Five or six hundred years ago, due to the whim of the Mingde Emperor, hundreds of craftsmen rushed to make the tribute day and night to sprinkle blue glaze bowls, and the treasures that were burned for only ten years were discontinued.
After the passage of time, these luxuries, which only the upper class of the royal family and nobles can afford, who would have thought that they would eventually be reduced to a peasant woman's home to feed chickens?
In China in the 1980s, the economy and culture were in a downturn, and the people's lives were very poor.
Some people's homes are precarious, so the large and small household utensils are few and worn. As usual, on a windy afternoon, pedestrians came and went on the street, and an old man in rags stood outside a shop for a long time and walked in.
The old lady looked at the shop timidly as she walked in.
The objects placed in the store look very valuable, and the people who receive the goods inside are also neatly dressed, which is a world away from the shop in the alley
。 The closer she got to the counter, the more her heart beat like thunder. If the family is really short of money, they will not listen to the advice of the neighbors and come here to try their luck.
The distance from the store was just a few meters, like walking a long, long way, she looked up at the store, and before she could say anything, she took the initiative to talk to her, which made her original nervous mood slightly relieved.
The shopkeeper glanced at the things in her arms, smiled at her, and treated the customers before them, casually talking a few words to lead the topic to the things in the old man's hands.
The old man saw that the shopkeeper, although he looked a little difficult to talk to, was still quite enthusiastic, so he introduced him to what he was going to sell to them.
This bowl was previously placed in the chicken pen at home to feed the chickens, and after feeding for many years, the store asked, and she told the truth.
After understanding, the store knew the general situation. The bowl is something that the family has been using for generations, and at first this bowl was used to hold salt when it was not so dirty.
Later, the salt-filled object was replaced by another bowl, and this bowl was honorably retired to feed the chickens
。 However, as for the words handed down from the ancestors, whether it was the father's area or whether it would continue to push up, the old man could not say clearly.
He put the old man's bowl under the lamp and carefully rubbed it,
It was found that the shape of this bowl was significantly larger than other bowls, with a large mouth and a flat bottom.
Although the bowl is dirty, it can still be judged from all aspects that it is a bowl. Looking at the shape of this bowl, the outside of the bowl is blue and white, and the inside of the bowl is white, and you can see some scratches.
To the touch, the tire of the bowl is thicker than usual. Synthesizing these, and then looking at the color, he judged that this was probably something after the Qing Dynasty, but there were scratches.
That is to say, this bowl is not very valuable in the market, but the Qing Dynasty is also some years old.
I thought about giving the old man some money and leaving this bowl.
The old man did not think that a chicken bowl could be sold at such a sky-high price, and even gave her eighty yuan.
It is enough for the whole family to live with this money for a long, long time. So while embarrassed, he thanked the store and went back. After sending off the old man, the staff of this Beijing cultural relics store cleaned up the bowl around the "Qianlong" year and year.
After being washed, the bowl surprised him
This bowl will be the fuse of the next "priceless dispute" in the antique collection market
。 Why is he so convinced of his ideas? It turned out that when this antiquity was cleaned, the word "Xuande" at the bottom of the bowl was "released" from the heavy dirt.
Then six words came into view: the year of The Great Ming Dynasty. From the most prosperous history of the Ming Dynasty,
It has a history of more than 500 years
！
Recognizing the importance of this antiquity, the shopkeeper did not dare to put it there like other cultural relics, and finally after properly preserving it, it was necessary to rush to contact the superiors.
This is a big deal for an antique shop. After hearing his report, the superior immediately arranged for him to go down and sent several cultural relics appraisal experts down.
The invited experts were all very well-known in these fields, and it didn't take long for many to appear in front of the antiquities store.
After identification, it was determined that the identity of this "feeding chicken bowl" was sprinkled with blue glazed bowls from the jingdezhen official kiln during the Xuande period!
Jingdezhen is the Ming Dynasty under the control of the imperial court of the official industry, every year there are special officials to supervise, which employs well-known figures in the field of ceramics, the masters used are not senior craftsmen, or talented people who are very accomplished in this area, so the official kiln represents the top technical level of ceramics at that time.
Today's "treasure" is the relics of more than five hundred years ago that were only produced for ten years and were stopped.
During the reign of The Great Ming Dynasty, it was one of the few prosperous years.
