The first thing that attracted everyone's attention was a small plate.

The label on the bottom reads "White Porcelain Lotus Leaf Plate from Shu Kiln, Dayi, Tang Dynasty".

The dish is not big, about fifteen centimeters in diameter. It is shaped like a lotus leaf with its mouth curled up slightly. The color is delicate and white, with slight pits on the glaze. This is a slight shrinkage of the glaze during firing. It is known in the literary and art circles as "

Orange peel lines”.

Mr. Zhang lifted up the small piece of paper attached to the bottom of the disk and found that the bottom was full of flint red. From the joints of the glaze edges, it can be seen that the disk was first made of red clay as a pottery body, and after repairing the tire, white clay was used as "makeup"

Two layers of "earth" were modified to obtain a white body, and then a plant ash glaze was applied to the white body and fired in the kiln to obtain this white porcelain plate.

The most important thing is that there are four small characters "Tianbao Yongchang" written in green and brown glaze on the bottom of the bowl.

"Is this inference a bit hasty?" Mr. Zhang asked: "I remember there is a saying that the so-called 'Dayi White Porcelain' is actually just a misunderstanding of Du Fu, because Dayi in central Sichuan is not known for its white porcelain.

Isn’t it that the famous kiln site in Dayi has not been discovered?”

"There are generally three kiln entrances in the north and south of Chinese white porcelain. One is the northern system, that is, the Xing kiln of the Tang Dynasty - the Ding kiln of the Song Dynasty - the White Porcelain of the Liao Dynasty - the Ding kiln of the later dynasties, such as Hebi and many kiln entrances in Yaozhou."

"In the South, the successful firing of the egg white glaze of the JDZ Privy War in the Yuan Dynasty is generally the starting point, followed by the sweet white glaze of the Ming Yongle, which is the highest achievement in the history of white porcelain."

"There is also a branch, which is the famous 'Ivory White' from Dehua Kiln in Fujian."

"We in Sichuan once discovered a porcelain kiln for making white porcelain in Pengzhou. It was once misread as the kiln mouth of the Dayi kiln in the Tang Dynasty in Du Fu's poem. However, after further research on the remaining artifacts and kilns, it was discovered that the Pengzhou kiln was actually the kiln mouth.

The inheritance of the imitation Ding kiln line is the kiln mouth after the Song Dynasty."

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Mr. Zhang's research on porcelain is quite in-depth."

"Don't put a high hat on the old man." Mr. Zhang waved his hand: "Tell me the reason why you stopped this small plate."

Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The inference that Mr. Zhang said that 'there is no white porcelain in Dayi' actually comes from an article published in the Peninsula Morning News, because Du Fu once wrote a poem called "Ode to Dayi Porcelain"

", one of the poems "Begging Dayi Porcelain Bowls from Wei Chu again", the poem goes: Dayi's porcelain is light and strong, and the buckle is like the jade of Jincheng. The white bowl of Jun's family is better than the frost and snow, and it is pitiful to rush to Maozhai. Right?

?”

"Yes, the article argued that this poem is an 'isolated evidence'. There is no kiln entrance in Dayi and there is no physical evidence to support it, so it cannot be true."

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "But this so-called solitary evidence is due to the author's lack of knowledge."

"How do you say this?"

"First of all, let's examine this poem. Regarding its annotations, in the second volume of "Dayi County Chronicles" published by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, "Characters·Living in the Tang Dynasty", the entry for 'Du Fu' is very clearly recorded: Dayi is far from Chongqing

There is only one house in the state. Shaoling went to the east pavilion of the state to view the plum blossoms. When he passed through Dayi, he met with the city officials and visited the porcelain kilns. There is a sentence, "The porcelain produced in Dayi is light and strong." For details, see Yiwen."

"'She' in the article is the ancient unit for calculating mileage, which is thirty miles. 'Yi Ling' refers to the county magistrate. Wei Ban, the magistrate of Dayi County, is a friend of Du Fu. The word 'Aiyu' in the poem describes the sound of porcelain being touched as clear as jade.

The poem says that the porcelain fired in Dayi is light in weight, tough in texture, and the sound of knocking is like jade. It is famous in Jincheng and is whiter than frost and snow."

"It can be seen from Du's poems that Du Fu first begged for porcelain bowls from Wei Ban, the magistrate of Dayi County, and then visited Dayi porcelain kilns."

