Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 379
It was a three-dimensional "Picture of a Boy Peeping at a Play". From that angle, the stage on the bottle, the glazed eaves, the lawn, rockery, and waterside pavilions inside the wall, and the characters such as Huadan, Xiaosheng, Qingyi, Hualian, and tables Chairs, musicians; nearer the bottom of the bottle, the pond, reeds, swimming fish, behind the wall close to the neck of the bottle, bamboo, stone, flower trees, big trees, distant mountains, plantains, peeping children, swallows in the sky, all of a sudden become three-dimensional up.

"Turn the bottle." The fourth cousin stared straight at the big reward bottle: "This trick has become..."

Zhou Zhi turned the bottle gently, and the fourth aunt suddenly grabbed the fourth cousin's arm: "This is... a panorama! No, it's a hundred times more magical than the panorama on the painting!"

"It's indeed a panoramic technique." The fourth cousin nodded: "However, the change in the range of appreciating the bottle is also cleverly used, which is far more complicated than the panoramic technique of painting on a flat surface, so the three-dimensional effect created is also magical. A hundred times, what a wonderful workmanship!"

"Auntie, what is Tongjing?"

"Elbow, put your things down first, be careful." Fourth Aunt said.

"Oh."

"This general scene is actually a Western perspective." Uncle Sibiao said, "This kind of painting can be found in Yuanmingyuan, Jingshengzhai, and Juanqinzhai in the Forbidden City."

"However, the landscape paintings of Yuanmingyuan and Jingshengzhai have been destroyed, and Juanqinzhai is still preserved."

"The panorama painting there depicts the entire ceiling as a wisteria trellis, covered with wisterias and blue-purple flowers in full bloom. Through the wisteria trellis and branches, flowers and leaves, the blue sky can be seen from the gap .”

"All of this is drawn. The shape of the wisteria flowers varies according to the perspective of the distance. If the viewer stands at a certain point in front of the stage, and only from this point, and looks up to the ceiling, he will find the A flower, just hanging on top of your head, in frontal perspective."

"With this flower as the center, gradually move away from the surroundings, and the flowers gradually become inclined. The farther away from the central flower, the greater the inclination of the flower shape, and the farthest flower is almost lying flat. look."

"But when you stand at this point and look in the direction of the stage, you will find that the picture has changed. The flowers on the wisteria stand magically become drooping."

"The painter uses this superb expressive technique to create a wonderful stereoscopic illusion. This technique is called 'Tongjing'."

"That is to say, the skill of panorama is to use Western perspective techniques to create a three-dimensional effect on the picture on the plane through ingenious painting techniques and the visual illusion of the viewer at a specific observation point. Visual effect?"

"Well, that's what it means." The fourth cousin agreed with Zhou Zhi's explanation: "How did you find out about this mechanism?"

"Hi!" Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "The bottle was placed on a low table like this at the time, and we squatted there to study it, because the painting method of this bottle was really weird, so we finally decided that it should be an imitation of a folk kiln in the later dynasty. Or it was a defective product of the official kiln that was not destroyed, until I got up a little slower and discovered this secret."

"You are really lucky." The fourth aunt said with a smile: "Then the word "Tongjing" should be added to the appreciation bottle-the Qianlong official kiln boy peeping at the double lion ears and the five-color Tongjing grand appreciation bottle."

In fact, after Zhou Zhi discovered the secret of this porcelain vase, he was sure that it belonged to the Qianlong official kiln, and it is conceivable that the craftsmanship of this vase is too difficult, so it is known as the "Mother of Porcelain", and the official name should be called "Mother of Porcelain". "Large porcelain vases with various glaze colors", like the large Qianlong vase, became an orphan.

Now that he has been affirmed by his fourth aunt and uncle, Zhou Zhi is of course even happier.

"How much did you pay for the elbow?"

"Four hundred. I bought it as a defective imitation of Qianlong. The price of cabbage."

"It's really the price of cabbage." The fourth cousin couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, and muttered: "Anyone who buys this thing has to drill holes. Who knew that Tang Ying also applied the Tongjing technique to porcelain during the Qianlong period..."

