Riding the wind of rebirth

"As for Song Jun, who has less than ten pieces in the world...hey, I heard Mr. Wang talk about a new idea that day."

"What new idea?"

"That is to say, there may be no Jun kiln wares from the Song Dynasty in history." Zhou Zhi said: "The Jun kiln itself started from the Jin Dynasty."

"Really?"

"False!" Zhou Zhi was a little proud: "The old man told it as a joke. Someone wrote a paper on this topic and wanted to publish it. The old man refuted it, and he also replied to that person with a long letter, introducing it in detail. The latest national research results on Jun Kiln archeology."

"The old man's character..." Lin Wanqiu couldn't help but admire him, but she couldn't think of any words to describe it: "It's so clean!"

"The old man replied to him in the letter that Jun kiln began in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and continued to be fired during the Jin and Yuan Dynasties. There are many records of these in the historical notes of the ancients."

"And in recent years, a large number of broken porcelain fragments have been unearthed in Bagua Cave, Juntai, Yu County. The bottoms of the vessels have the words 'Fenghua' and 'Provincial Fu', with the words and shapes from one to ten. These unearthed broken porcelain fragments , and the Jun porcelain from the Song Dynasty in the old collection of the Qing Palace can both cope with it."

"How did they match up? The Jun porcelain in the Forbidden City is also numbered from one to ten?"

"How is it possible?" Zhou Zhi laughed: "Song Jun's global collection has less than ten items in total, how can it be so complete?"

"This conclusion can be drawn because a pattern was discovered in the study of the remaining porcelain from Bagua Cave, that is, the number of official Jun porcelain is from one to ten, which represents the size of the artifact."

"The bigger the number, the bigger the utensil?"

"On the contrary, the larger the number, the smaller the artifact!" Zhou Zhi compared a shape: "This number represents the level of the artifact. Level ten is the smallest, which is almost as big."

"There is a small cross-shaped flowerpot in the Palace Museum, which matches the research of archaeological excavations."

"The Jun kiln of the Jin Dynasty is already the closest to the late Northern Song Dynasty, not to mention it has purple spots, so I am very satisfied with the small bowl that the enemy gave me. Thank you Sister Wanqiu!"

"So now that you have authentic Jun Kiln wares from the Jin Dynasty, can you sell those pieces from the Third Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty?"

"Uh... Actually, the red glaze color produced by using the copper ions in the glaze, the reducing environment in the kiln, and firing at high temperatures has a general name, which can be called 'copper red glaze'."

"There is a very serious problem with copper red glaze. As long as there is a slight deviation, it will lead to incomplete reduction or partial oxidation, resulting in gray, green, black, and even burning loss."

"According to archaeological data, the Jiaocheng kiln in Shanxi Province of my country in the Tang Dynasty began to use copper to burn red, and white-glazed red-spotted vessels were unearthed;"

"By the Song Dynasty, a large number of copper-red spot porcelain had been fired in Yu County, Henan Province. This is the famous 'Jun Kiln';"

"However, this red color always appeared in the form of patches. It was not until the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty that Jingdezhen began to be able to produce red glaze ware of the same color. Among them, the ones from Yongle and Xuande in the early Ming Dynasty were the most famous, which were called 'Sacrifice Red' ."

"It's a pity that the tradition of sacrificing red was lost in the mid-Ming Dynasty, so we could only burn alum red instead."

"It was not until the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty that copper red was restored. These are the famous Langhong, cowpea red and other valuable varieties."

"While people are pursuing the bright red color of porcelain, there is also the accompanying kiln glaze." "Kiln glaze is actually the red glaze that is incompletely restored during the firing process, or it is deliberately added on the glaze for the effect. He also sprinkled on some copper-red glaze at will, hoping to create a colorful 'five-color glaze' with both cold and warm colors. This is the Jun kiln series."

"But no matter which method is used, under the ancient craftsmanship level, the porcelain that can produce the beauty that people need can be said to be one in a million. In ancient times, such artifacts were called 'kiln treasures'."

"So my current collection, from the purple-spotted chicken heart bowl in the Jun kiln of the Jin Dynasty, to the pomegranate statue in the Kangxi cowpea red kiln, to the rose purple imitation Jun kiln three-legged tripod in the Yongzheng imperial kiln in the Qing Dynasty, to the glazed apple statue in the Qianlong kiln, is actually a series. 'Copper-red glaze' porcelain."

"Even my previous Ziding plum vase from the Song Dynasty should be in this series."

“The current series of porcelain still lacks Tang Jun from Jiaocheng Kiln, Shenhe Kiln, Lushan Kiln or Yuzhou Kiln; Yuan Jun from Cizhou Kiln, Xiangzhou Kiln, Yuzhou Kiln, Lushan Kiln or Linfen Kiln; There are Ming Dynasty official juns refired in Yuzhou; and imitations of Jingdezhen kilns after the third dynasty of the Qing Dynasty... Well, I should be able to find this in the cultural relics store... For the first ones, I will continue to ask Sister Wanqiu."

"I found out that you are a Pixiu person, you can only get in and out!" Lin Wanqiu cursed bitterly: "Does it mean that I am guilty of buying you a Jin Dynasty Jun kiln bowl and causing such a lot of work?"

"Tang Jun is not on the stage. Ming Jun is more common. It's not that rare. It's just that Yuan Jun is a little more difficult..."

Lin Wanqiu finally lost her temper and followed in the footsteps of Xu Anxin. She stretched out her hand and grabbed Zhou Zhi's ears, shouting angrily: "Speak again to yourself to see if it's human?!"

"Ouch, elbow, what are you doing?" Li Laoer's voice sounded outside the door: "How could you let my wife be violent?"

"Second brother, you are really too biased. Why do you mean I want your wife to be violent?!" Lin Wanqiu tilted her head at Zhou Zhi's head: "Can you share some of the truth? Let's see who is the victim!"

"It's just that you, the uncle, are wrong!" Li Laoer said plausibly, and then he persuaded Lin Wanqiu kindly: "Honey, we need to calm down, calm down, don't be as knowledgeable as a street kid like Zuzi..."

"Don't say bad words in front of children." Lin Wanqiu finally took her hand back and rolled her eyes at Li Laoer.

Zhou Zhi was confused: "You just said that I'm not a child..."

"Hahahaha..." Lin Wanqiu finally couldn't help it and laughed loudly.

"Prenatal education affects the child in the belly," Li Laoer walked to Lin Wanqiu and sat down, reaching out to touch his wife's belly: "So if you make my wife angry and make her lose her temper in front of the child, it's your fault... "

"Ah this..." Zhou Zhi didn't change his mind at all, feeling aggrieved and speechless: "Why are you pregnant?"

"Huh?" Li Laoer and Lin Wanqiu stared at Zhou Zhi at the same time, meaning that we are giving you a chance to reorganize your language.

"Hi! Congratulations!" Zhou Zhi began to react normally, but what he was thinking was that he really couldn't sleep with two different people on the same bed: "Oh, Mr. Li is probably going to be very happy?!"

Among the three Li brothers, the eldest is a scientist. He lives far away in Silicon Valley and still doesn’t have a baby;

The third child mainly fights a nine-pound and eight-pound backbone. He used to be very successful in the ring with his family. In recent years, after marrying his cousin An An, his temperament has changed a bit and he has started to interact with the family again.

The second child is the most obedient, and whatever he does is more in line with the old man's wishes. If everything goes well, the child in Lin Wanqiu's belly will be the eldest grandson of the Li family. The old man has probably been looking forward to it for a long time.