Rebirth 93: Break off the engagement at the beginning and marry Bai Fumei

Upon hearing Chen Yang's request for a picture of Yuan Qinghua Guiguzi descending the mountain, Boss Chai was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and smiled.

"Boss Chen, you're kidding me!" Boss Chai looked at Chen Yang and said with a smile, "Don't tell me I don't have this object, I'm afraid you won't be able to find one even in the entire capital!"

"Anyone who can show it to you must be a fake!"

The blue and white Yuan blue and white ghost millet descending the mountain can also be called the Yuan blue and white story jar. This Yuan blue and white ghost millet descending the mountain. Now everyone knows its value because it was made in 2005. It is a large Yuan blue and white Gui millet descending the mountain. Only after the auction price of 2.3 million yuan did people see the value of Yuan blue and white flowers, what everyone didn't know was that in the s and s, this kind of Yuan blue and white story jars were already sky-high in the antique shop. .

At that time, there was a saying about the five great blue and white jars of the Yuan Dynasty, namely: Gui Guzi Goes Down the Mountain, Yuchi Gong the Savior, Liu Xuande Visits the Thatched Cottage Three Times, Zhou Yafu Settled the Soldiers at Xiliu Camp, and The West Chamber Burning Incense and Worshiping the Moon. Today, people know the value of this kind of blue and white Yuan blue and white jars. It's because it was once auctioned for 2-3 million yuan, not because of the antique itself.

The reason why the Yuan blue and white story jar is valuable is not because it is worth a lot of money. The important thing is that it is decorated with historical allusions. There were almost no such porcelain before the Yuan Dynasty.

Historical story decoration is the most difficult type among porcelain, because each historical story is unique and the layout of each painting is different. This quite tests the painter's control over characters, objects, and details. It requires overall composition ability and A very long imagination.

This is not the most difficult thing. The most difficult thing is that this thing is not painted on paper, but on porcelain. Blue and white porcelain is an underglaze color, which requires high-temperature firing. If you are not careful, or your hands tremble slightly, a few drops of glaze ink are added, or too much glaze is applied somewhere, and the firing deforms, or the firing affects the overall effect. All destroyed.

In other words, if a highly skilled painter paints a historical story on ten jars at one time and bakes them in a furnace, and a finished product comes out of them, he is considered a super master. The Yuan blue and white story jars we see today were probably fired in the Yuan Dynasty after several furnaces were fired and countless jars were discarded.

Historical story jars are different from blue and white branch patterns, seaweed patterns, etc., because these are all one type of decoration, and even if the painting is slightly off, it can still be considered a success. But story jars are not enough. It involves the characters' faces, expressions, lines, and the psychological state of the characters at that time. There were no TV dramas in the Yuan Dynasty. All these require the artist's imagination, and you can imagine the difficulty.

Later, with the passage of time, people discovered three more Yuan blue and white story jars, namely: Yuan blue and white Baihua Pavilion jar, Yuan blue and white Zhaojun out of the fortress jar, Yuan blue and white Jinxiangting jar, plus the previous five Yuan blue and white jars. The jars are called the eight blue and white jars of the Yuan Dynasty in the circle!

There are only eight confirmed patterns of Yuan blue and white story jars. If you take a large jar with a picture of Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon and go to an expert to identify it, it is almost impossible to see if it is fake. The reason is very simple. There is no picture of Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon on the Yuan blue and white vase. Xiao He chasing Han Xin under the moon is the decoration of the Yuan blue and white plum vase, which is not on the vase at all. So why bother looking at it?

And it’s very difficult to find proof that this thing was circulated in an orderly manner. According to Jiang Qi of the Yuan Dynasty, he recorded in "Tao Jilue": #34; Jingdezhen has more than 300 kilns. #34;And these 300 kilns were the material basis for the development of productivity of Jingdezhen porcelain industry in the Yuan Dynasty. Judging from the porcelain handed down and unearthed so far, in addition to continuing to produce the blue and white porcelain and black glazed porcelain that existed in the Song Dynasty, Jingdezhen in the Yuan Dynasty also created and fired a large number of new varieties: blue and white, underglaze red, egg white glaze, blue glaze, brown glaze, Red and green colors, malachite green glaze, etc.

Since so much Yuan blue and white has been burned, why is it so scarce in our country’s market? This is because during the Yuan Dynasty, porcelain was exported in large quantities. At that time, there were two main transportation lines for fired porcelain: the first one was the main line for transporting porcelain from south to north.

This porcelain transportation line is basically the same as the south-to-north grain transportation route in the Yuan Dynasty, that is, from the Changjiang River in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, through the Ganjiang River, from Poyang Lake to the Yangtze River, and then from the Yangtze River into the canal, directly to the Huitong River Wharf in Tongzhou, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty served as a distribution center for southern porcelain to spread to the north. It passed through Hebei and Shanxi, and was transported by land to Helin, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia, as well as the commercial towns of Jining Road, Datong Road, Xinghe Road, etc., and then went deep into the Mongolian grasslands via various post stations. The hinterland is connected to the Grassland Silk Road, which leads directly to countries in the Western Regions.

The second one is the main line of Nanci Shipping.

This transportation line flows from the Changjiang River through the Ganjiang River, then enters the Yangtze River from Poyang Lake, and goes to sea through ports such as Mingzhou and Quanzhou. It exports Yuan blue and white porcelain and other porcelain to East African coasts such as Xiaoguizi, ts, Xiaofei, Asan, and Iran. Country, this main transportation line is also known as the "Sea Ceramic Road".

These countries have successively discovered complete vessels or fragments of Yuan blue and white porcelain. Even in the waters of this maritime ceramic road, shipwreck sites that carried porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty have been discovered. The shipwreck sites and Yuan blue and white porcelain may become future maritime ceramic museums. .

