How did I become an old artist?

Chapter 25 A Thousand Years of Dreams!Incredible craftsmen!

Before that, Zhao Chen had never entered the Southern Song Dynasty Guanyao Museum.

He knew there was such a museum, but he hadn't made a special trip to it.Because that memory was buried deep in his heart, and he has never been willing to bring it up.

The Southern Song Dynasty Official Kiln Museum is the first ceramic museum built on the basis of ancient kiln sites in China.

In other words, this is the former Xiunei official kiln.

The kiln of the official kiln is still deep in the museum, and until now, the kiln can still ignite a fire.

The fire of official kiln porcelain has never been extinguished.

"Master Zhao, here." Sun Maohai walked over to meet Zhao Chen and greeted him.

Accompanying Sun Maohai is Liu Jun, the curator of the Guan Kiln Museum.

Sun Maohai walked up to Zhao Chen and introduced the two of them:
"This is the curator of the museum, Liu Jun, curator Liu. This is Zhao Chen who fired the ancient judge kiln porcelain."

Zhao Chen shook hands with Liu Jun, and Liu Jun couldn't help but asked again: "Master Zhao, I also know about your craftsmanship. Have you considered coming to the museum as a porcelain firing master? We have a formal establishment."

"A master of art certified by the government has a much higher status than a folk craftsman."

Zhao Chen refused with a smile: "I'm used to being in the mountains, and besides firing porcelain, I also want to do other things."

Hearing this, Liu Jun no longer insisted.

Zhao Chen followed the people in the museum to visit the museum.

Returning to this place again, Zhao Chen felt quite emotional.

Everything has changed here.

The museum is divided into five parts: Hometown of Celadon, Porcelain for Imperial Use, Beauty of Fengya, Treasures of the Imperial Palace, and Ruins of Official Kiln in Jiaotanxia.

Zhao Chen looked at the porcelain on display in the museum, and there was a look on his face that others couldn't understand.

These are all orthodox official kiln porcelain, especially some of them, Zhao Chen has witnessed their birth.

These are the imprints of the old times.

Just like him.

Zhao Chen stood beside the showcase, quietly admiring a flower-mouth pot in the showcase.

This Southern Song official kiln flower mouth pot was made by a master craftsman with the best craftsmanship in Xiuneisi official kiln.At that time, Zhao Chen learned a lot of porcelain firing skills from this master master.

He was by the side when this flower mouth pot was being made.

Unexpectedly, 1000 years later, Zhao Chen saw this flower mouth pot again in the museum.

Sun Maohai noticed that Zhao Chen looked at the flower mouth pot very seriously, so he explained: "This is an authentic cultural relic of the Southern Song Dynasty. It has six petals, round lips, neck, and shoulders. It is the most precious thing in the museum. One of the few Southern Song collections."

Hearing Sun Maohai's words, Zhao Chen came back to his senses.

He nodded, and then replied: "This piece of porcelain is not just covered with black-gray thick glaze, but with pink-blue thick glaze first, and then gray-black thick glaze."

"When the porcelain is first fired, you should be able to see the pink cyan under the black gray. When the two colors are superimposed, it will appear more restrained and well-proportioned."

"Moreover, this piece of porcelain is wide open and fired on a pad, with the characteristics of purple-black iron feet, which is the top technique of Xiuneisi's official kiln."

"That's why this piece of porcelain has such a uniform and smooth shape."

At this moment, Zhao Chen was accompanied by several museum staff.

Including Liu Jun, curator of the museum, Sun Maohai, a master of porcelain art, Wu Lu, a porcelain craftsman in the museum, and Ma Delu, an old craftsman who repairs cultural relics.

Several people have a very deep understanding of the history and structure of official kiln porcelain.

After all, many of them have dealt with official kiln porcelain all their lives.

After hearing Zhao Chen's words, a look of surprise appeared on their faces.

Sun Maohai was even more shocked.

Zhao Chen's last two sentences are good. This Southern Song Dynasty official kiln pot with a flower mouth is fired with a large opening, and it also has the characteristics of purple-black iron feet.

However, this piece of official kiln porcelain has a thick pink-blue glaze, which is completely beyond the knowledge of Sun Maohai and Liu Jun.

They never knew this before.Zhao Chen's casual sentence made them stunned.

"Pink blue thick glaze?" Sun Maohai looked at the Huakou pot in the showcase, his eyes were full of seriousness.

"Yes, one of the characteristics of official kiln porcelain is that the body is thin and the glaze is thick, and it needs to be glazed many times during refining."

