The level of cultural content itself is not comparable, but there can be differences in characteristics and differences.

Qinzhou Nixing Pottery

According to the research of Guangxi Arts and Crafts Institute. In the past hundred years in Guangxi, only Zhuang brocade and Nixing pottery have been able to maintain, inherit and develop its traditional crafts. For this reason, Qinzhou Nixing pottery has been recognized as one of the two treasures with the most ethnic characteristics in Guangxi. It is also one of the most famous specialties of Qinzhou.

With more than a thousand years of pottery culture, Qinzhou Nixing pottery, as a traditional folk craft, has a history of more than 1,300 years. According to historical records: Weqin pottery was invented before the Tang Dynasty and became increasingly sophisticated in the Tang Dynasty. In the ninth year of the Republic of China (AD 1921), the Xiaoyao Tomb was discovered at the foot of the mountain east of the city. There is a pottery pot inside and a pottery stele four feet high.

There are more than 1,600 words engraved on it. After textual research, it turns out that it is the epitaph of Ning Daowu, the fifth governor of Ningyue County (now Qinzhou City) in the first year of the Tang Dynasty. This shows that Qinzhou has a long history of pottery making. It was passed down to the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty that Qinzhou pottery developed at its peak and Ni vessels were widely used, hence the name "Ni Xing". Today's "Qinzhou Street" in Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai and other places are all named after the spread of Nixing pottery. Qinzhou Nixing pottery became famous at home and abroad. It is known as one of the four famous pottery in China.

Unique pottery and peculiar functions

Nixing pottery (scientific name: purple clay pottery) uses the unique purple-red clay on the east and west sides of the Qinjiang River as raw material. The east mud is soft and the meat is soft; the west mud is hard. For bones, mix six soft and four hard, so that the bones and flesh can support each other, which is the best quality. Because it is hidden deep in the mountain hinterland. Naturally clean and fine mud. It is green and environmentally friendly, and contains more than a dozen rich minerals that are beneficial to the human body, such as iron, zinc, calcium, and strontium.

The art of "kiln transformation" is unique in China

Nixing Tao's " The art of "kiln transformation" is unique in the domestic ceramic industry, and the artistic taste is extremely high, so it is known as "one of the best in China". The "kiln transformation" produced by Qinzhou's unique clay does not require the addition of any ceramic pigments during the firing process. One of the artistic features of pottery is that when the stove plate rises to the critical point of 1200 degrees, it is occasionally found that a very small part of the matrix changes, and various colorful and gorgeous colors and textures are naturally formed.

It is necessary to polish the surface oxide before discovering its true appearance, such as sky blue, bronze, tiger stripes, large spots, dark green and many other unexpected colors. It can be said that it is a rare treasure in the fire. , absolutely no similarity." Kiln turned into art pottery. To achieve the highest level of artistic effect, it is necessary to design the shape through craftsmanship, combine the picture with carving and decoration, and integrate the aura of spring warmth, summer green, autumn red, and winter cold. Show the mystery of color changes.

The change in the kiln is the search for treasure in the fire. Got it by chance. There is no fixed style, the taste is extremely precious, it can be said to be the ultimate combination of fire and earth.

Purple Pottery

Jianshui Purple Pottery has a long history and a long history. It has been producing pottery since the late Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 900 years. Historically, there was celadon in the Song Dynasty, blue and white porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty, coarse porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, and purple pottery in the Qing Dynasty. Purple pottery is a traditional famous product. At the National Folk Crafts Exhibition held in Beijing in 1953, Jianshui purple pottery was listed as one of the four famous pottery in my country, alongside Jiangsu Yixing pottery, Guangdong Shiwan pottery, and Sichuan Rongchang pottery.

Jianshui purple pottery is a traditional folk handicraft in Jianshui County, Yunnan Province, which began in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Made of Jianshui purple pottery.

The five-color pottery in the suburbs of Shuizhou is made into shapes. After calligraphy, painting, carving, filling and scraping, smelting, polishing and other processes, the pottery has a deep purple color, snow-white patterns, and a rock-like sound when knocked. . Among them, the deep black ones with white inlay are especially top-grade. ?

There are many varieties of Jianshui purple pottery, including cooking utensils, tea sets, flower pots and desk display and decoration items. Most of them are simple, elegant and unique in shape. They are used as steaming utensils to steam chicken, pigeon and other meat products, which are extremely delicious. Jianshui purple pottery is made from the five-color soil of red, yellow, purple, green and white, which is unique and abundant in the local area. The colors are white flowers on a red background, white flowers on a black background, or red, yellow, blue flowers on a white background, etc. The decorations are carved and filled, with rough, bold, large-stroke calligraphy, freehand Chinese paintings and ethnic patterns.

The painting uses a graceful brush and smooth knife skills. Whether it depicts birds, animals, flowers, plants, fish and insects, they are all lifelike, giving people a sense of antique, elegance and yet vulgarity. The production process adopts unglazed polishing, that is, the body is not glazed. After firing, it only needs to be sanded and polished to make the product fresh and smooth. Once it is struck with a sonorous sound, it can be said to be "body like iron, color like copper, sound like rock, bright like a mirror, and light that illuminates people." It forms a unique feature that is different from pottery and is truly "a show on the pottery altar."

The long history of pottery making has forged exquisite folk pottery craftsmanship, and has also tempered and nurtured generations of folk pottery craftsmen. As early as 1921, the pottery produced by Jianshui artist Xiang Fengchun won the Fine Arts Award at the Panama International Exposition.

Jianshui pottery products are colorful and exquisite. Its products mainly include bottles, statues, basins, plates, dishes, bowls, pots, jars, boilers, pipes, four treasures of the study, musical instruments, daily necessities, etc. There are more than one hundred kinds, which are deeply loved by people.

Its characteristics are as follows:

1. Jianshui pottery clay is taken from Wucai Mountain in the territory. It contains high iron content, which makes the finished pottery hard and strong, and the surface is rich in metallic texture. There is a sound of gold and stone when struck. After unglazed polishing and fine grinding and polishing, the texture is exquisite and the light is as bright as a mirror. It has the reputation of being "as strong as iron, as bright as water, as moist as jade, and as loud as a chime".

2. The unique charm of Jianshui pottery lies in the organic combination of the art of calligraphy and painting with the carving and mud-filling process. . Jianshui pottery pays great attention to fine workmanship, especially decoration. It uses calligraphy and painting engraving and colored mud inlay as the main means. It integrates calligraphy, painting, epigraphy, engraving, inlay, and other decorative arts into one body. It is both spiritual and beautiful. Since the Qing Dynasty, scholars and scholars in Jianshui used half-dried pottery blanks as paper, splashed ink freely, and moved calligraphy and painting on the pottery blanks.

After the ink falls on the pottery, the artists carefully carve the ink into a mold according to the same pattern, then fill it with colored mud, repair the blank, air-dry, bake it in the kiln, and polish it in stages, so that the Jianshui purple pottery appears. The mottled texture changes produce an ancient and colorful metal and stone atmosphere. Only then did Jianshui pottery become a noble and elegant work of art that combines practical value, Jianshui purple pottery value and aesthetic value and was honored in the hall of elegance.