If you carefully taste the color flow of different colored glazes, you will find different artistic conceptions.
The materials of colored glaze are actually similar, but just because of that difference, colored glaze, crystal and glass are not used.
Of course, they have some special features in common, such as a high refractive index to light, so they can show a crystal clear effect.
With the cooperation of light, its artistic characteristics can be fully expressed.
As colored glaze, it is not only a work of art, but also a religious object.
The works made through casting technology are highly expressive, rich in layers, exquisite and delicate, especially the flow of colors is unpredictable, either passionate or subtle, and each piece is different.
Appreciating the effect of light and shadow, especially the refraction of light at different angles, thickness and color, can present a three-dimensional visual effect.
In the process of appreciation, you will find that the glass cannot be made too transparent.
In other words, the transparency of colored glaze should not be too pure or too bright.
Good colored glaze needs to have a certain difference in level and smoothness, otherwise it will lose its dynamic vitality and beauty.
By grasping all these special features, the glass produced will not be too bad.
Besides, due to ancient craftsmanship, no two pieces of colored glaze are exactly the same in the world.
The so-called "Tiangong is self-contained" refers to the singleness of colored glaze products.
If you carefully taste the color flow of different colored glazes, you will find different artistic conceptions.
The history of glass manufacturing in ancient my country can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, but at that time people called it Liuli.
It was not until glass from Western countries was introduced to China that the name glass came into being.
Western glass is composed of soda-lime elements, while my country's colored glaze contains lead and barium.
By the Han Dynasty, the production level of colored glaze was quite mature.
However, the smelting technology is in the hands of the royal family and has been kept secret.
Because it was difficult to obtain among the people, people at that time regarded colored glaze as even more precious than jade.
Liuli has such a long history of development in China, but why so few people know about it?
There are actually many people who know about colored glaze, especially in ancient times. As a special material, colored glaze, like apricot yellow and dragon pattern, was exclusively used by the royal family.
At first, only the real royal family could use glass products, and the manufacturing process of glass was also controlled by royal craftsmen.
Because the discoverer of Liuli was Fan Li.
In the eyes of our ancestors, people believed that colored glaze, like crystal, had the function of memory and inheritance.
More importantly, colored glaze can bless its owner, "If you live at home, you will receive a lot of gold, and if you live in an official position, you will receive the title of prime minister."
Around the Yuan Dynasty, with the emergence of man-made faults in Han culture, many skills of the Han royal family were lost, including colored glaze.
So by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, colored glaze only existed in myths and legends.
To make colored glaze, you have to understand colored glaze. First of all, you need to know that colored glaze is completely different from crystal and glass.
So what is the difference between colored glaze and crystal, that is, Western crystal glass?
First of all, these things are clearly distinguished in history books.
There are similar records in the Diamond Sutra.
Among all Buddhist scriptures in our country, the first five categories of the Seven Treasures of Buddhism are generally recognized.
That is, gold, silver, colored glaze, clam, agate, the latter two types are said to be crystal, some are said to be amber, glass, and so on.
This shows that colored glaze is a recognized Buddhist treasure, and colored glaze is completely different from crystal and glass.
In modern times, we all know that the chemical compositions of these three are different.
Of course, the main component of natural crystal, colored glaze, and glass is silica.
The contemporary national-level monograph "Research on Ancient Chinese Glazed Glass" records that the ancient Egyptian "Fayance", the ancestor of Western crystal glass, has a silica ratio of 92%-99%.
This "Fayance" is impenetrable.
The proportion of silica in the glass from the Zhou Dynasty in my country was only slightly more than 90%, so it was transparent.
This 9% difference is the biggest difference between colored glaze and crystal.
Ancient colored glaze was made by adding colored glaze stone and adding colored glaze mother.
Glazed stone is a colored crystal material whose main component should be silica.
Glaze mother is an ancient formula extracted from nature and refined artificially.
After artificial refining, the structure and physical properties of the crystal can be changed.
There are obvious differences in shape, color and transparency.
The medicinal jade of the Ming Dynasty should have some differences in the formula of glazed mother.
Therefore, medicinal jade in the Ming Dynasty has little variation in color and is not transparent.
The grade of colored glaze actually depends on the raw materials and preparation method of the colored glaze mother.
This is a secret that has not been passed down since ancient times. It is precisely because of the existence of glass mother that the composition of ancient Chinese glass and crystal, and even the Western crystal glass "Fayance", is 9% different.
The so-called glass attracts wealth and ensures peace, which has a lot to do with the mother of glass;
There are many types of colored glaze. For example, ancient colored glaze is made by adding "glazed stone" and "glazed mother".
Glazed stone is recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu·Zhuyu Chapter".
All glazed stones are the same as Chinese water spirits, and they are of the same type... The stones have five colors... This is the creation of the universe, looming on the ground. Natural glazed stones are becoming increasingly scarce, and are particularly precious.
Liulimu is also recorded in detail in "Qianwei Shanye Tan".
Those in the Fengchen Treasury are the treasures of our ancestors... The mother of glazed glass, if today's money is pure, is as big as a child's fist... It is also called a tribute object from the true temple... But it can be made into a kezi shape, with green, red, yellow and white colors.
Rather than being self-defeating;
These classics, especially rare ancient books, were a shortcut for Chen Wenzhe to learn the ancient method of glaze firing.
Because he accidentally obtained a damaged Warring States period colored glaze jade ring, Chen Wenzhe easily acquired the craftsmanship of ancient colored glaze.
The production process of ancient colored glaze is quite complicated and time-consuming.
It is quite difficult to grasp each link and requires experience.
The difficulty of controlling the heat can be said to depend partly on skill and partly on luck.
If we want to say which dynasty made the best colored glaze in ancient times, it is undeniable that it must be the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, in order to compete with the top domestic manufacturers, Chen Wenzhe can only choose the best colored glaze products and make a batch of them first.
Among the glass products of the Qing Dynasty, the most classic one must be the snuff bottle.
Each object, like a cooling oil bottle, is made of ancient colored glaze and needs to be decorated with various techniques.
Such snuff bottles can all be made, but the level of craftsmanship used on them will show different values.
As for the various crafts used for decoration, Chen Wenzhe is really not lacking, such as interior painting, interior engraving, etc.
There is nothing strange about even making various kinds of snuff bottles and creating various styles and patterns on them.
Now Chen Wenzhe's painting, carving, and other craftsmanship are all at the master level.
Therefore, he only needs to maximize his own advantages, and his works will surely have a certain degree of competitiveness.