If Tang Monk was sleepy, Sun Wukong would give him such a pillow

There is a ridiculous slip of the tongue: not to Beijing do not know their own official small, not to Guangzhou do not know that their car is not good, not to Shenzhen do not know their own money is small, not to Shanghai do not know their own countrymen ...

After visiting the Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City several times, I also want to say: I don't know that I don't know that I have a small vision when I don't go to the Forbidden City Ceramics Museum.

From the original gray pottery white pottery black pottery, to celadon white porcelain black porcelain blue and white porcelain, and then to pastel multicolored doucai enamel, one beautiful porcelain, let me see dazzling. Dozens of small videos were taken, and dozens of articles were written, but if you talk about the favorite one, you must count the "dingyao white glaze baby pillow." ”

The child pillow is from the "Ding Kiln", one of the five famous kilns of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a height of 18.3 cm, a length of 30 cm and a width of 18.3 cm.

A little boy with clear eyebrows and round eyes, lying on the bed, with his arms wrapped around his head, holding a hydrangea in his right hand, and his feet crossed and upturned. He wears a robe unique to the Song Dynasty, with a shoulder cover and a dough pattern printed on the lower part of the robe. Maybe he had just woken up and picked up the hydrangea ball and was thinking about how to play; maybe he was sleepy but didn't want to sleep yet, forcing a pair of eyes to show his parents. The child's expression is leisurely and proud, a happy and happy look, and it makes people forget all worries when they look at it.

His back was smooth and round, and people couldn't help but want to touch it, but it was a pillow surface, so that he could put his head when he slept. Writing this, I suddenly thought of the way Tang Monk watched the ginseng fruit in Wuzhuang, "Zenza, Zenza, isn't this a naïve, lively and cute boy?" How can you sleep on your pillow, take it away, take it away. ”

Will Goku say, "Master, the fine porcelain here is hot in the summer, and the afternoon time is so long, the cold porcelain pillow is suitable for a nap to cool off." ”

Of course, this is also a kind of ridicule, but the porcelain pillow of the Tang monk's era does already exist. Porcelain pillows first appeared in the Sui Dynasty, popular in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty entered a prosperous period, the origin of the north and south, rich and colorful shapes.

Say far away, and then pull back to see this porcelain pillow. It is time to say that the boy's bed is lying on the bed, the child's bed is oblong, the four sides are open, the front side is opened with a dragon pattern, the back side is opened with light, and the two sides are printed with a ruyi cloud head pattern, and the open light is also decorated with a ruyi cloud head pattern. The whole body is applied with white glaze, and the bottom tire is unglazed and has two ventilation holes. The lines of the whole work are soft and smooth, and the details are extremely vivid and vivid, which has become a famous product in ancient Chinese porcelain.

There are many children's pillows that have been handed down, which may be related to the traditional Chinese concept of "many children and many blessings". According to the archives of the Qing Palace Office, Qianlong Ye was very fond of the child pillow, and during his reign, he mentioned the "fixed porcelain doll cool pillow" many times, and inscribed 11 poems about the child pillow. Let's look at a poem inscribed on the bottom of a child's pillow in the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei:

The north is set out of fine pottery, and the curved humerus is high on the pillow.

The brocade is in place, and the embroidery bed is still in prison.

Dreaming of the same thing with each other, Butterfly Zhuang and proud.

The alarm sleep is often sent, and the bottom is used to throw a sign.

Dingyao porcelain belongs to the earlier varieties of kilns in the Song Dynasty. As early as the late Tang Dynasty, the area around Quyang and Yanchuan in Hebei Province began to burn kiln white porcelain, and during the Tang Dynasty, this area belonged to the boundary of Dingzhou, so it was called Dingyao. Among them, after five generations to the Song Dynasty, Dingyao porcelain has become more and more mature.

As a folk kiln can have such a prominent position in history, what is the charm of ding kiln porcelain?

The answer is that its glaze color and decorative craftsmanship are unique. The glaze base color of Song Dynasty Dingyao porcelain is white, but this white is milky white. The glaze is opaque, but the glaze is bright, the texture is delicate, the feel is smooth, and the tentacles can't bear to let go of the closeness. Look at its decoration, mainly based on reliefs, prints, and scratches, and the ornamentation is particularly fine, with lotus petals, chrysanthemums, tangled peonies and other ornaments, as well as flowers, birds, beasts, pisces, yunlong and other ornaments, with fine patterns, symmetry and fascinating.