Ni Xing pottery in Qinzhou, Guangxi, or purple pottery in Jianshui, Yunnan, which has high cultural content?

The level of cultural content itself is not comparable, but there can be differences between characteristics and differences.

Gui pottery

According to the research of Guangxi Institute of Arts and Crafts. In recent hundred years, only Zhuang Brocade and Ni Xing Pottery can maintain, inherit and develop their traditional crafts. Therefore, Ni Xing pottery in Qinzhou is recognized as one of the two treasures with the most national characteristics in Guangxi. It is also one of the most famous specialties in Qinzhou.

As a traditional folk craft, Ni Xing pottery in Qinzhou has a history of 1300 years. According to historical records, I appreciate pottery very much. It was invented before the Tang Dynasty and benefited from its delicacy. In the 9th year of the Republic of China (A.D. 192 1 year), the Xiaoyao tomb was discovered at the foot of the east of the city. There is a clay pot and a clay tablet more than four feet high.

After textual research, it was found to be the epitaph of Ning Daowu, the fifth secretariat of Ningyue County (now Qinzhou City) during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, which shows that Qinzhou has a long history of pottery making. During Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, Qinzhou pottery flourished and was widely used, hence the name "Ni Xing". Nowadays, the "Qinzhou Street" in Hongkong, Macau and Shanghai is named after the spread of Ni Xing pottery, and the reputation of Qinzhou Ni Xing pottery has been widely spread at home and abroad. Known as one of the four famous pottery in China.

Unique clay, unique function

Nixing pottery (scientific name: Zisha pottery) takes the unique purple sand on the east and west sides of the Qinjiang River as raw materials, with the east mud as soft as meat and the west mud as hard as bone, and the top grade is a mixture of soft six and hard four, which is nourished by the same flesh and blood. Because it is deeply hidden in the stratum on the mountainside. Natural and clean, muddy and delicate. Green and environmentally friendly, containing more than ten kinds of minerals beneficial to human body, such as iron, zinc, calcium and strontium.

The art of changing kilns is a must in China.

Nixing pottery's "kiln transformation" art is unique in the domestic ceramic industry, and its artistic taste is extremely high, so it is called "a must in China". Qinzhou's unique clay does not need to add any ceramic pigments. The kiln change during firing is the main artistic feature of unglazed Ni Xing pottery. When the furnace plate rises to the critical point of 65,438+0,200 degrees, it is occasionally found that a very small part of the matrix changes, naturally forming various colorful colors and textures.

It is necessary to polish the surface oxide to discover its true color, such as sky blue, bronze, tiger stripes, big spots, dark green and many other unexpected colors, which can be described as treasure hunting in the fire. One is rare, the other is in hand, and there is no similarity. "In kiln art pottery. To achieve the highest artistic effect, it is necessary to combine process design with modeling, picture carving with decoration, and integrate the atmosphere of warm spring, green summer, red autumn and cold winter. Show the mystery of color change.

The transformation of kiln is to find treasure from fire. I got it by accident. There is no fixed frame, and the taste is extremely precious, which can be described as the ultimate combination of fire and earth.

Zitao

Jianshui purple pottery has a long history. It has produced pottery for more than 900 years since the end of the Song Dynasty. In history, there is a saying that there is blue porcelain in Song Dynasty, blue and white in Yuan Dynasty, coarse porcelain in Ming Dynasty and purple pottery in Qing Dynasty. Zitao is a traditional famous product. Jianshui Zitao was listed as one of the four famous porcelains in China at the National Folk Arts and Crafts Exhibition held in Beijing from 65438 to 0953, and it was as famous as Jiangsu Yixing Ceramics, Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics and Sichuan Rongchang Ceramics.

Jianshui Zitao is a traditional folk handicraft in Jianshui County, Yunnan Province, which began in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Use architecture? Jianshui Zitao.

Five-color pottery clay in the suburbs of water is made and shaped. After painting and calligraphy, carving, scraping, burning and polishing, the pottery is dark purple, with snow-white patterns and a thumping sound like a rock. Among them, the black and white special top grade.

There are many kinds of Jianshui purple pottery, including cooking utensils, tea sets, flower pots and desk furnishings and decorative supplies. Most of the shapes are simple and elegant, unique, and can be used as steaming utensils to steam chicken, pigeons and other meat foods, which are delicious. Jianshui Zitao is made of red, yellow, purple, blue and white soil with unique and rich local resources. Tones are white flowers with red background and white flowers with black background or red, yellow and blue flowers with white background. Carving and filling are used in decoration, including rough and bold, large and heavy calligraphy, freehand Chinese painting and national patterns.

The picture is natural and unrestrained with a pen, and the knife method is smooth. Whether describing birds and animals or flowers, birds, fish and insects, they are lifelike, giving people a feeling of antique and appealing to both refined and popular tastes. The production process adopts unglazed polishing, that is, the blank is not glazed, and the sintered product can be bright through grinding and polishing. Once the clang is struck, it can be said that "the body is like iron, the color is like copper, the sound is like stone, the light is like a mirror, and the light can be used as a guide", which forms a unique feature different from pottery, and it is really a "show of pottery altar". ?

The long history of pottery-making has forged exquisite folk pottery-making skills, and also tempered and nurtured generations of folk pottery-making technicians. As early as 192 1, the pottery made by Jianshui artists won the art prize of Panama International Fair.

Jianshui pottery products are colorful and exquisite, and their products mainly include bottles, statues, pots, plates, dishes, bowls, jars, retort, tubes, Four Treasures of the Study, musical instruments and daily necessities, etc. 100, which are deeply loved by people. ?

Its characteristics are as follows:

1, Jianshui Tao Tao Mud comes from the colorful mountains in China, which contains high iron content, so that the finished product has high hardness and strength, and the surface is rich in metallic texture, accompanied by the sound of stone knocking. After unglazed polishing, fine grinding and polishing, the texture is delicate and bright as a mirror. It has the reputation of "as firm as iron, as bright as water, as moist as jade and as loud as Qing".

2. The unique charm of Jianshui pottery lies in the organic combination of painting and calligraphy art with carving and mud filling technology. Jianshui pottery pays attention to meticulous work, especially decoration. It takes painting and calligraphy carving and colored clay inlay as the main means, and integrates painting and calligraphy, epigraphy, carving, inlay and other decorative arts into one. It is both beautiful and beautiful. Since the Qing Dynasty, literati in Jianshui have used semi-dry pottery blank as paper, splashing ink and painting on it.

After inking the ceramic blank, artists carefully carved the ink into the mold according to the sample, then filled it with colored mud, trimmed the blank, dried it in the air, baked it in the kiln and polished it several times, which made Jianshui Zitao show multi-tone texture changes and produced a colorful stone atmosphere in Gu Zhuo. Make Jianshui pottery practical? Jianshui Zitao is a noble and elegant work of art with both aesthetic value and aesthetic value.