Temmoku, the representative of black porcelain, one of the eight famous porcelains in the song dynasty of China, the traditional Chinese porcelain of the han dynasty, was the tea set for the royal family of the song dynasty. After the baptism of time, they become more primitive and elegant, and still a famous craftsman has created another unmatched Temmoku with his hands.
During the Song dynasty, with the transformation from "Fried drink" to "point drink", the custom of fighting tea has arisen in northern fujian. Dou tea, also known as "dou Ming", "Ming war", is an ancient leisure culture of a kind of "elegant play". Fighting tea is not only the quality of the tea, but also a kind of artistic tea activity which pursues spiritual pleasure. In the process of the continuous improvement of the tea art, the quality of the tea set must be constantly improved to meet the demand.
In the five dynasties of the late Tang dynasty, jian kiln was a common kiln for the production of green glaze. In the early song dynasty of the five dynasties, the glazed black glazed tea was changed to glaze, which laid the foundation for the birth of the early song dynasty. From green glaze - sauce glaze - ordinary black glaze - built lamp that the process is gradual, its salient features is that the iron oxide content of billet glaze is higher and higher, glaze layer thicker, harder to fire craft, production costs rise, and the early song dynasty built light, reflect the exquisite tea art of song dynasty tea rose to a new stage.
In the middle of the northern Song dynasty in Fujian DuZao gong tea Cai Xiang will decades of fighting a summary on the tea custom, has written a landmark in the history of art works "tea record" (1054), the function of the tea to record fully affirmed the Temmoku and dominating position. "The tea book" was published, and the tea culture helped to spread the tea culture. The excellent products in temmoku became the royal family, and the scholars paid great attention to the treasure of the pursuit, and the great artists expressed their feelings and praises. To build kilns which entered the heyday, the production scale expands unceasingly, bank kiln article up to more than 10, and production of bottom of foot inscription "for royal" " Temmoku tribute court.
By the end of the northern Song dynasty, Zhao ji, a master of the tea art, wrote "the theory of the great tea" in person and pushed the tea cup to the top. The book also describes the function of temmoku in detail, saying: "the color is expensive and black, the jade millet is up. Take the tea and color it." Zhao ji took Temmoku as the tea cup for the imperial tea, "with Huishan spring, Jianxi special cup, cooking new Gongtai-Jiari tea, and giving Caijing a drink." At this time, the records of the Wuxi Huishan spring, the construction of Temmoku and Taiping Jiali tea (the construction of ou Bei yuan gong tea) is known as the "three treasures of the world".
While its unique charm lies in the fact that the porcelain can be on the embryo glaze, modelling, decorative pattern through the superb artistry of skillful craftsman, create exquisite works of art, but Temmoku glaze color markings are "Unparalleled skill" and "Clever and smart" wonderful encounter, the so-called "into the kiln is a kind of color, after coming out there are many kinds of colour".
Temmoku firing process of heavy and complicated, it must be after dressing, porcelain ore crushing and elutriation, ingredients, stale, pug, kneading mud, throwing, fettling, biscuit firing, glaze, seting, 13 production processes such as roasting, must coordinate the moderate soil, glaze, kiln atmosphere in the four prime factors. Glazing is the most attractive place to build and the most difficult part of Temmoku's production. Because the crystalline glaze in the kiln temperature control, coupled with a high content of iron oxide body is difficult to bear high temperature, to fire a appearance without defect, and beautiful stripes Temmoku extremely difficult, the song dynasty fire tens of millions of pieces of temmoku can I get one or two most precious obsidian Temmoku. To burn millions of Temmoku, only one or two drops of oil can be found in Temmoku.
This kind of soil and fire difficult combination of artistry and decision for the lamp that exclusivity, 12 million yuan from 2011 yuan to 78 million yuan in 2016, the auction make Temmoku for getting attention more and more, just a few short years, deduce a leap up is red all the way, unstoppable trend. But one can't help asking, how can this little bowl of black and small be so good, why can it be sold so often?
Some people say, "this small black bowl, light and elegant, graceful, full of literati temperament". The beauty of Temmoku is the verve of her shareholders, like classical ink and danqing, in the depths of time, so elegant, so solemn. Others said it was because of the mysterious glaze and markings. Or a smooth rabbit, or a bright, bright partridge, or a star, no matter what stripe, is the only thing in the world.
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