Chen Wenzhe really didn't expect that he could discover the formula of Neon Hexiang through some incense fragments.
Playing with incense is not the exclusive preserve of the ancients. For example, the incense-smelling club in his school was a group of arty and elegant people.
And there are many people like this in the country.
The scent-smelling club formed by a group of students must be a small fight.
When you get into society, if you make a fortune, then you will be more high-end if you start playing with sex.
Therefore, from ancient times to the present, incense has had a big market.
This makes the incense that carries the incense become important.
The more he learns, the more Chen Wenzhe understands that compared to the ancients, modern people’s game play is really not high-end. It can also be said that the ancients were better at playing.
Let's just say that Xianghe is a kind of utensil containing Xianghe. However, with different historical periods, it has developed and grown more prosperously.
The initial utensils for holding incense were larger than the general neon incense.
For example, in the "Noble Palace" volume of "Utsubo Monogatari", the gifts for nobles to officially enter the palace include "a box of incense, in which the incense of the Tang Dynasty is placed in a silver box."
There is a passage in the "Ume Branch" volume of "The Tale of Genji" that mentions it.
"Sent with the letter is an agarwood box containing two glazed bowls, one navy blue and one white, both containing large incense pills. The lid of the navy blue glazed bowl is decorated with five
The leaves are pine branches, and the white glazed bowl is covered with white plum blossom branches."
Whether it is a silver box or a blue and white glass bowl, they are extremely luxurious, especially the imported glass, which can only be enjoyed by nobles.
There are fragrant pills or fragrant wood pieces inside the incense stick. The fragrant pills made of fragrant sticks are placed in the porcelain incense stick. If the fragrant wood pieces are used, they are placed in the lacquer incense stick.
You should pay attention here. We all know that ancient porcelain is precious, but few people pay attention to it. In fact, the real beauty is often the woodware.
It’s not that porcelain is inferior to wood, but for many works, porcelain is not as precious as wood.
For example, incense sticks, because the wooden incense sticks used to store incense are generally made using top-notch craftsmanship.
For example, using red carving, which is a kind of lacquer withering process.
Not to mention removing the red color, it has become the quintessence of the Chinese nation.
Let’s talk about withered lacquer, which is a kind of lacquer craft. There are many categories, including red, black and rhinoceros.
The body of the vessel is painted layer by layer with toned paint until it is thick enough, and then patterns are carved on it with a knife. The paint color is vermilion, which is red;
If the paint color is black, it is black;
The vermilion and black lacquers are alternately painted, and the vermilion and black textures are exposed through carving, which is called rhinoceros.
Withered lacquer painting in the Song Dynasty was at its peak, and Song Tixianghe was especially admired by people in the Ming Dynasty.
Tu Long from the Ming Dynasty believed in "Kaopan Yushi" that Tixianghe in Song Dynasty was the crown of Xianghe.
Yasuhiro Nishioka, an expert on neon lacquerware, announced 16 lacquer works from the Song Dynasty at the "Oriental Lacquer Crafts" special exhibition held at the Tokyo National Museum in Showa 52 (1977).
Afterwards, I investigated the Song Dynasty lacquer relics scattered around the world, and found that there are more Song Dynasty lacquer works in other places than those in neon.
As for the Song Dynasty lacquerware collected in Japan, there are the Tokyo University of the Arts Museum and the Osaka Fujita Museum of Art.
"God's Coming"
Some of these famous incense are collected by many neon museums.
For example, the rhinoceros leather incense in the collection of the Tokugawa Museum of Art in Aichi, the large red incense with flower and bird patterns in the collection of Enkakuji Temple in Kanagawa, the large black incense with the cloud and dragon pattern in the Tokyo National Museum, and other exquisite works.
Therefore, it is not without benefit that Neon people are studious and envious of Chinese culture. At least it has allowed them to accumulate a lot of wealth.
From the clay figurine Zhang’s works, we can see some of this before.
Just because they admire Chinese culture and like the representative works of Chinese civilization, they keep buying various handicrafts with unique characteristics of the times.
Clay figurine Zhang is one type, and porcelain from all eras is also included. Other Tang Qins, Tang knives, Ming and Qing tea bowls, teapots, etc. are all representatives.
The famous Tianmu Yaobianzhan is collected in Neon for this reason.
Other more famous ones include Li Bai's authentic works and so on.
Now there is another one, which is Xianghe.
In addition to what I just mentioned, there is actually another famous incense, which is the Makie incense.
Maki-e is also one of the lacquer craft techniques, which was produced in the neon Nara period.
In this process, gold and silver shavings are added to the paint liquid, and after drying, they are "glossed" to show the gold and silver color.
It is thick enough to be inlaid with mother-of-pearl and silver thread, and is inlaid with flowers, birds, grass and insects or auspicious patterns. It can be said to be extremely luxurious.
Neon lacquer artist Matsuda Gonroku believes that maki-e originated from neon and is a lacquer art technique unique to neon, based on the imperial artifact "Gold and Silver Tang Dynasty Sword" stored in neon Shosoin.
Of course, this view is controversial.
But Maki-e xianghe is indeed a unique type of xianghe in neon culture.
In addition to lacquer and maki-e incense, there is also a "Jiaozhi porcelain-shaped object incense", which is Jiaozhi incense.
Before the 1990s, many documents recorded this kind of thing: Xingwu is a Xiangsheng-like fragrant combination.
The size of A. cochinensis is usually small, usually about 5 cm high and 3 to 4 cm to 7 to 8 cm in diameter.
Usually porcelain is made into various animals, such as the twelve zodiac signs, turtles, cranes, ducks, and frogs.
Or peonies, chrysanthemums, bamboos, pine cones, pumpkins, etc.
The glaze colors of these porcelains are mainly cyan, green, yellow and purple.
The popularity of Jiaozhixianghe in tea ceremony probably started during the Nihong Xiangbao period.
At the end of the Edo period, the tea ceremony community imitated the popular sumo wrestling sequence at that time and created a sequence list of "Kaimono Koga Sumo" to grade Koga, and it is still used today.
In 1997, the Hu Jian Provincial Archaeological Team excavated an ancient kiln site in Pinghe and unearthed a large number of kiln furniture, finished and semi-finished porcelain specimens.
Finally, after cleaning, it was found that almost all of these porcelains were small porcelain boxes with diameters ranging from 2.3 cm to 5.6 cm, with different shapes.
The lid and body of the box are mostly carved or stenciled with various animal and plant patterns.
Generally, yellow, green, and purple glazes are applied. Based on this glaze color, these porcelains should belong to the "plain three colors" of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Plain Sancai, the name of porcelain glaze color, is applied to the unglazed plain body with three colors of green, yellow and eggplant purple before firing.
It began during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty and continued to be fired during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.
There is another definition of "plain three-color porcelain" in the ceramic industry, that is, "plain three-color porcelain is one of the overglaze colors of porcelain.
It is porcelain with three main colors: yellow, green and purple. In fact, it is not limited to these three colors, but red is not used.
The production method is to fill the carved pattern with colored glaze on the bisque body fired at high temperature, and then fire it at low temperature.
The "Su" in "Su Sancai" can be attributed to two meanings.
One is that the device is fired using "plain tires", also known as "plain fired tires".
"Plain tire" is a ceramic green body, which is not pre-fired before glazing.
It can not only enhance the mechanical strength of the green body, making it less likely to be damaged during transportation, but also prevent the green body from getting cracked when applying glaze.
For the above reasons, this process is often used in ceramic production.
The other is the ancient saying that "red is meat color, non-red is plain color". The glaze used in this vessel is mainly "plain color", hence its name.