Riding the wind of rebirth

The entire Gabala bowl is made of fine materials, exquisitely crafted, and the meaning of treasure is very obvious.

Zhou Zhi was dumbfounded after reading the introduction: "Voluntary?"

"Is it strange?" Uncle Si Biao said, "There are now. Donating the body to the medical school after death is a contribution to the cause of medicine."

"But...is it different in nature?"

"Do you know Tibetan Buddhism?"

"I don't understand this."

"If you don't understand, you can't make judgments." Uncle Sibiao said.

"Judging from the inscription on this bowl, this is the story of a secret Tibetan cultivator imitating the Moonlight King Buddha and giving his own head, and voluntarily donating his own bones as a magic weapon for the successors to empower and teach the Dharma."

"No matter what is superfluous, just this little sacrifice is also a kind of compassion."

Zhou Zhi also thinks about it, no matter what level of knowledge and cognition he is at, self-sacrifice for others is compassion.

"Then these human skins are of the same nature as the Gabala bowl?"

"I don't know what these tattoo designs mean, but to complete such a large area of ​​fine tattoos, the recipient must endure great pain, and must endure great pain to remain unmoved by the pain."

"If it wasn't for anesthesia, it might be... really some kind of ascetic practice."

"The main thing is that I don't know Tibetan, otherwise I would know what the contents of these skins are."

"Aren't you going to Shu University?" Uncle Sibiao said, "The study of Tibetan culture is the traditional strength of Shu University."

"Ah, here..." Zhou Zhi glanced at the Tibetan-style suitcase, which was worth a lot of money at first glance, and felt a little bit hard to part with: "What if they force this suitcase to stay?"

"You've got money in your eyes, haven't you?" Uncle Si Biao said, "You've already gotten into porcelain calligraphy and painting, so of course you have to have a collection if you want to study it."

"But these two things are completely beyond your knowledge. In the eyes of Tibetan culture researchers at Shu University, they may be priceless treasures. Apart from being exchanged for money, what else is there for you?"

"So if Shu University wants to stay, then donate it to them."

"Then it's too late for me to say that I'm also interested in Tibetan culture..." Zhou Zhi couldn't help muttering softly.

Seeing that the fourth cousin was about to stare again, he hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, if they want to donate it, it's really scary to put such things at home."

"Well, go to Shu University to find out what it is, and then come back and tell us."

"That's fine..." Zhou Zhi's attitude towards these things is actually similar to that of his fourth cousin. This box is purely an accident, so he won't be too entangled: "Then I will take it with me when I go to Shu this time." .”

"Cleaning up this box actually has another purpose, that is, now that there is an air conditioner, it can provide a better environment for your batch of calligraphy and paintings." Uncle Sibiao said: "As a result, after emptying the calligraphy and paintings, a few things were found in the bottom of the box. .”

The fourth aunt opened the drawer and took out a few small things from it.

Zhou Zhi's eyes first fell on a small square porcelain box: "Ru Kiln! This is Ru Kiln with sky blue glaze!"

Carefully picked up the small square porcelain box, turned it over gently, but saw that the bottom of the porcelain box was full of glazed nails, and the part of the thin glaze was grayish and yellowish.

This is the famous feature of Ru kiln "fragrant ash tire".

Looking at the light, the edge of the vessel and the embossed edge are slightly purple. The difference from official kiln porcelain is that it is hidden but not exposed. This is the "bronze bone" and "earth vein" mentioned in ancient books.

Cao Zhao of the Ming Dynasty mentioned in "Ge Gu Yao Lun": "Ru kiln wares, produced in the north, were fired in the Song Dynasty. Light blue, those with crab claw patterns are true, and those without patterns are especially good. The soil veins are charming and thin. It’s even rare.”

On the bottom of the porcelain, there is also the regular script of the word "Fenghua" written with very delicate and beautiful brushstrokes, after applying thick glaze, and using bamboo sticks.

"This is... Fenghua palace money... the authentic product of the Southern Song Dynasty?" Zhou Zhi's voice was full of tremors, and he couldn't believe that he could have such luck.

Ye Zhi of the Southern Song Dynasty said in "Tan Zhai Bi Heng": "In this dynasty, the white porcelain in Dingzhou was awned and unusable, so Ruzhou was ordered to make green kiln wares, so Hebei, Tang, Deng, and Yaozhou all had them, and Ru kiln was the first. "

The legend about Song Huizong's "after the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds are clear, this color will be the future" refers specifically to the azure glaze in the Ru kiln.