"Experienced masters sometimes use two different colors of glaze when firing porcelain, so as to achieve a more perfect effect."

"This is also one of the secrets of official kiln porcelain."

Zhao Chen continued to narrate.

Zhao Chen's words made several people look at each other in blank dismay.

This flower mouth pot has been observed and cleaned countless times, and people in the museum are more familiar with it.

Moreover, they also found that the glaze color of this Huakou pot was not quite right, it was a little brighter than the usual gray and black.

Experts from the museum believe that this effect is due to the special glaze used in Xiuneisi's official kiln.

It never occurred to them that this might be the result of two thick glazes superimposed together.

And Zhao Chen's opinion gave Sun Maohai and the others a feeling of enlightenment, the feeling of seeing the blue sky through the clouds and mists.

"Yeah, two thick glazes, fired at low temperature for many times, why didn't I think of it!"

"No wonder the glaze color of this Huakou pot is very strange. It turns out that there is a layer of pink-blue thick glaze under the gray-black thick glaze!"

"It's incredible!"

Sun Maohai praised again and again.

He looked at the Huakou jug in the glass cabinet, as if he couldn't wait to check it again.

Several other people also showed surprise on their faces.

Liu Jun, the curator, and Ma Delu, a relic restoration craftsman, looked at each other, and there was a look of disbelief in the eyes of both of them.

Madelu is also an old expert. Although the craftsmanship of firing porcelain is not as good as that of Sun Maohai, he is definitely the most powerful person in the museum in terms of understanding of cultural relics and the classification and identification of cultural relics.

At this moment, Madelu was sure that what Zhao Chen said was right.

Under the gray-black thick glaze of the Huakou pot, there is indeed a layer of pink-blue thick glaze.

This is incredible.

You should know that, generally speaking, customers who enter the Southern Song Dynasty official kiln museum listen to the history of the Southern Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain and the origin of these exquisite porcelains from the artisans of the museum.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhao Chen came, it was Zhao Chen who was speaking, and these old experts were listening carefully.

This feeling is indeed very strange.

Zhao Chen looked at the Huakouhu, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

Especially when he saw this flower mouth pot placed in a tightly guarded exhibition hall and admired by countless descendants, Zhao Chen felt a sense of pride in his heart.

This is the official kiln porcelain of the Southern Song Dynasty, the royal porcelain, the pinnacle and representative of minimalist culture.

"Master Zhao, how did you know that this piece of porcelain was first fired with a thick pink-blue glaze, and then with a thick gray-black glaze?"

At this time, Zhao Delu, a craftsman who repaired cultural relics, asked.

Hearing Zhao Delu's words, Zhao Chen replied lightly: "It is recorded in ancient books that official kiln porcelain has been glazed many times. The glaze color of the Southern Song Dynasty is mainly pink and blue. The main glaze of this flower mouth pot is gray black, but the color is not quite right. , so I guessed."

Hearing this, several people were amazed.

In their eyes, Zhao Chen was even more mysterious.

Then, Liu Jun and Wu Lu accompanied Zhao Chen to continue to visit the museum.

Zhao Delu and Sun Maohai put on gloves, took out a magnifying glass, and planned to take another look at this precious Southern Song official kiln flower-mouth pot.

The two veteran craftsmen couldn't wait to verify what Zhao Chen said.

The museum is very well built.

The display art design uses the stump structure to show the development history of Huaxia ceramics, and the spatial layout of double-petaled flowers implies the splendor and variety of ceramic culture.

There are also cartoon storytelling, assembly games, multimedia display and so on.

In addition to the Southern Song official kiln porcelain, there are other important exhibits here, including the original Warring States porcelain socket, the Yuan blue and white Guanyin statue, the Yuan Longquan kiln powder green printed phoenix vase, etc.

Finally, Zhao Chen came to the official kiln site in Jiaotanxia, ​​Southern Song Dynasty.

At this moment, the place has completely changed.

There is no longer the old fire, nor the noise of lively artisans.

There are only cold kilns and a few earthen walls that are protected.

At this moment, the torrent of history surged through Zhao Chen's heart.

After a dream for thousands of years, everything seemed a little unreal.

He felt a sense of loneliness inexplicably.

People are like this, when they grow up to a certain stage, they are either vulgar or lonely.

He is the last descendant of the orthodox Southern Song official kiln porcelain.

For Zhao Chen, in the future, he just wants to spend his life in the way he likes.

(End of this chapter)