Color of Blue and White Porcelain and Its Significance

Blue and white porcelain is composed of white and blue, and the white of blue and white porcelain symbolizes purity and cleanliness; In China culture, youth symbolizes spring and vitality, and is an auspicious color.

Blue-and-white porcelain is made of cobalt ore containing cobalt oxide as raw material, with decorative patterns painted on the ceramic blank and covered with a layer of transparent glaze, which is fired at one time by high temperature reducing flame. Cobalt is blue after firing, which has the characteristics of strong coloring, bright hair color, high firing rate and stable color.

Primitive blue-and-white porcelain appeared in Tang and Song Dynasties, and mature blue-and-white porcelain appeared in Hutian kiln in Jingdezhen in Yuan Dynasty. Blue and white became the mainstream of Ming porcelain. It reached its peak in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, colorful blue and white, peacock green glazed blue and white, bean green glazed blue and white yellow and old glazed blue and white were also created and fired.

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Aesthetic style of blue and white porcelain;

Decorating objects with blue and white flowers forms the aesthetic style of blue and white flowers, which is the crystallization of cultural blending. Cobalt oxide, which was first used for blue and white porcelain decoration, was produced in West Asia. In the Tang Dynasty, this kind of pigment was introduced to China from West Asia, and it appeared together with other colors in the Tri-color of the Tang Dynasty.

Blue-and-white porcelain, which was vigorously promoted by the Mengyuan regime, was not lost because of the change of dynasties. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, blue and white porcelain not only did not disappear, but became more and more colorful.

Blue-and-white porcelain in Yuan Dynasty was mainly used by the rulers of northern grassland nationalities and overseas trade. Since the Ming Dynasty, people's love for the beauty of blue and white porcelain has become a universal pursuit. After the Ming dynasty, Jingdezhen folk kiln produced a large number of daily blue and white porcelain, and the pursuers of these blue and white porcelain were the people of the Central Plains.