Longquan County, Chuzhou... And out of the celadon porcelain, called the secret color. The tribute of the Qian clan, the cover is taken from here. In Xuanhe, the forbidden court system needs to be requested, and the Longquan celadon is skillfully processed. - "Chicken Rib Compilation"
preface
In 1984, in an ancient tomb in Nanping, Fujian Province, a piece of porcelain from the Longquan kiln was excavated, and the tomb was seriously damaged, and it is difficult to know the identity of the owner of the tomb. Among the many burial items, only this porcelain is the best preserved, and archaeologists named it "blue glaze brown color binauric ring bottle" according to the shape and color of the porcelain.
Repairing the pigsty is suspected of being an obstacle to the ancient tomb
This matter also started from a farmer in Nanping, when the farmer wanted to repair the pig pen and wanted to expand the original pig pen to raise a few more pigs. In the process of repairing the pigsty to dig out an ancient tomb, this farmer does not care, after all, building a house, digging a cellar to dig out the ancient tomb is a very common thing, at that time the farmer felt that the ancient tomb was in the way, so he used soil to fill in the ancient tomb, and some of the burial goods dug out were casually thrown aside.
Now it seems that these funerary items are all cultural relics, and at that time, people's awareness of cultural relics protection was very weak, so they did not attract too much attention. On the contrary, it was a child named Qiu Jianping, when he was in elementary school, after school, he was more curious to see the things scattered on the ground, and there was a porcelain that was quite beautiful, so he picked up the bottle at home, but after a fresh momentum, he put this porcelain bottle aside.
The father was unexpectedly discovering it while cleaning up the room
Qiu Jianping did not take this bottle seriously, but one day when his father cleaned up the room, he found this bottle, and there was such an object in the house, and Qiu Jianping's father was of course very confused. So when Qiu Jianping came home, he asked Qiu Jianping where this bottle came from, and Qiu Jianping told his father about picking up the bottle when he saw the bottle thrown aside.
This bottle is interesting and beautiful in the eyes of the child, but Qiu Jianping's father feels that this is not an ordinary bottle, whether it is the overall shape or the color looks valuable. Originally, I wanted to sell the bottle the next day, maybe it would be worth a lot of money, but after a night of thinking, Qiu Jianping's father finally decided to hand over the bottle to the relevant departments.
This bottle turned out to be a national first-class cultural relic
At that time, Qiu Jianping's father and son came to the local cultural center in Nanping, and after explaining their intentions, a special person received the two people. After seeing the porcelain bottle taken by the father and son, the expert determined after careful study that it was a porcelain bottle from the Longquan kiln in the Yuan Dynasty. The whole porcelain bottle is about 26.5 cm high, the whole body is applied with blue glaze ice cracks, the shape is very simple, but it does not lose the ancient charm, it is a rare Piece of Yuan Dynasty porcelain, this "blue glaze brown color amphora ring bottle" has long been rated as a national first-class cultural relic.
The cultural relics handed over were rewarded with 6 yuan
After learning about the origin of the "blue glazed brown color amphora bottle", the experts also immediately asked Qiu Jianping and his father and son to go to the place where the tomb was found, but unfortunately the tomb was very seriously damaged at that time. Except for the bottle that Qiu Jianping picked up, there were no other valuable burial items, and the identity of the owner of the tomb was difficult to confirm. However, because of the handing over of this important cultural relic, the Qiu Jianping family also received a cash reward of 6 yuan and an honorary certificate.
summary
Longquan kiln as one of the six major kiln systems of the Song Dynasty, famous for firing celadon porcelain, Longquan kiln development to the Yuan Dynasty has been very mature, but because of war and other reasons, the surviving Yuan Dynasty Longquan kiln porcelain is not much, this "blue glaze brown color amphora bottle" is also quite precious.
【References】Chicken Rib Compilation
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