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Chapter 41 Shadow Blue
"I'll get in touch later, isn't it just that we're going to visit the market tomorrow? Let's see and meet by the way..."

Before Lao Huang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yu Yao and Lao Zhou in unison:

"Lu Ji Porcelain?"

Then, Pu Jie also ran to the door, "Lu Ji Porcelain Shop?"

"Is Luji Porcelain Shop famous?" Lao Huang looked surprised, "It seems that you all know it."

"Come, come, let's take a look at the famous products of Luji Porcelain Co., Ltd." Pu Jie led Lao Huang into the room.

Lao Huang entered the room with doubts on his face. It was not until he took a closer look at the pastel olive vase that he suddenly realized, "It turns out that you were killed in this Luji Porcelain Store..." After saying it, he smiled awkwardly, "It seems that Lu Jici's business is unreliable!"

Although Lao Huang couldn't be sure of the authenticity, Hong Xianci was pitifully rare after all, and with Pu Jie's tone of voice, he knew he had been slaughtered.

"Whether it's reliable or not, since someone introduced you, you can call and make an appointment, and meet Boss Lu tomorrow." Yu Yao said.

Lao Huang nodded, "Okay, as long as you accompany me, I'll be sure."

In the evening, Yu Yao was the host, and the four of them were invited to have a meal in a large restaurant in the porcelain capital, and they went to bed early after finishing their work.

At four o'clock on the second, the four of them got up.On Mondays, there is a ghost market in Chenguang Road Antique Market, which usually opens at four o'clock.

The hotel is near the market, and the four of them walked there.First, they each ate a bowl of offal noodles in the breakfast shop facing the street, and then came to the tall archway of the antique market on Chenguang Road.

Below the archway is the entrance to the market, and there are row upon row of stalls on both sides of a long street.There is more than one street in the market, but they are not wide.

At this time, the surroundings were silent, but the lights in the market were already shining.There are lights from street lamps, lights from advertising light boxes, and lights from simple table lamps set up on stalls.People who shop at the stalls basically have a flashlight in their hands.

"Good guy! The ghost market, the ghost market, used to be black and white, but now it's twinkling and shining." Old Zhou sighed.

Although these lights will not illuminate the market brightly, but the transaction is definitely not in the dark and back and forth.

"Keep pace with the times!" Lao Huang said, "The ghost market used to be really shameful, but now it's just a trading environment!"

There are different opinions about the origin of the word ghost market, but in short, it has something to do with not being able to see the light.

Here, there are things of unknown origin, such as ghost goods from tomb robbers, and stolen goods from robbers, so they choose to trade at dark, and after they are done, they will be separated, and no one knows anyone.

Also, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were many dudes of the royal family and aristocrats in the capital who sold the good things at home for money;

These are also unwilling to let people see their true colors, and they are most suitable in the ghost market.

Today, there are not so many things going on in the ghost market. It is basically an antique market that opened in advance. It is just a gimmick borrowing the name of the ghost market and the dark environment.

However, here, there are also profiteers taking the opportunity to sell fakes, taking the opportunity to confuse; because the light is not as bright as the sun after all, and it is not very bright.

The ghost market on Chenguang Road doesn't only open in the early morning hours, it will last until almost noon.The half day of every Monday is the busiest in the market.Some stall owners will save up a week's worth of goods, waiting for this day to be dumped.

Those who visited the ghost market included players, vendors, and students from the Ceramic Academy.There are even tourists who come to play, although they don't know anything, they should all join in the fun.

The four of them walked into the ghost market, and it was already 04:30.It was quite cold, and Lao Zhou and Lao Huang were old and lacked firepower, so they rubbed their faces with their hands from time to time.

The horns of the tricycles pulling the goods, the voices of people coming and going, and the steam from the cars flowing under the street lamps all make this ghost market look not "ghost" at all.

There was also a stall selling flashlights on the street, and the four of them bought one each without having prepared one before.

"It's lively enough." Pu Jie said casually when paying the money.

"It's not as good as before. The antique market has been in a downturn for the past few years." However, the stall owner in his twenties curled his lips and said, "It can't be helped, listen to it, even the tourists who shop at the lanterns are whispering to each other: Don't believe that there are people in the stall. What a real thing!"

Yu Yao laughed, "There are so many sources of goods, I still can't believe that there isn't any of them!"

"That's right." The stall owner actually gave a thumbs up, "Once you hear this, you will know that you are an expert."

The four of them walked together slowly.However, even after visiting a few stalls, Yu Yao didn't find anything that closed his eyes.

It wasn't until I walked half the street that I found a small Yingqing porcelain bowl at the stall of a man with a Mediterranean hairstyle, which looked like something from the Southern Song Dynasty.

Yingqing, and some people call it Yingqing, no matter which one it is, it is not difficult to see that they all have the meaning of shining.

Shadow celadon was produced in the Raozhou kiln in the Song Dynasty.Raozhou kiln, the kiln site is actually in the porcelain capital.

Many people are familiar with the Fuliang Porcelain Bureau in the Yuan Dynasty and the Imperial Kiln Factory in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.But in fact, porcelain has long had kilns, which can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, but they are all coarse porcelain; it was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that the Raozhou kiln officially appeared and began to make shadow celadon.

In the Song Dynasty, China's porcelain was mainly celadon and white porcelain; the name of this shadow celadon came later, and it was called Qingbai porcelain at that time.This bluish-white color is slightly bluish.

Another feature of shadow celadon is that the carcass is very dense and thin.This is related to the production of kaolin in the porcelain capital. Such high-quality porcelain clay is the only one in China. "Tiangong Kaiwu" commented that Yingceladon is "plain muscle and jade bone".

Shadow celadon produced a large amount throughout the Song Dynasty.And many people who play porcelain know that the appearance of shadow celadon directly "sniped" another thing in ancient China, causing its industry to stagnate.

This thing is glass.

The history of the appearance of glass in China is actually very early, as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, and the Han and Tang Dynasties were also very prosperous.Those who have seen glassware in museums will find that there were glass bottles and glasses in those days, which are not much worse than modern craftsmanship.

But why was the Song Dynasty discontinued?It is because a large number of dense and thin shadow celadon appeared.

It can be roughly compared. First of all, porcelain is relatively tougher than glass, and it is not so easy to fry and break.Furthermore, glass conducts heat better than porcelain. When you pour a cup of hot tea, the porcelain is still warm when the glass is hot.Finally, for very practical reasons, the cost of shadow celadon is lower than that of glass.

In this way, in the Song Dynasty Yingceladon sent the glassware to the "guillotine".The Song Dynasty ended, and the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties did not continue.Although some were produced in the Qing Dynasty, they were not practical utensils, mainly colored glazes for ornamental purposes.

Only when the output is large can this effect be achieved.However, the so-called large output was only at that time; the shadow celadon of Raozhou kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty can be passed down to today, and there are not many left.

If this small bowl on the stall is an authentic product from the Southern Song Dynasty, its value will definitely not be low.

Yu Yao stretched out his hand and grabbed it. Just as he started to take a closer look, the owner of the Mediterranean hairstyle said, "You look at it, and let's talk about it first. This is for Brother Zhong. He can only go out if he doesn't like it."

(End of this chapter)