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Chapter 1620 Origin of Yuanbao

Blue and white porcelain has an early history of development in my country, and the most primitive prototype of blue and white porcelain appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Jingzhen Kiln successfully produced blue and white porcelain, which opened the era of Chinese porcelain from plain porcelain to colored porcelain.

Porcelain pots with silver bowls, decorative patterns and painting styles, give people a bold and unrestrained feeling at first glance.

This kind of porcelain with many layers of painting was very popular in the Yuan Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this pursuit that the craftsmanship of blue and white porcelain has gradually matured.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the peak period of the popularity of blue and white porcelain.

Then the blue and white Yunlong jar that is placed in front of the team members can clearly tell which dynasty it was made in!
This blue and white Yunlong jar and the silverware inside were brought to the rear not long after.

It was the action team that entered the desert, and the support volunteer team behind it contained some knowledgeable professionals.

These experts deduced from history that the time when the blue and white Yunlong jar was buried underground should be in the late Yuan Dynasty.

As for how they deduced it, we have to start with the reasons for the production of the cellar.

A circle of cloud patterns is engraved along the edge of the cloud disk, and the stories of the figures in embossed patterns on the bottom of the disk are like relief sculptures.

Just as the farmers were building canals and embankments full of resentment, the stone man was dug out as predicted by Han and Liu, and the people's hearts were stirred up all of a sudden.

At that time, people who broke the law fled their hometowns. People in the inland areas naturally fled to the south, while people in the western area naturally fled to the west.

But the shape of these silver ingots is quite different from the round and lovely silver ingots we often see in film and television works.

After preliminary identification, it is believed that this is the picture of Tang Minghuang's moon palace, and the middle one among the three people standing in the cloud is Tang Minghuang.

In the 12th year of Zhizheng, that is, in 1352 AD, the Red Turban Army captured Hangzhou, and the storm of peasant uprising began to sweep across Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In addition to the large silver bowl that covered the mouth of the jar when it was unearthed, there are more than [-] exquisite and elegant silverware of various shapes hidden in the blue and white Yunlong jar.

It's a pity that the Mongolian expedition to the west was the first thing that year, and they had no escape.

If the owner of the property died during the war, or had no chance to return to his hometown, then these buried properties remained underground for a long time, becoming what we call a hoard today.

This lake is about fifteen kilometers away from an ancient city in the ancient desert.

This also proves that the time to bury the Yunlong Jar cannot be earlier than 1314.

The hoard in this desert is likely to be formed in this way.

This provides an important basis for judging the firing time of the blue and white Yunlong pot.

The second is that due to reasons such as reserve wars, people temporarily buried their belongings in the ground, but later they had no chance to take them out and left them.

In the late Yuan Dynasty, due to the ruling class dominated by Mongolian nobles, the enslavement of other ethnic groups was too cruel.

There are generally two reasons for the production of cellars, one is the legacy of holding sacrifices or ritual activities;

Zhu Yuanzhang, who later established the Ming Dynasty regime, devoted himself to this uprising army.

According to inference, the time when Gao Qijing and the others discovered the buried cellar should be after the Western Expedition in the early Yuan Dynasty.

The two made up a folk song of "the stone man with one eye, stirring up rebellion in the Yellow River" and spread it around, and quietly buried a one-eyed stone man in the course of the Yellow River.

The whole picture is based on fine cloud patterns, on which are depicted sweet-scented osmanthus trees and jade rabbits.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the shape of the ingot developed into a relatively standard girdle shape, with a flat bottom, upward slopes on both sides, and a concave shape facing inward.

Apparently, because of the lake, this used to be a major traffic route.

For example, in 1351 AD, the ruling class of the Yuan Dynasty forced 15 farmers to build canals and embankments in order to open up the north-south waterway.

In the picture, three people are standing in the clouds, and six people are standing on the pavilion on the right, two of them are holding fans, and the other four are holding wine utensils or fruits.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there were still many such cellars, especially in the Central Plains.

In fact, in the third year from the Yuan Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, that is, in 1335 AD, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty melted the silver from the treasury at that time into silver ingots weighing 50 taels, which were called Yuanbao, which means "treasure of the Yuan Dynasty".

The production time of the silverware also proves that the blue and white Yunlong pot used as a container should belong to the Yuan Dynasty.

According to research, since the Six Dynasties, there have been rich merchants and many residents here.

The embossed character story silver plate unearthed together is exquisite in workmanship and ingenious, and its complexity is very rare in the Yuan Dynasty silverware unearthed in the past.

Han and Liu took the opportunity to gather peasants to start an uprising, which was called the Red Turban Army in history.

At this time, a man named Han Shantong and his friend Liu Futong believed that the time to revolt had come.

In addition, the Yellow River dams have been in disrepair year after year, breached many times, and successive natural and man-made disasters have led to the tragic situation of starvation and death among the people.

Among them is a silver plate with an inscription of the fourth year of 710 in the Arabic Hijri calendar.

There is also engraved on the back of the stone man, "Mo Dao stone man has one eye, and this thing will be reversed when it comes out of the world".

Nowadays, in our common paintings such as the God of Wealth, most of the ingots are in the shape of a belly bulging in the middle.

In fact, the real shape of Yuanbao in history is not like this. The shape of Yuanbao originated in the Tang Dynasty.

The content of the story presented on this silver plate is in line with the popular style of the Yuan Dynasty.

This title continued until the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Yuanbao gradually became the collective name for silver ingots.

When the peasant uprising army arrived, the rich fled to save their lives, and the belongings that could not be taken away could only be buried in the ground.

The Hijri calendar is also called the Xiji origin calendar. The 714th year of the Hijri calendar is 1314 AD, which belongs to the middle of the Yuan Dynasty.

In addition to the exquisite silver vessels unearthed in the cellar of the blue and white Yunlong Jar, many silver ingots and silver bars that were used as currency at that time were also unearthed.

When the war came, many people would choose to migrate to other places in order to avoid the disaster, and the belongings that could not be taken away had to be buried on the spot.

The story of Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei was more popular in Yuan Dynasty opera and folk.

In addition to judging the silverware in the jar based on the origin of the cellar, it is also of great help in determining the firing age of the blue and white Yunlong jar.

This kind of geographical location is particularly superior in the ancient Northwest.

It was found that the place where the blue and white Yunlong jar was stored was on the northwest shore of a dry lake.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the shapes of ingots became more diverse.

But most of them still have a rounded horseshoe shape, with a slightly convex bottom and slightly upturned sides, and basically no round belly.

It turned out that the shape of the real ingot was somewhat similar to that of a coffin.

In the past, out of taboo, people modified the image of ingots to be more mellow and plump in their artistic creations.

This painting method has gradually become a strange continuation, and of course it has become the characteristic of the times, which is the origin of Yuanbao.


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