So, if you take an unverified Yuan blue and white story jar and tell others that it is passed down from your family, can experts believe it? Forget about your ancestors being Li Hongzhang or Li Lianying, even if your ancestors are Aisin Gioro, it is unlikely. According to the current excavations of major tombs in the Qing Dynasty, most famous blue and white flowers are buried in the tombs, and there are very few Yuan blue and white flowers. It was only in the Ming Dynasty that the Yuan blue and white flowers appeared.

You said it was uploaded by your ancestors, unless your ancestors were foreigners or Mongolians!

Therefore, every blue and white story jar that can be handed down is a treasure. Even in the 90s, if there was such a Yuan blue and white story jar, it would definitely not be less than , or even millions would be bought.

After hearing what Boss Chai said, Chen Yang raised his eyelids and glanced at Boss Chai. This old guy took the bait!

"If Boss Chen likes a large jar of Yuan blue and white, I have one here that I can show Boss Chen!"

Chen Yang took a sip of tea from the cup. The old guy still used the old-fashioned method, saying that he would let himself take a look. If he liked it, he would definitely say that someone had ordered the item and force him to add more money. This method was too much. Old, but the key is...it works!

Thinking of this, Chen Yang shook his head slightly, put down the tea cup in his hand, "I won't read anymore!"

After hearing what Chen Yang said, Boss Chai was stunned. Anyone else would have told him to take it out and read it. Why didn't he read it?

"It's just those jars with blue and white seaweed patterns, blue and white cloud and dragon patterns, and blue and white tangled branches. It's boring!" Chen Yang glanced at Boss Chai, smiled and waved his hand, "I've seen too much, and I'm tired."

Good guy, this guy looks better than Song Min. Let’s not talk about whether others have actually seen it. Just these kinds of patterns, I have to explain them to Song Min for a long time. This guy has already said it. It seems that it is not easy to fool him. !

"Boss Chen," Boss Chai smiled and hugged Chen Yang, "I see that you are everyone, and if it were anyone else, it would have taken me a long time to explain just the kinds of decorations you mentioned."

"But the large Yuan blue and white jar in my hand is different from these! In this way, I dare to guarantee you that this object is the only one of Scorpion Baba. If you see it, you should turn around and leave!"

"Oh?" Chen Yang's face was full of curiosity. Since Boss Chai said so, he motioned for him to take it out and have a look. If it was really like what he said, then he might really want it.

"Wait a moment!" After saying that, Boss Chai stood up and walked towards the cabinet. Chen Yang smiled at Song Min and whispered in his ear, "Believe it or not, the object he took out is called Yuan Qinghua." Underglaze red!”

After a while, Boss Chai put a large jar on the table and glanced at Chen Yang with a smile, "Have you seen this boss?"

The secondary jar is more than 15 centimeters in height and about centimeters in diameter. It has a straight mouth, short neck, slippery shoulders, bulging belly, ring feet, and an unglazed sand bottom. The first thing that catches the eye is the top of the can lid. The can opening handle presents an exquisite image of a "little lion". The lid is also decorated with exquisite patterns such as deformed lotus petals, honeysuckle patterns and fretwork.

Looking closely at the body of the jar, there is a circle of Ruyi cloud patterns surrounding the neck and shoulders, which means "everything goes well", and there are flowers dotted between the two Ruyi cloud patterns. The four diamond-shaped openings on the abdomen are the most eye-catching. The outer edges of the openings are connected with bead points, forming a unique beading pattern. This is a unique decorative technique of Jingdezhen porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty.

The abdomen is surrounded by double rhombus-shaped beaded sculptures, and the interior is carved with mountain rocks, peonies, chrysanthemums and other seasonal garden scenes. The rocks and flowers are painted in underglaze red, and the flowers and leaves are painted in blue and white. The decoration has a relief effect. The lower part of the abdomen is decorated with blue and white lotus branches, which correspond to the cloud pattern on the shoulders. Near the bottom are painted curly grass patterns and deformed lotus petal patterns, and inside the lotus petal pattern are painted inverted treasure patterns.

Finally, let’s look at the branches, honeysuckle and lotus petal patterns on the bottom of the jar. Various patterns are layered on top of each other. Although there are many patterns, the priorities are clear, complex and not chaotic. This is also a major feature of Yuan blue and white decoration.

The whole body is decorated with blue and white underglaze red patterns, and the lid of the jar is painted with blue and white lotus petal patterns, curly grass patterns, and a circle pattern each. The body of the jar is painted with a blue and white intertwining branch pattern and a curly grass pattern for one week each. The shoulders are painted with a drooping cloud head pattern. Within the cloud head pattern, there is a blue and white water ripple supporting a white lotus. Between the cloud head patterns, there is a broken branch peony pattern.

The blue and white are rich in color, and the red in the glaze is slightly darker. The shape of the whole vessel is plump and thick, with distinct layers of decoration. It combines various techniques such as painting, engraving, molding, and pasting. In particular, the engraving decoration is rare on Yuan Dynasty porcelain.

"Hey," Song Min held her chin in her hand and said curiously as she looked at the jar, "Boss Chai, this jar looks strange. Although it looks good, my friend likes Yuan Qinghua. Isn't this Yuan Qinghua? ?”

Boss Chai chuckled and glanced at the two of them, "Miss Song, Boss Chen, just because it's scarce, if this jar leaves my house, you won't see one in the whole of China!"

"This is a jar with a Yuan blue and white underglaze red engraved lid and a consecrated lid!"

After listening to what Boss Chai said, Song Min raised her eyelids and glanced at Chen Yang. This guy was right again!