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Chapter 83

The moon was round again, like a huge silver plate in the sky.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, but the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Tang Dynasty is not considered an important festival, not even compared to the Winter Solstice, Qingming Festival and Chongjiu.

Wang Hua stepped out of the boat, and Xiao Honghong was playing a piece of "Cai Ling" at the bow. Wang Hua could hear it, and she used it to express that she had listened to the rumors and fell in love with Wang Hua blindly.I regret it now.

At this time, the bright moon was rising in the middle of the sky, and the night sky was also clear and cloudless.So between the heaven and the earth, there is only a silvery white streak left.

Coupled with the roar of the waves on the big river, a wave hit, breaking a piece of silver mirror, and piled up a piece of silver mirror.Seeing such a spectacular scenery, Wang Hua was also shocked by it.

The only thing that is not beautiful is that Xiao Honghong is wearing a gauze dress, sitting on the bow of the boat, playing the piano so sadly.

Wang Hua had no choice but to go over and ask her.If she really wants to regret it, let her do it.

After they sneaked away from the White Horse Temple event, they did not return to Gong County immediately.Wang Hua took them to many places. In fact, Wang Hua was already preparing for firing porcelain.

Porcelain is the most famous handicraft in China. CHINA in English means porcelain.Of course, pottery, another origin product of porcelain, has a longer history, even several times longer than Chinese lacquerware!But the official appearance of porcelain was still in the Han Dynasty, and the real porcelain was still in the Tang Dynasty.But this is also relative to the previous porcelain.In fact, the art of firing porcelain in the Tang Dynasty was still very backward.

In the porcelain auctions of later generations, some exquisite porcelains from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties were often calculated in millions or even hundreds of millions of RMB. Xiang Guiguzi went down the mountain and Tuyuan blue and white auctioned a sky-high price of nearly [-] million RMB.And the price of this piece of porcelain is still rising on a daily basis.That's it, its price is still not as good as Xiao Heyue chasing Han Xin's Yuan blue and white.It's just that the latter is treasured by the state and can't be bought at any price.

However, the value of porcelain in the Tang Dynasty is generally only tens of thousands of yuan, and those exceeding one million are rare.This is because of its rough workmanship.Especially before the mid-Tang Dynasty, that is, now, it is made by stacking and baking with an open fire, and the glaze surface will inevitably have smoke and sand.That is, the small black spots on the enamel affect its ornamental value.

It's not all good, at least choose a general among the dwarves.For example, the white porcelain of Xing Kiln was once praised by poets as white as snow.But it was not unreasonable for Lu Yu to belittle it.Later, a large number of Xing porcelain was unearthed, which only proved that it was a kind of rough white porcelain.Of course, compared with the porcelain of the predecessors, it can be considered as white as snow.

There is another famous porcelain——Yueqing. Lu Yu admired this kind of porcelain very much, and mentioned it many times in the Tea Classics. I hope everyone can use Yueqing porcelain to drink tea.But in fact the process is still a little behind.In addition, there is a small amount of flower porcelain produced in Henan, which is the underglaze color developed from the technology of Tang Sancai.However, it is estimated that taking any Qingming famille rose porcelain, enamel porcelain, fighting color porcelain, and Wang Hua over there will make all the masters who make colored porcelain feel ashamed and crawl into the cracks of the ground.

Of course, Wang Hua didn't laugh at them.It's just like how ridiculous it is to see people using bamboo chips to calculate mathematics.But how much wisdom is needed to walk step by step from scratch!Without the precipitation of Tang Dynasty technology, there would be no development of Five Dynasties porcelain, let alone the prosperity of Song porcelain, not to mention Yuan Qinghua, until the great achievement of Ming and Qing porcelain!

But reform the porcelain firing technology.But it's not that easy.The first is the soil quality, the best soil formula, using kaolin clay plus porcelain stone and a small amount of warm clay, which is also the main soil quality of Jingdezhen porcelain body.However, Wang Hua did not intend to use this earthy formula.He is going to start from firing Song porcelain and improve the firing technology step by step.There is another foundation, the hobby of antiques in his previous life led to the rise of antique craftsmanship, which he has studied for a long time and has a certain foundation.Now that he has this condition, he also wants to burn all the famous porcelains in Chinese history!
Of course, this is also his dream, and it is very difficult to realize it.

Then also improve the beating efficiency and speed.Improve control of kiln temperature, improvement of porcelain billet boxing technology, and transformation of kiln.It's easy to say, but in fact, every kind of porcelain needs different tools, kilns and different methods.

