Jun kiln is one of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, its main contribution is to creatively fired brilliant copper red glaze Jun porcelain, changing the situation that the mainland's high temperature color glaze was only black glaze and blue glaze, and creating a new era of art!
The Jun kiln has a history of more than 1,000 years since its inception, during the Development Period of the Tang Dynasty and the Early Northern Song Dynasty. The production of jun porcelain in the middle and late period of the Northern Song Dynasty reached its heyday, especially the official kiln porcelain, which reached the peak of perfection.
Modern jun porcelain was re-developed under the personal supervision of Premier Zhou Enlai after liberation, and in the 50s and 80s, the main production of jun porcelain was mainly based on the state-run jun porcelain factory, and in the 90s, the private jun porcelain factory began to grow and develop continuously. Since the new century, the influence of jun porcelain has been expanding, and it is often given as a national gift to political dignitaries of various countries, becoming a bright business card for the country to show Chinese culture to the world.
The unique charm of jun porcelain compared to other porcelain varieties lies in the kiln change. The so-called kiln change is the color formed by the complex chemical reaction of the glaze layer on the surface of the mud tire at high temperatures. In many fascinating jun porcelain, it is often not a single color, there are purple, azure blue, sky blue, pink blue, moon white and other hues, so there are absolutely no two pieces of exactly the same jun porcelain in this world.
Therefore, there are good sentences such as "one color into the kiln, one color out of the kiln", "jun porcelain is not right, the kiln becomes incomparable" and "a high mountain cloud and mist, the smoke and light are full of stars, the canyon waterfall rabbit silk wisps, the sunset purple jade suddenly becomes a lan" and other good sentences to describe the magical artistic characteristics of the kiln.
In addition, jun porcelain also attaches great importance to plastic arts, the beauty of the classic jun porcelain type is reflected in the treatment of modeling lines, put an end to the light and thin fancy of molding, the pursuit of dignified elegance, magnificent, showing an inherent subtle beauty, with the charm of eternity.
Wang Xianfeng
Chinese jun porcelain craft master,
Ambassador of the Great National Intangible Cultural Heritage Craftsman,
The first artist of China Jun Porcelain Fine Creation Center,
Visiting Professor, Capital Normal University,
Henan Province Love Ceramic Artist
Wang Xianfeng, born in 1963 in Shenyuan Town, Yuzhou City, Henan Province, has been influenced by jun porcelain culture since childhood, and since the early 1990s, he has begun to conduct scientific selective experiments on jun porcelain glazes, and conducted in-depth and comprehensive research and exploration on the color rendering mechanism and firing system of jun porcelain. In the past 30 years of research career, he has obtained a number of national invention patents and utility model patents, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of the jun porcelain cultural industry.
The gentle and moist porcelain art work has always been the goal he unswervingly pursues. It is with such a belief that he dared to innovate on the basis of inheriting the traditional porcelain-making techniques, and after a large number of experiments, he finally succeeded in creating and firing a number of precious jun porcelain glaze colors represented by jade glaze, peony flower glaze, ruddy robe glaze, etc., which well reproduced the traditional jun porcelain charm of "like jade is better than jade", and pushed the multicolored infiltration of jun porcelain and the kiln transformation art of yurun tiancheng to a new height.
Jade Getaway
In order to challenge the firing difficulty of ceramics and show the aesthetic art of jun porcelain, after years of exploration and experimentation, it finally launched a series of jun porcelain works represented by "Jade Runaway", which has undergone a high-temperature fire of 1300 degrees with one leg load bearing, showing the superb firing technology of national treasure jun porcelain and pushing the aesthetics of jun porcelain to a new height.
【Representative Works of Wang Xianfeng】
(Only part of the exhibition)
The Great Hall of the People collects "Ma Ta Fei Yan"
Originally a bronze artifact of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Ma Ta Fei Yan" was excavated in 1969 in Wuwei City, Gansu Province, and has always been regarded as a symbol of China's ancient superb casting industry, and was identified as a Chinese tourism symbol by the National Tourism Administration in October 1983 and a national treasure in 1986.
For many years, how to make "Ma Ta Fei Yan" into a jun porcelain artwork has always been the dream of jun porcelain practitioners, and Wang Xianfeng, a master of Chinese jun porcelain craftsmanship, has perfectly displayed this ancient art classic as the goal of struggle, and after years of repeated experiments, it has finally been successfully fired!
The porcelain tire is thickly glazed, and a curved horse leg supports the weight of the whole body, and the difficulty can be imagined. Moreover, when the furnace temperature is at 1300 ° C, the utensils have softened into mud, the environment has changed slightly, and the whole will crack or collapse and be scrapped. In order to develop this work, Master Wang Xianfeng successfully overcame the difficulties of molding, clay, glaze color, firing, etc., and after more than 100 experiments, finally conquered the problem of single-leg load-bearing and coping with 1300 °C high temperature firing. The Jun porcelain version of "Ma Ta Fei Yan" shows the superb skills of the national treasure Jun porcelain", and was collected by the Great Hall of the People in 2015.
National Museum Collection "Jade Escape"
Chinese jun porcelain craft master Wang Xianfeng immersed himself in the creation of "Jade Getaway", which integrates the "fat" style of the Tang Dynasty and the "elegant" style of the Song Dynasty, the horse body is fat and strong, the tendons are strong, the chest is wide and flat, the limbs are strong and powerful, the proportions are coordinated, and it is placed on the table, the center of gravity is stable, showing the superb porcelain-making skills.
After 1300 °C jun kiln fire, intoxicating begonia red, noble emerald green, romantic Roland purple burst out, interact with each other, turn into dots of gold spots, the shape and glaze wonderful interpretation also shows happiness, wealth, by the mainland ceramic titan Professor Zhang Shouzhi, President Jing Zhizhong and other authoritative experts and scholars highly appreciated!
National Museum collection of "Jade Junxi"
The work "Jade Junxi" is created by the Chinese jun porcelain craft master Wang Xianfeng for many years, the overall shape is dignified and atmospheric, mighty and majestic, the upper part of the junxi is a rui beast sitting steadily, looking forward to the distance, magnificent in prayer for blessings, looking forward to wealth; the lower part is ingeniously guarded by the green dragon, white tiger, suzaku, Xuanwu four-square spirit beast town, stable as The atmosphere of Mount Tai suddenly appears, meaning to increase the auspicious Rui, ju fu lai, the foundation of eternal solidity!
The wonderful thing about "Yu Junxi" is that it adopts the unique glaze color that Master Wang Xianfeng has successfully developed for more than 20 years - "Guifei Drunk" (named by the China Collectors Association), the elegant glaze color of The Jade Run, the exquisite and transparent dress of the Beast, and the agility in the solemnity, which can be described as "the pen of casting the soul", which is really wonderful!