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Copper pottery harvest basket
——Remember the old man Hu Wuqiang, the god of the copper official national treasure kiln
Author: She Li'e
Kiln God Detective "Chicken Blood Red" (II)
Hu Wuqiang, known as the "kiln god", was born into a pottery family in Tongguan Town, Wangcheng, Changsha. According to the records of Tongguan Town, where Hu Wuqiang's teacher fu is located, in the Tang Dynasty, it was famous for its "Tongguan Kiln", and the pottery produced was exported to all over the world. Changsha Tongguan Kiln is not only the birthplace of the world's underglaze colors, but also one of the biggest contributors to the spread and exchange of Chinese ceramic culture. In 1963, Hu Wuqiang entered the Tongguan Kiln Ceramics Company, specializing in the scientific research and trial production of ceramic clay glazes, as well as modeling design. At that time, the Tang Techniques of Changsha Tongguan Kiln had all been lost. In order to save this historical and cultural heritage, in 1982, he took the initiative to withdraw from the unit and set up his own pottery workshop, and despite the local people jokingly calling him "kiln nerve", he blindly tried pottery technology, and he was determined to find the pure handmade techniques of Changsha Tongguan Kiln in the Tang Dynasty. In the past 30 years, Hu Wuqiang has continuously collected tiles, sorted out graphics, made tires with mud, and burned kilns...
Kung Fu pays off, and the "chicken blood red" ceramics that have been lost in the Tang Dynasty were finally successfully fired by him in 2006. His work "Lingxiang Female Ancient Music" won the gold medal of China's first cultural relics imitation and folk crafts exhibition, and he was also named the master of arts and crafts in Hunan Province, and was elected as a director of the Chinese Cultural Relics Society.
Chicken blood red ceramics are the unique skills of Hu Laofu's wood-burning craft. I have come to Tongguan several times, I have never come to such a stunning ceramic, it is because I have very little reading of Tongguan ceramics that I am so lonely and unheard of.
The most impressive thing about the copper kiln is the wood kiln high-temperature color porcelain, and red is the most rare among the glaze colors. The precious and brilliant "copper red glaze", commonly known as "chicken blood red", is called "daughter red". The legend of the ceramic color glaze "Daughter Red" sounds moving.
"I was not born when I was born, but I am old when I was born." Jun hates me for being born late, and I hate jun for being born early. "It's love on ceramic pieces. The verses are popular and catchy, and behind the acquaintance and love of this old husband and young wife, there is a mournful and moving legend! Legend has it that during a rainy season more than a thousand years ago, the Xiang river basin received continuous torrential rains, and the Xiang river soared. The old potter who was over fifty years old was waiting by the river for the ceramics to be transported abroad to return, he suddenly found that there was a pair of small hands in the muddy Water of Xiang, and the old potter recognized at a glance that it was a child drowning, and the child had weakly raised his hands after a dying struggle, allowing the river to wreak havoc and erode her, the little life was in danger, and the old potter jumped into the river desperately and saved the little girl. The flooded little girl was rescued ashore and finally woke up after many rescues. She recounts her tragic life: her parents were killed in the flood and she was homeless... The old potter was also alone, and decided to take the little girl as an apprentice and pass on the skills of making ceramics to her, and the master and apprentice were in love with their father and daughter. As time passes, the little girl grows up and the technology matures. The old potter has been making pottery all his life, but he has always had a wish that has not been realized, that is, to present a red color like chicken blood on the ceramics, for this red, the old potters have done everything to study and abolish one kiln after another of ceramics, but they still have not achieved their wishes. This is one of the biggest wishes of the old potters in the study of pottery, but it is always difficult to achieve. Because the old potter was too tired and overthinking to study the red glaze, his hair was full of hair, and his body was deteriorating. Finally, she couldn't afford to be sick, which made the little girl extremely anxious, she couldn't watch the old potter with regrets, but she didn't have any way to help the old potter, and finally the old potter died with regret. It was a night of silver moon, and the little girl was in front of the old potter's spirit, weeping bitterly, and on the kneaded clay vessel, with a file for pottery carving, she carved this touching verse from eternity on the pottery: "I was born before I was born, and I was born with a king who is old." Jun hates me for being born late, and I hate jun for being born early. Then she slowly and weakly went to the bathhouse to bathe and change clothes, took out the most beautiful set of Xiangyun yarn flower skirt that the old potter had bought for her, and placed it on the carved bed that the old potter had placed for her, looking at the xiangyun yarn skirt that every yarn and every thread was soaked with the hard-earned money bought by the old potter. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and her originally godless eyes suddenly glowed, she took a deep breath, quickly put the Xiangyun gauze skirt on her body, straightened her waist, and looked at herself on the large round bronze mirror that the old potter had made for her, and she showed a quiet smile on her face, because she saw the old potter's kiln in the kiln hall, and the roaring flames in the kiln hall reflected the old kiln worker's old and haggard face, and the little girl seemed to see the old potter smiling at her... Her eyes showed a dim light again, because the old kiln worker in the flames suddenly disappeared, and the little girl stopped smiling, looked determined, and turned and walked toward the cave workshop.
