Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 549 Three Colors
"Where is that? I just ask if I don't understand." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Today is a rare opportunity, so I will borrow Teacher Jiang's precious place and this artifact to do science popularization for Shu Yi and Yixiong."

"Haha, you say what you say." Director Jiang said with a smile: "By the way, I'll listen to it too."

Zhou Zhi gently turned this exquisite Hu people's holding horn cup, and even his voice seemed to become gentle: "During the Tang Dynasty, Hu people from all over the world occupied the huge market of Datang's service industry. They brought delicious wine, novel musical instruments, alternative music and dances, peculiar costumes, and various novel ways of playing, which were greatly welcomed by the people of Tang Dynasty."

"And the skilled craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty left these images on various handicrafts."

"Among them, in the category of ceramics from the Tang Dynasty, the most representative one is the Sancai of the Tang Dynasty."

"Tang Sancai is a kind of low-temperature lead-glazed pottery. Although the three colors are mainly yellow, white and green, the three here mean many."

"Because with the different metal oxides added to the colored glaze, due to the difference in composition and reducing environment, various colors such as light yellow, ocher yellow, light green, dark green, sky blue, brown red, eggplant purple, etc. will be formed."

"Although colored glaze is applied, in the final analysis, the three-color pottery still belongs to the pottery body, and the reason lies in the firing temperature."

"The firing environment for pottery is generally below [-] degrees, while the standard temperature for porcelain is above [-] degrees."

"Of course, there is an interval of [-] degrees in the middle. This interval can be low-temperature porcelain, such as the firing temperature of Song porcelain after the three-color pottery; it can also be high-grade pottery, such as the firing temperature of today's purple sand pottery electric furnace."

"Although this kind of three-color pottery could not be listed in the "Daya Hall" like secret color porcelain and white porcelain in the Tang Dynasty, it also has a very popular use."

"Because the colored glaze coated on the ceramic body will undergo complex changes during the baking process. These changes include chemical changes in minerals, changes in the shade of colored glazes, and changes in the mutual infiltration of various glazes."

"This also creates the characteristics of Tang Sancai's mottled colors, harmonious shades, and natural and smooth patterns. In the mutual reflection of colors, it shows a magnificent and magnificent artistic charm, and it also creates an aesthetic feeling with a unique Chinese style."

"Thus, although its body is fragile, its waterproof performance is poor, and its practicability is far inferior to that of celadon and white porcelain that had appeared at that time, it has also found its special market as a Ming vessel for burial. At the same time, it has left a legacy for later generations. A ceramic art treasure with unique temperament and rich categories."

"Speaking of three colors, Chinese people are most familiar with Huren camel figurines and various horses, which are the most eye-catching ones in Shanbo. The type of utensils in daily necessities."

"A careful study of one type of pottery reveals that the carcass of this type of kaolin is actually the carcass of the five major kilns in the Song Dynasty. Only after the problem of kiln temperature was solved, the pottery body was finally transformed into a porcelain body."

"And many techniques such as spotting and flowing glaze of Tang Sancai were also inherited by later generations of kilns such as Ding Kiln and Jun Kiln, and went a step further, pushing it to the pinnacle of beauty in the form of kiln changes."

Director Jiang took the lead in applauding: "With elbows at this level, it's no problem at all to be a museum guide."

Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "But it's funny to talk about. At first, it was in China, because everyone knew that these things were artifacts in tombs, and they weren't pleasing at all. At first, they were purely used by Chinese antique dealers to deceive foreigners. thing."

Now even Director Jiang couldn't help but become curious: "Eh? I haven't heard anyone set up this Dragon Gate Formation before!"

"Director Jiang must know that the discovery of Tang Sancai artifacts was accidentally discovered in an ancient Luoyang tomb during the exploration of the Luoyang-Kaifeng Railway in [-]."

"At that time, everyone thought it was bad luck and destroyed it."

"However, as the ancient tombs in Luoyang were continuously excavated, there were more and more tricolor artifacts, which were transported to the Liulichang antique market in the capital by cultural relic dealers, but no one cared about them."

"Until the 20s, Guoxue masters Wang Guowei and Luo Zhenyu were visiting an antique shop. In an inconspicuous corner of the shop, they found a few three-colored pieces, which were identified as artifacts of the Tang Dynasty and had extremely high artistic achievements. "

Wang Guowei and Luo Zhenyu are masters of Chinese studies. Modern people only know Wang Guowei, mainly because his "Human Ci Hua" is so famous.

And Luo Zhenyu's reputation is much smaller, the main reason is that although he is educated and well-educated, he is an extreme royalist, running for the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, and even became a bureaucrat of Manchuria, a real big traitor.

But people are very contradictory. It is such a person, but the famous modern Chinese archaeologists, paleographers, epigraphers, Dunhuang scientists, bibliographers, collationists, agronomists, educators, calligraphers, collector.

The main achievements of his life are frightening to death, researching oracle bone inscriptions, discovering Yin Ruins, creating the history of Xixia, deciphering Xixia characters, protecting Dunhuang...

His collection of calligraphy and paintings, bronzes, ancient books, bamboo slips, Ming wares, Qing palace archives, etc., can be called the wealth of mountains and seas. Bibliographies such as Dharma Book and Gaochang Mural Essence.

The most famous deed is snatching back the "Secret Documents of the Palace of the Qing Dynasty" from the waste dealers. How many are there in total?Eight thousand sacks, a full 15 catties!
These materials have become the first-hand materials for future generations to study Qing history. Even he himself is very proud of himself: "I ask myself that the blessing of writing in my life is far more than that of my predecessors. The writing of the Yin Ruins is the first, and the bamboo slips of the Western Frontier are the second. There are three posthumous notes in the stone chamber, and four historical materials in the Daku."

But I can't talk about that now, Zhou Zhi continued to introduce: "Two masters of Chinese studies spoke highly of Sancai, which immediately triggered a round of market prices."

"At that time, it attracted the attention of Western capitalists who were artistically educated and invested in the construction of railways. They soon became famous in the circle of foreigners, and then antique dealers and people who stole and sold cultural relics for them also came one after another. Tang Sancai His name was called away by these people."

"As many treasures were lost overseas at that time, Tang Sancai became famous all over the world."

"Until now, Tang Sancai has been a very popular category of Chinese ceramics in the international market. I have a Sotheby's auction album from 950, and there is a Tang Sancai dark horse on it. That black horse finally sold for [-] yuan in London. It was sold at a price of [-] pounds, converted into RMB [-] million!"

"How much?" Gu Zhenduo could hardly believe his ears: "A black pottery horse, [-] million?!"

"Well, the ones in Shanbo are even better than that one." Zhou Zhi thought he knew what Gu Zhenduo was thinking, and joked, "However, the state has clear regulations that the cultural relics unearthed after the founding of the People's Republic of China can only be owned by the state. Appropriation in any way is a crime, or at least an accomplice."

(End of this chapter)