Frankly speaking, although the old craftsmen have already taken out all their best clothes to wear.

But because they are all out-of-date gadgets, they rarely have the opportunity to participate in such high-end banquets.

This made them feel uncomfortable and nervous in the magnificently decorated banquet hall.

It seems a bit dull and restrained, even a bit helpless and dull.

But it doesn't matter, because their works are their real business card and their best face.

The works created by them, and what will be displayed today, have been displayed in the main hall of the Sacrifice Pavilion long before the meeting, becoming the most conspicuous presence.

In fact, all the guests from Northern Chef today need to do is enter here and see the exhibits.

You will definitely look at it with burning eyes, and then with wonder, you will appreciate it carefully and praise it again and again.

Many people seemed to have lost track of time because of this, forgetting that they had to go to Beishen Kitchen next door, the main venue of today's banquet.

And the more knowledgeable people are, the more reluctant they are to leave.

As a result, the main hall of the Sacrifice Pavilion was quickly overcrowded.

Ning Weimin had to ask people to take temporary measures to control the flow of visitors to ensure the safety of guests and exhibits.

Needless to say, the people who can come here today are definitely not without vision, and most of them are in the art industry.

No matter how much I support you or how much I give you face, it won't be like this.

Then why is this still happening?

Hey, there is only one answer, it’s because the stuff is so good!

Almost every one of these things on display is dazzling and fascinating!

It can be called a miracle in the special handicraft category of the industrial art industry!

If nothing else, let’s talk about this porcelain first.

Liu Yongqing, who currently works at the Beijing Arts and Crafts Factory, has fired two pairs of large antique porcelains by himself in recent years.

All the people who knew ceramics at the scene were dumbfounded and praised endlessly.

For example, the pair of "Ancient Colorful Lotus Pond Waterfowl Large Fish Tank" from the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, 1567-1572.

The pair of large fish tanks imitated by Liu Yongqing are exactly the same as the originals in terms of color and composition.

Not only does it fully demonstrate his superb color matching skills.

The key is that the inner wall of the fish tank requires the painter to hang his wrists to paint, which is a display of extreme skill and cannot be done by ordinary people.

To be honest, all the painters in Jingcheng Handicraft Factory are not of this level.

Originally, in the middle of production, Liu Yongqing himself was worried about this, and once even gave up.

Later, thanks to Ning Weimin who spent 600 yuan to polish the pen and asked Bai Xuese, a professor at the Academy of Arts and Crafts, to solve this crucial technical problem.

It has to be said that a professional painter is a professional painter. Although Bai Xueshi is famous for his landscape paintings.

However, the ducks, mandarin ducks, goldfish, etc. it depicts are still full of life, and they are no worse than the original work.

This resulted in this pair of flawless antique porcelain pieces.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of 1984, these large tanks were just finished.

Because it was in time for the Spring Festival, it was temporarily placed in the warehouse of the handicraft factory and almost sold for a sky-high price.

I love the Japanese who don’t celebrate the Spring Festival. At that time, the foreign trade department brought several Japanese businessmen to visit the factory.

This pair of large tanks was immediately spotted by a Japanese businessman, who offered 18,000 yuan in foreign exchange coupons on the spot to transport them back to Japan for collection.

This price is much higher than the 6,600 yuan offered by Tan Palace.

Even the people accompanying the foreign trade department were jealous.

The sales section chief of the handicraft factory was naturally very moved, and he opened his mouth to agree.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yongqing firmly refused.

The old man kept saying that the pair of large tanks were ordered by Tan Gong and that they had already paid the full price.

Later, the Japanese merchant increased the price by 10,000 to 28,000 yuan, but Liu Yongqing did not agree.

The Japanese merchant even offered to pay for the order and deliver it one year later, but he turned his head and refused.

He actually told people that he didn't have time and that he had other more important work to do later.

As a result, not only did the people in the foreign trade department and the Japanese businessmen left in displeasure.

Even the sales section manager in the factory felt very distressed.

Because of Liu Yongqing's stubbornness, he almost suffered a heart attack.

After everything happened, the section chief went to the factory director and complained to Liu Yongqing.

But the factory director was finally not confused this time.

Instead, I told the section chief that our Tan Palace has a long-term cooperation, and they order a lot of tableware every year.

