My system is not decent

Chapter 1206
There are many varieties of porcelain pillows, and baby pillows are just one of them.

Now that Chen Wenzhe has made many children's pillows, he naturally began to make other kinds of porcelain pillows.

After all, other types of porcelain pillows have been handed down more than baby pillows.

Seriously, the history of real porcelain pillows can be traced back to the Sui Dynasty.

In Anyang, Nanhe, the earliest porcelain pillow was unearthed in the tomb of Zhang Sheng in the fifteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, porcelain pillows gradually increased.

They are generally rectangular in shape and small in size, some are pillows for sleeping, and some are pulse pillows for pulse signaling.

In the Song Dynasty, the porcelain pillow reached its heyday, and there were many kinds of light shapes.

Such as ellipse, rectangle, octagon, ruyi shape, silver ingot shape, leaf shape, fan shape, flower shape, saddle shape, reclining baby shape, beauty shape and so on.

It is understood that there were several places where the most famous porcelain pillows were produced at that time.

Among them, in addition to the Ding kiln in the north, the white-ground black flower pillow of the Cizhou kiln is also a typical representative.

The porcelain pillows produced by them have strong contrasting black and white colors, vivid and vivid picture patterns, and flexible use of poetic aphorisms.

In the south, there are two schools. One is the bluish-white porcelain pillow produced in Jingzhen, which is famous for its jade-like glaze color;
The other is the green glaze pillow produced by Jizhou kiln, which is famous for its unique decoration.

Or the green-glazed ruyi-shaped pillow with banana leaf pattern, which is the representative work of Jizhou kiln.

Jizhou kiln is located in Ji'an County, Xijiang. It was founded in the Five Dynasties period, and the Song Dynasty tended to prosper and became a famous kiln at that time.

In fact, Jizhou kiln is inextricably linked with Ding kiln and Cizhou kiln in the north.

After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, many northern craftsmen moved to the Jiangnan area in order to escape the war.

They brought the advanced technology of famous northern kilns and integrated the local customs.

For example, the green glaze pillow of Jizhou kiln has also been fired in Cizhou kiln in the north.

But the shapes, decorations and firing methods of the two are different.

If summed up, there are two ways to make porcelain pillows, then two or three.

It can be said to be two kinds, or three kinds.

It's just that in the Song Dynasty, there should be two kinds.

One is to make appropriate clay boards first, inlay them together, and trim them when they are half dry.

The thickness of the mud board is generally between 7 and 8 mm. The joints of the mud board are dipped in mud with mud strips, connected and compacted, and then fired in the kiln;
Another method is mold forming, using soft clay on the mold, evenly spreading out a certain thickness of clay panels, and then closing them together.

After waiting for the setting, take out the mud and trim it.

Then apply make-up soil, depict patterns or paint.

After the billet is half-dry, a hole is punched in the back to prevent the hot air from expanding and damaging the billet during firing.

For example, the green-glazed ruyi-shaped pillow with banana leaf pattern was made by the second method.

The craftsman at that time made a small hole about half a centimeter in diameter at one end of the pillow.

Picking up the pillow and shaking it still makes a tinkling sound, that's because there are mud pellets left in the pillow.

Over the past thousand years, the practical value of porcelain pillows has gradually disappeared.

However, because its surface often has various calligraphy and painting patterns left by the predecessors, it has become an important carrier of folk calligraphy and painting.

This has played a huge role in preserving the art of ancient folk calligraphy and painting.

Materials such as paper and silk, which are the general carriers of calligraphy and painting, have often been destroyed by various accidents after thousands of years, and it is extremely difficult to pass them on to the world.

Porcelain pillows are made of solid materials, so a large number of valuable folk arts have been preserved and recorded, so that people today can appreciate the creativity of folk arts thousands of years ago.

It's a pity that porcelain pillows are eliminated by history after all.

It was not until the end of the Republic of China that porcelain pillows gradually disappeared from people's lives, and were gradually replaced by pillows made of soft cotton.

However, cultural relics are not only precious material treasures, but also an important way to understand the life experience, aesthetic orientation, and spiritual pursuit of the ancients, so as to learn from the past and know the present.

Among them, Ding porcelain has too many extraordinary features.

However, compared with Dingci pillows for children, there are quite a few high-quality porcelain pillows from other eras.

Now that Chen Wenzhe can make porcelain pillows for Ding Kiln, he can also do better porcelain pillows for other eras.

As a popular living utensil in ancient porcelain, porcelain pillows have been recorded as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

In addition, during archaeological excavations, pillows from the Spring and Autumn Period were also unearthed from the tombs of Chu in Baoshan, Jingmen, Beihu, and Xinyang, Nanhe.

This is enough to show that the ancients began to use pillows in the Spring and Autumn Period.

According to the existing literature records, the main varieties of ceramic pillows can be divided into two categories: low-temperature glazed pottery and high-temperature glazed porcelain.

At first, there were box-shaped pillows and animal-shaped pillows, and then developed into architectural pillows, human-shaped pillows, and case-shaped pillows.

The middle of the pillow body in this period is hollow, and in order to prevent deformation during firing, air holes are generally left on the back wall or bottom.

From the perspective of the distribution area of ​​porcelain pillows, they are mainly found in the north to the south, and from the south to the east coast.

The size of porcelain pillows has also continued to increase from small to large. Among them, the Sui Dynasty was the smallest, with a length of no more than 5 cm, and it increased to about 15 cm in the Tang Dynasty.

Some porcelain pillows from the Yuan Dynasty can reach a length of about 40 centimeters.

It has gone through the process of "small porcelain pillows in Tang Dynasty, large porcelain pillows in Song Dynasty, and ever-changing Jin and (Southern Song) Yuan porcelain pillows".

The production process of ceramic pillows is no longer the two methods of Ding kiln porcelain pillows in Song Dynasty, but mainly three.

The first is clay board inlaying and forming, the second is molding and the third is sculpture.

Sometimes it is made by one method, and sometimes it is completed by the comprehensive application of two methods.

In the production process of porcelain pillows, the decoration techniques are also varied, colorful and varied.

The carcass decoration is mainly completed by engraving, picking, pasting, scratching, inlaying, twisting, molding and other processes on the carcass of the porcelain pillow.

In particular, there are many kinds of porcelain pillows among the twisted body porcelain in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

In addition, there is also the process of completing the decoration of ceramics through the use of glaze.

Such as monochromatic glaze, three-color glaze, red and green colored glaze, pastel and other decorative techniques.

Especially for porcelain pillows after Song and Jin Dynasties, the carcass decoration and glaze technology can be used alone or at the same time.

As far as the decoration of the ceramic pillow is concerned, it has various forms, rich content and wide range of themes.

There are poems, aphorisms, operas, etc., as well as paintings and sculptures.

Most of them are in the form of myths and historical stories, celebrity allusions, folk customs, life scenes, sports and entertainment activities.

There are also natural landscapes, birds and beasts, humanistic flowers and birds, plants and flowers, eliminating demons and suppressing demons, town houses, praying for blessings, and exorcising evil spirits.

Thus showing the ancients' yearning for a better life and artistic pursuit.

After going through the Tang, Five Dynasties, Northern Song, Southern Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, ceramic pillows began to decline slowly.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although porcelain pillows continued to be fired, they tended to decline in terms of shape and decoration, and the number of production gradually decreased until they disappeared.

(End of this chapter)