Although this big dragon jar is not as big as the big dragon jar that is often seventy or eighty centimeters high in the Kang Yongqian period, it is also a big weapon, at least among all the porcelain found today, in terms of size alone, this big dragon jar is the largest.The function of this large dragon jar and the blue and white vats painted with other patterns is actually mainly a water reservoir for the palace and the upper class to extinguish fires."
Jingdezhen Taolu" said that "the jar is painted with cloud dragons or blue and white, so it is named after the dragon jar", pointing out the origin of the name of the utensil, it is a special thing for the feudal emperor.As early as the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory was equipped with a dragon cylinder kiln, which was specially designed to fire large dragon cylinders.In the Xuande period, the dragon kiln once reached thirty-two, to the middle and late Ming Dynasty in the Zhengde and Jiajing periods, due to the small number of green kilns, the dragon kiln was idle, and the dragon kiln was rebuilt into sixteen green kilns, and there were still sixteen large dragon kilns.During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the palace often caused fires by eunuchs setting off fireworks and careless use of fire, so Emperor Jiajing attached great importance to fire prevention and sent people to Jingdezhen to burn a large dragon jar to store water for fire prevention.But more often than not, the big dragon tank is left idle and becomes the de facto big fish tank.At the same time, because of its sturdiness and durability, the Dalong jar was also used to store grain, oil and water in the palace.After Wanli, with the gradual exhaustion of imported green materials, the craftsmen of Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Field can only use domestic green materials, but the blue and white color of the fired dragon jar can not be compared with the Jiajing period, the Jiajing blue and white dragon jar has become a precious and rare thing, although the Wanli Emperor is the Son of Heaven, his mausoleum has to use the "Ming Jiajing year" model of the big dragon jar.The cylinder body of Jiajing blue and white dragon tank is mostly huge and Zhouzheng, the style is thick and simple, the color is thick and green, its blue and white is brighter than Yongxuan blue and white, brighter than Zhengde blue and white, and it is stronger than Chenghua blue and white.Therefore, it is both dedicated and versatile, but also strong and durable, both elegant and round, and pleasing to the eye, so in the end of the Ming Dynasty, only Jiajing blue and white dragon tank is the most dragon tank.Although this big dragon tank is not very big, it is not small, and it is definitely a rare best blue and white dragon tank.Just this big dragon tank is definitely a national treasure.At first, Yang Jing thought that these thatches were to protect this blue and white dragon jar, but when he cleaned it up, he found that there were still some small porcelain hidden in the belly of this big dragon jar.These small porcelains are not big, and they are all wrapped in tissue paper on the outside, and when Yang Jing opened the cotton paper of one of the porcelains, his two eyes suddenly widened."
Holy!
Dude's luck won't be so good, right?
”Looking at the small cup that was floating motionless in the space, Yang Jing almost screamed!
The small cup in his hand is not large, with a diameter of less than seven centimeters, a bottom diameter of less than three centimeters, and a height of no more than five centimeters.But it's such a small cup, but a cluster of bright peony flowers is painted in five colors!
This pattern immediately made Yang Jing's mind burst out with a porcelain name - the Colorful Twelve Flowers God Cup!
And this first cup to be opened, with peony flowers painted on it, this should be the fourth cup of the twelve cups of the god of flowers, the cup of the peony flower god!
As for the bottom paragraph, it is a six-character two-line regular script of "Kangxi Year System of the Qing Dynasty"."
Could it be that this blue and white dragon jar actually hides twelve cups of the legendary colorful flower god in its belly?
Or the twelve cups of colorful flower gods in the Kangxi period?
”Thinking of this, Yang Jing was really a little excited, if there was really a set of Kangxi Colorful Twelve Flowers God Cup here, then the harvest would be really big.Yang Jing took out all the hidden cups in this big dragon vat, and sure enough, there were exactly twelve of them!
At this moment, Yang Jing's breathing became a little short.In the Chinese ceramic world, there are not many sets of porcelain, the set of porcelain has been popular in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, at that time, according to the living habits and needs, the different varieties of daily porcelain are combined, such as cups, pots, pots, trays, etc. as a group of tea sets, but the varieties of the combination at that time were still relatively few.The period when the set of furniture became more and more abundant was the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the maximum of them could reach a set of 200 pieces.But the most precious thing in the set is the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup.But in fact, it is not the Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, the Qing Kangxi Colorful Twelve Flowers Cup and the Qing Kangxi Blue and White Twelve Flowers Cup are also peerless works comparable to the Chicken Bowl Cup.In the nineteenth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Zang Yingxuan was ordered to be stationed in Jingdezhen as a pottery supervisor and was responsible for supervising the production of porcelain from the official kiln, marking the official kiln of the Qing Dynasty from then on.At that time, Liu Yuan was specifically responsible for designing porcelain styles.He is versatile, presided over the design of all kinds of imperial porcelain, and is good at firing colorful and colorful products, and has made remarkable achievements.Among the hundreds of porcelain samples designed by Liu Yuan, the Twelve Flower God Cups are unprecedented.Liu Yuan's December Flower God Cup is themed on narcissus, magnolia, peach blossom, peony, pomegranate, lotus, sunflower, osmanthus, chrysanthemum, hibiscus, moon season and plum blossom.The twelve flower gods enshrined are: the daffodil god Luo Shen in the first month, the apricot flower god Yang Yuhuan in February, the peach blossom god Mrs.
