My system is not decent

Chapter 1184
Ding kiln has a large scale of production and a wide variety of varieties.

Most of them are bowls, plates, bottles, plates, boxes and pillows. They also produce Buddhist offerings such as clean bottles and conch shells, but the number is very small, and they are mainly used as tributes to enter the court.

Among these relatively rare porcelains, apart from the well-known baby pillow, there is also Faluo.

The famous white-glazed snail of Ding Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty is 18.5 cm high. The snail shell is hollow and spiral-shaped, with holes at both ends. The conical top is slender and has three raised spiral patterns. Trumpet.

The surface of the screw body is lightly carved with water ripples, covered with white glaze, the glaze color is white and bluish.

The shape is completely molded by hand according to the natural conch, with accurate proportion and lifelike shape.

Faluo is one of the "Eight Treasures" of Buddhism, and it is also a musical instrument used in doing rituals.

This porcelain-molded snail can produce a loud sound, and this alone fully demonstrates the superb modeling technology of Ding Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty.

This Faluo was unearthed in 1969 at the base of Jingzhi Temple in Dingzhou, and it is now in the Dingzhou Museum.

Although the white porcelain of the Ding kiln in the Song Dynasty was relatively plain in color, it was not as varied as the Jun kiln, and the changes in the kiln made it more colorful.

But it fully shows the rigorous and elegant style of the Song Dynasty, and also reflects the pursuit of nature, harmony, purity and beauty at that time.

Ding kiln white porcelain handed down from generation to generation is very rare, but the fetal bones are delicate and thin, appearing beautiful and light;
Although some are not pure white, but slightly yellow in white, they all have warm tones, and the glaze layer is well-proportioned and soft;
The most important thing is that as white porcelain, Dingyao white porcelain is dignified and graceful in shape, without any vulgarity.

It can also be seen from the Faluo piece that Ding Kiln white porcelain in the Song Dynasty was not limited to daily necessities such as bowls, plates, dishes, washers, boxes, bottles, etc. He also produced some unique shapes, just like fine porcelain sculptures.

Like this white-glazed porcelain conch with water ripples, it is the most distinctive piece among the authentic products handed down from the Ding Kiln of the Song Dynasty.

Some experts even think that "unique" ones have meticulous decoration and high fidelity;

Compared with the typical shape of the curved outer wall of other vessels, it is also more creative.

This is similar to the Ding kiln white porcelain sleeping pillow that Chen Wenzhe wants to imitate now;
This kind of porcelain is clear and thin, far better than marble, and should be a special decoration for the court at that time.

This kind of porcelain is definitely more popular among collectors.

Therefore, collectors with more financial resources pay more attention to the authentic products handed down from the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty.

In particular, some experts directly regard the white porcelain of Ding Kiln as "the head of Song kiln".

Just like this bionic conch, its shape and color are lifelike, so it is called the Three Magical Artifacts.

The most important thing is that it is beautiful. This porcelain conch has a thin white fetal bone, pure glaze color, and vigorous and powerful lines. It is recognized as the crown of bionic porcelain in Ding Kiln.

Porcelain of this level is definitely a treasure, but compared to the baby pillow, it is a little less famous.

Of course, the "Dingzhou White Porcelain Child Pillow" collected by the Palace Museum is definitely one of the masterpieces of Ding Kiln porcelain.

The porcelain of the Song Dynasty is most familiar to ordinary people, especially to teenagers, than this white porcelain pillow for children, because it is also included in middle school history textbooks.

Chen Wenzhe wondered when he saw this porcelain pillow when he was a child: good-looking is good-looking, is such a hard pillow comfortable to sleep on?
Later, when I grew up and got more information, I realized that porcelain pillows are not only cool, but can also regulate blood pressure.

Ancient women slept on porcelain pillows, which could keep their buns in order, so porcelain pillows have been used until modern times.

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty also wrote a poem to praise: "Porcelain pillows have spiritual energy, and they are better than tortoises and shanks. Mianyun is not aware of it, and dream butterflies are more at ease."

Although Ding kiln porcelain is white porcelain, it is not pure white, but "ivory white" with a slight yellow in the white.

This kind of white looks old after a long time, so the craftsmen of Ding Kiln worked hard on the decorative patterns.

Because of this, after continuous development, the decorative techniques of Ding Kiln have formed the main features of white glaze printing, engraving and scratching.

There are many patterns on Ding kiln wares, among which lotus petals and twigs are the most common.

Others include day lily patterns, peony patterns, dragon patterns, unicorn patterns, deer patterns, phoenix patterns, mandarin ducks, wild goose patterns, etc. Anyway, whatever is popular in the market can be used.

This also allows Ding kiln porcelain to form the characteristics of "low-key luxury and connotation".

The focus here is mainly low-key.

If you compare porcelain to beauties, Dingyao porcelain belongs to the kind of "second-eyed beauties".

It may seem unremarkable at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it becomes more interesting.

The "low-key" of Ding kiln porcelain is entirely due to the effect of plain white. Of course, this effect has also brought troubles to itself.

In Qilu Province, Chen Wenzhe's hometown, there is a Song Dynasty white-glazed flower bowl in a city museum, which was collected from a farmer's home by the Director of Cultural Relics for five yuan.

At that time, farmers used this bowl as a food bowl for dogs.

This is another legend in the collection world. Who can arrive first, a seemingly ordinary white bowl, he is a fine product of Ding Kiln?
After receiving it, the experts looked at it and found that the estimated price was not less than 100 million—this is because they are afraid of not knowing the goods!
However, who made Dingyao white porcelain low-key?

If you don't understand, it looks like a white bowl. Who can see it first? It has a history of more than a thousand years?Or was it the royal porcelain at that time?
The ability to do all this must be due to its superb firing technology.

Ding kiln can form a large kiln system, mainly because of the improvement of kiln technology, such as the invention of the covering firing method, printing and decoration technology, and the use of coal as fuel.

At the same time, Ding Kiln has rich literature records and a large number of handed down products, which are valuable materials for future generations to study Ding Kiln.

This is the main achievement of the Ding kiln system, and also the achievement of the Chinese ceramic industry.

Because of the astonishing decoration skills and superb craftsmanship, kilns from all over the country followed suit in the Song Dynasty, and finally formed a huge Ding kiln system.

Ding kiln is a kiln mouth, and it has indeed formed its own set of porcelain making techniques and styles.

For example, the most important achievements in the firing technology of porcelain kilns in the Song Dynasty were the invention of the covering firing method and the "fire lighting technique".

Cover firing is one of the firing methods of porcelain, which is opposite to normal firing, also known as reverse firing or volt firing.

This is a branch firing method in which blanks such as bowls and plates are buckled upside down on kiln furniture.

That is to say, when loading and firing, the mouth of the bowl should be fired downward.

Before using the covering firing process, a utensil can only be placed in one sagger;

After switching to overburning, a sagger can hold multiple utensils.

The same kiln consumes the same fuel, and the output of overburning is several times that of ordinary firing.

The invention of the over-firing process has increased the output of porcelain, lowered the price of porcelain, and eased the contradiction between supply and demand in the porcelain market.

It can be said that the overfiring process is an important technological innovation in the history of ceramics in my country.

Of course, this kind of technological innovation is more than one kind, for example, Chen Wenzhe has used the fire lighting technique before.

If you want to fire high-quality antique porcelain, it is an indispensable means to use a torch to check the temperature.

(End of this chapter)