Chapter 13 Come on Ruci
"24-hour live broadcast challenge to reproduce the Ru kiln celadon."
This is the first time that Jia Wenyan has previewed her next work since the lottery announcement.
The title of this 20-hour uninterrupted live broadcast instantly aroused the curiosity and fighting spirit of netizens.
[So it is a live broadcast to reproduce the Ru kiln celadon? 】
[My God, this little sister is so brave. ]
【Just clicked in, it's already on the D site hot search. 】
[This girl is really awesome, she live streams 24 hours a day. This should be the highest traffic for UP hosts in the handmade area this year.]
[I reserved a seat in the front row. I happened to have nothing to do after school on Friday night, so I played with the girl until dawn. 】
Xian'an Museum gave away a large yacht.
The National Museum sends out a rocket.
The traffic police in northern Shaanxi gave away a crown.
[Wow Xian'an Museum. Wait, the National Museum is here too? ]
[Does the young lady have such a strong background? Wait, why is there a Traffic Management Bureau? ]
[Is there any relationship between cultural relics restoration and traffic management? 】
Netizens looked curiously at the several major officials who quickly gave out gifts and made it to the top of the list as soon as the show started.
At the same time, Jia Wenyan's live broadcast challenge also kicked off here.
The first shot of the video was of Xian'an Metro Line 3, which was a duty record taken by subway staff when the cultural wall was demolished that day.
Stationmaster Su: "Teacher Jia, are you saying that there are cultural relics in this cultural wall whose value is underestimated?"
"Yes, but it cannot be said to be underestimated. After all, it is just a fragment of Ru porcelain."
After Jia Wenyan finished speaking, the perspective in the video switched to Yongan Workshop.
For a moment, everyone's attention was attracted by the piece of porcelain taken out from the cultural wall in the center of the camera.
Although it is not known why this piece of Ru porcelain fragment appeared among the pile of cultural relics on the cultural wall, even the azure color on it, which should have been like clouds breaking through after rain, has been oxidized and faded into a pink-green without any blue at all.
Jia Wenyan: "What you are seeing now is a piece of Ru kiln fragment that I found not long ago on the cultural wall of Xian'an Metro Line 3."
"But as you can see, this fragment is not of much archaeological value except that it is an old object, as the glaze has almost completely oxidized and faded. What we are going to do today is to use this fragment as a basis to restore it and extend it into a new piece of porcelain."
[Such a small fragment was extended into a complete porcelain. This shouldn't be considered restoration, right? ]
[Plus one, repairing such a small piece of porcelain is like putting a broken piece on an otherwise intact piece of porcelain, isn't it? ]
"Yes, what the netizen just said is right. It is indeed meaningless to use a piece of fragment to create an entire porcelain. Moreover, we can only simply infer the general appearance of the porcelain from the curvature of the fragment."
"So this time my plan is not to restore the fragment to its original state, but to use it as a material to create a brand new Ru porcelain."
"Everyone, please look at this. This is the design I prepared for this second creation."
"I plan to refer to the inspiration of ice crack porcelain and recreate this Ru porcelain fragment into a new Tianqing Ru porcelain pot."
【A celadon Ru porcelain pot? 】
[It’s beautiful…but isn’t this the glass kettle we use to boil water at home? ]
The audience in the live broadcast room were puzzled. Jia Wenyan's design was very beautiful. She used the ice crack design to perfectly make up for the impact that the fragments and cracks might have on the overall appearance of the porcelain vase. But the question is whether this design is a little too modern?
"I know what you are thinking, but I think since we have decided to create another porcelain, there is no need to stick to the past, and I have prepared for everyone the celadon porcelain that truly matches your impression."
"Look, this is what I think the tile should have looked like."
"Its predecessor should be the most classic sky-blue broken cloud bottle from the Northern Song Dynasty, but judging from its glaze, this should be a jade bottle that has not been cracked."
"Although I have some confidence in my own restoration skills, as everyone said, we can't break another piece of Tianqing porcelain that could have been intact just for a fragment."
"So I plan to restore and reproduce another jade bottle, and use the fragment in my hand as a blueprint to piece together a modern ice crackle porcelain using restoration techniques."
"As for why it is designed to be more modern, it is also to better convey this message to everyone."
"So, for today's live broadcast, I specially prepared these for you."
After Jia Wenyan finished speaking, she signaled the staff member who came to intern to point the camera at the long table behind her.
At this moment, there are more than 100 molds of various shapes placed on the nearly ten-meter-long table.
Assistant: [Teacher Jia, these molds...]
"It is a prop used to make other fragments... You can think of it as a jigsaw puzzle in disguise."
"Because I really don't want to extract materials from the complete work, I decided to start directly from the fragments this time."
"Oh, by the way, if my ice crackle azure porcelain pot is made, when the museum officially opens, I will make a 3D puzzle for everyone based on the mold here."