She came to the kiln, where the fire was burning, and she clapped her hands together in a prayerful prayer. When the temperature of the kiln fire was about to reach its highest point, the little girl unexpectedly jumped into the kiln hall. At this time, a puff of green smoke suddenly rose from the kiln hall, through the gap around the kiln hall, Yuanna fluttered, gracefully soared, like a little girl's colorful dance, for a time, green smoke filled the entire night sky... The little girl's heroic actions touched the kiln god, who used her blood to transform into a red glaze color and printed it on the porcelain in the kiln hall. In order to commemorate this amazing little girl, people called the red on the kiln ceramic "daughter red". This is the remarkable feature of Changsha Tongguan kiln porcelain that distinguishes it from other porcelain. It is also after the "daughter red" that the porcelain of the Changsha Copper Official Kiln, together with its cultural connotations, conquered the experts and scholars of later generations, and also conquered the Xitao people of that era.
How magical, touching, and poignant the legend is, the spirit of the ceramic man contained in it is also eternal.
Ancient Tongguan ceramic artists, in order to inherit the spirit of Tongguan pottery, they condensed this spirit into a legendary and magnificent legend, this legend, let us understand the glory of Tongguan ceramics is not easy to come by, their emotions and awe of ceramics is even more amazing, more amazing.
The true meaning of "chicken blood red" or daughter red is a superb skill in the ancient Copper Official ceramics, which is the crystallization of the perfect fusion of science and technology and the wisdom of skilled craftsmen.
The red color glaze of the bronze official ceramic shows that the copper official people are full of hope for life, full of vitality and full of vision for the future! The Tang Dynasty had a period of development and prosperity, and this dynasty had a particularly prosperous history. From the invention of the "chicken blood red" glaze of the bronze official kiln, it can be seen that the dynasty in which the prosperous life is advocated is red and fiery, and the pursuit of a rich and beautiful life is also red-hot.
Chinese like red, but also respect red, because red is the color of blood in human life, red reveals luxury, is beautiful. In the beautiful Chinese New Year, all over the country greeted the arrival of the New Year, and the lights were colorful, and everywhere was red as the background color to symbolize auspiciousness, festivity and liveliness. The red color glaze "chicken blood red" firing technique of Tongguan ceramics is of great symbolic significance in the field of ceramic color research. The times have changed, many things have changed, ceramic glaze gradually faded in the ancient history of the river, especially the wheel of history ran through a section of bumpy road, people's pursuit of life is also constantly changing, red glaze ceramics were once forgotten by history in the ancient dust polished and smelted by the times.
Red color glaze this precious technique lost the dust of thousands of years. Today, Hu Wuqiang, who comes from a ceramic family, persistently travels through the time tunnel and re-displays it in front of the world. He insisted on hand-making, ancient ingredients, and firewood burning, creating the quaint style of Hu Wuqiang's ceramic works, and even reached a state where it was almost chaotic with ancient cultural relics. Mr. Hu tried nearly a thousand glaze recipes, freed up hundreds of firing positions, and even scrapped kiln after kiln, just like the legendary old potter.
Kung Fu did not live up to the painstaking, And Master Hu finally studied and mastered the coveted "chicken blood red" firing law.
Source | Happy in Wangcheng
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