Gao Lian, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, mentioned in "Yanxianqing Appreciation Notes": "I have tasted it in the Ru kiln. It is actually agate powder glazed. The juice is as thick as fat piles. However, the brown eyes in the juice are hidden like crab claws. The glaze color There are sky blue, pink green, light green and sky blue, etc. Pink green is the best, and sky blue is very precious. It has the reputation of "after the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds are **", and the glaze can be seen as jasper, which is not an exaggeration. All the past dynasties Celadon should be crowned with Ru Kiln."

Uncle Si Biao smiled and said, "Don't ask me, what do you think?"

Now Zhou Zhi's eyesight has come out. After all, he already has several pieces of precious Song porcelain in his hand, including Longquan kiln plum green lotus leaf lid jar, official kiln string pattern long neck bottle, and Hutian kiln drinking porcelain. Lime glaze, green glaze, soy sauce glaze, and blue glaze folk kiln wares with less fineness are already very familiar to Song porcelain.

After seeing a lot of things, I have a great understanding of Song porcelain. It should be known that the most difficult porcelain in the world to imitate is Song Ru Kiln.

Ru kiln has one of the most notable features—glaze color.

The glaze color of Ru kiln is as blue as the sky.

In fact, due to the different restoration environments, Ru kiln wares also come in a variety of colors, but the most unique is the unique glaze color of the box in Zhou Zhi's hand.

Although azure is the most famous color, the most precious color is actually one grade deeper than azure, called "sky blue", and in ancient books it is often called "green".

But this sky blue glaze color is different from ordinary porcelain.

It is observed under different lighting and different angles, and the color will change magically.

Zhou Zhi held the porcelain box under the bright sunlight, and the color turned greenish-yellow, just like the golden sunlight on the clear blue sky when the clouds cleared and the fog cleared after the rain.

And put it in a place where there is no direct light, the color of the porcelain becomes blue-medium blue again, like clear lake water.

The color of the glaze is pure and pure, and it looks like green peaks, but there are some red halos in the glaze, some are like the morning sun going out to sea, some are like the sunset and sunset, some are like the sky after rain, and some are like a long rainbow hanging in the sky.

The reason for this is the optical phenomenon created by the different angles of twill openings and the different reflection angles of the light caused by the agate glaze.

Another characteristic of agate glaze is that the glaze surface is soft and pure like jade, with an obvious feeling of butter, unlike ordinary porcelain with clear glaze and strong glass feeling.

The glazed surface of this porcelain box is opaque, touching it like silk, warm and simple, and shiny like fat, quiet and elegant, with a beauty that looks like jade but not jade.

This is the second important feature of Ru Kiln, the surface is like jade.

The key reason is the semi-opacified crystalline glaze on the surface of the porcelain.

This crystalline glaze is extremely sensitive to color and light, but the cyan glaze can reflect a red halo from the inside.On the slightly thicker part of the glaze, the verdure is solidified like curd fat, and like wax dripping slightly, after melting the agate, it hangs down and solidifies.

Where the glaze is slightly thinner, it looks like a young girl's shy face showing a faint red, or like the morning light dew, slightly dyeing the thin clouds red.

The luster of the glaze surface is not as crystal clear as Guan and Ge porcelain, and even worse than the tenderness and frivolity of Longquan celadon. This lack of obvious vitrified texture is precisely an important feature of agate glaze, which makes the enamel thick and shiny like fat, creating The unique beauty of Ru porcelain is more in line with the aesthetics of literati and scholars in the past dynasties.

Many imitation Ru kiln porcelains fired by official kilns in later generations cannot perfectly reproduce this point. Even if the glaze color is close enough to match the real ones with Song Ru kilns, such fat and jade-like texture cannot be imitated. .

It is easy to imitate the color, but difficult to imitate the ground. This is the lament of the imitators of Yongle, Yongzheng and Qianlong.

What's more, Ru Kiln has another characteristic that is difficult to imitate - the special split texture.

The cracked pieces of Ge Kiln in Guan Kiln have crab claw patterns like gold and iron wires, which are very obvious, while the cracked pieces of Ru Kiln have a very subtle beauty.

It's transparent.

Therefore, it may be more appropriate to describe it as "cicada wing pattern".

It's like a flap of cicada, lost in the glaze layer.

Take a magnifying glass to observe, and you can find that there are some sparse air bubbles hidden between the wings of the underglaze, as few as morning stars.