[3D puzzle? It looks like porcelain after it's put together? This is good. This is good. ]
[Miss, hurry up, the puzzle party is already thirsty. 】
[That’s right, the simple version of the red jade porcelain box last time couldn’t be mass-produced, so I should have one of the three-dimensional puzzles this time.]
【Go ahead, little sister. 】
Netizens kept posting comments in the live broadcast room.
Everyone is looking forward to what kind of amazing skills this UP host, who just created the most popular video in the handicraft area this year with a red jade porcelain brocade box, can show next.
However, soon when Jia Wenyan officially started her homework, many netizens gradually began to realize that something was wrong.
[Why does it take so long to shape this porcelain clay? ]
[Really, isn't this young lady very quick? The clay block was shaped so well just now, why did she have to repeat the process so many times? ]
"This is to ensure that all the clay pieces are as similar in thickness and drying as possible when they are formed."
The assistant sent by Dean Zhen for internship saw the comments and hurried forward to explain:
"The color of the clay during firing is not only determined by the glaze, but also has a lot to do with the moisture and thickness of the clay itself."
"Otherwise, there would be no way to maintain color harmony after firing."
"Add to that the gentleness of the porcelain pieces when they are spliced together in the future, and what Mr. Jia is doing now is far more difficult than firing a complete porcelain vase."
【Search.】
[So this is a very difficult level.]
[Wait, the young lady said she wanted to do the challenge live without interruption, isn’t that the reason? ]
Assistant: "Yes, the jade bottle that was dried together is fine, but this ice pattern Ru porcelain pot is definitely a difficult job."
"The shaping of the clay is just the beginning. There is also the firing of the tiles. If you want to fire so many tiles evenly, you must have very strict control over the temperature."
"Besides, this is a sign of low-temperature firing, which means that from now on, Mr. Jia must always maintain a high level of concentration."
"Also, don't underestimate Teacher Jia's skills just because she is young. In the field of cultural relic restoration, there are no more than 20 people who can work in the corresponding profession every year."
[Oh my god, is the Upmaster so awesome? ]
[Suddenly I felt the gap between ordinary people and geniuses. 】
[These are what you call hands. Mine are... at best pig's trotters that can type on the keyboard.]
[The player of One Finger of Sun was hit by an arrow in the knee. 】
[The clumsy party is dead, please don't whip the corpse. 】
The young assistant responded in a low voice, while at the same time Jia Wenyan on the other side had already advanced the process in her hands to the next step.
There are a total of seventy-two steps in the firing of Ru porcelain, among which the most difficult to control is the secondary firing of Ru porcelain.
The production process lasts for dozens of hours. Without great patience and concentration, it is impossible to reproduce the exquisiteness of Ru porcelain. Not to mention reproducing the most representative azure color.
Although the audience didn't know the details, they were already feeling tired while watching the live broadcast.
They couldn't help but start thinking that even they, who were lying in bed and scrolling through their phones, would feel tired, let alone Jia Wenyan, who had been doing her homework non-stop for several hours.
The popularity of the live broadcast continued to rise with time, and Jia Wenyan started working on the jade bottle after all the preparatory porcelain blanks for the ice-patterned Ru porcelain pot had been air-dried.
Unlike the previous fragmented ice-patterned Ru porcelain pot, Jia Wenyan's production of the jade bottle can be said to have gone smoothly.
[Is the young lady an iron man? ]
[Won’t she be tired? ]
[Oh my god, I've already gone to sleep, why is the young lady still working so hard? ]
[Has this girl become so obsessed that she has evolved away from sleeping? 】
[The assistant next to her almost mistook coffee for water. Can the young lady be so patient? ]
[I suddenly thought of staying up late, is this young lady staying up late with her fans? ]
[I'm already on my knees, I've already followed and collected it, please stop enduring, little sister. ]
Fine beads of sweat gradually fell on Jia Wenyan's forehead.
Originally, Jia Wenyan only needed to make a large number of porcelain blanks, and after waiting for the clay blanks to dry naturally, she could select qualified ones from them and proceed to the next step.
But when she chooses to make the complete porcelain blank in the form of porcelain tiles, she must try her best to ensure that there are sufficient backups for each porcelain tile.
This kind of craftsmanship that is so tenacious that it is almost unquestionable made many netizens who rushed to the live broadcast room after hearing the news unconsciously click to follow.
They didn't know what kind of work Jia Wenyan could make with those elaborate porcelain pieces, but as they looked at the clay blank of the jade vase that was gradually drying into shape on the table, all the audience looked at Jia Wenyan with a filter of trust in their eyes.
In less than ten hours, Jia Wenyan was promoted from a small UP with only 70,000 fans to a main UP on the APP homepage with 500,000 fans.
What she didn't know was that while she was doing the live broadcast, CCTV had already contacted Station D and was preparing to start further interviews and production of this live broadcast representing Ru porcelain culture.
D station OS: This overwhelming wealth has finally come to me.
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