Quanzhou "Lion" words 丨 "lion" and "porcelain" change thousands of changes

There are many manifestations of lion culture, including ceramics. Recently, the reporter came to the world's ceramic capital Dehua to see that in the ceramic works everywhere, whether it is art porcelain plastic, or daily ceramics and Western crafts, lion culture can be seen from time to time. Lion culture inherited and developed in the creation of a generation of German ceramics, deeply integrated with ceramic culture, and changing various different forms of expression. There are unique aesthetic traits and humanistic connotations.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the double lion drama lion pattern plate

Lion mount

Exquisite workmanship for lions

Double Lion Xianrui

Ming Dynasty sauce glaze to lion fragrance

Lion New Seal

Ming Dynasty White Glaze Lion

Three Lions Play

Ming Dynasty lion button incense burner

Lion head

Lion head

□ Our reporter Xu Wenlong Chen Xiaoyang Correspondent Li Hongtu text/picture

Lions are common themes for the Ming and Qing dynasties

Buddha porcelain plastic is a typical representative of Dehua porcelain plastic, so the lion is often seen in some Buddha porcelain plastic. In the creation of these Buddha statues porcelain, the ceramic artisans are also improving the creation of the lion.

On the display cabinet of Lizi Porcelain Arts Research Institute in Dehua County, the reporter saw a number of bodhisattva porcelain plastic works that mount a lion. Most of the lion mounts were lying, with exquisite workmanship and different expression. Lan Quansheng, the artistic director of the institute, introduced that the "lion roar" is common in porcelain and plastic.

And the combination of lion shape and daily ceramics is more diverse.

On the showcases of the Dehua County Ceramics Museum, there are many porcelain lions in different ages. For example, a pair of sauce glaze unearthed from the tomb of Guo Zhenyin in the Ming Dynasty is quite unique to the lion fragrance. For the mighty and domineering trend, the long round tube was erected on one side of the lion tail to insert the incense. Another pair of white glazes to the lion in the Ming Dynasty is the ivory white enamel with the characteristics of Shidehua. The lion squatting on the square seat, stepping on the ball with one front leg. A circle, vivid image.

In addition to the incense insertion, the ceramic lion button seal is also the perfect fusion of lion culture, ceramic culture, and seal culture. A white glaze lion button in the Ming Dynasty, the seal of the seal of the white glaze, the glazed surface, the printing of the printing tire, the top surface decorated with the lion button, and the lion's head was lingering the chest, sitting on the square column, the front leg stands upright and kneels. The tail of the lion is around the front side, and a little lion is leaning on the bottom. Hong Jianpeng, a collector and craftsman of Dehua kiln ancient porcelain, collected a small Ming Dynasty ceramic lion button seal. Come.

According to reports, the image of the lion is commonly used in the Ming and Qing donghua kiln. Some incense, seal, aromatherapy, and incense burner are often combined with the lion shape. For example, a ceramic lion head furnace, also known as the lion ear stove. The furnace shape is imitated with the style of the bronze ware, short beams, slippery shoulders, abdomen, tibial skimming, and circle feet. The neck and shoulder symmetrical plastic decorative shop first lion's first ear. The lion's first shape is realistic and three -dimensional, with round eyes and wide noses. Both ears are raised, and the mane curled around. According to historical records, the lion ear furnace is the military staff of the Military Ministry of the Imperial Ministry of Xuande and the Governor of the Governor. With its meaning, the lion is the head of a hundred beasts.

Today, modern ceramic handicraft practitioners also like to integrate lion culture in some daily works. In Hong Jianpeng's studio, the four unique white porcelain salt cans are eye -catching. The tank is in the square, and above is the image of the "wind lion" with the characteristics of Fujian and Taiwan. It embraces a round "blessing". Hong Jianpeng introduced that the word "blessing" held by Fengshi adopts a special paper bleeding technology, which has the meaning of Nafu and Ping An. come out.

Porcelain lion ornaments mean auspicious

Pure lion -shaped ceramic art ornaments are also widely popular. In Dehua Taifeng Porcelain Square, the reporter saw a number of lion works with different sizes and different shapes. Among them, the most representative is the "Double Lion Deduer" created by Xu Ruifeng, a national non -genetic inheritor and a master of Chinese ceramic art. The whole work cleverly uses the traditional moral and traditional porcelain and plastic techniques with Xu's porcelain -plastic generation "drifting belt" production techniques, so that the work presents a "joy and auspiciousness" charm.