Xi Juan in April, the pomegranate flower god Gongsun in May, the lotus god Xi Shi in June, the sunflower god Lady Li in July, the osmanthus god Xu Xianfei in August, the chrysanthemum god Zuo Guifei in September, the hibiscus flower god Lady Stamen in October, the flower god Wang Zhaojun in November, and the plum blossom god Shou Princess in December.There are different poems on each cup, and the poem of the daffodil god in January is: The spring breeze makes the day clear the book, and the night moon Lingbo goes up the embankment.The poem of the magnolia flower god in February is: Jin Yingcui calyx with spring cold, and there are several yellow flowers.The poem of the peach blossom god in March is: Fenghua Xinshe Yan, the old spring is thick in the season.The poem of the peony flower god in April is: Xiaoyan is far away from the golden palm dew, and the twilight fragrance is deeply provoked by the jade hall.The poem of the pomegranate flower god in May is: the dew beads are reflected, and the fragrant wind is covered by powder.The poem of the lotus flower god in June is: The root is the jade in the mud, and the heart bears the dew.The poem of the sunflower god in July is: Guangdian is light and fragrant, and the high platform is far away.The poem of the osmanthus flower god in August is: The branches grow infinite moons, and the flowers are full of natural autumn.The poem of the chrysanthemum flower god in September is: A thousand years of white wine, a lifetime of green girl fragrance.The poem of the hibiscus flower god in October is: fragrance and rain, good color and clear smoke.The poem of the flower god in November is: Do not follow a thousand species, and bloom red for a year.The poem of the plum blossom god in December is: Suyan snow condensing tree, fragrant wind full of branches.The front of the cup is a flower, and the back is a regular script blue and white poem, and the tail is a seal of the word "reward".The Twelve Flower God Cup is the first time in Chinese history to use "poetry, calligraphy, painting, and seal" on the same vessel, so Emperor Kangxi loved it very much, and took it with him on several southern tours, he not only liked the craftsmanship of the Flower God Cup porcelain, but also liked the cultural conception of flowers with Tang poetry."
This is an absolutely good thing, it's really no worse than the set of Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cups I just discovered!
It's a pity that this set of flower god cups should not be the one used by Kangxi Lao'er back then, but should be an imitation of the official kiln boutique in the later period. ”Yang Jing looked at the bottom of this set of flower god cups, and thought regretfully in his heart.It is said that the set of colorful twelve flower god cups used by Kangxi Lao'er, the bottom is the "Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year System", the reason why there is such a strange bottom paragraph, but it just proves a major feature of Kangxi early porcelain.Kangxi's early porcelain rarely wrote paragraphs.The reason is that Kangxi thinks that the money cannot be written on the porcelain, and if the money is written, if it is broken, it is unlucky, and it is not allowed to be written.But there is a special phenomenon on many of Kangxi's porcelain, that is, a large number of consignment payments are written.For example, write "Ming Xuande Year System", "Ming Chenghua Year System", "Ming Jiajing Year System", these three dynasties are the most written.This is a big taboo in our imagination, and anyone who reads history knows that the Qing Dynasty's literary prison was very powerful, especially in the Kangxi Dynasty, a large number of Han people proposed to "oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty", which can often be seen in TV dramas.At that time, if you have the slightest tendency to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, you will be killed.But the paragraphs written on the porcelain are all from the previous dynasty.This has to be said to be a major feature of Kangxi porcelain in the early period.Even if Kangxi reopened the official kiln in Jingdezhen in the nineteenth year, most of the early official kiln porcelain did not have a bottom money, or the bottom money was some sustenance.Kangxi Lao'er's royal set of colorful twelve flower god cups is fired with Kangxi for twenty-five years, and this set of twelve flower god cups also contains Kangxi's commemorative significance of Chenghua Doucai porcelain, because Kangxi likes Chenghua Doucai porcelain very much, so it is not surprising that this set of cups has written the bottom of the "Ming Chenghua Year System".In the middle and late Kangxi periods and later during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the official kilns and the private kilns imitated the Twelve Flower God Cups respectively, with slightly different sizes and sizes.The bottom paragraph also uses the words of the Kangxi year of the Qing Dynasty.However, the imitations of the descendants are inferior to the Kangxi Emperor's set in terms of quality.This set of twelve cups of the god of flowers is obviously imitated in the middle and late Kangxi period, but even if it is an imitation, it is also a fine product of the official kiln, and it is a rare set.You must know that at present, the whole set of Kangxi colorful twelve flower god cups, only the Kaifeng Museum of Henan Province has a set, in addition to Mr.
Liu Yiqian also has a complete set of Kangxi blue and white twelve flower god cups.Even the Palace Museum has only a few single ones, and they are not complete.One can imagine how rare this set of twelve flower god cups is.And this time, he actually harvested a set of Kangxi colorful twelve flower god cups in this Jiajing blue and white dragon tank, which is simply pie in the sky!"
Could it be that this set of colorful twelve flower god cups is the one that the little devils scavenged from China back then?"
Yang Jing thought to himself.According to legend, during World War II, the little devil looted a set of twelve flower god cups in China, and planned to transport them to the local area of the city to present them to the emperor of the little devils.Unfortunately, the Awa Maru sank along the way, and the precious porcelain and some precious artifacts sank into the sea.Now it seems that the precious porcelain that was transported with the set of Twelve Flower God Cups was not loaded on the Awa Maru, but on another ship, and then transported to the Philippines, but it is impossible to know why I was transported to the Philippines first and not to the mainland of the country.Of course, it is also possible that this set of Twelve Flower God Cups is not the one obtained from China, but has a different source, but where it came from, Yang Jing has no way of knowing.But no matter what, no matter where the little devil snatched this set of Twelve Flower God Cups back then, it is now all his own!