I was a guest at a friend's house two days ago.
We have known each other for a long time, but I have never visited in person.
After all, I am too embarrassed to come and disturb him now.
If I have something to do, I can just have a party at the hotel.
It is simple and convenient.
This time I went to his house not only to recognize the door, but more importantly to see his treasure.
He loves traditional culture, Peking Opera, Peking Hu, porcelain, etc.
In particular, porcelain is his favorite.
When we have nothing to do, we will talk about the appreciation and history of this aspect.
Although I am not very knowledgeable about it, I still enjoy it.
He has his own study room.
The furnishings in the room are very elegant, with porcelain on display on one wall, and the display cabinets are also classical furniture.
Make a pot of tea and listen to the light guzheng playing.
The atmosphere is great.
Among the many blue and white porcelains, I saw several different porcelains, which were red.
According to the jargon of playing with porcelain, they are red-glazed porcelain.
He briefly introduced them to me.
Red glaze porcelain was created and fired in the late Yuan Dynasty.
At that time, the red glazed porcelain itself was not intentional, but an accidental acquisition.
The Yuan Dynasty was a period of Mongolian rule, and the Mongolian people favored blue and white, so they had the famous blue and white porcelain.
When porcelain was being fired, the proportion of copper elements in the glaze accidentally increased, causing the glaze color of the fired porcelain to be black and red.
After this phenomenon was discovered by the ancients, they began to intentionally add copper to the glaze to make the glaze color red. .
During the Yongle and Xuande periods of the Ming Dynasty, red glaze firing techniques became more and more sophisticated.
Especially in the Xuande period, the development of red glaze porcelain reached its peak.
But strangely, after Xuande, red-glazed porcelain decreased rapidly and disappeared.
The reason is still unknown.
In short, red-glazed porcelain was rarely seen in the two hundred years after the Ming Dynasty.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, due to the strong national power, red-glazed porcelain began to be fired again.
The red glaze porcelain of the Kangxi period is actually an imitation of the red glaze of the Xuande period, but the effect after leaving the kiln is different from the Xuande red glaze.
Varieties during this period include: Langyao Red, Cowdou Red, Jihong, etc.
Color-glazed porcelain has always been a small variety of porcelain, even in the Kangxi period when national power was strong.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, blue and white porcelain was the dominant porcelain, and color-glazed porcelain could only be fired during the period of strong national power.
For example, the Yuan Dynasty, the Yongxuan period, the prosperous ages of Kangxi and Qianlong, and the contemporary period.
Because the scrap rate of color glaze, especially red glaze porcelain, is too high, the production cost is too high.
Even today there is no guarantee that nothing will burn out in a kiln.
I picked up a piece of red-glazed porcelain, and its red color was just like blood.
He pointed at the red-glazed porcelain and said to me: "You know, this kind of red is called Jihong.
There are unofficial records that this kind of Jihong is also called Jihong.
As the name suggests, it was specially fired for sacrifices because people were found in the kiln. bones.
So there is a legend that this kind of sacrifice Red requires the blood of virgins and a specific temperature to be burned, so it has a yin energy."
After hearing this, I shuddered and put it down immediately, not daring to touch it again, but he smiled: "It's just that.
A legend with no factual verification
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