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Chapter 1659 Green as spring water on the first birthday, red as morning glow when it is about to rise

The current auction price ceiling of Jihong Glazed Porcelain is more than 4000 million.

In recent years, Jihong glaze transactions are generally less than a few million, and most of the bottles are sold.

International and domestic transactions can be checked, which proves that Jihong porcelain is very popular internationally.

After all, there must be no bad objects for sacrificial objects.

Since the price is expensive, there are naturally many modern imitations.

In fact, the imitation threshold of Jihong glaze is still very high, especially the "copper red" glazed porcelain with pure glaze color and bright red color.

Even if it is fired by modern people, it is not easy.

In addition, there are many subdivided varieties of Jihong glaze, and it is even more difficult to fire that pure ruby ​​glaze color.

Now Chen Wenzhe can burn many kinds of red-glazed porcelain, including ruby ​​red, Langyao red, Ji red, cowpea red, carmine red, coral red, Jun red, alum red and so on.

Among these red glazes, each one is not simple, such as the humble cowpea red!
Cowpea red is a very special kind of red, because there is a kind of cowpea red that is pink porcelain.

The reason why it is famous is that this kind of red is like the flushed face of a beauty when she is drunk.

So this kind of red porcelain has a very poetic name, which is called beauty drunk.
The reason why the beauty is drunk is mentioned mainly because the Kangxi Jihong glaze in Chen Wenzhe's hand is the beauty drunk.

"Beauty drunk" is also called "cowpea red" or "begonia red".

The copper-red glaze fired by the imperial kiln during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty has a light and elegant tone, like peach blossoms, resembling the color of cowpeas, with green moss spots.

Later generations described it as "green like spring water on the first birthday, red like morning glow when it is about to rise".

The one with the best glaze color is called "Dahongpao" or "Zhenghong", and the whole body is the same color.

Bright and bright, clean and flawless;

Slightly inferior, the glaze color is like cowpea, with spots and green moss of different shades, called "beauty drunk" or "beauty festival";
Those with lighter hues are called "peach blossom slices" or "begonia red" or "baby face".

There is no large piece of glaze decoration, and it is mostly used on small vases and stationery utensils.

Speaking of beauty intoxication, there are many legends about beauty intoxication, and they are widely circulated in Jingzhen.

Jingzhen craftsmen make porcelain, use porcelain, and think of porcelain.

During this period, not only countless ancient porcelain treasures were left behind, but also many legends about porcelain.

"Beauty Drunk" is one of these many touching legends.

It is said that once upon a time there was an emperor who had a jade cup.

This wine glass is crystal clear, white and red, it looks like the cheeks of a drunken beauty.

Therefore, this jade cup is called "beauty drunk", and the emperor loves this jade cup very much and regards it as the treasure of all treasures.

As a result, the emperor developed a habit of drinking with the imperial concubines every day, and he used this "beauty drunk" king cup.

Every time, the concubines have to drink until their faces are as gorgeous as the "beauty drunk" cup before they are willing to give up.

Once, the emperor accidentally broke the jade cup.

He was very annoyed, so he asked the ministers to try their best to make the same king cup, and handed over the matter to Pan, an official in charge of the porcelain industry.

This official surnamed Pan thought that Jingzhen's porcelain was as white as jade, so he would surely be able to make porcelain as red as jade.

So he came to Jingzhen with the imperial decree and urged the porcelain workers to burn the ruby ​​cup that the emperor wanted.

He came to Jingzhen and gave a strict order that if the same cup as the "beauty drunk" could not be made within three months, all the porcelain workers would be executed.

Porcelain workers had no choice but to bite the bullet and try firing, but after firing kiln after kiln, they just couldn't fire this kind of white and red porcelain cup.

Seeing that the three-month deadline was approaching, everyone was worried, but there was nothing they could do.

There was a master named Mei among the porcelain workers, and he had a daughter named Mei Ying.

She was also very anxious about her father and the porcelain workers. One night she had a dream.

In the dream, an old man with a white beard told her that there was a kind of red glaze mud on Tiger Mountain in the south of the city, which could be used to burn red jade cups.

The next day, Mei Ying went into Tiger Mountain alone to look for red glaze mud.

She walked and walked, and walked barefoot when her shoes were worn out. Her feet were bleeding, and when she stepped on them, her footprints were all red.

Mei Ying didn't care, and died of exhaustion on the mountain a few days later.

When Mei Ying's father found out that his daughter was missing, he was very anxious and asked the porcelain workers to help him find her.

They searched and searched, and finally found Mei Ying's body.

They were very sad, so they dug a pit where Mei Ying died, so that she could be buried.

Strange to say, when they dug the pit, they dug out the glaze mud which was as bright red as blood.

So the glaze mud was brought back, mixed with white glaze paste, and then painted on the porcelain body.

After firing at high temperature, the white and red porcelain cup was finally fired, which was even more beautiful than the emperor's previous "beauty drunk" king cup.

The official surnamed Pan was very happy, and hurriedly dedicated the cup to the emperor.

The emperor was also happy, and immediately promoted Pan to a rank.

Although the porcelain workers escaped the fate of being killed, they were saddened by the death of Miss Meiying.

They made another cup of the same kind and used it to honor Meiying.

Unlike the emperor who called this cup "Beauty Drunk", porcelain workers called it "Beauty Sacrifice".

In the process of firing porcelain, or in the process of making famous knives and swords, in legendary stories, there are often examples of successful sacrifices.

Therefore, the story is likely to be made up, but the process is likely to be true.

Only with the right glaze can the beauty be drunk, this is not wrong.

Chen Wenzhe is still very interested in such beautiful porcelain.

Because he likes professional utensils, such as beauty pots, beauty pots, etc., Chen Wenzhe especially likes them.

He also knew that some of the beautiful drunken porcelains from the Qing Dynasty were made very beautifully.

For example, the Qing Kangxi beauty drunk willow leaf vase is 16 cm high, 3.5 cm in diameter and 2 cm in bottom diameter.

This bottle has an open mouth and sloping shoulders. The body of the bottle is delicate and slender, shaped like a willow leaf, small and exquisite.

The glaze color on the inside and outside of the whole vessel presents spots of cowpea red and apple green, and the color is beautiful.

White glaze is applied to the inside of the bottom foot, and there is a blue and white regular script "Kangxi Years of the Qing Dynasty" written vertically in six characters and two lines.

Meirenzui is a high-temperature color glaze with changeable colors. It was created and fired in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also a rare variety of copper-red glaze in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Due to the special color, it can also be called beauty drunk or peach blossom, baby face.

This variety has deep red spots in the even pink;
In some light reds, there are faint green spots or halos.

This bottle just rightly shows the charm of "covered with moss in the spring waves of peach blossoms".

This kind of green moss spot is originally a flaw in the firing technology, but the integrated light red is mixed with a little green spot, which is more elegant and light, soft and pleasing to the eye, giving people a sense of beauty and arousing reverie.

Therefore, it has the reputation of "green like spring water on the first birthday, red like morning glow when it is about to rise", so it is known as a rare treasure.

(End of this chapter)