Cixi huge sums of money for the "sons" wedding

There are two important major events in the late Qing court, Tongzhi and Guangxu wedding. In particular, the wedding of the Emperor Tongzhi was the emperor's wedding ceremony that had not been held for more than 200 years after Kangxi.

The actual person who handled the big wedding was the queen queen of the two houses, namely Cixi and Ci'an. The wedding ceremony has a long preparation time, and the money is consumed. Although it was held in Tongzhi for 11 years, various preparations began as early as the eight years of Tongzhi.

The full speaker of the Qing Guangxu wedding ceremony (partial)

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The items used in the wedding are very huge, and you can see it from the porcelain item. The planning time of the big wedding porcelain is more advanced than others. In five years of Tongzhi, the official raising silver is 130,000, and the Royal Kiln Factory was rebuilt in Jingdezhen. In the six years of Tongzhi, the court creation office officially handed over to prepare for the Emperor Tongzhi Emperor's wedding. The queen needs to use porcelain's living planning samples, with a total of fourteen copies and nine colors.

Qing Tongzhi "Changchun Tongqing" model red ground pink color drawing Jinxi character open light dragon and phoenix pattern bowl

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These fourteen copies of the nine colors "Tongzhi New Year" porcelain, with the "Changchun Celebration" two -house queen queen feast for porcelain, "auspicious Ruyi" queen makeup porcelain, "Yan Xitong" queen and Hui Hui Princess porcelain, as well as the "Tongzhi Year System" internal affairs government, porcelain, porcelain, porcelain porcelain, and porcelain application porcelain, etc., all of which are classified as Tongzhi wedding porcelain, covering different groups of people in the ceremony, covering different groups of people in the ceremony. Various porcelain used on different occasions.

Judging from the situation included in the "Complete Works of the Qing Palace Porcelain Archives", Guangxu's wedding has more than 10,000 porcelain organized in various names, and Tongzhi is more than 30,000 pieces. Royal luxury and "Tongzhi ZTE".

Qingqing people painting Tongzhi big wedding sheds axis

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The preparatory queen in the emperor's wedding porcelain in Tongzhi emperor had two batches in front and after porcelain. The first batch was burned in August of Tongzhi in August. Due to the unqualified quality, it was all burned. The final acceptance is qualified, and it takes more than four and eight months before and after. It can be seen that the court uses porcelain to control the strict control. Tongzhi wedding porcelain is mainly daily, such as bowls, cups, discs, discs, slag buckets, spoons, boxes and lampshades. The glaze color is mostly red and yellow, the color is gorgeous, the pattern is tribute to the festive atmosphere.

Qing Tongzhi Tongzhi Huangdi alum red color bat dregs

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Qing Tongzhi Tongzhi Tongzhi Huangdi Fancai Plum Bowl Bowl

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In the porcelain in the big wedding, the number of Huangdi Porcelain that reflects the dignity of the royal dignity, the pattern and patterns are auspicious, such as the flying bats represent "Hongfu Qi Tian", the combination of bats and golden dumplings is "Five Blessing Life", magpie and plum blossoms Establish "magpies" and so on.

This kind of "colorful" porcelain has a complicated craftsmanship. It needs to be repeatedly entered into the kiln. In particular, "filling yellow glaze" is very critical. If the glaze is thin, it is easy to expose the tire color after firing.

According to the "Jiangxi Governor Liu Yikun to reintegrate the creation of the Tongzhi Emperor's Big Wedding Porcelain": "Incorporating a big wedding porcelain for the first time, the number of pieces of pieces is large, and the yellow paintings are not available. After the color painting, the flower gaps must be filled in secret. The severity is difficult to be well -informed. Each color of the color is invasive in the yellow glaze. Fall in mind. "

Qing Tongzhi Tongzhi Golden Golden Cai Shuangxi character six boxes

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Qing Tongzhi "Yan Xitong and" alum red gold color double happy bowl

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Most of the red land is alum red glaze. The color of its color often has a warm red like orange, which is stable in color. It is used in large quantities in the Qing Dynasty. It is very common in colorful and buckets. This tendency orange alum red can form a more enthusiastic festive spirit with golden color. In Tongzhi's wedding, a large number of golden -colored decorations appeared. The word "囍" was used to call it Shuangxi. It is rumored to be created by Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty. Sex Jiqing pattern.

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