But the words of the source of color pottery
Text/Zhou Xinguo
The name of the faience source is good, but the origin is not too far, even a little young, without the vicissitudes and ancient meanings carried by Shizhu Lake. So, when I first called her, it was quite controversial. At that time, the ancient city and the two villages of Monk Bridge merged, wanted to take a better name, for a long time argued, the public said differently, and finally murakami was the person who played a little role in the county at that time, this name was also taken by him, because this was once the birthplace of underglaze colorful ceramics, so it was called the source of faience pottery.
When it was, I didn't know who it was, the mouth came very quickly, saying "There was a peach blossom source in ancient times, and there is a source of colored pottery now", the person who said this did not care too much at that time, and did not expect that more than ten years later, this sentence was really fulfilled. Nowadays, there are four national-level brands in the source of faience pottery, what is the "National Characteristic Landscape Tourism Village", "National Beautiful and Livable Demonstration Village", "National Forest Village", and the heaviest "National Civilized Village". If nothing else, these four plates alone are enough to make the people of the color pottery source get away with it.
The name of the monk bridge, people who don't know the origin do sound a little strange, the words say that many years ago, there was a temple in this place, there was a monk living in the temple, this monk looks peugeot, wu gao wu da, many people can't think clearly, such a handsome young man do mozi monk! It turned out that he and his own young girl had sent the fate of his parents and the words of the matchmaker, and did not finally become a family, the girl had only him in her heart, and the night before the girl was about to get married, the two ran out together, and did not come back all night. Later, this girl gave birth to a white and fat little boy, the boy was smart from childhood, especially able to read, grew up to become an official, on a moonlit night, his mother and son called him to a small river, pointed to a monk practicing in the temple opposite, and said, Child, he is your father. The child did not speak, but in his heart he understood what was going on, and soon after, there was another small stone bridge on the river, and the three words "Monk Bridge" were deeply engraved on the fence in the middle. Since then, people in a radius of tens of miles have known that this place is called the Monk Bridge.
Speaking of the ancient city, it was really a city a long time ago, which was the "Old Wei City" of Cheng Pu, the general of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. I don't know when it was, Wu Guo and Shu Guo were hurt and angry, originally Cheng Pu did a good job here, Guan Yu wanted to mix, there was no way, Cheng Pu and Guan Yu fought a battle, cheng Pu Yan won. Facts have proved that Guan Yu is no worse than Cheng Pu, and the governance of this place is even better than the original, and later the local people built a "Guangong Temple" for him. Although young people have not seen it, but people born before the fifties still remember its appearance, near the Juehua Mountain, Cheng Pu built the earthen city wall, Guan Yu's horse fence is still faintly visible, as to whether cheng Pu and Guan Yu are serious about the war between the two sides, Tang "Yuanhe County System" and Li Daoyuan's "Water Sutra Notes" are recorded above, and there are still magical legends such as "Mica Temple", "Banbian Mountain" and "One Arrow Shooting Three Punches", if men, women and children sit down and talk about these stories, they can tell a basket in one story.
During the Tang Dynasty, here was still a world-class factory for the production of ceramics, at that time other places can only produce celadon and white porcelain, and here can produce colored porcelain, but also played even modern people feel more fashionable "private customization", a play to play to foreign countries, 29 countries of different skin colors have people here to order porcelain, making the "Shizhu Grass City" crowded, causing those who see yellow hair, white skin people, are scared to cry, they were still in accordance with the needs of different cultures of various countries, Paintings and writings were painted on the porcelain, and the poems and aphorisms on it were now collected and compiled into a book called "The Abandoned Child of Tang Poetry", and the paintings on it were also compiled into the "Genealogy of Changsha Kiln Patterns", only the advertising slogan on the porcelain, I don't know if no one had time to sort it out, or did not care too much. In short, these cultural symbols and cultural connotations attached to porcelain are still influencing people's study, work and life. Remember that General Secretary Xi Jinping said at the Belt and Road Summit Forum one year: The ancient Silk Road has opened a new window for friendly exchanges among countries and written a new chapter in human development and progress. The "gilded copper silkworm" treasured by the Shaanxi History Museum of China, and the thousand-year-old shipwreck "Black Stone" found in Indonesia have witnessed this glorious history. The shipwreck at that time was full of more than 56,000 exquisite ceramics from here.
Most of the villagers in the monk's bridge and the ancient city live along the painted pottery stream, one lives in the east, one lives in the west, drinks the same river, cultivates a lake, and now together, it is a very natural thing, you say coincidentally, this combination, as if connected to the dragon vein, from then on men do not worry about marrying, women do not worry about marrying, doing technology more and more refined, doing business more and more, reading more and more, the better, life is like sesame blossoms. Not only do the people in the village think so, but the people outside also say so, in fact, as long as they understand people, they know that one is that the party's policies are good, the second is that the genes left by the ancestors are good, and the third is that their own steps are good. Some people also say that the name of "faience pottery source" has been achieved well, and the open source gathers living water, can it not be rich?
A few years earlier, Shan Jixiang, former director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, came here to inspect the "Changsha Kiln", walked to the ancient city bridge, hurriedly got off the car, stood on the bridge, saw a group of buffalo on the grass leisurely eating grass, and a few egrets perched on the back of the cow without incident, and exclaimed: "As soon as I came here, I felt extraordinary, the scenery here is beautiful, people and nature live in harmony, and it is pleasant." Later, an old leader of a provincial-level department came to the village to guide the work, and with great interest, he carefully looked at it from top to bottom along the Painted Pottery Creek, and said to the people who came with great pleasure, Have you seen the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan's "Map of the Qingming River"? If not, as long as you stand on the Juehua Pagoda on the side of the Xiang River, with the Faitou Creek as the axis, and look up from the bottom up, it is not a modern version of the "Qingming Upper River Map"!
Throughout the ages, things are not human, mountains are long and watery, and in heaven and earth, only the rivers and mountains are not old, but there are thousands of changes. Come to the source of color pottery, if you are too lazy to go anywhere else, then please come to juehua Pagoda and read Mr. Quan Du's "Waves and Sands", "The ancient town is more than a thousand years, the Chu boundary Wubian, the red mud flame reflects the river boat." Where to see shili tao city? Imagination. The vicissitudes of the sea turned into mulberry fields, and a kiln was unprecedented. Look up to the sages under the Wind Pavilion. I was born with hatred for the elderly, and the poetry was difficult to sleep. Does the charm of the poem make you suddenly understand the past and present lives of the source of the faience pottery? If you feel that you are still not finished, then please slow down the rhythm, step by step to the top of the tower, look around, as far as the eye can see, the sight is full of intoxicating scenes, the babbling pottery stream is like a jade belt from the distant sky, the chimneys on Tongguan Mountain, from time to time floating out of the white clouds, as if emerging from the busy figures of modern Tongguan kiln workers, tongguan kiln ancient town lights red Shizhu Lake also illuminates the Xiangjiang River, everything is so beautiful.
I remember someone once saying that no matter what the name of a place is, it is not so important. I don't think so, that historical things cannot be forgotten, that the older they are, the more fresh they are, the more historical they are, the more modern they are, and the more national they are, the more they are the world. It can be seen that the charm of the faience source is really worth chewing slowly and savoring.........