Where did your kiln come from?
"Sky blue" is often used to describe the color of Ru kiln porcelain.
The sky blue on porcelain is said to be fired in foggy and rainy weather. That romantic and pure color can't appear by itself. It must wait patiently for a rain that doesn't know when it will come before it can appear in sky blue in the clear sky where cumulus clouds disperse.
These two sentences are often misrepresented as Song Huizong's works.
The misinformed version is: One day, Song Huizong had a dream, and when he woke up, he sang the poem "Clouds break after the rain, and this color determines the future", instructing craftsmen to burn Ruyao porcelain according to the color of the sky after the rain.
However, the actual "Five Magazine" volume 12 records: "(Chai kiln porcelain) was fired when it was handed down to Chai Shizong, so the company invited its color and approved the cloud:' After the rain broke the sky, this color made the future. Chai Shizong in this article is Chai Rong in the post-Zhou Shizong era. Legend has it that a batch of porcelain he ordered to burn turned blue after the rain, so it was called "Chai Kiln".
The legendary firewood kiln in the Five Dynasties period has not yet found a recognized kiln site. Is it possible that the Chai Kiln and Ru Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty were different stages of development of the same kiln?
Unfortunately, no.
The Ruins of Ruyao in the Northern Song Dynasty have been excavated and located in Qingliangsi Village, Baofeng County, Henan Province. The archaeological excavation results show that the large-scale porcelain burning in Qingliangsi kiln began in the early Song Dynasty. Only a few white and black glazed tiles were found in the strata before the Song Dynasty.
Obviously, Qingliangsi Village in the Five Dynasties was a small kiln in the basic stage. Even if there were fired ceramics, there were not many kinds of porcelain that could be fired. The exquisite "Chai Kiln" porcelain, which only exists in the literature, is even less likely to be fired in Qingliangsi Village.
Extended data
Ruyao, one of the five famous kilns, is named after its production in Ruzhou. The kiln is located in Qingliangsi Village, Daying Town, Baofeng County, Henan Province. Ru Ci ranks first among the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty and is known as the "crown of Ru kilns" in the history of China ceramics. Ruyao, one of the famous traditional porcelain-making techniques in China, mainly represents the porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty in China.
Ru Ci is simple and elegant in shape, with precious agate as glaze, unique in color and has the reputation of "agate handed down from generation to generation". With the change of light, the glaze color is as beautiful as "the rain clears and the clouds break" and "the green comes from a thousand peaks". The soil is fine and moist, and the green body is as thick as glaze, bright and not harsh.
Small and open, with cicada wings, it has the characteristics of "pear skin, crab claws and sesame flowers" and is called "jade-like, jade-like and jade-winning" by the world. Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, court officials have used utensils and treasures as treasures, which are more expensive than Shang, Yi and Qing.
From 65438 to 0952, Premier Zhou Enlai instructed to "develop the cultural heritage of the motherland and restore the production of Ru kilns". After hundreds of experiments and studies, 1958 fired the first batch of bean green glaze crafts, and 1983 in August, the azure glaze of Ruyao passed the expert appraisal, all reaching and exceeding the level of Ruyao in Song Dynasty. Since then, Ru Ci has become a business card of Ruzhou people.