Shadow Qing: Vegetarian Jade Bone Porcelain Jade

Just as Westerners prefer diamond gems, Chinese people are very beautiful. In the aesthetic consciousness of the Huaxia nation, the influence of jade is wide and profound.

Most of the treasures in Chinese characters are next to the word "jade"; jade is often used to use beautiful morals or things; people have love, Pei Yu, appreciate jade, and Tibetan jade ... I love the temperament of "warm and implicit, calm and firmness" of jade.

▲ Dragon -patterned jade 故 Western Zhou Dynasty Palace Museum Tibetan

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In Song porcelain, the shadow celadon was named "fake jade" and was appreciated by people.

▲ Jingdezhen kiln green white glaze engraved flower plum bottle Song Palace Museum Tibetan

Shadow celadon, also known as blue and white porcelain, was burned in the fifth generation to the early Northern Song Dynasty. It is a kind of glaze color that was fired by the Song Dynasty craftsmen on the basis of celadon and white porcelain.

Represented by Jingdezhen Kiln, shadow celadon in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty to the peak of the Southern Song Dynasty, forming a huge blue and white porcelain kiln system in the Song Dynasty.

Jiang Qi's "Tao Ji" in the Southern Song Dynasty contains: "Jingde Tao, more than 300 in the past.

The Song Dynasty Porcelain is beautiful with the quality of the jade. At that time, Jingdezhen belonged to the jurisdiction of Raozhou, and the shadow celadon was known as "Rao Yu". During the Song Dynasty, this porcelain "fake jade" was very popular.

"Tokyo Menghua Record" records that Both Liang and Lin'an have shops that specialize in movie celadon.

In the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Lu" also contains: "Pingjin Bridge along the river ... Wenzhou lacquerware, blue and white magnetic device."

▲ Jingdezhen kiln green white glaze belt cover bottle Song Palace Museum Tibetan

The blue and white porcelain produced in Jingdezhen kiln mainly focuses on living utensils such as bowls, cups, plates, bottles, cans, pillows, and furnaces.

The poet Li Qingzhao mentioned in "Drunk Flower Yin": "Jade pillow gauze, in the middle of the night to be cold." The jade pillow refers to the shadow celadon pillow.

▲ Under the blue and white porcelain umbrella, the lady pillow the Southern Song-Yuan

New York Metropolitan Art Museum Collection

The shadow blue porcelain is white in the white, and Ying is like jade. There are three main sources of jade texture: one is that the whiteness of the fetal bone is high, the other is that the glaze should be transparent, and the third is that the flower or printed pattern must be delicate. Jingdezhen's porcelain soil is densely dense, and the carcass body of this porcelain soil is exquisite and fine, which is a prerequisite for the texture of the shadow celadon jade.

Shadow blue porcelain has a thin and uniform fetal bone, high vitro, and good light transmission. Some of the glazed layers with low lines are thicker, and the green glaze juice of white and middle shows a soft blue color, which is interesting with the white tire glaze.

The high and thin fetal bone is covered with a translucent glaze layer, which is hidden in blue, which makes people unclearly the jade or porcelain. It also happened to be the other two very poetic names, Ying Qing and Yinqing.

▲ Song Dynasty shadow green painting peony pattern bowl of Kenberg Art Museum Collection

In terms of porcelain aesthetics, the Song people always prefer "pure" aesthetics. Shadow celadon and other famous porcelain in the Song Dynasty: Ru Kiln, Guanyao, Dingyao, etc., are mostly monochrome porcelain, which cannot be separated from the background color of "vegetarian".

Yingqing, light, soft, shadow shadow, clear crystal. In the Ming Dynasty Song Yingxing praised it in "Tiantong Kai" as "vegetarian muscle jade bone".

This "vegetarian" is to remove the extra things, and the part will be left to the extreme. That is, modern people often say "less is more."

The seemingly monochrome porcelain is rich in color imagination, such as the thick ink paintings on the white paper, you need to touch it with a more detailed sensory sense.

▲ "Ink and Ink Peony Map" Ming Xuwei Palace Museum Collection

The "fake jade" of the plain muscle jade bone is made into a piece of bowls, cups, plates, bottles, cans, pillows, furnaces, etc., and integrate into the daily life of the Song people. , Sublimated to a pure aesthetic spirit.

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