The wood kiln was burned in the early years of the Fifth Dynasty Zhou Xiande, from zheng county in Henan (renamed Zhengzhou in 1953). It was originally suitable for pottery, and because Sejong's surname was Chai at that time, it was named. At that time, it was also called the Imperial Kiln, and it was called the Chai Kiln since the Song Dynasty. Its porcelain blue is like the sky, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, sound like a chime, moist and delicate with fine lines, and refined color. It is the crown of the ancient kilns, but the bottom is mostly thick and yellow. Many legends and records of wood kilns are inseparable from this sentence (Gegu Essentials): Wood kilns are the most expensive, and they are not seen in the world!
The suspected wood kiln work Green Lily Vase is exhibited in Japan
A blue lily vase with a sky-blue color was recently exhibited at the Sunshine Museum in Takeo, Japan, and it is suspected that it is likely that it is a chinese official kiln "wood kiln" that has been lost for thousands of years. This exhibition is also the first time it has been made public. The "wood kiln" is regarded as the "crown of all kilns" in China.
The green lily vase is currently owned by the "Chinese Historical Relics Conservation Association in Japan", whose president began researching Zhongruyun 12 years ago. He said that by injecting the wine into the middle of the vase and pouring the wine, the vase would make a "Kang-Kang-Kang", which surprised him. He later found that this was consistent with the description of the wood kiln in Chinese historical documents——— "as green as the sky, as bright as a mirror, as thin as paper, and as loud as a chime.".
A blue lily vase exhibited in Japan
In the Ming Dynasty's Xuande Ding Yi Genealogy, it is recorded: "The inner library is hidden, chai, ru, guan, brother, jun, and ding. The chai kiln was the official kiln of Emperor Chai Shizong, who reigned for five years in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and was also known as the "Crown of The Kilns". It is reported that in the current Chinese ceramic industry, no one has yet seen a real wood kiln, nor can it be identified. However, after denying the characteristics of the Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, and Ding kilns, he turned his research on this vase to the wood kiln. He said that in 2005, Oxford University dated the "blue lily vase" according to the hot cold light method and confirmed that it was fired between 700 and 1100 years ago, which is basically consistent with the reign of the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong.
Bai Ming, a collector of ancient remnant porcelain in Beijing, witnessed the real body of "Qinglily" on the spot, but he did not give a conclusion on the "wood kiln". He commented that it was in line with the characteristics that developed from bronze to ceramics. "It is a very good finish of early Song Dynasty Chinese ceramics."
As for how this "treasure vase" flowed into Japan, the museum's curator Sekiguchi Katsuru said that according to records, about 600 years ago, the Chinese Ming Emperor gave this vase to the Japanese shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and it was passed down from generation to generation by the famous Japanese kobi family. The organizers revealed that the Japanese side plans to tour the "treasure bottle" at home and abroad.
Introduction to wood kilns
In those Chinese historical ceramics, there is a famous treasure with mysteries and history that surprise the world. That is, it is known as "the miracle in the history of world ceramics" and the "official kiln of the Later Zhou Dynasty - wood kiln" in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The wood kiln, known to anyone who knows it, is praised as a ceramic artwork with its ultimate beauty, and it can be called the most precious of the treasures. However, the world is so big that no one has ever seen or touched it.
Records of the collection of wood kiln porcelain in historical documents
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In the third year of Ming Xuande (1428 AD), Lü Zhen compiled the Xuande Ding Yi Genealogy, which records: "... Inner House Collection
Chai, Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, named kiln utensils, elegant style, writing pictures into the presentation... Twenty-nine of them are selected from Chai, Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, and Dingzhong. ”
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According to legend, the father and son of Yan Song, the ming dynasty's power minister, borrowed the name of the emperor and used the strength of the whole country to collect more than a dozen pieces of wood kiln porcelain in his lifetime.
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The "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" records that Zhou Zhuqing hid a small water bowl in a wood kiln; it is also recorded that Xu Yingxiang of the Qing Dynasty collected a small cup of wood kiln, which was bright and blue in color, thin in quality, and rare in the world.
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Qing Wang Qishu's "Records of Water Cao Qing Hui" records that there are wood kiln tea cups.
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Qing Liang Shaoren's "Essays on two autumn rain temples" records that the Qing dynasty He Menghua bought a piece of wood kiln for Ruan Yuan, which was set as an ink bed, and the color was also green and lovely. And the brilliance is obscure, suspected to be a kiln mixture of truth.
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In the Qing Dynasty Liu Tiren's "Seven Songs of Tang Zhi Xiaolu", he remembered what he saw with his own eyes: "The wood kiln has no finishing instrument, the near repetition is slightly out of the fire, the bu nun sees a wash, round and oval, the face diameter is seven inches, the dark is deep, the light color is uncertain, the 'rain over the sky blue' is not enough to describe, the bu an is known: 'to give the eyes to the qing'. ”
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There were records in the Qing Palace's Inner House, and in the "Imperial Poetry of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty", there were four poems of Yong Chai Kiln: two poems of "Yong Chai Kiln Bowl", one "Yong Chai Kiln Pillow" and "Yong Chai Kiln Ruyi Pillow".
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The "Supplementary Ancient and Modern Porcelain Source Flow Examination" written by Shao Jingmin and printed in the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938) records: "There is a piece of residual porcelain in a certain antique shop in Liulichang, which is in the shape of a garden, with a circumference of about three inches, a thick point, a glaze of light cyan, a light foot can be discerned, and purple sand embryos are exposed around it." Chai porcelain is as blue as the sky, bright as a mirror, although the color and light are good, and the section as thin as paper is no longer consistent. ”
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Zhao Ruzhen of the Republic of China's "Antique Guide" book records: "The wood kiln has been passed down very rarely, and it is still visible in the Forbidden City. ”
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According to legend, during the Republic of China period, Guo Baochang, Yuan Shikai's housekeeper and great collector, exchanged a piece of wood kiln ware with people for a mansion and twenty acres of good land.
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