Treasure well

Chapter 510
Lu Zhiqing couldn't help stretching her head over, looking at the photo in Grandpa Wang's hand.

"Grandpa Wang, is this Nezha?" Lu Zhiqing asked with big bright eyes waiting for Grandpa Wang.

"Well, this is Naohai Nezha." Grandpa Wang nodded.

"This should be a masterpiece of the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know whose work it is. Oh, I can't tell anything just by looking at the photos. I really want to take this thing out of the photos and have a good look at it," Wang said. Grandpa looked impatient.

Seeing Grandpa Wang's appearance, Lu Zhiqing couldn't help but chuckle.

"Grandpa Wang, you are still as impatient as before," Lu Zhiqing said with a smile.

"No way, compared to before, my temper is much more restrained." Grandpa Wang still refused to admit it.

"Forget it, from the photos, you can see whether these things are damaged, and you can't see anything left." Grandpa Wang shook his head, and after checking that the things were not damaged, he put the photos together , and then look at the third one.

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As Grandpa Wang looked down, the things became more and more precious and rarer.

The five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty - Jun kiln, Ru kiln, Guan kiln, Ding kiln and Ge kiln - all appeared.

There are also national treasures such as Yuan blue and white, Xuande stove, Tang Sancai, etc., which can be seen here.

"Can you have all this?" Seeing this, Grandpa Wang's eyes widened.

I saw a line of words appearing where Grandpa Wang pointed.

"A complete set of Qin porcelain tea sets", there is a small bracket at the back, and the content in the brackets is written, "including eight cups and a teapot".

Seeing this, Grandpa Wang's heart was moved immediately.

People who have not experienced that era do not know who to worship!

Qin porcelain can be said to be the witness of an era and the pinnacle of an era.

Grandpa Wang looked at the name Qin Ci, as if seeing the original Qin Taizu.

His face was full of excitement.

Only those who have lived at that time understand the greatness of the other party, even though the other party has some flaws.

But no one is perfect. For Grandpa Wang, the merits of Taizu outweighed the faults.

Qin porcelain belongs to the high-quality goods among the red official kilns, and can be said to be the pinnacle work.

So what is a "red official kiln"?

The red official kiln refers to various domestic and decorative porcelains produced by certain special porcelain factories in various historical periods after the founding of China. These porcelains all bear the imprint of that era and become Historical artifacts that bear witness to this era.

These "red official kiln" porcelain mainly include "leadership porcelain" produced during the "special period", "central organ porcelain" and gift porcelain for foreign heads of state, etc.

Not long after the founding of China, the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China was ordered to trial-produce a batch of tea cups for the central leaders.

At that time, the central government sent a special person to send a bucket-shaped teacup with no flowers, no cover, rough porcelain, and gray color that had been used in Yan'an.

Later, senior engineers of the Ceramic Research Institute repeatedly designed and modified the barrel-shaped teacup, adding a cup cover to create a glazed cup bottom. At that time, a total of six shapes were produced.

Later, after a lot of tossing, I finally fired a teacup that is both practical and beautiful.

The first batch of teacups sent to Zhongnanhai totaled [-] pieces, including [-] pieces of underglaze flowers and [-] pieces of white porcelain.

In the same year, another [-] pieces were sent to Qin Taizu so that Qin Taizu could use brand new tea sets.

A few years later, the director of the Central Office issued a top-secret document to the JDZ National Porcelain Office, requesting that a set of special porcelain be designed and fired for Qin Taizu himself.

It is required to represent the highest level of Chinese porcelain making technology and exceed any previous dynasty.

In order to accomplish this task, the Ganjiang Provincial Public Security Bureau also specially organized a working group to station in the ceramics research institute at that time to supervise the "Porcelain for Leaders" project.

Because this project was a major project in [-], it was also called the "[-]" project.

After the production documents of the "[-] Project" were officially issued, the Ganjiang Provincial Public Security Department immediately formed a special working group, and the head of the department led a team to JDZ to supervise the implementation of this project.

At that time, the Ceramic Research Institute gathered a group of JDZ's best ceramic technical talents, and selected more than [-] design, production and production personnel with excellent technology, political progress and no problem of background.

Including Master Wang, a national master of ceramic arts and crafts, and senior engineers Master Xu, Master Liu and others.

At that time, the organization and management of this project were extremely strict. All personnel involved in the project had to undergo strict political review. Guard posts were set up around the kiln, and those without the approval of the project headquarters were not allowed to enter.

Anyone who has "problems" in history dare not approach the kiln.From material selection to molding, from glazing to color painting, to sintering and packaging, most of the processes are done manually, and are monitored by public security personnel to ensure product safety.

It can be said that the treatment Qin Ci received before the production was completely like that of a "leader".

The entire production factory was transformed into an "arsenal" in an instant, and the safety work was very strict.

Moreover, the production of Qin porcelain can be said to have been made after untold hardships.

Its degree of difficulty is no less than that of porcelain in any dynasty.

Before making, first of all, from the ten tons of high-quality raw materials, two tons of selected materials must be selected by hand to specialize in firing No. [-] porcelain.

During this period, I don’t know how many semi-finished products were eliminated, or those with poor appearance and “uncorrect facial features”.

The patterns on Qin porcelain include underglaze red plum blossoms and overglaze water-dot peach blossoms.

The reason why plum blossoms and peach blossoms were chosen is that Qin Taizu liked these two kinds of flowers, and he wrote poems specially for these two kinds of flowers.

Especially the song "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei", which is already in the textbook.

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When designing the Qin porcelain tea set, the designers at that time discussed for a long time.

For example, the material, the shape, the appearance modification, etc., were determined after a long time.

It is said that many ancient poems happened during the design of tea sets. For example, Qin porcelain was divided into two schools at that time whether it should design a lid.

One school says no cover is needed, and one school says it does.

The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the woman is reasonable.

In the end, it was up to the person in charge at the time to make a decision and add a cover.

There are two advantages to doing this. The first is that Qin Taizu was busy with work and had no time to drink, so he specially equipped with a heat preservation cover;

Just because you want to save costs and save raw materials, you can't neglect your service to Qin Taizu.

So after that, all porcelain has lids, including bowls, saucers, plates, teacups, small vinegar bottles...
Qin porcelain basically has a white background, which looks crystal clear; the colors on all utensils are classified into two categories, one is gorgeous plum blossoms, and the other is pink and tender peach blossoms.

At that time, the number of "[-]" Qin porcelain produced was [-], and only more than [-] pieces were intact after leaving the kiln.

In other words, the success rate is less than half.

Then, from these more than [-] pieces of Qin porcelain, more than [-] pieces were carefully selected and sent to Kyoto.

The remaining part was sent to southern Hunan, and the other part was left in the Ganjiang storage warehouse as a backup.

According to regulations, all the porcelain in the sealed warehouse should be destroyed, but considering that the special porcelain will be damaged during use and needs to be replenished, only a part of it was destroyed, and the rest was kept as a reserve.

This has also led to the increasingly rare existence of Qin porcelain.

(End of this chapter)