Modern society is not the complacent ancient times, but a new society in which a hundred flowers bloom.
Now, swept by the wave of marketization, today's Boshan colored glaze industry has already undergone a major reshuffle.
A number of individual glass enterprises emerged at the historic moment and became the trendsetters of the times.
They not only took over the bright banner of "Boshan Liuli", but also promoted Boshan Liuli to the world with a broader vision and higher sense of responsibility.
Currently, there are more than 30 Liuli master studios in Boshan.
There are 13 key glass manufacturers above designated size, including Aimei Glaze, Exquisite Glaze, Jinxiang Glaze, Xiye Gongfang, and Renli Cultural and Creative Industries.
There are more than 5,000 people directly employed in the glaze industry.
In recent years, the warm spring poverty alleviation drama "Green Waters and Green Mountains with Smiling Faces" has become popular all over the country.
While people were moved by the story of the protagonist returning to his hometown to start a business and working together to build a beautiful hometown, they were also attracted by the gorgeousness of Boshan Glazed.
Xiye Workshop, the company with the same name in the play, has attracted more tourists and customers with its exquisite handicrafts, and has become a famous place for Internet celebrities to check in.
Nowadays, the production of Boshan Glaze has truly entered an era where a hundred flowers are blooming. One more Chen Wenzhe and one more Yi Nian Tang are no big deal.
Besides, if Chen Wenzhe sticks to the old rules and only copies ancient handicrafts, then he will not be able to compete with modern enterprises that are flourishing.
People inherit the craftsmanship of the ancients and constantly innovate and develop new products based on it.
And if Chen Wenzhe can only be retro, then why should he compete with those modern large enterprises?
Of course, Chen Wenzhe is not without advantages. His advantage is that he can easily obtain all the top glaze craftsmanship from ancient to modern times.
Especially many ancient special crafts, he can all or completely inherit them.
In this regard, no craftsmen from ancient to modern times can compare with him.
Nowadays, the glass craftsmanship has developed to a very high level. If Chen Wenzhe's Yi Niantang wants to stand out, it will naturally have to innovate on the basis of retro.
Chen Wenzhe's Yi Niantang is a new enterprise, and it is definitely not as deep as other Liuli factories, but he can quickly accumulate this kind of foundation.
Now that he is interested, Chen Wenzhe will study selectively.
In this way, he no longer has to hide in Yi Niantang Factory every day, but can go to some antique markets around Dahai City from time to time.
Now when he goes to the antique market, he no longer pursues good antiques, but chooses old objects with a history that allow him to see useful scenes.
For example, a very damaged glass fragment from the Warring States Period.
After some research, it turned out to be a glass ring!
It was also through this glass product from the Warring States Period that Chen Wenzhe learned that the types of glassware from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were far richer than we modern people imagine!
Liuli, also known as "ruri", is an artificial crystal of various colors.
The color is produced by various metallic elements and contains 24% lead dioxide.
A rare decoration made by firing at a high temperature of more than 1,000 degrees.
Its color is flowing, its quality is crystal clear and dazzling.
The original material for making colored glaze in ancient my country was obtained from the by-products produced during the casting of bronze vessels. After being refined and processed, it was made into colored glaze.
There are many colors of colored glaze, and the ancients also called it "five-color stone".
In ancient times, because it was difficult to obtain among the people, people at that time regarded colored glaze as even more precious than jade.
The colored glazes on the market now are mainly lost-wax colored glaze represented by the South, and handmade colored glaze represented by Boshan.
The more famous teams in domestic colored glaze production include Liulicongfang, Renli Colorful Glaze, Liuyuan, etc.
The beauty of colored glaze is well known to the world, so it has attracted much attention and praise since ancient times. Even emperors expressed their love for colored glaze.
The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were a time when hundreds of schools of thought contended. At this time, the birth of colored glaze further enriched the lives of the ancients.
The types of colored glaze during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were very rich, far more abundant than people imagine.
For example, the common ones include glazed jade, glazed ring, glazed huang, glazed sword ornaments, etc.
These glasswares are all exquisitely made and each has its own artistic characteristics.
Liuli was called "Zhuan Lin", "Lu Li", etc. in ancient times, but later it was collectively called "glass".
It is recorded in "Shangshu Yu Gong" during the Warring States Period that Zhulin originally meant beautiful jade, but the ancients used Zhulin to refer to "glazed glass".
The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the source of the development of ancient colored glaze wares in my country.
The craftsmanship of the glazed products unearthed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period has far surpassed the original glazed products of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, glass beads and glass tubes were often used as string decorations with crystals, agates, jade, etc.
At this time, the styles of glazed wares were not very rich. It was not until the middle and late Warring States Period that the styles of glazed wares began to gradually increase.
Many exquisite glass products have been found in ancient tombs during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Generally found in Chu tombs, in addition to the common glazed beads and glazed tubes, there are also exciting glazed bis, glazed rings, glazed huangs, and glazed sword ornaments.
In addition, exquisite blue colored glaze was also found on the swords of Wu King Fu Chai and Yue King Gou Jian, which shows that even kings could not put it down.
During the Warring States Period, many colored glazes were found in Chu tombs, which shows that Chu was an important producer of colored glaze at that time, and had a tendency to replace jade.
Glaze bi is an imitation of jade and was very popular in the late Warring States period.
At this time, the glazed bis were very neatly made and had a warm and jade-like color, demonstrating the superb level of the glazed manufacturing industry during the Warring States Period.
The colored glaze ring during the Warring States Period can be said to be a substitute for the jade ring.
At this time, the colored glaze rings were mostly used as ornaments by the ancients.
If you don't look carefully, you can hardly tell the difference between the glass ring and the jade ring, which shows the exquisite craftsmanship.
There were many glazed works during the Warring States Period, such as glazed rings, walls, etc., and of course glazed huangs, which were very distinctive.
In fact, colored glaze is similar to porcelain. They are both craftsmanship that humans pursue in pursuit of beautiful jade.
Porcelain wants to be fired with a jade-like texture, and glass products also have this demand.
Therefore, jade-like jade rings, jade bis, jade huangs, etc. all appeared one by one.
For example, jade huang is an important jade ritual instrument in ancient times, and glazed huang also appeared during the Warring States Period.
At this time, the glazed huangs did not have the function of ritual vessels and were mostly used as decorations.
There are many holes on both ends and the upper part of the glazed huang, so it can be worn with a rope.
It should be an important ornament in the set of jade pendants, similar to jade heng.
In addition to these ritual vessels, glazed sword ornaments were also produced during the Warring States Period.
The so-called glazed sword ornaments are almost imitated according to the shape of jade sword ornaments.
Glazed jade sword ornaments appeared around the middle of the Warring States Period and were very popular during the Warring States Period.
The shapes of glazed sword ornaments and jade sword ornaments have almost no changes, but they can be distinguished in terms of patterns.
That is to say, the decorations of the glazed swords of the Warring States Period were mostly grain patterns and cloud patterns, while the decorations of the late Warring States Period were mostly animal face patterns, flat chi patterns, persimmon base patterns, etc.