Compared with these, the latter technology is more difficult.The first is the soil quality. Different soil quality will produce different porcelain bodies.For example, Jingdezhen porcelain uses kaolin and porcelain stone, and Cizhou kiln mainly uses white clay, white alkali, and blue clay.Naturally, these soils are not necessarily only used in these places, like kaolin, which can be found all over the world, it just depends on whether the soil quality is good or not.

Now Wang Ping is a little bit embarrassed about this problem.First of all, Gong County may not have the soil quality he needs, but if there is, he still has to identify it.Now there are no scientific instruments, even if some soils are very similar in appearance, they may not be the soil he needs.The appearance is similar, but the chemical composition contained in it is not necessarily the same, so the fired porcelain body must be very different.

Wang Hua used a simple method.I didn't look for it in Gong County, but went to those kiln sites to look for these soils, and tested them after I came back.Although it increases the cost, it also increases the success rate.There is another reason, because of the increased cost, there is also an excuse to sell a good price.At the same time, because he was looking for soil everywhere, the formula was not easy to get.

Here, Wang Hua did not intend to announce all the recipes foolishly.Especially these two trips to Luoyang made him realize his weakness.Although he intends to stay away from the political center, he has a certain amount of money in his hands, which is also a powerful force.

Only with stronger power in hand can better porcelain be fired.This is complementary.

There is another, greater difficulty.It is the preparation of glaze color materials.Yuan blue and white are precious only because they are rare.But in terms of ornamental value, it is still the colored porcelain of Qingming Dynasty, which is the highest state of porcelain.This is also Wang Hua's personal prejudice. In fact, some monochrome porcelains produced in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are also excellent. It's just that Wang Hua is good at painting and making colored porcelain, so he prefers colored porcelain.

But these formulas, like Wang Hua, have been kept secret by the ancients. Some formulas have been handed down, and some formulas have disappeared forever in the long river of history. Only a few lucky porcelain formulas have been studied and re-formulated Issued to.

Here it is divided into two parts: glaze and color.Glaze refers to the glassy substance that covers porcelain.Porcelain color is a color seasoning that draws various patterns on enamel.The requirements for porcelain color are also very strict. This is not the kind of seasoning for painting, but a variety of color ingredients that will still be adsorbed on the porcelain after firing, and will never fade.

In short, Wang Hua is ambitious, but he also chose a long and difficult road.

Since we chose to fire Song porcelain first, we must also decide on the type of firing.The five famous porcelains in Song Dynasty are Ding, Guan, Ru, Ge and Jun.The site of Dingzhou has been determined, located in Quyang, Hebei, it was founded in the Later Tang Dynasty, and developed rapidly in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty.However, the official kiln has not been confirmed because of the many breaches of the Yellow River. Some people say that it is the Ru kiln, but just like the current Gongxian kiln, there are private and government-run kilns.Others said it was in Bianjing, while others said it was in Hangzhou.Wang Hua voluntarily gave up, and the scientists in the previous life couldn't solve it. In the Tang Dynasty, he wanted to guess the exact location of the official kiln in the Song Dynasty hundreds of years later?
Ru kiln, located in Linru County, Henan Province, was founded even later, until it appeared in the Song Dynasty.Jun Kiln, sited in Yuxian County, Henan Province, is a northern celadon system that was founded in the Tang Dynasty, but the same technology entered a period of rapid development in the Northern Song Dynasty.Ge Kiln, the latest time. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the two Zhang brothers from Zhejiang made such peerless products as "iron bone" and "hundred rubbish pieces", which became famous overseas.But because it was too far away, Wang Hua also gave up automatically.Although the eel blood ice cracks on Ge Kiln porcelain made him salivate.

In addition to these five famous kilns, there are Cizhou Kiln, Yaozhou Kiln, Dengfeng Kiln, Price Xiu Kiln, Longquan Kiln in the south, Yue Kiln, Jian Kiln, Jizhou Kiln, Quanzhou Kiln, Chaozhou Kiln, etc. It is worth noting here that the porcelain kiln in Jingdezhen finally came out with a strong momentum in the Song Dynasty!
However, for the same reason as Ge Kiln, because of the distance between the Southern Porcelain Kiln and Yaozhou Kiln, Wang Hua voluntarily gave up.In the end, Wang Hua focused his attention on the four porcelain kilns of Ding, Ru, Jun and Ci.But he must first choose only one of them.

After repeated consideration, Wang Hua finally chose Ding Kiln.

This is for his reasons.

PS: The second volume has just started. Like the first volume, the climax is yet to come. Please wait patiently.

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