This Song Dynasty boy, what is exquisite

The author's collection of a Song Boy porcelain statue, the whole body of the plain tire, the tire quality is white, it can be seen that the washing is refined. The boy has apricot eyes and cherry lips, a head in a bun, a sideways bowed head, a smile, vivid and realistic. He wears a ring around his neck, wears a single coat, wears a bow around his waist, and holds a bottle, which means peace.

▌ [Song] Hutian kiln plain fetal child porcelain statue

Song Dynasty Hutian kiln porcelain sculpture is generally to express the delicate look, the face is unglazed, mostly plain tires, the characters are carved soft and serene, and most of them are religious statue works, it can be speculated that at that time, the porcelain sculptures of the plain tires were required to be carved at a high level and difficulty, and the knife catchers were all skilled craftsmen.

This child is a porcelain sculpture with a plain tire, which pursues naïve expression, without too much glaze rendering and carving, and expresses the author's inner understanding of the object of "frankness" to the greatest extent. According to the author's speculation, this boy should be related to the Song Dynasty "Beggar Festival" culture, then called Mahara.

According to Kao, Mahabharata is derived from the Rahula in Buddhist texts.

Song Zhoumi's "Chronicle of the Qianchun Years": "Tanabata festivals, dojo fruit food and mud children, the number of Mahara, there are very delicately decorated with gold beads, its value is not worth much."

Song Xu "Mud Child" poem Yun: "Mu Desecrate a piece of mud, and pretend to be extravagant." Double-covered red gauze kitchen, delicate vase bottom. The young woman tasted the acid for the first time, and she was happy to play with one heart. Submerging the spirit of the Great Master, giving birth to a son wishes as er".

It is clearly written here that Mahara is the most popular mud child with the meaning of sending children in the Song Dynasty.

This article is selected from the 2019 5th issue of the "Collection" magazine "From two Pieces of Hutian Kiln Porcelain Sculpture to see the Song People's Artistic Conception", for more content, please pay attention to the current issue of the magazine.