Ancient porcelain fans interpret secrets on ancient porcelain

"You see, this is clearly a dragon, but the dragon's head paints a human face that looks like a fierce beard. It was burnt during the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty, meaning that the Ming Dynasty was to die, so that time The burned dragons are weird..." 68-year-old Cao Hongde is an ancient porcelain fan. He designed a small screen for his collection of porcelain tiles. When he was idle, he studied the secrets of these ancient porcelain tiles.

Little lion pattern meets water and becomes “live”

Expert: That's because water makes the glaze transparent

68-year-old Cao Hongde likes to collect from childhood, and now is obsessed with ancient porcelain, home collection of ancient porcelain still a lot. These ancient tiles were all taken from a construction site outside the China Gate in 2005. When he returned home, he found these tiles very interesting. He wrote the words “Fu”, “Very Expensive” and “Good”. One of the tiles was a porcelain lion with a small lion on the inside playing a ball and the outside with a “Daming Ming Jiajing system”. Words. The pattern of play of the lion cub is not clear, but water is poured over it. After a while, the lion cubs “live”. The big-eyed little lion hung a small bell on his chest, flanked his body and looked at the ball next to him... This is amazing. Why is the water clear and the pattern is clear?

Zhou Daoxiang, deputy director of the Jiangsu Ancient Ceramics Research Association, carefully examined the porcelain. He said that although the name of the Ming Dynasty Jiajing system was used at the bottom of the bowl, this tile was not produced in the Jingdezhen imperial kiln during the Jiajing period, but was copied during the Qing period. After watering, the pattern becomes clear and the principle is very simple: all the patterns of porcelain are under the glaze layer. The glaze on this tile is relatively thick. After watering, the glaze becomes transparent, and the decoration under the glaze layer becomes clear and vivid. .

Is the porcelain sinking in reading books?

Expert: That's just Gao Shitu, nothing to do with Shen Wansan

Among the many tiles, Cao Hongde's most proud of is a porcelain portrait of a middle-aged man. On the inside of the tile, an emaciated man wearing a wide-sleeved robe leaned against the railing of the pavilion and brushed a high-rise, curly hairpin. He was holding a book in his hand and reading a book. The outer side of the tile is the words "Wan San Fu Tong Tong". "The man who read the book should be the Ming Dynasty's richest man, Shen Wansan. You see, the back is clearly written, there are two words "Wan San," not Shen Wansan, who is it?"

Is the person reading the book really Shen Sansan? After reading the picture, Zhou Daoxiang stated otherwise that he said it was not Shen Wansan, but a Gao Shitu, not specifically referring to an individual. "The word on the bottom of the bowl is actually an auspicious money, and it is the same as Wanfu. It was popular during the middle and late Ming dynasty. However, because it was the firing of the kiln, the kilnmen could not read, so when they were writing, there was an episode. “Chou Daoxiang said that because the kiln workers couldn’t read the words, they just painted and scooped them. However, when painting, there were a few more and less sums, and they painted according to their own wishes. Then there was a “three-by-three good fortune”. phenomenon.

Do you know that the strange dragons will die in the Ming Dynasty?

Expert: In fact, it is a dragon.

If you don't look closely, you can't see it as a dragon. In the middle, a big-eyed man with big mouth and mouth covered in hair, all the hair was like being blown by a big wind, and the roots floated neatly back. Underneath his head is the dragon's body with his claws. It feels like he is flying. There is a cloud on top of his head.

What does this pattern mean on a tile? Cao Hongde said that folks have spread that at the end of the Ming dynasty, everyone felt that the Ming Dynasty was over. So he painted this disheveled or missing dragon with a broken arm and came to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

“In the late Ming Dynasty, the country was in a state of war. This made civil porcelain burn and disorderly. There were a variety of strange pictures.” Zhou Daoxiang said that the pattern of this bowl is a dragon. In the middle and late Ming dynasty, everybody painted the dragon as such an image. This is a testimony of an era and not an irony. As for the dragon, some people say that it is the second son of the dragon nine son, some people say that it is the essence of water can be fire, on the roof can prevent fire.