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What is an isolated product is naturally unique. It means one thing in the world, and it is impossible to appear in pairs. This is the case with the official kiln blue and white cricket jars in the Xuande period.

Generally speaking, when it comes to Emperor Xuande, the evaluation is not low in history books. As the grandson of Emperor Yongle, Emperor Xuande received a good education and was favored by thousands of people. Many people say that his father was able to be firmly in the crown prince.

The throne and the successful ascendance of the throne to the emperor was largely due to his crown prince.

According to the literature, Emperor Xuande's reign for nine years and seven months was only a short moment in terms of the rule of the entire Ming Dynasty for more than 270 years. However, this moment was the most glorious in the Ming Dynasty.

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During the reign of Emperor Xuande, he not only had outstanding talents in military and political affairs, but also had many elegant talents, such as paying attention to lyrics and calligraphy, good at painting, etc. In other words, he wrote good poems and articles, and was better at painting.

Of course, whether it is writing poetry or painting, it is a very elegant thing in everyone's opinion. As long as you do not reach the level of the late ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Song Huizong Zhao Ji, ordinary people will only praise you and will not make any bad comments.

After all, being fond of elegance means being close to civil servants. The writing of historical books is in the hands of civil servants, so they will naturally write in a good way and cannot criticize them.

However, no one is perfect. Emperor Xuande had a problem of flirting and playing, which was something that many people hate. I remember that there was a cartoon about flirting in China, which criticized and condemned Emperor Xuande's behavior.

The so-called weaving is to raise crickets and fight crickets. To put it simply, it is to play with crickets.

There is no way to understand the era when the activity of playing crickets originated. Anyway, there is a description of the October cricket entering my bed in the Book of Songs. Then it was passed down from generation to generation, and even the great poets Du Fu and Bai Juyi wrote it.

Poems about crickets. However, the one who really plays with crickets and writes them into works is Jia Sidao, the traitor of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Historical books commented that Jia Sidao was a traitor who ruined the country and harmed the people. Legend has it that when the northern soldiers invaded the Song Dynasty, he still lay on the ground with his concubine to watch cricket fighting. As an expert in playing crickets, he had more than 20,000 words of cricket weaving scriptures.

It is still a classic ancestral book for insect farmers. From this we can see that the folk trend of playing crickets has become popular among the nobles from the bottom to the top.

But if you think about it carefully, the prime minister plays with crickets as an example to harm the country and the people. Then a dignified king of a country is fun. Even an emperor with achievements will definitely not be able to avoid an evaluation of being incompetent.

It is hard to say that all civil and military officials are. Anyway, as the mother of Emperor Xuande, the empress dowager of the dynasty hates his son's behavior very much. Therefore, after Emperor Xuande's death, the throne was ascended by his eight-year-old son, to prevent his grandson from losing his ambition and abandoning his studies.

The Empress Dowager simply issued an order to stop all the fun things in the palace and all the things that are not urgent.

Think about it, when the young emperor ascended the throne, the government was basically managed by the empress dowager, which is the so-called rule behind the curtain. A decree continued. And it was a wise decision. Who dared not to obey?

For a moment, after Emperor Xuande ascended the throne, he ordered the Imperial Kiln Factory to carefully burn all the cricket jars. Not only were the palaces destroyed, but all the cricket jars that had been burned by the Imperial Kiln Factory that had not yet been paid tribute were smashed.

Break and buried deep underground.

Under this situation, the official kiln cricket jars during the Xuande period naturally became very rare and rare. As for how rare it is, most people may not have any concepts, so let’s give an example.

According to the information, the Qing Palace has more than 1,000 pieces of Xuande official kiln porcelain, most of which were passed down from the Xuande Dynasty, and are now collected in the Palace Museum in Taipei, and are the most authoritative collection today. However, among these collections, there is no such collection.

From this we can also know how rare this kind of thing is.

Anyway, based on some research, it was concluded that there must be not many Xuande cricket jars that could survive the fate of the Empress Dowager. It is very likely that it was a gift from Emperor Xuande to the ministers. After all, according to the literature, there is indeed something about

Records of Emperor Xuande’s beloved gifts to officials.

Of course, the other ones are broken and buried underground. Many have been unearthed in recent years, but now the cricket jars brought out by Mr. Kong’s secretary are obviously not broken.

Putting aside the broken tools, the truly intact things are definitely unique and can be regarded as a lonely treasure.

"Is this thing genuine or imitation?"

After a look, Mr. Chang couldn't help but question it, and he was a little unbelievable. After all, later generations also understood the preciousness of the Xuande official kiln cricket jar, so they naturally imitated it. Moreover, since the authentic products are rare, they often do not understand the specific characteristics of the authentic products.

It is easy to be deceived and buy the imitation as genuine products.

"Brother Chang might as well take a look."

At the right time, Mr. Kong smiled and said, "Please take a look and appreciate it, and you will know it is really imitation."

"If you don't say it, I will also start watching."

While speaking, Mr. Chang calmed down, immediately put on white gloves, took out a high-power magnifying glass and a strong flashlight. He was fully equipped, so he began to carefully study the cricket jar.

