Craftsman: I continue to learn for the sake of the saints

Chapter 101 Flesh and Flesh Build Civilization

Push open the first door.

Tang Sancai.

Qin Luo felt as if he had entered a "dream within a dream", which was both illusory and real.

This is... Los Angeles.

On the banks of the Huangzhi River.

A new pottery kiln has just been established to make funerary objects for a certain important person who has just passed away.

The sacrificial burial system has a long history. In history, there are only two eras, and there has never been a living person burial.

One is Han.

One is Don.

Even later generations, the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, have revived intermittently, Zhu Yuanzhang restored it, and later abolished it, Nurhachi restored it, and was later abolished by Kangxi.

Only, Han, Tang, never had.

So it is a strong man, a strong Tang.

The timeline at this time...

It was the 16th year of Tang Kaiyuan, 728 AD.

A great man died in Luoyang City, Liu Tingxun, a loyal general of the Tang Dynasty, served successively as the governor of Henan and Huaiyin, and was worshiped as Shang Zhechong and Shangzhu Kingdom.

A general of the second rank is considered the highest among generals.

Mr. Liu served in four dynasties, including Wu Zetian, Zhongzong, Ruizong and Xuanzong.

It can be said that he is a big man with one top one.

The Tang Dynasty practiced generous burials, but instead of burials of living people, three-color pottery figurines were used instead.

The important task of firing funeral objects for him fell on this kiln.

Qin Luo felt like a ghost floating in the air, and everything he made could be seen from his perspective.

Tang Sancai is a perfect fusion of sculpture and ceramics.

First carved, then fired.

In the Tang Dynasty, the carving technique had already reached its peak, and a large number of grottoes appeared concentratedly.

The craftsmen in the kiln have all been assigned their own tasks at this time, and are concentrating on the work in hand.

A piece of lifelike image gradually took shape in their hands.

E crown bo belt, upright and quiet civil servants.

A samurai in armor.

A lady with a plump body and red lips.

Eunuchs and eunuchs who bowed their knees and sneered.

A small, ugly black slave.

The camels and horses are beautifully proportioned and lined.

With blue eyes and long fangs, it is a particularly ferocious tomb-slayer.

Qin Luo looked over one by one, and "stopped" each one, staring patiently for a long time.

Unaware of the passage of time.

Countless inspirations are brewing in my heart.

After watching the sculpture, I don't know how long it has been. After all, it has been at least a few "months", and I have learned a lot of nutrition about sculpture from it.

Qin Luo looked at the material and glaze color again.

The colorful colors of Tang Sancai mainly come from four metal elements, cobalt, manganese, copper and iron.

After ingenious formula ratio, it can appear blue-purple that has never been seen before.

Originally, only dark green copper oxide appeared, but it also appeared light green and blue-green.

Originally, only brown-red iron oxide appeared in yellow, white, black, and many other colors.

The ancients certainly didn't understand "chemical elements".

However, after hundreds of times of practical application, the "secret recipe" has been learned and the law has been summed up.

As a result, the lifelike pottery figurines can be painted and then fired to present a colorful display.

……

After watching Tang Sancai.

Back to system space.

Qin Luo pushed open the door of the Ru kiln again.

Another period of time and space history is slowly unfolding before the eyes.

It's like watching a TV show.

Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, had a dream. He dreamed that the sky was sunny after the rain, and the color was very beautiful.

After waking up, a decree was passed on—after the rain, the sky is clear and the clouds are broken, so this color will be the future.

The emperor gave orders, and all craftsmen in the country began to work.

After two consecutive supervisors, after many attempts, they failed to make it, so they were beheaded.

The task is in the hands of Yan He, a potter with great skills.

Under the pressure of the emperor, Yan He had to devote himself to research, forgot to eat and sleep, and stayed up all night. Even his seven-year-old daughter was sick and was not allowed to go home.

until……

He finally succeeded in developing a new glaze color.

After the rain, the sky is clear, bright and transparent, smooth and delicate, just like beautiful jade.

If you look closely, after firing, the glaze surface presents small pieces like cicada's wing patterns, which appear and disappear from time to time under the light, like stars twinkling.

This ingenious craftsmanship is extraordinarily fresh, simple, thick, soft, and elegant...

Once it appeared, it was immediately loved by Song Huizong and designated as the imperial court.

Yan He was finally able to go home and saw his daughter.

It's just that the daughter has died, and heaven and man are separated forever.

After passing on the craftsmanship to his apprentices, Yan He walked into the burning kiln in the dead of night and fed the kiln with his body.

This picture...

Qin Luo looked shockingly, filled with sympathy.

It's just that this is history that has already happened, and I can't change anything.

Just a bystander.

He sighed deeply.

Qin Luo left here.

I have already mastered the unique skill of Ru kiln, the azure glaze.

But the mood is rather heavy.

……

And blue and white porcelain.

Blue and white, blue, taken from blue, and blue from blue, flower, pattern.

Yuan Dynasty.

Porcelain craftsmen in Jingde used small iron knives to carve patterns on the porcelain embryos, which was labor-intensive and time-consuming, and the decoration techniques were extremely monotonous.

In order to meet the needs of the imperial court, many craftsmen carved day and night, and their eyes were blinded.

Many of them are night blindness, and they don't know how to cure them.

A young craftsman named Zhao Xiaobao has been looking for a material suitable for painting porcelain, which can carve patterns on porcelain embryos.

He tried many kinds, but couldn't find them.

His fiancée, Liao Qinghua, saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart, determined to look for it with her lover.

Finally one day, the man was burning porcelain at home.

She went up the mountain to look for paint.

A kind of gray-black raw material was found by the small river. After being washed by the river water, it can show a wonderful blue-blue color, and the stones will be dyed and will not fade for a long time.

She walked all the way up the river, trying to find the veins.

Unfortunately, he lost his way, and finally died of cold and hunger on the mountain.

It was only a few days later that Zhao Xiaobao led the villagers to find it. Before she died, she was still holding the stone tightly in her hand.

Zhao Xiaobao buried his wife with tears and grief, ground the ore into powder, mixed it into paint, and painted it on the embryo. Finally, on the white porcelain embryo, painted a blue pattern.

extremely gorgeous.

But the one I love never comes back.

He named it... blue and white.

……

Qin Luo: ...

Another depressing story!
After reading it, the whole person is not good.

The status of craftsmen in ancient times was extremely low.

With their flesh and blood, they used their lives to create one after another exquisite works, and then they were sent to the hands of literati, dignitaries, and even emperors...becoming a famous elegance that has been passed down through the ages.

Thus, is the birth of civilization.

But it is based on its own flesh and blood.

……

Doors of history were pushed open one after another, and Qin Luotong learned various techniques and witnessed many tragedies in the world.

No wonder, Lu Xun said, when you open the history books, every page is full of cannibalism.

Qin Luo's heart was somewhat heavy, and a sense of responsibility grew in his heart.

History is over.

But the inheritance must not be discarded.

……

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(End of this chapter)