee the success rate?

Although the firing efficiency is not high, if you make a few more pieces, you will still make a lot of them.

Besides, Chen Wenzhe is already standing on the basis of his predecessors, and his firing success rate should be higher than many others.

So Chen Wenzhe began to study the production methods of Zhonghua Red Porcelain more seriously, and only after he was fully familiar with it and studied thoroughly, did he really start to do it.

At this time, according to the use of red porcelain, he began to make different categories of red porcelain, daily gift porcelain and ornamental gift porcelain.

Daily gift porcelain refers to ceramic products such as utensils that people use in their daily lives.

Such as bowls, cups, plates, pens, etc.

These utensil embryos are not difficult to make, but the glaze color and craftsmanship are difficult.

Because compared with many top famous kilns in ancient times, or the official kiln wares produced by the royal kiln, the modern production of national gift porcelain-Zhonghuahong porcelain is much better.

There is no doubt about this. From all aspects, what modern people do is better than ancient craftsmen.

It can even be said that from the initial selection of porcelain clay, grinding, aging, and tire making, to glaze selection, painting, glazing, and firing, all processes and every process are better than ancient ones, and they must be more refined. .

This point may surprise many people.

How can a modern craft be better than an antique?In fact, these are two different concepts.

Don't think that the level of craftsmanship of modern handicrafts is lower than that of ancient times.

The fact is just the opposite. When you see the statement that "modern times cannot be copied", remember that this is not to say that modern craftsmanship cannot reach the level and quality of that cultural relic, but that it cannot be reproduced 100% according to the original technological process. Exactly the same effect.

This may be due to various reasons such as the loss of old craftsmanship, or different raw materials.

But there is no such thing as saying that using modern technology is not as good as the ancestors.

The world is progressing, no matter how high the level of craftsmanship in ancient times is, it is still behind the times.

For many crafts, modern people not only surpass ancient times, but also far surpass them.

It's just that some ancient methods have been lost, and we don't know the process of how the ancients did it.

Finally, let’s talk about the loss, which is a pity for most people to hear.

It can be conversely thought that most of the lost craftsmanship is probably because of this technical method, which has been replaced by better technology.

For example, the clay mold method of bronze casting can now use plaster or the lost wax method, which is much better.

Needless to say, copper and iron smelting, the same is true for porcelain production.

The raw materials that modern people can use are definitely not comparable to the ancients.

There are also crafts, the ancient crafts that modern people can touch and understand, and they are definitely not comparable to craftsmen who were limited by the technology, culture and other fields at that time.

Therefore, in many cases, don't over-mythologize the ancients.

It's not that the ancients' technical level was not good, and the handicrafts they produced were not good.

Rather, it is said that ancient crafts can be regarded as a craft at most in modern times, but it is by no means unsurpassable.

The level of modern craftsmanship has long surpassed that of the ancients.

For example, casting a sword, using copper to cast a sword in a modern copper factory, it will be a magic weapon in the Bronze Age.

A kitchen knife of better quality in modern times is the same in the Iron Age.

Besides, the firing technology of ceramics is much better than the ancient ones.

Song porcelain and Ming porcelain are valuable because they are old enough, not because they look better than today's porcelain.

Just like the Strativari in the violin world, today's violins are not as good.

But modern violin makers are more aware, because they all know that if the current violin is kept for three hundred years, every one can catch up with Si's violin.

The value of the Siqin is that it is old enough and rare, and the other is that it has been completely dried and solidified for three or four hundred years.

Or back to bronze ware, why is this kind of antique never sold at a high price?

In fact, it is not only the prohibition of buying and selling bronze wares in China, but also an important reason, that is, the imitations made by modern people are too powerful and difficult to distinguish.

In other words, there are so many fake things that people can't recognize them.

So, I can't recognize it, so it's okay not to buy it?

After all, Chen Wenzhe made few bronze wares, so he didn't care too much.

Of course, if he wants to make bronze wares now, Suihou Zhizhu can provide more learning materials.

However, making bronze wares is too troublesome, and Chen Wenzhe still likes porcelain wares.

He still knows more about ceramics and is more familiar with it.

First of all, ceramics is a relatively localized industry.

If you have a rough understanding of the distribution of the modern ceramic industry, you will find that ceramic products in many places are very similar, and there are some differences that cannot be ignored.

In the ceramic industry, there are only a few molding processes, so the factors that cause these differences are basically differences in temperature, atmosphere, and mineral composition in raw materials.

As for the ceramics handed down from ancient times, the two factors of temperature and atmosphere can be solved by a lot of experiments, not to mention, but the mineral composition is really super difficult to solve.

After all, ceramic raw materials are all obtained from weathered ore.

Some ores will be gone if they say they are gone, and they really have no temper.

But having said that, there is no way to be exactly the same as ancient ceramics, which does not mean that the quality is not as good as ancient ceramics.

Maybe when you go to a museum to see ancient ceramics, you will think "ah, it's really beautiful".

But you have to be clear, most of them are selected from thousands of miles in the official kiln.

If you go to look at ancient folk kiln ceramics, you will know that they are really not as exquisite as the ceramics we use now.

Many of the patterns on those antiques are really drawn by craftsmen at will.

As for modern especially high-end ceramics, just go to see the exhibitions of the big guys and you will know that they are really awesome and amazing.

Especially the porcelain used for national gifts and state leaders is so luxurious that you can't even imagine it.

(End of this chapter)