No matter how high the Japanese businessman bids, it is still a one-time deal, and if it fails, the foreign trade department will have to take advantage of it.

What's more, Liu Yongqing wasn't talking nonsense. He did have a big job from Tan Gong that cost more than 20,000 yuan.

If we can actually make it, it will definitely shock our peers in the industry and spread the reputation of our factory throughout the country.

We can't settle petty accounts, let alone keep our word.

As a result, the section chief ate a lot of roast chicken. To take the overall situation into consideration, he had no choice but to keep silent.

As for the big job that the factory director said cost more than 20,000 yuan and can make a name for itself, it is another pair of antique porcelain on display today - a two-meter-eight-meter-high imitation Qianlong pastel white flower vase.

This thing is really amazing!

It can be said that it is the pinnacle of all the works that Liu Yongqing has created in his life.

If compared with this pair of floor-standing vases, the pair of large fish tanks that the Japanese businessman was interested in would probably be reduced to mere mortal objects.

It's not enough to see, it's such a big gap.

Why do you say that?

Because the technical requirements for making this pair of Dashang bottles are so high that they are unprecedented.

Except that the 2.8 meter vessel is very large and the required porcelain body cannot be purchased from JDZ, so it can only be made at home.

The main technical difficulty of this pair of large vases lies in their pastel pattern of "no flowers showing".

The so-called "a hundred flowers never show up" is also called "a hundred flowers never fall to the ground".

This is a technique of glazing porcelain that was born in the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty.

It refers to the combination of pastel and gold colors, and flowers of various colors fill the entire picture, without exposing the porcelain base or the branches of the flowers. The flowers are like flowers scattered by a goddess, floating in the air, hence the name.

"Hundred Flowers Picture" is also known as "Ten Thousand Flowers Brocade", "Ten Thousand Flowers Pile", "Ten Thousand Flowers Presenting Auspiciousness Picture", etc.

According to the records of the Qing Palace, this special kind of porcelain was specially used by emperors to enjoy flowers and the occasion.

Therefore, compared with other official kilns in the Qing Dynasty, the craftsmanship is more exquisite.

Its complicated firing process, rich colors, and colorful paintings cannot be achieved by just a few people, and it is the most popular colored porcelain.

In fact, even for the royal family, making colorful porcelain without flowers showing is a high-hanging fruit with the possibility of failure.

First of all, the Construction Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs needs to issue drawings, design a drawing of Hundreds of Flowers Gathering, and deliver it to the imperial kiln factory as a powder copy.

Secondly, the craftsmen of the imperial kiln factory copied the drawings and sketched them on the white porcelain body, which must be consistent with the original drawings.

At the same time, we must take into account the uneven characteristics of the instrument surface that is different from the paper surface.

If you make a mistake at this time, the whole situation will change.

No matter how beautiful the colors are, no matter how skilled the painter is, they cannot make up for the original charm of the painting.

In addition, the number of color materials prepared is also the first among all porcelains.

If a hundred flowers are not exposed to the ground, no less than thirty kinds of colors can be seen on one vessel.

Therefore, before painting, all the pigments for colored porcelain must be prepared. There are nearly hundreds of kinds, and they all need to be adjusted one by one.

It is easy to imagine how much manpower, time and cost are required to complete this work.

If there are no good craftsmen to compose and design it, and skillful craftsmen to apply color and dye it, it will never be possible.

To be honest, such craftsmanship could only appear in the Qianlong Dynasty when craftsmanship was prosperous.

In addition to the overall social environment in which porcelain art was advanced at that time, there was also Tang Ying, the envoy of pottery research, who worked hard to collect the achievements of famous kilns in the past, including the best of Chinese and foreign wares, and used them to cultivate the skilled craftsmen of the kilns.

Only in this way can we use porcelain as a body and lay colored glazes to create such a brilliance that has never been seen through the ages.

But even so, there was no "Hundred Flowers Not Revealed" colored porcelain that was larger than the size of the Qianlong Dynasty, because it was too difficult to make.

Therefore, as a master of antique porcelain, Liu Yongqing, a famous painting master, has always had the greatest wish in his life, which is to produce a pair of stunningly large colored porcelain pieces with no visible flowers.

Thanks to the support of wealthy people like Ning Weimin.

The old man, who is increasingly feeling low on energy, can try to surpass his predecessors before he completely ages.
To be continued...