Maybe it’s because the jade pot spring bottle was used as a mold. Anyway, this piece of porcelain has witnessed the kiln-firing process of Jingzhen craftsmen in countless generations.
Through it, Chen Wenzhe saw many technologies of the Yuan Dynasty, which let him know that by the Yuan Dynasty, porcelain-firing kilns were becoming increasingly advanced.
It also allowed him to truly see how ancient porcelain-burning furnaces and kilns were built.
Without the jade pot spring vase in his hand, how would Chen Wenzhe know what the gourd kiln looked like?
How does he know how this kind of kiln is used?
If he came from a porcelain-making family in Jingzhen, he might be able to learn some of this ancient kiln-firing technique, but without the foundation, he could only rely on himself.
Through the Jade Hu Chun Ping, Chen Wenzhe saw the entire construction process of the gourd kiln, as well as the utilization process.
This let him know that the gourd kiln is actually a semi-downfire kiln, with obvious advantages.
Of course, the shortcomings are also obvious. The kiln body of this kind of kiln is small, the length of the kiln is generally only 8-10 meters, the volume is not large, and the temperature difference between the front and rear is large.
However, such a small kiln mouth is very suitable for reproduction.
He could even make it smaller, because Chen Wenzhe would only fire fine porcelain, rather than large-scale ordinary daily-use porcelain.
He has long wanted to replicate an ancient kiln mouth and truly imitate the ancient firing environment, thereby firing a batch of real antique porcelain.
This time, he got an opportunity through Yu Hu Chun Ping, and his kiln firing skills began to grow again.
It can be said that Chen Wenzhe's current kiln-firing technology has begun to grow rapidly with the development of kiln-firing technology in the Yuan Dynasty.
In the Yuan Dynasty, a series of technological advancements directly allowed Yuan Dynasty craftsmen to successfully fire blue and white porcelain, ushering in a new era of transition from plain porcelain to colored porcelain.
Next, Chen Wenzhe witnessed the creation and progress of blue and white flowers until they became extremely prosperous.
After continuous improvement during the Ming and Qing dynasties, blue and white porcelain has become the most influential and peerless porcelain in the world with my country's national style.
From the Yuan Dynasty to the present, this is the blue and white porcelain that has dominated the scene for six hundred years!
It was during this period that craftsmen of the Yuan Dynasty not only invented underglaze red glaze, but also created underglaze red decoration and blue and white underglaze red decoration.
The so-called underglaze red decoration is to use underglaze red glaze to paint various patterns on the utensils;
The so-called blue and white underglaze red decoration is to decorate the same object with blue and white underglaze red, so that the blue and red in the pattern complement each other.
Seeing this, Chen Wenzhe finally saw blue and white, red on the underglaze, and red on the underglaze.
During this process, he saw how the craftsmen fired the red glaze and purple glaze.
These two glaze colors are improved compared to the Song Dynasty, especially the purple glaze is better fired.
During this period, high-temperature blue glaze was also fired during the Yuan Dynasty.
These are quite ordinary, the most important thing about them is that they are fired with copper red glaze.
However, because the baking temperature was not fully controlled at that time, the red color of the fired copper red glaze product was not pure enough.
However, they cannot completely control the temperature, but Chen Wenzhe can.
He only needs to understand the firing technology of copper red glaze. Controlling the temperature is his strength.
Finally, he got the complete copper-red glaze formula, which allowed Chen Wenzhe to bake blue and white underglaze red without any obstacles!
If the copper-red glaze is well controlled, he will not be afraid of burning the copper-red glaze when firing the blue and white.
In this way, the copper red glaze and blue and white glaze can be perfectly combined, and blue and white underglaze red porcelain can be fired smoothly!
Of course, there are still some details here that need to be carefully controlled. After all, in the Yuan Dynasty, the firing of blue and white underglaze with red was also a matter of luck.
Although he really wanted to end the retrospection now and go to the underground studio to bake a batch of blue and white underglaze red to see if he could succeed, Chen Wenzhe still endured it.
Finally, he got a treasure with a long history, and he wanted to squeeze out all the knowledge contained in it at once.
Therefore, next he saw the more exquisite sculpture craftsmanship of the Yuan Dynasty.
For example, the shadow celadon Guanyin produced at that time not only has a dignified figure and plump appearance, but also has exquisitely shaped and thin edges.
Chen Wenzhe really didn't expect that he could learn sculpture and carving techniques through a blue and white glaze red jade vase.
If his phantom carving technology is added to the shadow celadon glaze Guanyin, what kind of effect will it achieve?
By this time, Chen Wenzhe knew that this time he had gained a lot.
And next, this was confirmed.
Because his harvest was greater later, it was also in the Yuan Dynasty that craftsmen at that time created decorations such as gold color, three colors on glaze, silver-red glaze, blue glaze, and white glaze pattern on green ground.
This changed the situation in which ceramic decoration had always been dominated by a single glaze.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe saw too many porcelain being fired.
At that time, while craftsmen of the Yuan Dynasty inherited all kinds of tableware, tea sets, wine sets, vases, stoves, boxes, offering utensils and other types of utensils from the late period, they also created many new types of utensils.
For example, folded-waist bowls, vases with bases, S-ear vases, octagonal plum vases, jade spring vases, large plates with folded edges and rhombus mouths, high-footed bowls, large pots with lotus leaf lids, small carambola-shaped pots, flat pots with wind heads, and phoenix-shaped pots.
There are a large number of new types of vessels with the characteristics of the times, such as the head-covered bottle and the oblate-shaped pot.
Among them is the later classic type of vessel - the jade pot spring vase.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe realized that the jade pot spring vase in his hand might be the ancestor of all jade pot spring vases in later generations.
Because at the time when it appeared, the jade pot spring bottle had not yet been considered a new type of vessel and had not been officially created!
I have to say that the Yuan Dynasty, which we always think of as a dark historical period, also invented many technologies.
If he has skills, Chen Wenzhe is willing to learn.
Continue to look down, but unfortunately, there is nothing to gain next, because the jade pot and spring bottle walked out of the kiln.
Seeing this, this traceback should be coming to an end.
This made Chen Wenzhe feel a little emotional, but soon he was attracted by some pictures.
Unexpectedly, at the end, he would be able to appreciate the ancient Silk Road.
He followed the jade pot and spring vase out of the kiln and headed toward the west.
The Yuan Dynasty paid special attention to foreign trade. As overseas trade became increasingly developed, the export sales of Jing porcelain also expanded.
At that time, inland transportation mainly consisted of transporting porcelain along the "Silk Road".
Like treasures, heavy and fragile porcelain was transported from the interior to the border, through the border into the deserts and grasslands of Central Asia, and then over the mountains and ridges to Persia, and then to the Mediterranean.
According to legend, the ancients had a secret method for packaging and transporting porcelain, and this time, Chen Wenzhe saw it with his own eyes.
After people bought porcelain at that time, they first put each item into sand and a little soybeans and wheat.
Overlap dozens of them, tie them up into a body, and place them in the wetland.
Then sprinkle water on it to make the beans and wheat sprout, wrap them around and solidify them, and then throw them on the ground. Only those that are not damaged will be considered qualified.
He was thrown from the cart several times, and only those who were as tough as before were carried.
Therefore, although he traveled thousands of miles by land and was safe and sound, his selling price was more than ten times higher than usual.