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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 749

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:30:06 PM


Chapter 749: 749

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Although this big dragon jar is not as big as the one that was often 70-80 cm high during the Kang, Yong and Qian dynasties, it is also a big tool. At least among all the porcelain found today, this big dragon jar is the largest in terms of size alone.

The function of the Dragon VAT and the blue and white VAT painted with other patterns is actually a water reservoir for fire fighting in the Imperial Palace and the upper society.

"Jingdezhen pottery record" said that "the VAT painted clouds and dragons or blue and white, so it was named after the Dragon VAT", pointing out the origin of the name of the utensil, which was specially used by feudal emperors. As early as the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty, Jingdezhen imperial kiln factory set up a dragon VAT kiln to burn large dragon VAT. During the Xuande period, there were once 32 dragon VAT kilns. By the Zhengde and Jiajing periods in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the small number of green kilns and the idle dragon VAT kilns, 16 dragon VAT kilns were built instead of 16 large dragon VAT kilns.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, fires were often caused in the Imperial Palace by eunuchs setting off fireworks and careless use of fire. Therefore, Emperor Jiajing attached great importance to fire prevention and sent people to Jingdezhen to burn a large dragon vat for water storage and fire prevention. But more often, the Dragon tank is idle and becomes a de facto big fish tank. At the same time, the Dragon jar was also used to store grain, oil and water in the palace because it was strong and durable.

After Wanli, with the gradual exhaustion of imported Huiqing materials, the craftsmen in Jingdezhen imperial kiln can only use domestic green materials, but the color of blue and white dragon VAT fired can no longer be compared with that in Jiajing period. Jiajing blue and white dragon vat has become a precious and rare thing. Although Emperor Wanli is the son of heaven, he has to use the large dragon VAT made in the year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the cylinders of the blue and white dragon VAT in Jiajing are large and upright, with honest and simple style and rich and beautiful color. Its blue and white are brighter than Yongxuan blue and white, brighter than Zhengde blue and white, and more colorful than Chenghua blue and white. Therefore, it is specific and versatile, strong and durable, elegant, round and pleasing to the eye. Therefore, in the end of the Ming Dynasty, only the blue and white dragon VAT in Jiajing was the most dragon VAT.

Although this big dragon VAT is not very big, it is not small. It is definitely the best blue and white dragon VAT. Just this big dragon VAT is definitely a national treasure.

However, the Dragon VAT was filled with thatch. At first, Yang Jing thought that the thatch was to protect the blue and white dragon VAT. As soon as she cleaned up, she found that there were some small porcelain hidden in the belly of the Dragon VAT.

These small porcelain were not big, and they were all wrapped in tissue paper. When Yang Jing opened the tissue paper of one of the porcelain, his eyes suddenly stared round.

"Shit! Man's luck won't be so good?"

Looking at the small cup floating quietly in the space, Yang Jing almost cried out! The small cup in hand is not big. Its caliber is less than seven centimeters, its bottom diameter is less than three centimeters, and its height is only five centimeters. But it is such a small cup, but it draws a cluster of bright peony flowers with five colors!

This pattern immediately made Yang Jing's mind burst out the name of a porcelain - colorful twelve flower god cup!

Moreover, this twelve flower god cup is the first time in Chinese history that "poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing" are used together on the same vessel. Therefore, Emperor Kangxi loved it very much and took it with him on several southern tours. He not only liked the technology of flower god cup porcelain, but also liked the cultural artistic conception of flowers with Tang poetry.

"This is an absolutely good thing. It's really no worse than the set of Chenghua doucai chicken jar cup just found! It's a pity that this set of Huashen cup should not be the one used by the Emperor Kangxi in those years, but the boutique of the official kiln imitated in the later period." Yang Jing thought with regret when looking at the bottom of this set of Huashen cup.

It is said that the bottom of the colorful twelve flower god cup used by the Emperor Kangxi was made in the year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty. The reason why there was such a strange bottom is just proof of a major feature of porcelain in the early Kangxi period.

In the early Kangxi period, there were few porcelain pieces. The reason is that Kangxi thought that the porcelain could not be written. If it was broken, it would not be written. However, there is a special phenomenon on many of Kangxi's porcelain, that is, writing a large number of deposit funds. For example, "Xuande year system of the Ming Dynasty", "Chenghua year system of the Ming Dynasty" and "Jiajing year system of the Ming Dynasty" are written most in these three dynasties.

This is a taboo in our imagination. People who read history know that the literary prison in the Qing Dynasty is very powerful, especially in the Kangxi Dynasty, a large number of Han people put forward "anti Qing and restoration of Ming Dynasty" "You can often see it in TV dramas. At that time, you were beheaded if you wanted to have a tendency to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. However, the models written on porcelain were all those of the previous dynasty. This has to be said to be a major feature of porcelain in the early Kangxi period.

Even if the official kiln was reopened in Jingdezhen in the 19th year of Kangxi, most of the early official kiln porcelain had no bottom money, or the bottom money was some sustenance money.

The set of colorful twelve flower god cups used by Kangxi's old son was fired in the 25th year of Kangxi, and this set of twelve flower god cups also contains Kangxi's commemorative significance to Chenghua doucai porcelain. Because Kangxi likes Chenghua doucai porcelain very much, it is not surprising that the bottom money of "the year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty" is written on this set of cups.

In the middle and late Kangxi period and later in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the official kilns and folk kilns imitated the twelve flower god cup respectively, with slightly different sizes and sizes. The words made in the year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty were also used in the bottom money. However, the quality of the imitations of future generations was not as good as that of Emperor Kangxi.

This set of Huashen twelve cups was obviously imitated in the middle and late Kangxi period, but even if it is an imitation, it is also a boutique of the official kiln and a rare set.

You know, at present, only one set of Kangxi colorful twelve flower god cup is collected by Kaifeng Museum of Henan Province. In addition, Mr. Liu Yiqian also has a complete set of Kangxi blue and white twelve flower god cup. Even the Palace Museum has only a few single ones, not a complete set. It can be imagined how rare this set of twelve flower god cups is.

This time, I even harvested a set of Kangxi colorful twelve flower god cup in this Jiajing blue and white dragon jar, which is like pie falling from the sky!

"Could it be that this colorful twelve flower cup was the one that the little devils searched from China?" Yang Jing thought to himself.

It is said that during World War II, the little devils once raided a set of twelve flower god cups in China and planned to transport them to Japan for the emperor of the little devils. But unfortunately, on the way, it sank with the apo pill. This part of precious porcelain and some precious cultural relics also sank into the sea.

Now it seems that the precious porcelain shipped with that set of twelve flower god cup was not loaded on the abomaru, but on another ship, and then transported to the Philippines. It's just that I can't know why I had to transport it to the Philippines first rather than to Japan.

Of course, it is also possible that this set of twelve flower god cup is not the one obtained from China, but has other sources, but Yang Jing has no way to know where it comes from.

But anyway, no matter where the little devil robbed the twelve flower god cup, it is now his own!





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