The Xuande Emperor was at the top of the ruling class, and the Ming Dynasty under his and his father's rule was the peak of the Ming Dynasty. One is the peak of military power, and the other is the peak of national financial resources. This Xuande Emperor, also known as Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji, was favored in the imperial family from an early age.
His grandfather Zhu Di was also a Ming Emperor, who had favored Emperor Xuanzong from an early age and had made him the Emperor's grandson when he was twelve years old.
Ming Xuanzong has been very intelligent since he was a child, and he grew up in such a pampered environment, so he will show full vitality for objects or things he has never seen before, two of which are related to ceramics
。 Ming Xuanzong usually liked to dance and ink, and read a wide range of books, almost all walks of life have studied.
The paintings he left behind have been hyped up by the antique collection field today.
Although he has a wide range of knowledge and interests, he is very demanding about his life.
Once he stumbled upon the entertainment of folk cricket fighting, he showed great interest in it. He couldn't even look at the cricket utensils he usually used, and before he wanted to play, he would first order him to make a kind of vessel specially used to fight crickets for him, but the consequences were very serious.
After the official family arranged it, the official kiln was started in full swing! The craftsmen completed the work on time from design to construction.
After Ming Xuanzong got such a ceramic, he loved it and rewarded many people
。 But it wasn't long before Ming Xuanzong lost interest in this activity, and turned around as if his time outside of government affairs was all spent on another activity, rolling dice, as before, but everything he used was the best.
So, this time, he wanted a vessel that could be used exclusively for rolling dice. The king's order was difficult to violate, and the up and down rose for him again.
When the order arrived at the official kiln, it was an ordinary day. After all these years of exchanges with the emperor, the master's requirements have become higher and higher, and the general exquisite objects will not enter his eyes at all.
So hundreds of craftsmen worked all night to conceive and negotiate, and finally rushed out within the date specified by Emperor Xuanzong.
This time, the wisdom of the craftsmen and masters was "born" a unique tribute: sprinkling blue glaze bowls.
Sprinkling blue glaze bowl, the most important process, is "sprinkling blue glaze". "Sprinkling blue glaze" is also called "blowing green", and calling this process "blowing green" is actually closer to its production steps. When blowing green, it is necessary to first dip the glaze with a bamboo pipe, and then blow on the porcelain to form a porcelain watch that is not white in thickness and thinness.
Both the surface design and the technical content of the process occupied a unique position in the porcelain tribute at that time.
Because the birth of the sprinkled blue glaze bowl stemmed from Ming Xuanzong's love for rolling dice, the sprinkled blue glaze bowl was widely spread among the concubines of the imperial palace at that time. In ancient times, the strict discipline of women, during the Ming Xuanzong period, was a rare relaxation, because such a folk entertainment project was introduced into the imperial palace.
Because of the appearance of sprinkling blue glazed bowls, the concubines are even more playing "Happy Not Thinking About Palace Fighting".
Ming Xuanzong died at the age of thirty-six,
After the Xuande Emperor died, the sprinkled blue glaze bowl gradually disappeared.
So it only existed for a decade.
Although some emperors later wanted to pass on this skill and artwork, it was later found that it was simply not feasible. In addition to the high cost, there are also those craftsmen who participated in the production of blowing green after a few years, their health is getting worse and worse, and finally almost all of them have no medicine.
From a chemical point of view, the glaze of that year contained a lot of harmful chemical components, one of the deadliest is the chemical arsenic, which is the main component of arsenic. When craftsmen work, they need to use their mouths to blow this toxic chemical substance through bamboo pipes on porcelain, and the production of a sprinkled blue glaze bowl requires at least four times more "blowing green" process.
During several blows, many toxins that are not deadly enough to enter the respiratory and digestive tracts.
So it's only a few years,
The effect of chronic poison was exerted, and the craftsmen fell with it
finish. Until now, the only surviving blue glazed bowl in the world, there are only three pieces left nationwide, one of which is the "broken bowl" that the old people fed chickens for several years and sold for a good price have now become a national first-class treasure, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Even if it is sealed for many years, as long as it has its own value, it will not be buried.
Didn't that bowl also go through a thousand years of wind and rain before it once again stood in its original position, or even higher?
What was once a treasure that was only passed down among the nobility is still its original style.
Why not? But more people can't stand the process of "feeding the chicken bowl", and they have not waited for the "cultural relics store" to give up on themselves.
There is light and hope.