The Lantern Festival is approaching, the streets and alleys of Tongchuan are indispensable to red lanterns, and in ancient times, lanterns were also an expression of fiery love between young men and women, full of poetry and romance.
Among the poems of the past dynasties, there are many poems that express their admiration through the Lantern, such as the Northern Song Dynasty Ouyang's rhetoric: "On the first night of this year, the moon and the lamp are still the same; I don't see last year's people, and I am full of tears in the sleeves of the spring shirt." "Lyrics of the pain of missing a lover.
Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival, Lantern Lantern will be in the feudal traditional society, but also to unmarried men and women to know each other to provide an opportunity, traditional society of young girls are not allowed to go out free activities, but the festival can go out to play together, Lantern Festival flower lantern is just an opportunity for friendship, unmarried men and women can also find objects for themselves by the way through the flower lantern. During the Lantern Festival, it is also the time for young men and women to meet their lovers. Xin Zhiyi (Qingyu Case) wrote: "The crowd looked for it for a thousand hundred degrees, and suddenly looked back, but the man was in the middle of the light." "It is to describe the situation of the Lantern Night."
Speaking of love, Yaozhou kiln also has its own romantic color. In the Yaozhou celadon of "ingenious as Fan Jin, exquisite than jade", the exquisite porcelain pieces are not only praise for the craftsmanship of the craftsmen, but also tell moving stories.
The Fengming pot, which is known as one of the four gems of Yao Porcelain, is an expression of love. Legend has it that during the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian suddenly dreamed of a phoenix in the clouds one day, playing in the peony bushes, but saw "the light sprinkled with wind and rain, the pattern of color moving clouds", his phoenix "eats naturally, sings and dances by itself", when he wakes up, he knows that it is a dream, and some people interpret this dream as "seeing the world is quiet, it is fortunate to be lucky". Wu Zetian is the oral Yaozhou ceramic skilled craftsman to make a phoenix peony pot, hold the pot every day, listen to the sound of the phoenix, in order to worship the country Tai Min'an. Since then, the folk legend of "Phoenix Peony" has been praised as the exclusive love of the spring wind. The Yaozhou porcelain Fengming pot is an artifact imitating the Tang and Song dynasties, which belongs to celadon porcelain. The tire color of Yaozhou celadon is gray-brown, the glaze is glossy and thick, the glaze color is turquoise, and it is slightly yellow. The phoenix-like pot is shaped like a phoenix, the belly of the pot is engraved with patterns, and the spout of the flying phoenix is shaped. Whenever there is liquid poured into the pot, there will be a beautiful sound, like the singing of the phoenix, so the name "phoenix kettle".
The love in the porcelain is still hidden in the ornamentation. Yao porcelain ornaments are rich and diverse, and the plants are mainly folded branches peony, tangled peony, cross-branch chrysanthemum, tangled chrysanthemum, lotus, water wave flower grass, algae, tangled branch honeysuckle, flower and leaf pattern; animal patterns include double duck lotus, water wave three fish, dragon and phoenix pattern, etc. In yao porcelain, lotus flowers and mandarin duck ornaments are often expressions of love. Mandarin ducks are love birds in the eyes of the ancients, and it is often seen on the porcelain utensils that depict Mandarin ducks playing in the water and full of ponds, more than lotus flowers, such as Song Yaozhou kiln carved lotus mandarin duck pattern plum vase.
In the production process of Yaozhou celadon porcelain, from pulling blanks, repairing blanks, carving flowers, and firing to glazing and kiln, every step is completed by craftsmen by hand, and the story in Yaozhou porcelain is the record of the craftsmen's lives.
Shaanxi provincial arts and crafts master Ren Zhaomin fired Yaozhou porcelain utensils
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