"Broken" Ge Kiln

There is a very simple sentence in "Mozi": "Ganmels are bitter, and the world is not perfect." There is no perfect beauty in the world. The sweet melon is bitter. Defects, regrets, damage, crushing ... are the norm of the development of things.

In the traditional Chinese aesthetic interest, "crushing, regret" is a kind of beauty. Even a higher state, more life, and more natural beauty.

For example, the coriander leaves of Lin Chun's paintings, although the curling is damaged, it just shows a real, fruitful poultry.

▲ "Mountain Bird Map" (partial amplification)

The Southern Song Dynasty Palace Museum Tibetan

Among the famous porcelain in the past, Ge Kiln can be regarded as a model of "broken beauty".

▲ Song (handed down) Ge Kiln Wash

Shanghai Museum Collection

Talking about "Ge Kiln", there are at least three porcelain that can be called by this name: "Ge Kiln porcelain", and "Longquan Ge Kiln" unearthed from the tomb or cellar.

If there is no special explanation, when the Ge Kiln was mentioned later, it generally refers to the "handed down Ge Kiln" by default, that is, the Ge Kiln porcelain passed down from the courts of all ages.

▲ Song Ge Kiln beige glaze bile bottle

Palace Museum

Ge Kiln porcelain ware is covered with criss -crossed lines, and it looks like "broken". And it was completely broken.

▲ Song Ge Kiln Blue Glaze Fish Ear The bottom of the Ears of Qianlong Poems "Yong Ge Kiln"

Palace Museum

In fact, this "broken" is the same as the "ice cracks" of Ru kiln. They are all opened by different expansion coefficients of tires and glazes when porcelain burn. It's just that Ge Kiln's lines are more obvious. The small and thin lines are light yellow and are called "golden silk". The large and thick lines are gray and black, called "iron wire".

The golden wire, stars, and the body of the Ge Kiln, forming a strange look of porcelain that shattered and re -assembled.

▲ Song Ge Kiln Five -foot washing (partial zoom in)

Shanghai Museum Collection

Many scholars speculate that the "broken" Ge Kiln was originally a "accident" and was a "disabled product" that accidentally burned.

At the beginning, for the craftsmen, burning and lustrous porcelain was the goal they pursued. Opening the film is a "defect", which is not a good thing to them. However, ancient literati discovered beauty from the complex lines of the opening film, and raised this "defect" to the height of aesthetics.

The winding film adds the accidental nature of Ge Kiln, giving the porcelain unique sense of life, and therefore achieved the profound "broken" aesthetic meaning of Ge Kiln.

The pattern is like the wings that are fanned in the sun in the sun. People appreciate the "broken" look of Ge Kiln and give it the name of "golden wire".

This kind of aesthetic interest that is broken and incomplete, just as "the spirit of the Chinese literati in the Song porcelain": "It may be a deeper beauty."

▲ Song Linchun's "Sketching Jade Map" Taipei Palace Museum Collection

▲ Song Ge kiln gray glaze sunflower -style Palace Museum Tibetan

In addition to opening films, Ge Kiln porcelain moisturizing as crispy glazed surface is also the Tao of later generations.

The color of the Ge Kiln is mostly beige or blue -gray. The glaze is a decoction of the milky glaze, and the glaze is uncomfortable with glass luster, but a layer of silk -like oil light, dense and soft. Some people vividly describe it as "butter". Like the glaze "crispy". Ghee is a kind of oil from cow and goat milk. The color is bright yellow, like butter. People often use it when making biscuits such as biscuits, thin pastries. The "crispy" of Ge Kiln was caused by the reflection of the glazed reflection. Dry, close to Yakuang, but there is oily.

▲ Song Ge Kiln green glaze bowl

Palace Museum

If you observe under the microscope, the glaze of Ge Kiln contains dense bubbles, like small pearls, commonly known as "Juluzhuzhu".

These pearl -like bubbles can scatter the light of the glazed layer, so that the glazed surface produces a soft and soft texture.

With Ge Kiln's exquisite tattoo feathers, it is beautiful and elegant. "Broken", but it is extremely beautiful.

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