"Then what about this one?" Fourth Aunt picked up the Brother Glazed Fish Pole Zun: "Is there any doubt about this?"

"Here," Zhou Zhi pushed the other things to the fourth aunt's side, "here are the seller and these things - copper-painted and silver-backed tiger pen stand, dustpan, brick and inkstone, seal carved from the cusp of birthday star, blue and white The lotus leaf pen lick—it was treated as a set of study for me, one thousand and five."

"Why was it picked out there alone?" Fourth Aunt asked with a smile.

"Because this thing is just like that porcelain bottle, weird."

"What's weird?"

"Judging from the bottom of the tire, traces of supporting nails, purple mouth iron feet, gold wire and iron wires, and pieces of different thicknesses, this should be a fine piece of Geyao in the Southern Song Dynasty."

"But there is another big question, which is the shape of the device."

"According to Liu Sanye's point of view, all Ge Kiln handed down from generation to generation are in the shape of ritual vessels, and this piece of porcelain is similar to the fish basket statue in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is different from the shape of the handed down Ge Kiln, so it is designated as a Ming imitation, so It can’t be called Ge Kiln anymore, it can only be called ‘Ge Glaze’.”

The fourth aunt turned over the porcelain and carefully identified it, and said in her mouth: "The Qing Dynasty Lanpu "JDZ Taolu" Volume [-] "Town Antique Kiln Research" records that the Ge Kiln was fired in the Song Dynasty. This Longquan Liutian Kiln is from Chuzhou. The brothers made it separately, and each brother gave birth to one; at that time, the pottery made by the other was called Ge Kiln by the elder brother."

"Ge kiln porcelain has thin purple veins and a rather thin texture. It has purple iron feet, many broken lines and hidden cracks like fish roe. The glaze color varies, but there are two kinds of beige and pink green. The purer juice is more expensive."

""Si Kao" says: ancient kiln wares, the quality of the hidden pattern is like a tortoise, the ancient official kiln, the quality of the hidden pattern is like crab claws; the broken wares are broken in size."

"The Ge kiln and the official kiln both took soil from the same place, so it was called 'a man of color like an official, also known as Baiji Sui' in history. It can only be identified by hidden patterns and juice glaze, which is slightly inferior to that of the official kiln."

"Therefore, the record about Ge Kiln in "Nan Kiln Notes" is 'Ge Kiln is Zhang Kiln. After leaving Hangzhou Daguan, Zhang surnamed brother, a native of Chuzhou, made pottery, and stole it in Xiunei Temple.'"

"Because Xiuneisi was the place where the official kiln porcelain was made in the Song Dynasty, the article said that the Ge kiln was actually made secretly for the two brothers in the official kiln, 'so the glaze color is like an official kiln'. But 'the patterns are thick and hard, hidden With ink lacquer, there is a unique glaze color, which is also plump, and there are several kinds of pink green, moon white, and light tooth color."

"It is also recorded in the article: There are also dark beige ones for younger brother kilns, which are unbearably precious."

"It seems that after the two brothers learned the craft in the official kiln, they came out and produced a large number of high-quality porcelain that is almost comparable to the official kiln, and they have become the high-quality products of the Song Dynasty recognized by later generations."

"Maybe it didn't come out at all, and it became a public-private joint venture." The fourth cousin said: "Because the kiln site of Ge Kiln has not been found so far, maybe the two brothers have been using the official kiln for firing."

"Anyway." Zhou Zhi nodded, "Except for the shape, all the features of this piece of porcelain are in perfect agreement with Ge Kiln, so I think Liu Sanye's conclusion is too arbitrary."

The fourth aunt smiled at the fourth cousin: "The third master Liu in the elbow's mouth should also be a connoisseur in the capital of Shu, but it's a pity that he sees too many good things, so unfamiliar objects with slight deviations are classified as It has reached the ranks of imitations."

The fourth cousin took the Yulu Zun over and rubbed it twice: "Don't dare to doubt your own knowledge system, dare not break through self-cognition, this is called knowledge barrier."

(End of this chapter)