What are the characteristics of Cizhou kiln porcelain in the Northern Song Dynasty?

Cizhou Kiln is a treasure of traditional porcelain-making technology of Han nationality in China. It is the largest folk kiln system in northern China in ancient times, and it is also a famous Han folk porcelain kiln. There is a saying that there is Jingdezhen in the south and Pengcheng in the north. The kiln site is located in Xiang Peng Town, Fengfeng Mining Area, Handan City, Hebei Province, and Guantai Town, Cixian County. It was called Cizhou in the Song Dynasty, hence the name.

Cizhou Kiln was founded and burned in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, reaching its peak, and the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty continued to this day. Cizhou Kiln is famous for producing white glazed and black colored porcelain, which created a new way for painting and decoration of porcelain in Han Dynasty and laid the foundation for the great development of blue and white and painted porcelain in Jingdezhen in Song Dynasty.

The plum vase with white and black flowers is one of the largest and rarest items of its kind in China. This plum bottle adopts the white and black flower decoration technique of Cizhou kiln, and the white and black flower decoration technique of Cizhou kiln is the most profound. Anomaly is very popular in Japan, and it is called "white scratch and black scratch". It is one of the most valuable kinds of Cizhou kiln art and is regarded as a treasure.

Wang Zhanggui of Jingdezhen briefly summarized the characteristics of Cizhou kiln porcelain, hoping to help you:

. Cizhou kiln is a model of northern folk porcelain in Song Dynasty, which pays attention to practicality, beauty and economy in appearance and decoration. In the long-term ceramic practice, * * * has gradually formed the same personality and characteristics (that is, white makeup techniques), and the unified appearance and the same decoration techniques of * * * have formed the individual appearance of Cizhou kiln products, reflecting the local characteristics, national personality and characteristics of the times.

Its products are mostly daily necessary dishes, bowls, cans, bottles, pots, boxes and other utensils. The lines are smooth and free, which embodies the bold and simple personality of Quyi Academy. Luo Zhi of Cizhou Kiln in Song Dynasty has a wide range of genres, diverse components and rich connotations. And the integration of ceramic skills and art has brought ceramic objects into a brand-new artistic realm and created a new era of ceramic art.

Among the many types of Cizhou kilns, black flowers on white background (rusty flowers), carved flowers and kiln blackening glaze are the most famous. Its decorative techniques broke through the limitations of monochromatic glazes in five kilns (Ru, Guan, Jun, Ge and Ding) prevailing at that time, and used dozens of colorful decorative techniques.

The craftsmen of Cizhou Kiln absorbed the traditional techniques of ink painting and calligraphy art, and invented the decorative art of black painting with white background in ink painting style, which opened the precedent of porcelain painting decoration in China. His skillful painting skills while the iron is hot have amazed many artists.

Cizhou Kiln is famous for producing white glaze and black porcelain. The contrast between right and wrong is obvious, and the picture is very eye-catching. It can be carved, scratched, picked and filled with colors. In addition, China's painting skills are creatively and vividly produced on porcelain in the form of pictures, which has charming artistic charm. It created a new way for painting and decoration of China porcelain, and laid a foundation for the great development of Jingdezhen blue-and-white and painted porcelain in the future. Cizhou kiln has rich glaze colors, including white glaze, black glaze and sauce glaze; And green glaze. Among them, white glaze is the most famous Right and wrong methods are mainly used in decoration, among which painting flowers, picking flowers and picking pearls are the most popular. Drawing flowers is based on local mottled stones, and black stripes are drawn on white glazed land. Decorative patterns are mostly based on the creativity of * * *, with leafy broken branches and lifelike fish house kiln, which changed the monochromatic decoration method in China Song Dynasty and created a precedent for the decoration of black flower underglaze ceramic products in white land. And invented a series of decorative patterns. On the basis of colored glaze, by adding color to the surface of fired white porcelain and making the color of secondary barbecue, the world's earliest over-the-glaze color painting "red and green color" in Song Dynasty was invented. Only the above two technical and artistic achievements have established a major position in the history of international ceramics. In the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the ingenious Cizhou potters invented more than 30 decorative ceramic techniques, such as white ground carving, rusty flower carving, pearl ground carving, brown color on white background, white flower picking, black glaze carving and pyrene carving.

It can be said that it is a collection of ceramic decoration methods, which has influenced future generations. In particular, a few black paintings and white and black flowers have written a graphic, which is very vivid. It constitutes the artistic personality of * * * with discipline, firmness, boldness and freedom. Genre-wise, what people see are flowers, birds, fish, insects, dragons, phoenixes, deer and horses, street scenes and lyrics of children's songs, which are really pre-historical customs.

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