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Chapter 250 Journey to the West, Cizhou Kiln

Where Yu Yao's eyes freeze, is a porcelain pillow.

The pillow surface of this porcelain pillow is oval, with a length of [-] centimeters and a width of [-] centimeters.

It is placed on the shelf, with the pillow side facing out, black and white on a white ground, and it is painted with the story pattern of Journey to the West.

However, there are Tang Monk riding a horse, Monkey King carrying a stick, and Zhu Bajie, but there is no Monk Sha.

There is one less.

"Let me have a look at that porcelain pillow!" Yu Yao raised his finger.

The female shopkeeper carefully removed it and put it on the counter.After placing it like this, Yu Yao saw that the height was about ten centimeters, and there was no pattern on the entire side, only two simple auspicious cloud patterns outlined above and below.

Then Yu Yao held the porcelain pillow with one hand, picked it up with the other, and looked at the bottom again.

"Is this old porcelain?" Yu Yao asked after reading it.

"Correct."

"How much?" Yu Yao always spoke in a layman's tone, because he was not sure whether the female shopkeeper had seen it through.

The female shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then looked at Yu Yao again, "This is the Cizhou kiln from the Ming Dynasty. It is well preserved and exquisitely crafted. I haven't opened it yet today. I will quote you an auspicious price, at least [-]."

After Yu Yao heard it, he knew that she probably didn't understand.

This is indeed a porcelain pillow from a Cizhou kiln, but it is not from the Ming Dynasty.The female shopkeeper must have said it earlier, but she only talked about the Ming Dynasty, so she must have missed it.

Not only did I not understand it, but I also regarded myself as a layman.If it is the Cizhou kiln porcelain pillow of the Ming Dynasty, it is not large in size and is a common craft. In the eyes of experts, it is worth [-] yuan.

Cizhou Kiln originated in the Northern Song Dynasty, and has continued since then in the Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the largest folk kiln system in northern China. The kiln mouths are spread all over the northern region, mainly in the four provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan.

Since it is a huge kiln mouth system, why is it only called Cizhou Kiln?Because Cizhou Kiln was officially named at the beginning of the [-]th century, this person is not a Chinese, but a foreigner named Hobson.

Although Hobson is a foreigner, he is an expert in the study of Chinese ceramics.

When it comes to Cizhou kiln, relatively few people know about it. When it comes to Yuan blue and white flowers, they are more famous; the concept of Yuan blue and white flowers was first proposed by this Hobson.

In 1929, Hobson discovered a pair of Yunlong elephant-eared vases from the David Foundation's collection of blue and white porcelain, and later proposed that the somewhat similar so-called blue and white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty should also be from the Yuan Dynasty.

In the 50s, another American scholar named Pope conducted in-depth research on the basis of Hobson's viewpoint and published a large number of detailed and rich viewpoints.From this, Yuan Qinghua gradually became famous.

Therefore, it is generally believed that Pope was the first person to really study Yuan blue and white; but it was Hobson who first proposed the concept of Yuan blue and white.

Cizhou is an ancient place name, and it is now Cixian County, Hebei Province. There are many important kiln sites in this area.After all, Hobson's discoveries were limited; but the name remained.

There is no clear definition in history, and the namer is a foreigner. In the end, all the folk kilns that have not been clearly identified in the large area of ​​​​Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan are collectively referred to as the Cizhou kiln system.

In the past, there was a saying in the porcelain industry: Cizhou kiln is a basket, and it is hard to understand what to put in it.In other words, as long as it is a kiln mouth in the northern region that cannot be clearly identified, you can basically not be wrong when you say it is a Cizhou kiln.Because the characteristics of other kilns are relatively obvious, the things fired by Cizhou kiln are very many and very complicated.

Therefore, the dating of Cizhou Kiln is also a troublesome matter.

After hearing from the female shopkeeper that it was from the Ming Dynasty, Yu Yao pointed to the pattern of the Journey to the West story on the pillow, "It can't be from the Ming Dynasty. Journey to the West was a banned book in the Ming Dynasty. How could it be put on a porcelain pillow in a grand manner?"

The female shopkeeper was taken aback when she heard this, "Who said it was a banned book?"

"Journey to the West was written during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Jiajing believed in Taoism. Journey to the West contained plots that satirized the emperor, so it was banned." Yu Yao said.

"No way? Just wait a moment." As a result, the female shopkeeper immediately sat down and looked it up on the computer.

"Look, I found an authoritative point of view. Those who say that books are banned are all spreading rumors. Not only were they not banned in the Ming Dynasty, but there are many versions!" The female shopkeeper said pointing to the computer after checking.

Yu Yaoxin said that she originally wanted to wait until the Qing Dynasty to suppress the price, but she didn't expect her reaction to be so fast, she smiled, "I read other books, and everyone said that book was quite professional."

"You can't listen to one family's opinion. This porcelain pillow must be from the Ming Dynasty. Journey to the West is so widely spread, and it is not uncommon for porcelain pillows to be made after that." The female shopkeeper explained.

Yu Yao was afraid that she would continue to search on the computer, so he began to haggle over the price, "I really like it, give me [-] yuan!"

The female shopkeeper couldn't help being stunned for a moment, this guy, does he understand or not?How can you bargain so much?
This is the goods that his husband collected from Hebei Province. It was taken from the old household, no more, no less, and it cost [-] yuan!Now these old households from all over the world are charging very high prices, and the old market for collecting junk has long since ceased to exist.

In the end, this guy hit the bottom of his mouth!

This was also a coincidence, of course Yu Yao didn't know her receiving price, he only saw that she couldn't sell too little, so he started cutting at half of the "Ming Dynasty" market price.

In fact, this Cizhou kiln porcelain pillow is earlier than the Ming Dynasty, and it is from the Southern Song Dynasty!In other words, the north was occupied by the state of Jin at that time, and it belonged to the Jin Dynasty.

The historical fact of Journey to the West is naturally that Xuanzang went to Tianzhu to learn Buddhist scriptures, which is a matter of the Tang Dynasty.It's a historical fact, very monotonous, there are not so many characters except Xuanzang.

The story of Journey to the West existed in the Southern Song Dynasty.Moreover, in the version of the story of Journey to the West in the early Southern Song Dynasty, there was no Monk Sha; only in the late Southern Song Dynasty, there was Monk Sha.

This Cizhou kiln porcelain pillow, in terms of age, is in the historical stage of the early Southern Song Dynasty.Of course, for Yu Yao, this is just a key point of identification, the porcelain body, make-up clay, glaze, decoration, and craftsmanship all need comprehensive judgment.

It's just that the female shopkeeper doesn't know even this one point that there is no monk Sha.It can also be seen from her current investigation whether Journey to the West was a banned book in the Ming Dynasty. She didn't pay much attention to this porcelain pillow before. Without Monk Sha, if she was a careful person, she might think about it.

"You're talking too low, and I can't accept such a low price!" The female shopkeeper shook her head, of course she couldn't sell it for [-] yuan.

"But your [-] is too high. I sincerely want to give you the lowest price!"

The female shopkeeper looked at Yu Yao, and suddenly asked, "Are you buying a collection?"

She naturally realized that this guy seemed to be pretending to be confused at first.

"I use it myself!" Yu Yao laughed.

"Can you bear such a hard porcelain pillow?"

"I did this to overcome my bad habit of sleeping in! It's not easy to fall back asleep after waking up. Sima Guang used a log as a pillow and was alert to start work at any time. That's why he wrote Zi Zhi Tong Jian!"

(End of this chapter)