The slogan of inheriting porcelain culture

"The sky is blue and rainy, I'll wait for you …", a poem "Blue and White Porcelain" is melodious, picturesque and immersive. This Chinese pop song opened the door for China people to know the traditional porcelain art. Although it is famous for blue and white porcelain, it is made from precious Ru kiln porcelain in Song Dynasty.

It is true that when it comes to China porcelain, most people think of blue and white porcelain, and its cultural heritage as "national porcelain" is becoming more and more widely known.

Blue-and-white porcelain, also known as blue-and-white porcelain, is often referred to as blue-and-white, which is the treasure of China ceramic firing process. It is one of the mainstream varieties of China porcelain, belonging to underglaze colored porcelain. Blue-and-white porcelain is made of cobalt ore containing cobalt oxide as raw material, decorative patterns are drawn on the ceramic blank, covered with a layer of transparent glaze, and sintered at one time by high temperature reducing flame. Mature blue-and-white porcelain has white porcelain embryo, pure and transparent glaze and blue pattern under the action of cobalt material, which is more attractive under the craftsman's painting technology.

Blue and white porcelain is a kind of hard porcelain with unique materials, which makes it possible to export in batches. According to records, blue and white porcelain is the first mature hard porcelain to go to the world.

From ordinary people to court nobles, from literati to foreign friends, blue and white porcelain can satisfy their own aesthetic needs and use needs. "National Porcelain"-Blue-and-white porcelain has increasingly highlighted its cultural connotation and connotation as a traditional porcelain art in China in the historical inheritance and development and the collision and exchange between China and the West.

Primitive blue and white porcelain appeared in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Tang Dynasty was the beginning of blue and white porcelain. According to the fragments of celadon unearthed in Yangzhou, the blue material is rich in color with crystal spots, and the patterns of many porcelain pieces are typical Arabic patterns, which proves that the blue and white porcelain at that time was mainly used for export. Regrettably, in the Song Dynasty, blue and white porcelain gradually declined.

The appearance of blue-and-white porcelain in Yuan Dynasty seems to be innate, and it pushed blue-and-white porcelain to the first artistic peak only a few decades later. Yuan blue-and-white decorative patterns are full in composition, with many layers but not chaos, smooth and powerful brushwork and rich in themes. Blue-and-white porcelain became the mainstream of Ming dynasty porcelain, and the Yongle and Xuande periods were a peak of blue-and-white porcelain development, which was famous for its exquisite production. In the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, blue and white porcelain reached its peak with colorful blue and white. After Qianlong, pastel porcelain declined gradually due to the development of pastel porcelain, and never flourished again.

It is worth noting that blue and white porcelain has also absorbed the technology of Chinese painting in its historical inheritance, and since then it has gained a little more artistic beauty.

During the Yuan Dynasty, literati were politically suppressed and lacked promotion channels, so they had to devote themselves to art. Under this background, frustrated literati brought the technology of Chinese painting into porcelain production. They used the brushwork of Chinese painting to describe the patterns on porcelain tires, and incorporated them into the story of China, skillfully combining porcelain art with Chinese painting, which is also an important reason why Yuan Qinghua became the artistic peak.

We only need to get a glimpse of the superb drawing techniques of Yuan blue and white flowers in the unearthed Xiao He Chasing Han Xin Plum Bottles under the Moon: the lines are skillfully used, and the styles presented on the front and back are completely different. The lines on forehead, canthus and bridge of nose are thinner, while the lines on the dark part of nostrils are heavier. When sketching, it is Chinese painting to express the light and shade, height, distance and primary and secondary relationship of objects through the bending, turning, thickness, dryness and wetness.

Combining the artistic conception of mountains and rivers in Chinese painting, absorbing the cultural connotation of classical art and the cultural exchange between China and the West, all these make the inner connotation of blue-and-white porcelain deeper and deeper, and gradually become popular inside and outside the Great Wall, widely accepted by all walks of life, and finally become "national porcelain", leaving a colorful stroke in the long river of history.