This time I accidentally learned Master Deng's skills, but Chen Wenzhe learned some top modern craftsmanship solidly.
For example, he can now make a rose-purple glaze lucky barrel vase, and he can easily make a red-glazed lantern vase.
If there are no special features, then based on Master Deng's skills, he can also make ruby red glaze pig ear statues, colorful silk hair glaze amphora, flame red glaze moonlight vase, Langhong glaze long-shank chicken heart vase, Langhonghan
Blood Horse, Sanyang Kaitai Flat Belly Vase.
Among them, the flame red glaze moonlight vase is similar to the Liuxia lamp.
Just a master of modern arts and crafts, Chen Wenzhi could learn so many top-notch craftsmanship, which was really beyond his expectation.
Therefore, in the space of producing a series of high-quality porcelain, he still had the mentality of having nothing to match, and directly searched for the master of red glaze in the Sui Marquis Pearl.
Unexpectedly, he immediately saw some of the knowledge he wanted. It was another modern master who fired copper red glaze.
In fact, if you think about it, this is quite normal.
No need to think too much, there must be many masters in China now, all of whom are on the path of reviving and innovating.
First, re-burn the exquisite ancient crafts, and then innovate on this basis.
The glaze color of Liuxia lamp can be said to be a kind of carmine.
The work of restoring rouge is not limited to Master Deng Xiping alone, there are also people who are reviving rouge, rouge water, Langhong, etc.
This time, Chen Wenzhe mainly made red-glazed porcelain, so even when he was making eggshell porcelain Liuxia lamps, he did not forget to study copper-red glazed porcelain.
Langhong is a kind of carmine, carmine water, which is also a classic.
The person who accomplished the feat of red burning was also a porcelain-making family from Jingzhen.
After seeing the technology of this company, Chen Wenzhe suddenly realized that there was a shortcut to firing carmine red porcelain.
Zhu Xiaoping's family has been engaged in porcelain making for generations. His ancestors worked in the imperial kilns of the Qing Dynasty, firing carmine red porcelain.
But by the time it reached Zhu Xiaoping's generation, the secret recipe for carmine passed down from his family was incomplete.
In order to restore the burning process of carmine, Zhu Xiaoping conducted hundreds of experiments in 8 years.
He repeatedly adjusted the kaolin formula, constantly adjusted the glaze ratio, and precisely controlled the kiln firing temperature...
I tried again and again and failed again and again. Sometimes I got angry and smashed the defective products.
His son once advised him to give up and stop doing it, but Zhu Xiaoping felt: "What our ancestors could do, we can't do it now, which is a very shameful thing."
It wasn't until 2015 that he reorganized the process and finally succeeded in refiring carmine red porcelain.
The carmine red porcelain fired by Zhu Xiaoping is dazzling in color, graceful and luxurious. It has been selected as a national gift many times and represents Chinese culture to the world.
"National gifts represent the face of the country and must not tolerate any flaws."
It is because of this spirit that he is a true master and can constantly receive tasks for making porcelain for national gifts.
Once, after receiving the task of making a national gift, he locked himself in the office for 15 days.
In the meantime, he thought day and night, from the shape to the color, from the size to the pattern, from the earth texture to the craftsmanship...
The drawings were drawn over and over again, and the final product amazed the reviewers.
All experts believe that his works represent the highest level of traditional hand-made porcelain.
What is particularly rare is that hundreds of pieces of hand-fired porcelain have no color difference and are completely consistent.
The predecessors have made the official kiln porcelain to the extreme. Only by working hard can we make some items that are treasured by our ancestors. If we can make them, we will have no regrets in this life.
These are the master's original words, and this is also Chen Wenzhe's goal.
After learning this master's technique, Chen Wenzhe felt that he had greatly improved.
This time he not only learned the techniques for firing carmine red porcelain, but most importantly, he also learned the techniques related to wood kilns.
Chen Wenzhe has known for a long time that the firing of copper red glaze, or red underglaze, is related to the temperature of wood kiln.
Therefore, burning carmine is no exception. Since you can easily successfully fire carmine porcelain, you naturally have important knowledge about kiln firing.
It was also at this time that Chen Wenzhe realized that firewood kilns were an indispensable and important method of making porcelain even in modern times.
The more porcelain he made, the more Chen Wenzhe understood.
Whether porcelain can be successfully fired in a kiln depends on the wood kiln and the master who works with the wood kiln.
Some master craftsmen can accurately judge the kiln temperature just by observing the state of the flame with the naked eye.
However, a qualified stake master must experience at least hundreds of kilns before he can truly master the relationship between kiln, fire, tire and glaze.
This is a flaw of wood kilns, but traditional wood kilns fire porcelain. Because of the long time and high degree of porcelainization, the fired porcelain is more gentle and soft, and can better show the texture and color of the porcelain itself.
Therefore, traditional wood kilns cannot be replaced by gas kilns or electric kilns.
Moreover, traditional wood kilns use masson pine as fuel and do not contain any toxic and harmful substances. The safety of wood kiln porcelain is very good.
In recent years, as people pay more attention to traditional craftsmanship and safety, the demand for wood-fired kiln porcelain has increased significantly, and many new wood-fired kilns have appeared in Jingzhen.
Wood kiln technology can be passed down, but cultivating a master of making piles is not a matter of one or two years, but takes ten or twenty years.
Therefore, it may be difficult to rely on private porcelain factories alone to ensure this. At this time, the country needs to think of more ways to train young people.
Of course, Chen Wenzhe doesn't need to worry about these. Domestic ceramic production has never been epoch-making, it's just ups and downs, highs and lows.
Nowadays, even for the pursuit of profit, firewood kilns should not be lost, because there is a market!
It takes thirty hours to bake. After the firing is completed, it still needs to cool for two days.
If Chen Wenzhe hadn't been a wealthy man who built a large number of firewood kilns and had many people helping him burn the kilns, he really wouldn't be able to do anything.
Fortunately, the wood kiln he built was only for firing his works. Otherwise, he would have had so many works and there would still be no one to help him with the firing.
This is another weakness of the wood kiln. To fire the wood kiln, all money is accumulated.
When it comes to making porcelain, Chen Wenzhe no longer needs to follow the rules.
So, recently he has been doing modern handicrafts.
Giving youth to traditional fashion, especially porcelain, is a kind of innovation.
Ceramics can also be trendy. In addition to the common cups, dishes, bottles, various creative works with porcelain as elements are now not uncommon.
Necklaces, earrings, bracelets and other accessories made of porcelain are exquisite and elegant.
Handbags, cushions, scarves and mobile phone cases with blue and white patterns as elements are full of trend...
Of course, these are just small things, and the real important thing is the batch of porcelain made by the top craftsmen called upon by the country after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
For example, Mao porcelain, Jianguo porcelain, and National gift porcelain are collectively called 5678 porcelain. These are the pinnacle of domestic porcelain after the founding of the People's Republic of China.