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Chapter 81 Shock in the ceramic world: You must visit Ye Xuan in person!
Chapter 81 Shock in the ceramic world: You must visit Ye Xuan in person!

A large porcelain kiln in Dangyangyu, Jiao City, Henan Province.

"Will it work this time?"

A thin old man wearing gray linen short-sleeves and cotton trousers, with some mud on his trousers legs, was talking to himself.

The old man is Chai Jun, the person in charge of this porcelain kiln, and he is also a master of ceramic art.

While waiting for the electric kiln to cool down naturally, the old man's eyes were already focused on the ceramic shards in his hand.

This piece of ceramic fragment is less than the size of a palm, and has many fine scratches and cracks on it. It has a strong sense of age at first glance.

But the fragments were wiped clean, showing the owner's cherishment and care for them.

What is special about this fragment is the consistent color inside and outside the fragment.

It's not the usual single-color mud, but a mixture of brown, yellow and white!
In this way, the identity of this ceramic shard is self-evident——

Fragments of Jiaotai porcelain excavated from the Jiaotai porcelain site!

Hearing a mechanical sound warning from the electric kiln, and realizing that the electric kiln had cooled down, Mr. Chai put away the remaining pieces with great care, and then eagerly opened the cooled electric kiln while wearing white gloves.

However, just when he took out the saggers one by one from the inside of the kiln with full eyes, he saw that the saggers were full of ceramic slag of different colors.

Some were completely chapped and could not even be pieced together.

Some of them seem to be intact, but either there are chips on the edges or cracks on the mouth of the bottle. You can tell at a glance that they are failures.

Until he saw that the white and blue two-color ceramics in the last sagger inside the kiln still retained the complete bowl shape, the old man had already placed his last hope here.

Even if there is a complete finished product, it is considered a success!
Carefully taking out the small ceramic bowl, Chai Lao's cloudy eyes were full of sparkle.

Turning his palm slightly, Chai Lao saw the obvious cracks on the mouth of the ceramic bowl at a glance, and the smile he just smiled immediately froze on his lips.

"Did...fail again?!"

With a lonely sigh, Mr. Chai's eyes immediately dimmed.

As one of the largest porcelain kilns in China, Dangyangyu is the birthplace of porcelain’s Gentleman’s Twist Porcelain.

Mr. Chai, who inherited the porcelain kiln from the previous generation, grew up listening to the story of twisted porcelain and had the ambition to restore twisted porcelain since he was a child.

I visit the British Museum every year just to study the only remaining twisted porcelain in the British Museum.

Every time I go back to my country for retreat, I consider many details such as clay composition, clay ratio, and baking temperature.

Unfortunately, more than ten years have passed and he still has not restored the method of making twisted body porcelain.

Full of hope again and again, only to be met with failure again and again.

What made him feel even more uncomfortable was that three years ago, good news came from the island country next door that the jiaotai porcelain was successfully restored.

Relying on his reputation for restoring the twisted porcelain, Tomio Oyama, the master who successfully restored the twisted porcelain, also gave the twisted porcelain a Japanese name called "Lian Shanshou".

In just one year, under the leadership of Tomio Oyama, a master of twisted body porcelain, a group of ceramic masters known for their "practical skills" gradually emerged, and began to enjoy a high reputation in the international ceramic art circle.

Not only that, the island country’s ceramic industry has even made rumors——

They want to apply for the UNESCO World Heritage List to show that the twisted porcelain belongs to the island country!
As soon as this declaration came out, it immediately caused shock in the Chinese ceramics industry.

During the Tang Dynasty, the island country sent a large number of envoys to China, and only then did they acquire the most popular manufacturing technology of twisted body porcelain.

It is obvious to all in the history books, how can the islanders open their eyes and tell lies? !
The twisted porcelain is obviously a treasure of China, how can it be tampered with by other countries? !

As the birthplace of twisted porcelain, the large and small porcelain kilns in Dangyangyu were filled with indignation and became more and more involved in the restoration of twisted porcelain.

Among them, the one with the greatest chance of successful restoration is Mr. Chai who owns the fragments of jiaotai porcelain.

But in this latest restoration, the results are already obvious.

He failed again!

"What exactly went wrong?" Just as Mr. Chai sat beside the electric kiln and muttered to himself, an anxious voice sounded from a distance.

"Mr. Chai, hurry up! The Ceramics Association called and said you have to attend the online meeting..."

Ceramic Association?

Mr. Chai had never been interested in meetings of this kind. He was just about to wave away as he was used to, when he heard another word from the staff.

"It is said that someone among the people has successfully restored the twisted-body porcelain. Please be sure to attend!"

Has anyone restored the jiaoti porcelain?

Mr. Chai suddenly stood up from his original position and went straight to the conference room.

"Take me right away!"

……

A few minutes later, Mr. Chai didn't even sit down, and he asked the key point as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Where's the news about jiaoti porcelain?"

As soon as the energetic voice came out, the buzzing discussion at the impromptu meeting also fell silent.

As the first member to discover jiaotai porcelain, Yang Jie was lucky enough to attend this impromptu meeting because of the influence of his teacher, Director Wu.

However, seeing the familiar ID names that appeared in this impromptu meeting, he wished he could shrink smaller and smaller, wishing that his sense of existence was zero.

This group of people is either the characters who appear in his textbooks, or they are the current industry bosses and Taishan Beidou. How can he appear here? !

At this time, he heard a powerful voice, and Yang Jie noticed that the speaker was Chai Jun, a master of ceramics in Dangyangyu.

When Yangyu? !

Yang Jie reacted suddenly.

Isn't this the birthplace of jiaotai porcelain?

While Yang Jie was recalling the development history of twisted porcelain, Director Wu beside him had already introduced the origin of the discovery of twisted porcelain at the meeting.

"The thing is like this, this anchor named Ye Xuan tried to restore the jiaotong porcelain..."

"This is the finished product of his current kiln. According to my observation, there are already more than ten patterns in it..."

"Many of the patterns are the same as those in the British Museum's remaining collection, and there are even twisted porcelain that has never been seen in the British Museum..."

Pictures with different patterns appeared on the computer one after another. Mr. Chai had already developed presbyopia a long time ago, and he was reluctant to blink, so he looked carefully.

Tire twisting pot, Tire twisting pot, Tire twisting bottle, Tire twisting bowl...

Each and every one of them was a piece of porcelain that he had made countless times in his dream, and now they all appeared in front of his eyes.

As soon as Director Wu's voice ended, the voices of everyone participating in this meeting rang out one after another.

"If the twisted porcelain is successfully restored, can we also officially apply for the UNESCO World Heritage?! It is said that the island country next door will officially apply for the UNESCO World Heritage next month. It is simply shameless to try to take our country's cultural treasures as its own!"

"Yes, this good news comes at just the right time!"

"That's right! We in China are the birthplace of jiaotai porcelain. How can we let others take it away?"

In a series of discussions, the president of the Ceramics Association has asked the most critical sentence.

"As the inheritor of the birthplace of jiaotai porcelain, Mr. Chai, what do you think?!"

As soon as this voice came out, all the chatter of discussions fell silent.

Soon, everyone heard Chai Lao's impatient voice.

"Do you have this young man's address? I want to visit him personally!"

(End of this chapter)