Blue and white porcelain is an important classification in the history of Chinese ceramics.
Jingdezhen is the main production base. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, imperial kilns were set up in Jingdezhen to produce porcelain for the royal family to enjoy.
Whatever the emperor liked, there would definitely be a group of followers. The development of porcelain reached an unprecedented level of prosperity. Not only did the official kilns develop vigorously, but the private kilns also improved significantly.
Jingdezhen also achieved unprecedented prosperity and was known as the "Porcelain Capital".
Blue and white porcelain has become one of China's most representative items. It is amazing that humble soil can be turned into exquisite porcelain. Porcelain has become popular all over the world.
Why is blue and white porcelain so attractive?
First, blue and white porcelain is a kind of underglaze color. After the pattern is painted on the body with blue pigment, a layer of transparent white glaze is covered and then fired once at high temperature.
The colorant fully penetrates between the body and the glaze, and the blue and white patterns under the glaze will never fade.
Second, the white porcelain base sets off the blue patterns, creating a clear, simple and elegant effect.
Although it is just a single blue color, it has different shades, thick and thin colors, just like traditional Chinese ink paintings, with clear layers and full of artistic conception.
Third, there are blue and white raw materials in Yunnan, Jiangxi and other places. After being processed and configured by Jingdezhen kiln workers, high-quality blue and white porcelain can be fired.
Fourth, the raw material of blue and white is cobalt oxide, which is fired at high temperature and has bright colors. It is equivalent to the firing temperature of porcelain and can be fired in one go.
Moreover, cobalt has strong coloring ability, is resistant to high temperatures, and adapts to various flames, so it is easy to burn.
The output of blue and white porcelain was very large in every period, not only meeting domestic production needs, but also a large amount of blue and white porcelain was sold overseas.
Among the many types of blue and white porcelain, the most famous is the renowned Yuan blue and white.
There is also the famous Yongle and Xuande blue and white porcelain. There is a saying in the collecting circle: If you don’t have Yongle and Xuande blue and white porcelain, don’t say you are a collector of blue and white porcelain.
The status of Yongle and Xuande blue and white porcelain is really too high among blue and white porcelain.
Every era has its representative porcelain. Zhizheng blue and white porcelain, chicken-glazed cup, etc. are all very typical representatives.
These four pieces are all fine products from the official kilns, and each one is priceless.
It is not so important in this era, but in a few decades, each piece will be a treasure worthy of museum collection.
The plum vase is a type of vase with a small mouth, short neck, plump shoulders, thin bottom and ring foot. It is named because its small mouth can only hold plum branches.
A plum vase is a bottle used to store wine, also known as a wine bottle.
Of course, these three plum bottles of Zhang Weiguo could not be used to hold wine.
Even the famous Yuan blue and white porcelain is available, so Zhang Weiguo is not so excited about these four pieces of porcelain.
After Zhang Weiguo got the baby, he became a completely different person, and even the air seemed sweet.
During the day, I go to the countryside to collect supplies and exchange them for food, and at night I farm in space.
Zhang Weiguo was walking on the road when he saw an old man standing on the side of the road with a bamboo pole in his hand and something hanging on one end of the pole.
Zhang Weiguo walked closer and saw that it was a turtle.
Seeing this familiar scene, Zhang Weiguo suddenly felt like he had traveled back in time.
The uncle was wearing a gray-blue suit that was covered in patches and dirt.
At first glance, he is a typical farmer, honest and simple.
In his previous life, Zhang Weiguo had seen such a scene. At the intersection of a busy street, there was a middle-aged man in camouflage clothes, his body covered in mud.
Standing at a street corner, he was holding a bamboo pole in his hand, with a turtle hanging on one end of the pole.
The turtle weighed more than ten kilograms. The uncle said he dug it out from the construction site next door and was selling it to passers-by.
With the intention of watching the fun, Zhang Weiguo squeezed his way to the front from the back.
This turtle is about 40 centimeters long, with its head stretched out and its mouth wide open. It looks very ferocious.
The uncle, speaking with a foreign accent, introduced earnestly that this was a pure wild turtle with extremely high medicinal value, and that using it to make soup would have a very good effect.
"How much is this turtle?"
"This turtle is at least a hundred years old. I won't sell it for less than five thousand yuan. Since you really want to buy it, I'll go for four thousand yuan."
Five thousand yuan is almost as much as Zhang Weiguo’s monthly salary.
It’s too expensive, I don’t want even 4,000 yuan.
Zhang Weiguo started bargaining with the uncle.
After half an hour of bargaining, Zhang Weiguo successfully bought the turtle for two thousand yuan.
There were envious voices all around, and everyone said that Zhang Weiguo had made a great bargain.
Such a turtle would be bought even for ten thousand dollars, not to mention two thousand.
People say that uncles don’t know how to find a good place to sell. How can they sell at a good price here? If you go to the vegetable market, there will definitely be people buying.
Zhang Weiguo ignored the envious voices around him and left with the turtle.
Zhang Weiguo had a turtle in his hand, but he didn't know how to cook it, so he found a restaurant and asked the owner to help him process it.
The boss was stunned when he saw the wild turtle, and then he said, "Did you buy this at the intersection?"
"Yeah, it cost you two thousand dollars, you must do it well."
"This is not wild, it's farmed, and it's not worth that much money at all."
When Zhang Weiguo heard this, he wondered, is this artificially bred?
"Look at the yellow color. It's not artificially bred."
"This is all caused by feeding the turtles with feed containing pigments. As long as they use this feed, the turtles will turn yellow in two months. If they are fed more, even the turtle meat will turn yellow."
Moreover, these additives are harmful to the human body.
If it was a normal turtle, it would be edible, but this turtle was fed too much pigment.
It’s better not to eat it. It’s better to spend two hundred yuan to buy a farmed one at the market. They are all the same.
When Zhang Weiguo heard this, he knew he had been cheated.
With tears in his eyes, he earned 1,800 yuan from Zhang Weiguo.
Those who said that Zhang Weiguo had made a great bargain must be a group of shills. If such a good thing really existed, they would have all grabbed it, and it would not be Zhang Weiguo's turn to buy it.
Zhang Weiguo was so overwhelmed by the feeling of getting a bargain that he didn't even think about it.
Now when the boss said it, he reacted immediately.
I lost two thousand dollars in vain and bought an inedible turtle.
"Several people have been cheated recently. Your amount is still a small amount. Someone was cheated out of 5,000 yuan."
After hearing this, Zhang Weiguo felt a little better.
I am not the stupidest one.
Zhang Weiguo asked his boss to fry a chicken and was cheated out of two thousand yuan. He needs to make up for it.
I spent two hundred yuan on a meal of fried chicken.
Seeing the same scene, Zhang Weiguo immediately recalled the experience of being cheated.
Although it is a quite scene, this turtle is wild, not artificially bred.
In this day and age, we can barely even feed ourselves, so how can we have the time to raise turtles?
And this farmer is a real farmer, a genuine third-generation poor peasant.
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