My system is not decent

Chapter 1124
"If you know how to make thin-bodied porcelain, it's no problem for Song Dynasty shadow celadon!"

Looking at the thin layer of transparent glaze, the whole seems to be transparent, holding a teacup that is as light as nothing, Chen Wenzhe is a little emotional.

This kind of porcelain really looks like jade, with a glass luster, and the blue flowers, green leaves, and red flowers on it are set off, it is simply beautiful!
"It's no wonder to make multicolored and pastel colors. Compared with the indifferent blue and white ones, the colorful ones look better!"

Chen Wenzhe admits that he is a layman, although he likes the elegant blue and white, but he prefers the exquisite five colors, gorgeous pastels, and colorful fighting colors.

"Do it little by little, first imitate Yingqing of the Song Dynasty!"

I have come into contact with Song Ying celadon for a long time, but Chen Wenzhe has never imitated it.

Shadow celadon, also known as Ying celadon, is a treasure in the traditional porcelain making process of the Han nationality. Its predecessor is blue and white porcelain.

Its glaze color is bluish white and elegant, the glaze surface is clear and clean, the fetus is firm and greasy white, and the color is warm and moist like jade, so it is called "fake jade" in history.

Most of the shadow celadon at that time were thinly carved with transparent flying phoenix and other patterns.

These patterns are carved on the green body by highly skilled ceramic artists, and then fired with transparent green glaze at high temperature.

It can be seen from this that the shadow celadon in the Song Dynasty mainly pursued two extremes, that is, as thin as paper and as white as jade.

Of course, Song Yingqing is a kind of blue and white porcelain, which can also be called celadon.

Its glaze color is between blue and white, with white in the blue and flashing blue in the white.

In addition, the porcelain body is extremely thin, and the carved patterns can be seen both inside and outside when facing the light, so it is called "shadow green" instead of "white jade", but jade is the ultimate pursuit of all porcelain.

The glaze color of "Yingqing" is mainly divided into two categories.

One is light cyan in the white, and dark green in the thick part, shiny and delicate, crystal clear and thorough.

Therefore, the predecessors called it "fake jade", which has the reputation of being crystal clear as jade;

The second is light blue and flashing yellow. This kind of glaze color "shadow blue" porcelain is the most abundant.

In addition, in the "Yingqing" glaze, there is also a kind of color that is painted brown on the body of the utensils, which is called "point color".

In the Song Dynasty, the stippling was placed casually and naturally, and the area was often small. The color had a very obvious difference in shades, and the center was the thickest, showing an iron spot color.

No matter what color or craftsmanship, Chen Wenzhe has no difficulty firing this kind of thin-bodied porcelain now.

This time, Chen Wenzhe didn't intend to expend too much energy in making Yingqing, so all he made were bowls, plates, and dishes.

A little more was made, mainly because there are more decorations on the shadow blue.

In the process of production, some skills that he does not commonly use can be linked.

You should know that the "Yingqing" decorations are mainly engraved, scratched, printed, and there are a small amount of piled plastic patterns.

Chen Wenzhe had come into contact with these skills very early and used them widely, but he really hadn't deliberately raised their skill levels.

There is nothing to say about printing, mainly using tools to engrave.

Among them, engraving and scratching are actually a kind of carving. If it's just because of carving, he doesn't need to practice more.

The main reason is that there are many types of decorations on Yingqing in the Song Dynasty, so Chen Wenzhe is interested in practicing it.

Most of the early shadow-green utensils had no decoration, or a small number of extremely simple patterns, such as creeper patterns and water ripples.

After the middle period, the patterns appeared complicated, and a large number of engravings and printings appeared.

The common ones are chrysanthemum petal pattern, lotus petal pattern, pomegranate flower, hibiscus flower, daylily pattern, cloud dragon pattern, dragon wearing twig flower, twig lotus pattern, twig chrysanthemum, twig peony, wind wearing peony, baby playing peony, Wave pattern, wave five fish pattern, water wave double fish pattern, lotus pond double fish pattern and so on.

Most of the engraved and scratched flowers of "Yingqing" are concise in composition, giving people a sense of elegance.

For example, for the wave pattern, just use a comb-like tool to draw a few random strokes on the vessel, and then use a pointed tool to draw a few random arcs on it, and a picture of surging water waves will appear.

If you add a few small fish, it will be more interesting.

The baby play peony is the most exquisite, and generally shows two children chasing patterns among peony flowers.

If the craftsman is skilled in knife skills, the general pattern will be drawn smoothly and powerfully, and the innocent, lively, romantic and lovely image of the baby will be portrayed vividly.

Such a high-quality product is too exhausting, so there is no way to do more.

After all, some decorative patterns are still very complicated, especially the baby playing peony.

After finishing the Yingqing, I must make a few egg curtain cups. As mentioned earlier, this is a fine porcelain cup with a thin body in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

Jingzhen thin-bodied porcelain was developed on the basis of the Northern Song Dynasty's shadow celadon. The real creation and burning should have begun in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and had achieved relatively high achievements in the Chenghua period.

The more famous ones are the famous products such as the egg screen cup and Liuxia cup in the Wanli period.

As mentioned before, the Egg Curtain Cup was made by Hao Nineteen, who was surnamed Wu in the Ming Dynasty.

He was born in a family of porcelain makers, taught by his family and teachers, and his porcelain making skills are comprehensive and superb.

The thin-bodied porcelain made is as thin as an eggshell, and it is wonderful.

His most famous works are "Egg Curtain Cup" and "Liuxia Lamp".

"Egg Curtain Cup" was once hailed as one of the nine pinnacle porcelain products in history. Each piece of it weighs only half a baht (twenty-four baht is one tael).

There is nothing to say about this. If you know how to make eggshell porcelain, it is not difficult to make egg curtain cups.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe focused on making "Liuxia Cup", this kind of porcelain is even more beautiful, it has the reputation of being as bright as pearls and as colorful as Danxia.

Li Rihua, a man of the Ming Dynasty, wrote a poem praising: To find cinnabar, I went to the store, and the sound of pines and clouds came from the sky of the pot;

Besides these two kinds of cups, Hao Nineteen is not only good at making thin body porcelain, but also good at making antique porcelain.

The pots made are light blue in color and elegant in style, very similar to the products of official kilns and Ge kilns in Song Dynasty.

The difficulty of firing official kilns and Ge kilns in the Song Dynasty is well known to the world.

And knowing that his works are similar to those of these two famous kilns, you will also know how good his works are and how difficult they are to imitate.

In addition to making porcelain, Hao Nineteen is also good at poetry, calligraphy and painting.

His calligraphy is similar to Zhao Mengfu, a great calligrapher of the Yuan Dynasty.

He decorated the porcelain with poems, calligraphy and paintings, and the more exquisite the porcelain, the more people love it.

His kiln was called "Hugong Kiln". All the products of Hugong Kiln were searched for at a high price, and became famous all over the world for a while.

What is commendable is that Hao Nineteen did not seek profit from this, and was still a "Ximen Wengjia", with a depressed family and a poor and simple life, but he kept improving his skills.

Fortunately, Chen Wenzhe's calligraphy and painting skills are already very good, otherwise he really wouldn't be qualified to imitate Wu Hao Nineteen's works.

Now he is very proficient in making eggshell porcelain. It is not difficult to imitate a few egg curtain cups by combining the style of Wu Hao [-] in the Wanli period.

Therefore, this time he planned to spend a lot of effort imitating Liuxiazhan.

(End of this chapter)