According to legend, during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, a batch of red sacrificial royal porcelain was about to arrive, and the porcelain makers failed to fire it many times. At that time, it was stipulated that if the date was delayed, all the porcelain craftsmen would be thrown into the kiln and burned to death.

When people were extremely anxious, the daughter of an old Potter had a fairy dream, asking her to throw herself into the raging kiln fire and let her dye porcelain with blood. So she jumped into the kiln defenseless, only to see a flame Ran Ran rising, and suddenly the door of the kiln was wide open, and the porcelain in the whole kiln turned red.

2. "Know four" meat?

In addition to festivals and sacrifices to gods, some ceramic folk customs in Jingdezhen are also related to local food customs, which are also very rich in Jingdezhen local characteristics. ? Earlier, there was a kiln in the town called Zheng, who was sharp and stingy and tortured adobe guys like monkeys.

On one occasion, Master Jiang Zhisi, the leader of porcelain workers, was tired all day, and there was not a grain of rice in his stomach. When it's dark, it's very easy to serve bowls. A baked rice, full of sand, and then look at the food, it is poisonous tofu that stinks five miles away.

Seeing that the boss was indifferent, Jiang Zhisi said angrily, "I repeat, the man didn't know that the meat stinks for three months." If we don't give it, we will stop working. " "Dare!" Boss Zheng said maliciously. He said he wouldn't work if he didn't work, and he really didn't work that night.

3. Wind and Fire Fairy

His name is Tong Bin, also known as Guangli, and he is a Tong Jie. He lives in a village in this town. He was a skilled kiln porcelain maker before his death, and his family made porcelain for generations. Tong Bin was smart and studious since he was a child. From the age of twelve or thirteen, he can burn a kiln and watch the fire alone.

When his father died young, Tong Bin propped up the door prematurely and inherited his father's kiln burning business. Because he is skilled, honest and helpful, he will try his best to help those poor porcelain workers even if he tightens his belt. Therefore, he won the favor of porcelain people in the town.

4. Condor?

During the Republic of China, as long as Zeng Sheng of Jingdezhen was mentioned, everyone knew that he was an expert in porcelain carving. He put a lump of mud in the sleeve, and soon he could take out a sculpture.

Ask him to carve a cricket. The carved cricket looks real: you can see the lines on your back through your wings; He was asked to carve a goddess scattered flowers, not to mention how beautiful and moving the goddess he carved was. There are more than a thousand flowers scattered by this goddess alone. This 1000-odd flower has different postures, and no two flowers are the same. The flowers are as real as if they can still smell the fragrance.

5, glaze red

The underglaze red in porcelain is a precious underglaze color. This kind of color is bright and moist, which looks like a gem embedded in porcelain. How is this precious underglaze red made?

The legend goes like this: In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a ceramic worker named Zhao in Jingdezhen. He is thirty-five or six years old and has a unique skill in burning porcelain. In addition, he is willing to make inventions with his own mind. The kiln worker in the whole blank room called him "Zhao Quanneng".

At that time, the patterns on porcelain were all carved by hand, which was slow and laborious. Zhao Quanneng is determined to draw patterns on porcelain with a brush, just like painting. However, he tried his best to find a pigment suitable for painting porcelain.

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