My system is not decent

Chapter 1234
The wood kiln is not only expensive and difficult to fire, but also has higher technical requirements.

It doesn't matter whether it's hard or not, as long as you make money, someone will do it.

However, for modern people who are eager for quick success, especially young people who need to support their families, can he persist in accumulating experience for decades?
So in modern times, there are some convenient and fast kilns, and they start to compete with firewood kilns.

Since the 80s, there have been more modern firing technologies such as coal kiln, gas kiln, and electric kiln.

Compared with firewood kiln, the firing time of gas kiln is shorter and the pass rate of products is higher.

During this period, even the operation of the state-owned ancient kiln porcelain factory became more and more difficult.

During this period, there were only more than 50 firing opportunities per year, and it was finally released in 1996.

After that, many pile masters could only join a few private firewood kilns.

But income is only a drop in the bucket for the pillars who need to support their families.

In order to make a living, they can only help some small workshops and use air kilns to fire porcelain products.

Until two thousand years later, there are still some people who never thought of giving up the wood kiln firing skills.

This is the most traditional porcelain firing technique for thousands of years, and he still wants to pass on this technique.

Over the decades, some have persevered.

But now, the advantages of firewood kilns are no longer comparable to those of gas kilns and coal kilns.

In 2010, under the support of the policy environment and the demand of the market, the production projects of firewood kilns gradually increased.

This has also become a turning point for many pile masters in their work in firewood kilns.

They helped design and build many new firewood kilns and cultivate new firewood kiln skill successors.

However, compared with the tediousness of making porcelain, there are still relatively few kiln masters who seem to be simple.

In particular, craftsmen with decades of experience in firewood kiln firing are relatively scarce.

Now the kiln firing technology has been included in the intangible cultural heritage.

But for many masters in Jingzhen, intangible cultural heritage is not an exclusive secret book.

If the traditional craft can be passed on, they will teach it.

As long as there are young people who want to learn, he will teach.

Carrying saggers to fill the kiln, staying up late adding firewood and watching the fire... these are all very hard work.

But until now, there are still many old masters in Jingzhen who lead the students to do it by themselves.

Only in this way can we accumulate real firewood kiln firing technology.

Being able to endure hardship is the most basic requirement for learning this skill.

The continuous optimization of the market environment has also promoted the spread of firewood kiln porcelain throughout the country.

Many master craftsmen who have retired from the ancient kiln porcelain factory are still busy.

Because as long as there is a porcelain company that needs to build its own firewood kiln, they will work tirelessly to help design or participate in firing to check the quality of the firewood kiln.

It is with such a group of master craftsmen that Chen Wenzhe can save a lot of time and allow him to make more high-quality antique porcelain.

Of course, this time when he mentioned the construction of a firewood kiln, he also focused on the master of the pile, mainly because Chen Wenzhe had an unexpected harvest this time.

The piling master he hired this time is definitely an expert, because he can help you build the firewood kiln that is most suitable for you.

That is to say, what kind of porcelain you want to fire, he can fine-tune it when building a firewood kiln, so that the type of porcelain you make is more conducive to successful firing.

This is the windfall that Chen Wenzhe stole from his teacher, which is suitable for the kiln mouth of porcelain.

If you don't know much about porcelain and firewood kilns, how can you reach this level?
To put it simply and popularly, firing porcelain in a firewood kiln is an artistic crystallization of the fusion of earth, fire, firewood and kiln.

And this time among the masters Chen Wenzhe hired, there really was such a real master.

He has 49 years of firewood kiln firing experience, so many teachers and artists need his help.

Chen Wenzhe also spent a lot of money to invite him.

This person is now able to check the whole process of the birth of their works according to the needs of potters.

He only needs to ask about the materials for making porcelain and the effect he wants to fire, and then he can design a firewood kiln of suitable size.

And the firewood kiln designed in this way can also arrange each piece of porcelain in a suitable position in the kiln, and accurately control the temperature of the fire.

Just this ability is enough to make Chen Wenzhe speechless.

At this time, he realized what kind of realm is above the real grandmaster level.

It should no longer be limited to kiln firing technology, but use a broader vision to help porcelain craftsmen to complete the production of a piece of porcelain.

This should be Grandmaster-level technology, right?According to the porcelain you make, he can specially design the firewood kiln and fire it accurately.

This level must be at the Grandmaster level.

That is to say, after discovering the technique of this great master of kiln firing, Chen Wenzhe really saw for the first time what it is like to be above a master.

He has also seen the role that this great master can play in the entire porcelain-making work, and also seen his accumulation, his heritage!

To this extent, his technology is not limited to kiln firing technology, but integrated into the whole porcelain making process.

Saying that, it seems a bit abstract, but to put it simply, he has already started to make inferences by analogy.

For any kind of technique, when he reaches the level of a great master, even if he can't do other techniques, he understands it and goes deep into the essence.

It is difficult to explain the judgment during the firewood kiln firing process, but the "feeling" accumulated over the years of experience is accurate.

Because of tradition, the essence of craftsmanship cannot be quantified and copied like in the industrial age.

However, the life emotions and human ideals passed down from the ancestors are integrated into the soul of people through word of mouth and day-to-day experience.

For example, this great master can distinguish at a glance the difference between works made by modern kiln firing methods and porcelain fired in firewood kilns.

Just this ability can make him hopeless and disadvantageous in the antique market.

Good porcelain must be fired in a firewood kiln. Even if it is a modern work of art, the price of firewood kiln firing is also very expensive.

With such a vision and such experience, is it not easy to pick up leaks in the antique market?
It's a pity that this kind of feeling and ability can only be accumulated in the most "primitive" and closest to life, during the day-to-day kiln firing process.

Let’s talk about this great master. He has burned firewood kilns more than 3000 times and has kept the cave dwellings for nearly 50 years.

It is these [-] years of perseverance that allow him to see the quality of porcelain at a glance!

For example, using electric or gas fired kiln, the bubbles produced are uniform and some are thin, and there is no large, medium, small, and transparent phenomenon produced by ancient wood burning.

The works fired in this way are obviously fakes.

This kind of ability has transcended the simple job of watching fire. Such a person is the real master, the great master!
(End of this chapter)