"Cui Cui melted green and rui color new, Tao Cheng first got Gong Wujun." The bright moon dyes spring water, and gently swirls thin ice fills green clouds. "Originally it was just a pile of dirt that nurtured all sentient beings, moistened by the spring rain and carved by the rings of the year, and suddenly one day, our ancestors found that the hot flame could collide chemically with this soil, and the apparatus we used was born. As the annual rings change and the centuries rotate, our aesthetic of porcelain rises to the next level.
Wang Bin has this insight into the key to creating porcelain:
Because of the things taken from nature, the process of finding raw materials is extremely challenging, and the content of the elements in them is different, and it is extremely difficult to fire. Different glazes, different minerals added, will lead to a huge change in temperature, color.
"The mountains and rivers are doubtful and there is no way, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright and another village." Every time you encounter a failure in refining celadon porcelain, you will always find new vitality in hopelessness. From the above mud, in the high temperature firing process of mud, the control of the content of alumina is crucial and plays the role of skeleton.
In the soil of different regions, the content of alumina will be different, for plastic, the difficulty is very high, if the alumina content is low, the support is not enough, in the firing process, it will appear great deformation, which will lead to a great increase in the scrap rate. For us, a firing process of Longquan kiln has 72 channels and 72 processes after simplification, you have the shortest kiln, a person to spend time may be a month, then a month of energy, to the end after firing out, all scrapped. Success is a success in this move.
Glaze problem, Longquan kiln light element no grain, a lot of things, pay attention to is a glaze line, on the type, Jingdezhen blue and white, enamel, multicolored, glaze red, a lot of pattern decoration in the inside to cover some of its line deficiencies, Longquan kiln pay attention to minimalist aesthetics, the proportion of lines, there is not a lot of decoration. More is the creation and line of water, the simpler the more difficult it is to do, which requires the overall culture of Longquan, which needs to be taken from the local history of thousands of years and sorted out very clearly. Nature, as our mother, gives us endless creativity and resources, and the use of modification to give birth to new artifacts is the embodiment of our own value.
Practice makes the truth:
The shape of the Longquan kiln, some of the evolution and inheritance from ancient times to the present, requires a lot of energy and time to study it. Once, he spent a lot of time over the mountains and mountains into the mountains, to the ruins of ancient kilns, to buy bone tablets of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties Longquan kilns, as a specimen for reference study. Longquan kiln glaze water, it is a pristine glaze water, many people mention longquan kiln, think of more is the original ore, its color comes from the color of nature, the color of water, the color of the sky, therefore, it is a very original and pure raw ore firing method. Adding all the materials requires a certain understanding of them, and it is necessary to use some things in our nature, such as bamboo grass and wood ash, rocks on the side of the mountain, and purple gold soil. These repeated trials, to match, there is no very standard formula. Only practice!
Personal Philosophy:
For contemporary times, the forging of celadon ware requires the determination to "choose one thing and live a lifetime", the tenacity of "even if the predecessors have gone before, I will seek up and down", and the courage of "a lonely boat, fishing alone in the snow of the cold river" plus the courage of "peach and plum do not speak, the next is a mystery." Although this statement is small, it can be said to be "humble and inquisitive." Liu Bin has the character and quality of a famous teacher.
Teacher Wang believes that the first meaning of utensils is the use value, collection can only be regarded as its functional value, giving the appliance a better cultural value, aesthetic value also needs to be combined with practicality, to create some things that people like in the current society, this is the real concept.
In ancient China, although the painstaking efforts of the craftsmen were hidden behind each artifact, it is rare to find that the name of the craftsman is engraved on the back of the utensils that have been handed down to this day. Don't sell fame and profit, like Meilan Zhuju is as proud and noble, but also in this chaotic and noisy era of network technology, "out of the mud without staining, Mao Qinglian without demon" will place the whole heart on the creation of celadon ware.
The utensils are cold, but the ideas are full of enthusiasm, and when the author gives the thoughts, the creative inspiration, and the feelings into the artifact, then the artifact has life. Looking back on the original intention and remembering the ingenuity is the necessary quality of a famous teacher.
"The little lotus shows its sharp horns, and there are dragonflies standing on its head", the lotus leaf is a typical example of cultural imagery, such as in poetry, and so is the art of instrumentation. In the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties of Longquan Kiln, there were some decorations of lotus leaf themes, the pattern is more casual and more freehand, but in today's traditional inheritance and development also need to be innovative, using the advantages of the media era to create the tradition of the characteristics of the times, the aesthetic standards of the utensils, change, so that it is both practical and beautiful, and in line with the current aesthetic experience.
The years should be quiet, and the porcelain is speechless.
Heaven and earth are reincarnated, and the kiln fire is not extinguished.
Pillow water listens to the mountain, clear mind.
Bow down and make a tool, and I will give my life.
Wang Bin said, "We are only the transporters of nature, responsible for expressing the inner soul of nature, and fully embodying the beauty of mountains and rivers in exotic wind and rain lakes, and transporting them to everyone's hands." May we receive this gift of natural beauty.