Qing Yongzheng Rouge water glaze petal-style bowl Arterial shadow-photography
Monogatari:
In this spring, the emperor who plays with power can be an artist, to pursue the purity of beauty and show the gentleness of the heart.
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When you think of spring, what comes to mind?
Remember Zhu Ziqing said that spring is like a little girl with flowers and branches.
I remember the poem saying, "The flower moves the spring heart toward the moon and night", and when the flower blooms, it is like spring opening its eyes. Spring wakes up, always unconsciously moved.
And I will remember the feeling of seeing porcelain during the Yongzheng period at the beginning. Pink, warm, very "spring".
Figure | Mason 1949
I remembered the surprise when I first saw the "cowpea red plate". Like a little doll's face, puff puff, moist Q bomb, people can't help but want to pinch it.
It's really hard to associate the cute pink with the Yongzheng Emperor.
I originally thought that the ascendant who had seized the throne of the Ninth Son should be cruel and violent, and did not smile. He experienced fratricide, and immediately after succeeding to the throne, he made drastic reforms, and he did not play Jiangnan like his father and son.
It is said that "pink is born of spring", and on a bitter day, I saw a few touches of pink, as if there were a few more beams of spring light.
Therefore, unlike Kangxi, who demands that porcelain be dignified and solemn, nor is he like Qianlong, who likes to be gorgeous and complicated, but hides a "spring heart" reflected in the pink porcelain.
Qing Yongzheng Cowpea red small plate arterial shadow - photography
There were many changes in pink porcelain during the Yongzheng period, the most special of which was called "rouge gouache". When I saw this rouge water glazed petal bowl, I seemed to see the brightness of the March peach blossoms, and the shyness of the cool breeze.
"Carmine" should be colored with gold, and "rouge gouache" is to make gold a little less and more pink. It looks soft and gentle, and it seems to ripple in a circle under the light.
Faint, shallow, like the color of the buds, like spring has just arrived.
Imagine that hundreds of years ago, Yongzheng held this small bowl in his hand, like playing with a cute little flower. I don't know if this moment has reduced his fatigue in handling political affairs and awakened a short spring in his heart.
Yong reigned for thirteen years, diligently, without much rest. Therefore, I put playing with art and appreciating porcelain as the best decompression.
He saw beautiful porcelain and always loved it. It is said that love is restraint, so the porcelain of Yongzhengshi is very beautiful and peaceful, very restrained.
The simpler it is, the more wordless beauty there is. In his opinion, the porcelain of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty is the best. Yongzheng liked monochromatic glazes and ordered that only one porcelain be burned for one glaze color. I also want the color to be extremely uniform, and I want to constantly try out new glaze colors.
Therefore, Nian Xiyao, the elder brother of Nian Qianyao, was specially sent to Jingdezhen to supervise the kiln burning. In the past ten years, the firing technology has been continuously mastered. The porcelain of Jingdezhen during this period was even known as the "Nian Kiln".
Qing Yongzheng Jingdezhen kiln pine green glaze antique copper pattern bowl arterial shadow - photography
Qing Yongzheng Twelve color chrysanthemum petal disc turquoise green glaze arterial shadow - photography
In the eleventh year of Yongzheng, Nian Xiyao sent twelve plates, namely "white glaze, green glaze, lake green glaze, green glaze, yellow glaze, turmeric glaze, beige glaze, sky blue glaze, sprinkled blue glaze, rouge glaze, purple gold glaze, mint glaze".
Among them, the green glaze alone has three appearances. Lake green glaze plate, like newly picked leaves, verdant and tender; green glaze plate, much like the rain over the azure Ru kiln, warm as jade... The tire is thin and light, without any ornamentation, so the beauty is more pure, and it can be imagined endlessly.
Just like another monochromatic glaze that Yongzheng actively pursues, "tea leaves". This color is not pleasing, it does not look yellow or green. It was originally a defective product expected by the previous dynasty, but Yongzheng looked at him and felt that he was "quaint and calm".
Qing Yongzheng Tea end glaze through the ear pot National Museum of China
This glaze color is indeed no different from the tea leaves, and it is like a mysterious bronze. "Tea powder" is difficult to burn, one more point is too yellow, one less point is too green. The more inconspicuous the monochrome glaze, the more it is played out of the flower.
Just like Ma Weidu said: "Color glaze is a subtle expression, and only with aesthetic literacy can it be experienced." ”
Yongzheng's monochrome glazed porcelain hides his most secret emotions. We can see it, but we can't figure it out. Penetrating these mysteries and simplicity, we understand the delicate tenderness of his heart.
Qing Yongzheng Pink blue glaze double dragon ear long carotid bottle Arterial shadow - photography
Yong reigned for thirteen years, which was not very long. In a limited time, is he often trying to do something, wanting to leave something behind.
His mind, like a spring flower, bloomed brilliantly, "A good night blows the wind, and ten thousand new flowers." "A flower blooms for a season, it is the life of a flower, so it is to bloom painfully and happily, and each flower must bloom to the fullest."
And porcelain is the spring of Yongzheng, and he wants to make this spring a hope. Will not compromise, even very willful, from carcass selection, to glaze color, to depiction... He pursues the ultimate in everything.
Qing Yongzheng Enamel color willow swallow pattern bowl arterial shadow - photography
He liked the five generations of famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, which were influenced by subtle minimalism, fresh and natural, and the result was that the imitation porcelain was even more beautiful than the previous dynasty.
He knew that the "doucai" of the Ming Dynasty was the best, so he asked the porcelain to be depicted like embroidery, and the color changes were in the subtleties; he also knew that the "blue and white" of the Ming Dynasty Yongxuan was good, so he went straight after Yongxuan.
It is also influenced by the Wanli "iron line drawing" painting method, which does not paint a large area of color, but one by one, lightly depicting blue and white.
Qing Yongzheng Blue and white lightly depicted bamboo pattern bowl arterial shadow - photography
Qing Yongzheng lightly depicts the blue and white butterfly pattern disc Arterial shadow - photography
Yongzheng also knew that pastels were influenced by Western culture, so he asked that the pastels be depicted in a way that was as real as oil paintings.
Pastel is like painting another brush stroke on porcelain, and the color material is even finer than that of the Kangxi Dynasty.
A flower often uses more than ten colors, first coated with a layer of glass white, and then rendered. Flower hearts and lace, varying shades. The yin side of the petals is a little darker, and the yang side is a little lighter. Others are layered with richer colors, which will glow like a rainbow.
It is both delicate and elegant, both freehand and realistic. The pastels of the Yongzheng period surpassed many Chinese colored porcelain, and the transcendence of Yongzheng left one spring after another for the porcelain.
Qing Yongzheng Pastel Over-branch Hibiscus Dragonfly Figure Cup Arterial Shadow - Photography
Pink is like the buds of this spring, stirring; monochrome glaze is like the gentle wind of spring, gently blowing; delicate pursuit, is the spring heart of a tree competing to open.
In the difficult imperial career, Yongzheng must have had many moments of wanting to escape. Come to think of it, when he was in love with literature and art and saw the success of porcelain firing, he may have briefly hidden in a spring.
In that spring, the emperor who played with power could be an artist, to pursue the purity of beauty, to show the gentleness of the heart.
Qing Yongzheng Pastel Plum Bamboo Double Swallow Bottle Arterial Shadow-Photography