In life, the application of ceramic products can be said to be very extensive, but in everyone's view, complete ceramic products have value, after all, once they become fragments, then, they will lose the meaning of use.
Of course, this is also relative to modern products and cultural relics, for example, in 2012, Macao once held an auction, including 218 pieces of broken porcelain, auctioned for more than 20 million yuan.
So, where is the value of these broken porcelain pieces? What's so special about it?
What is the concept of more than 20 million yuan? Even in a big city with little land, in the case of Beijing, this price can buy a house in Beijing, and it must be the kind of "luxury house".
In addition, it is worth mentioning that when many people feel that the person who spent more than 20 million yuan to buy a pile of broken porcelain pieces was definitely "problematic", in fact, in the circle of antique collection, the market for broken porcelain pieces in recent years is very good, for example, in October last year, in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, there was a man who sold a very inconspicuous piece of broken porcelain, and it was 600 yuan to open his mouth.
And the man also said that his piece of broken porcelain was inadvertently picked up at a construction site, at first he thought it was a ceramic bowl fragment broken by the workers at the construction site, but when he looked closely, he found that it was a piece of blue and white porcelain fragment produced in the Yuan Dynasty, so the he asked for 600 yuan was not high.
From here, we can see that although they are all broken porcelain pieces, but from different eras, and the production process is different, in fact, its value is also different, which also means that many broken porcelain pieces handed down in ancient times are useless pieces of "garbage" in our eyes, and in the eyes of knowledgeable people, they have become "treasures".
As mentioned above, at the Macau auction, more than 200 pieces of broken porcelain sold for more than 20 million yuan, and these broken porcelain pieces are all broken porcelain pieces of the Ru kiln, which is a bunch of "treasures" from the Song Dynasty, naturally, even if it is no longer complete, but it does not affect its price at all.
So, what is a Ru kiln? What's so special about it? The so-called Ru kiln is one of the five most famous kilns in the Song Dynasty on the mainland, and it is also the "leader" in the history of mainland ceramics, which can be seen from here how high its status is.
Until the Qing Dynasty on the mainland, the porcelain produced by the Ru kiln was the most representative royal porcelain in the mainland, and it was regarded as a treasure by successive generations, and it was also one of the most important cultural heritages of the mainland.
Speaking of which, although ceramic products have become nothing special under the blessing of today's high-tech industrial production, it is necessary to know that in ancient times, from the perspective of scientific manufacturing, the emergence of ceramics was very difficult, and it can also be seen from here that the wisdom crystallization of the ancient ancestors of the mainland.
So, how exactly did ceramics come about?
Ceramics, in fact, in ancient times, is divided into pottery and porcelain, from the perspective of time, the earliest appearance of pottery, its production method, is made of clay into the style of utensils, placed in the high temperature roasted, from an archaeological point of view, as early as 8,000 years ago in the new era, the mainland has already appeared pottery.
Porcelain as an "upgraded version" of pottery, in fact, its production is more complicated, in clay, will add some other raw materials, and then after a high temperature of more than 1200 degrees Celsius roasting, can form a bright surface porcelain.
Relative to the emergence of pottery, porcelain is about 3,000 years ago, from the chronological point of view, the middle of the mainland Shang Dynasty, the original porcelain has begun to be applied, and by the end of the mainland Han Dynasty, the production technology of mainland porcelain, has been quite mature, after that, also began to flow from the mainland to the world, it can be said that porcelain is also one of the most important ancient inventions in the mainland.
Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties of the mainland, the mainland's ceramic manufacturing industry has reached its peak and peak period, starting from the Ming Dynasty, Jingdezhen has also become the center of the national porcelain industry, especially in ancient times, the mainland porcelain, is called "white gold", set off a boom in Europe.
Therefore, because of the nearly 10,000-year history of ceramic development, some representative porcelain fragments of ancient mainland China will still be loved and collected by people in modern times.
Of course, for collectors, it is also necessary to have a very professional appreciation knowledge, otherwise, it is easy to look away in the process of "treasure hunting", after all, for ordinary people, a piece of ceramic fragments looks like a piece of "garbage", only knowledgeable people will look for them and collect them.
Take the above-mentioned, Hebei a piece of yuan blue and white porcelain fragments sold for 600 yuan man, he is a relatively good study of ancient porcelain, so, when there is nothing to do, will go to the construction site around the construction process, after turning out of the soil, was thrown aside the broken porcelain pieces, according to him, he has gained a lot in recent years, has been on different construction sites, found a lot of ancient porcelain fragments, so he will set up stalls to sell.