"As the saying goes, play with insects for a long time, play with jars for a lifetime."

While appreciating, Mr. Chang said: "In fact, the best jar for raising crickets should be a clay pot made of clay pot made of clay. The jar made of clay has a lubricating texture and good breathability, which is more suitable for raising insects. However, people in the Ming Dynasty did not

If you understand this, or if you say that the jar of a cricket that is the best, it must be the most expensive."

"But for the emperor, gold, silver, pearls and jade are too vulgar. Only porcelain can show noble status and elegant taste, so blue and white cricket jars came into being. Moreover, due to the emperor's favorite, craftsmen in the Imperial Kiln Factory made jars

Naturally, it is perfect." Mr. Chang sighed a little, "In my opinion, perhaps the one that best represents the highest level of blue and white porcelain craftsmanship in the Xuande period should be the official kiln blue and white cricket jar.

This is a bit reasonable and everyone agrees.

After all, the existence of the Imperial Kiln Factory itself satisfies the emperor's selfish desires, and everything is done according to the emperor's preferences. Zhu Yuanzhang likes underglaze red, so the underglaze red in the Hongwu period was a treasure, and Zhu Di likes white porcelain, which led to Yongle sweet white

The birth of the Emperor Xuande period. During the reign of Emperor Xuande, he himself preferred blue and white, so Xuande blue and white were the best things in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Xuande prefers blue and white, but he loves playing with crickets more. Then the exquisiteness of Xuande blue and white cricket jar can be imagined. This thing in front of him is a good proof that the body of the utensil is thick, the glaze layer is thick, and the white is blue.

It is the characteristic of Xuande blue and white. Especially the tin light of blue and white is very thick and gorgeous under the light and very eye-catching.

During the Xuande period of Yongle, Sumaliqing was widely used in blue and white porcelain in the Imperial Kiln Factory. This is an imported material and is expensive. Therefore, there is a review of all the materials being exquisite and blue and white. However, there is no good product. Expensive things often mean quality.

It is guaranteed. Sumali green material is expensive, but the effect shown by firing porcelain is indeed better than domestic materials.

Su Mali's blue hair color is deep and bright, and its characteristics are very obvious. If the fire atmosphere is good, it can burn a gem-like color. If you take a look, you can judge it by paying a little attention to the blue and white color of the cricket jar.

The thing should be made of fired with Sumaliqing.

"However, this should be a cricket jar that was burned after Su Maliqing and domestic green materials were mixed and used."

After studying for a while, Mr. Chang affirmed: "You see, Su Mali Qing has a dark color, while domestic blue materials are lighter in color and have a dizziness. Therefore, the color of the blue and white jars is brighter, with thicker and lighter colors.

It has the characteristics of two types of cobalt materials.”

"Mixed cobalt materials should be relatively rare."

At this time, Yu Feibai said with great interest: "Does this color effect be deliberately created? Or is it because Su Maliqing has begun to show signs of exhaustion, so we should save some use."

"Of course it's the former, I want this kind of effect of being mixed with light."

Mr. Chang smiled and said, "You must know that during the Xuande period, the country has prospered, and it has sufficient military and financial power to purchase Su Maliqing abroad. What really put Su Maliqing in a crisis of exhaustion was after the Tumubao Incident.

Due to political factors, a period of thirty-year porcelain fired vacancy began."

"This blank period did not recover until the Chenghua period, but Su Maliqing in stock was used up. In other words, the evolution of porcelain can also reflect the national strength at that time."

Mr. Chang sighed slightly: "We not only understand this principle, but also the ancients also knew it. Otherwise, they would not always praise Yongxuan porcelain as the highest level of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty."

"Old Chang, we all understand what you said." At the same time, Yu Feibai asked curiously: "The key is that this cricket jar is, is it the authentic product of Xuande official kiln?"

"Well..."

Mr. Chang hesitated for a moment and immediately smiled and said, "I won't say it anymore, you can judge for yourself."

"What, it's so enchanting."

Yu Feibai seemed to complain, but in fact he took over Chang Lao's position with great enthusiasm, and then carefully studied it: "The glaze surface is thick and moist, with a soft luster and not dazzling, with a green color in the white. The glaze surface is not very flat, like orange peel, which may exist.

The phenomenon of opening the film. Under the high-power magnifying glass, the glaze is filled with bubbles of large and small size, and even small bubbles are rubbed with large bubbles..."

"No matter what kind of porcelain of the Xuande Dynasty is, almost all this kind of glaze is included, and cricket jars are definitely no exception."

After looking at the inner body and outer glaze, Yu Feibai carefully turned the jar over and looked at the bottom: "The large Xuande blue and white things are usually unglazed white fine sand bottom, which is very smooth when touched by hand, and there is flint red on the edge.

spot."

“Yes, all right.”

After studying it inside and outside, Yu Feibai was immediately happy and smiled and said, "Such beautiful and exquisite, and perfect thing is definitely a fake!"

"What?"

For a moment, Mr. Kong was stunned and couldn't even figure it out. He said it well, how could Yu Feibai suddenly come to this completely opposite conclusion? Could it be that he was quick to speak, so he was distorted? (To be continued...
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