[Popularization of National Art] "Heritage" pulse inheritance ｜ Jingdezhen handmade porcelain skills

Jingde is taken from the year of Song Zhenzong. In the first year of Song Zhenzong Jingde (1004), the town produced in good quality.

Jingdezhen, located in the mountains in the northeast of Jiangxi Province. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jingdezhen was the top four towns in the world. At the same time, it was also the only single -handed industrial city in the world. Jingde Town's porcelain began in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,600 years. It is the only town that does not start by water transportation. Dr. Li Joseph, a professor at Cambridge University in the UK, said that Jingde Town was "the earliest industrial city in the world."

What is the source of the title of "Millennium Porcelain Capital" in Jingdezhen? The climate of Jingdezhen is mild and humid, so that the fired porcelain embryos are not easy to shrink and deformed. At the same time, natural resources are abundant. Jingdezhen belongs to the hills, the forest is vast, and the pine, shrubs, and fir are rich in resources, providing good firing conditions for firewood. Jingdezhen is also the most important resource -kaolin, a most recognized material for making porcelain by the world. Kaolin is an important raw material for firing porcelain. This kind of soil is fired as porcelain. It is smooth as jade, delicate and white, and hard and stable. It can be said that this is a reward of Shangtian to Jingdezhen.

Chinese porcelain has two identities: one is artwork and the other is daily necessities.

Porcelain, a crafts that well interpret the vulgar, is the elegant crafts. The invention of the porcelain stems from the needs of human beings in ancient times. People and mud, shape, and roasting are made into hard utensils for daily life such as eating, drinking water, storing food, etc. use.

At that time, as long as there was a human place, there were pottery, but only the Chinese used their hard work and wisdom to make the pottery into exquisite utensils and continuously polished the beauty and finally evolved into the current ceramics.

When it comes to Chinese porcelain, you must mention blue and white porcelain. Blue and white porcelain, also known as white blue and white porcelain, referred to as blue and white, is one of the mainstream varieties of Chinese porcelain. Blue and white uses natural cobalt materials to decorate the white mud, and then cover it with transparent glaze, and then burn it once at a high temperature of 1300 degrees Celsius, so that the color material is fully penetrated into the blank glaze, showing the blue patterns of the green, and it looks like it seems to be. Youqian is beautiful, clear and elegant.

Blue and white are the most ethnic porcelain decoration in China, a kind of underglaze porcelain, and one of the earliest methods for Chinese ceramic decoration. Blue and white porcelain has different characteristics in various eras. Modern blue and white porcelain not only inherits the exquisite craftsmanship of ancient times, but also has innovation. Jingdezhen blue and white porcelain is premier in the country in raw materials, craftsmanship, design and other fields. From the Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain, it has been circulating so far.

Jingdezhen has witnessed the development of Chinese ceramics.

During the Han Dynasty, Jingdezhen was burned by pottery, which was thick and rough, and was only responsible for daily utensils. At that time, Jingdezhen was not called Jingde. It was called Xinping before the Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, it was changed to Changnan. It was only called Jingdezhen in the Song Dynasty and continued to this day. On the basis of the Song and Yuan dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty broke the feudal shackles and imprisonment, and developed into the porcelain industry in China. In terms of varieties and quality, the blue and white porcelain of Jingdezhen is the mainstream of the production of porcelain in the country. The success of the firing of copper red glaze and its monochrome glaze during the Yongle and Xuande period was enough to express the superb technical level of porcelain -making technology at that time.

Jingdezhen porcelain has beautiful shapes, many varieties, rich decoration, and unique style. Porcelain "White Ruyu, Ming Ru Mirror, Bo -like Paper, Sound is like a Pan", fusion of crafts, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, and poetry in one furnace. Essence The elegant and beautiful blue and white, colorful paintings, colorful glaze, exquisite thin fetal, ingenious sculpture, all of them are the treasures of Chinese culture and art.

Jingdezhen handmade porcelain skills, magical skills.

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