"Scholars of all ages have no doubts about the Dayi white porcelain chanted by Du Fu and have a positive attitude. "Jdz Tao Lu" written by jdz man Lan Pu was written in the 20th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty. The section "Shu Kiln" in Volume 7 records

"In the Tang Dynasty, the white porcelain produced in Dayi, Qiongzhou, Sichuan, was thin and firm, with white color and clear sound. It was prized at that time...'"

"'The porcelain fired in Dayi is light and strong, and the knocking is like mourning jade. The white bowl of the Jun's family is better than the frost and snow, and it is pitiful to rush it to the Mao Zhai.' The first sentence is beautiful for its quality, the second sentence is beautiful for its sound, and the third sentence is beautiful for its color.

.You can already imagine how good the Shu Kiln is."

"Volume 37 of the "Qiongzhou Chronicles" printed in the 23rd year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty also contains: When Shaoling went to the East Pavilion of the state to view plum blossoms, he passed through Dayi, met with the city's magistrates, and visited the porcelain kilns.

"The poem "Send to Cui Lushi in Qiongzhou" written by Du Fu shows that Du Fu has a very close relationship with Cui Lushi in Qiongzhou. From Chongzhou to Qiongzhou, Dayi is the place he must pass through. During the Republic of China, Shao Zhemin, Yu Jimen "Supplement

"An Examination of the Origin of Ancient and Modern Porcelain" says: "Shu Kiln was built in the Tang Dynasty in Dayi, Chongzhou, Sichuan Province. The body of the wares is thin and solid, white in color and clear in sound. It is also called 'Dayi Porcelain'."

"Du Fu came to Chengdu at the end of 759 and lived there for several years. Dayi established a county in the second year of Xianheng of Tang Dynasty, which was 671. In 760, Du Fu wrote in the capital of Shu, "He also begged for porcelain bowls from Dayi in Weichu.

" was written ninety years after the establishment of the county in Dayi. Therefore, the time when Du Fu met with the county magistrate of Dayi, visited the porcelain kiln, and interacted with "Qiongzhou Cui Lushi" was when he lived in Chengdu. From the time of creation and

In terms of documentary and historical research, firstly, Du Fu's poems and deeds are consistent with historical and political records; secondly, there is no doubt in the records of past dynasties, indicating that the white porcelain produced in Shuzhong in the Tang Dynasty was originally unquestionable."

"That article also believed that no ruins of the Dayi porcelain kiln were found, which is not consistent with the facts."

"As early as the 1950s and 1960s, Mr. Yang Xiaogu, an expert in cultural relics and archaeology, talked about the 'Dayi Kiln' in the first issue of "Western China Cultural Relics": Recently, a statue of the kiln king was excavated from the soil of Dongguanchang, Dayi, with inscriptions on it.

There is a paragraph saying, "On June 4th, the third year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, the statue of the kiln king was built at Yongchang kiln in Dexinli, Jinyuan County, Tang'an County", with a total of 27 characters. There is the original white glaze hanging on it, which shows that the porcelain kiln in Dayi, Tang Dynasty

At that time, the Yongchang kiln was located in Dongguanchang, Chongzhou today."

"In addition, it is also recorded that a milky white and printed middle plate fragment was excavated from the soil in Huaiyuan Town, Chongzhou, and a pink-white plain pottery fragment was excavated from the soil in Pucun, Guan County."

"This is all important information. We know that in the Tang Dynasty, Dayi was named Jinyuan when it was first established as a county. This is why Dayi County was named Jinyuan Town."

"The third year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty was one year before the Anshi Rebellion, and it was still in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. The Dayi Kiln had a statue of the kiln king decorated with white glaze, and the kiln king statue was a statue of a god worshiped by ancient porcelain practitioners. It can be seen that the Dayi kiln

The ancestors of the city who fired kilns and made porcelain believed in the kiln king for a long time."

"Mr. Xiao Gu also described the processing technology of the white porcelain fragments unearthed at that time: adding cow ashes to the white glaze will make it milky white, and hanging the whitest soil on the white fetal bones, it is called 'makeup soil'. If you add the

Apply white glaze, the whiter it becomes."

"Since the 1980s, Sui and Tang kiln sites have been excavated near Dayi County. Many ancient porcelain kilns in Dayi have been discovered in Jinyuan Town. In January 1983, many porcelain and porcelain were discovered on Danan Street in Dayi County.

piece, and found a very delicate plate with a lotus mouth."

"Experts have verified that the ruins here are porcelain relics from the Tang and Song Dynasties, as well as a large number of folk porcelain with local characteristics and exquisite white porcelain fragments. The white porcelain fragments have a fine, white and hard body, are as thin as paper, and have a shiny glaze.
Chapter completed!