"In this work, the lion's accessories, bells, ribbons, and hair details can well express the characteristic traditional techniques of moralized ceramics. The difficulty is the two lions, hydrangea and ribbons on Yu Ruyi. It is easy to deform or collapse in the process. "Xu Ruifeng introduced. The copper coin -shaped hydrangea in the work means that the financial source is rolling, and the hanging ribbon reveals the festiveness. During the creative process, he constantly tapped the cultural connotation of the lion, while drawing on stone carvings, woodcarving, and copper carving techniques.

"Lion culture is a kind of auspicious culture. Everyone likes to see it." Xu Ruifeng said that in addition to "Double Lion", he also created a series of lion culture artworks. Among them, there are different shapes of lions, some are mighty and domineering, and some are stingy; the lion and porcelain bottle are combined to create a festive theme of "Three Lions Drama".

According to traditional customs, the pair of lions pay attention to "Zuo Xiongya", and the things that the lion step on also represents different meanings. The young lion symbolizes the extension of the children and grandchildren, as a lion. The lion and the bottle are combined, which means "everything is safe." The lion roller hydrangea indicates that the source of wealth and the prosperity of their children. It is worth mentioning that on the Shifeng Porcelain Square showcase, the reporter also saw the lion culture ceramics created by Xu Ruifeng's father, grandfather, and great -grandfather. Fun cute lion. The work in the work is obviously imprint and personal style, which is an important testimony of the continuous inheritance of the lion culture.

The reporter also saw a variety of different shapes of porcelain pairing lions in Dehua. Among them, there were both in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, as well as in the 1980s, some of them were exquisite in workmanship and some were rough. Hong Jianpeng introduced that the people are pregnant with a beautiful wish and believe that lions can drive evil town houses. Therefore, they are often used to decorate house door furniture, which reflects people's prayer of peace and showing noble psychology. In many places, people like to use stone lions to keep the door, and Dehua is famous for porcelain. The created porcelain lion ornaments are more flexible because of their small body shape and more flexible placement, which can better integrate into people's daily life. Various shapes of porcelain lions have become unique lion cultural landscapes different from other places.

Lion pattern porcelain connotation rich connotation

In the lion culture ceramics, there is also a unique manifestation carrier -lion -patterned porcelain. Lion -patterned porcelain is mainly decorated in painting, using a symbolic and meaning lion pattern, modeling or symbols to express people pursuing happiness and festiveness, multi -sons and grandsons, longevity and peace, fame and fame, exorcism the concept of life and spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or spiritual pursuit or pursuit It reflects the scholars' high sense of cleanliness. Lion patterns are common on bowls, cups, cups, bottles, cans, washing, pillows, boxes, incense burners, animals, characters and other porcelain, and become the main content of ceramic decoration.

Hong Jianpeng collected such a double lion drama lion pattern blue and white porcelain plate. There are double lions on the porcelain plate. There are double lions on the composition of the lion pattern. The lion pattern paintings are fine, the eyes are very vivid, the mane is different, and the shape of the body is different and the gods have both magical shapes. By controlling the color of the blue and white materials, the painting of the lion's body has the layering and three -dimensional sense of the lion's body. Hong Jianpeng introduced that in ancient times, people liked to connect the homophonic characters with auspicious meaning and animals, such as "bat" and the homophonic of "blessing", and the lion's "lion" happened to be homophonic with the "teacher". In ancient times, there were the official system of the master and young master, and they were all senior officials of the ministers. Therefore, when the lion was introduced into China from the Western Regions, it was quickly applied to various places by artist craftsmen, both in daily folk customs or literati.

The decorative lion pattern as a ceramic utensil is very popular in the Tang Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the application of porcelain craftsmen was very mature to the lion pattern. And the most common lion ball pattern. For example, if a pair of lions and Ruyi are combined with "things (lion) Ruyi", a big lion with a little lion means "Tai Shi Young Master (Lion and Lion)", and the five -head lion is together The implication of "Five Sons Dengke" and so on. Many of the patterns of the lion rolling hydrangea in the Ming Dynasty are the patterns of coins, which reflect the secular psychology of the people's desire for wealth.

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