Master descends to earth

Chapter 144 White Jade Flowing Cloud
"Porcelain firing has three elements: kaolin, high temperature and glazing technology. Kaolin is the weathered product of granite. At that time, kaolin could not be found in Europe, but we had a lot of it. It can be said that God rewards us with food."

"Another necessary condition is high temperature, and the only way to achieve high temperature is continuous heating, which involves the issue of oxygen supply. Craftsmen have come up with a good way to take advantage of the hilly terrain in the south and build porcelain kilns against the mountains."

"These porcelain kilns are usually tens of meters long, and the height can be about 10 meters higher than the lower one, which acts as a high chimney to absorb fresh air, and can keep the large porcelain kiln at a high temperature for a long time. The master enjoys the meal."

"The German Meissen Porcelain Factory still retains the data of [-] experiments. Today it is easy for them to restore products from hundreds of years ago, but it is an impossible task for us to restore a piece of Tang and Song porcelain. .”

"Later, people successfully found kaolin, which can produce more high-quality and stable porcelain. The British Wedgwood also discovered kaolin mines in China, and directly introduced steam engines into porcelain manufacturing, thereby solving the problems of mass production and stable quality."

"Later generations also invented bone porcelain, adding beef bone powder to kaolin, making the porcelain whiter and becoming synonymous with high-end products."

"Royal Copenhagen of Denmark, Arabia of Finland, Hermes of France, Herren of Hungary, Royal Doulton of England, Wedgwood, Wassers, Mason of Germany..."

"Even in the island countries of Noritake, Narumi, and Nikko, the price of a set of international famous brand coffee or tea sets is basically around 26900 yuan. For high-end product series, such as the Danish flower series in Copenhagen, the cheapest coffee cup costs 11 yuan." , a pair of black tea cups cost [-]!"

Speaking of this, Mao Zhengcong gritted his teeth and said: "Those are mass-produced industrial products, 11? You can buy two big cars of Longquan celadon!"

Su Yuan remained silent, there was no other way, this was the bloody current situation of porcelain, the country has long been reduced to a low-end OEM base, just like Foxconn, all it sells is labor.

Regardless of the tens of millions or hundreds of millions of auction prices in the auction house, they are all rare ancient masterpieces. A piece of porcelain can be handed down for hundreds of years. This odds are far lower than winning the lottery!
It is different from calligraphy and painting, but all calligraphy and painting that have been handed down for a hundred years must be mounted, even if they are broken and meet a master, they can be revived and recognized by collectors.

But porcelain is not good. No matter how precious it is, it cannot tolerate the slightest flaw. In the jargon, it is said that the leftovers are worthless.Now because the quantity is too small, the remaining weapons are beginning to have value, barely one-tenth.

Since ancient times, the research of Chinese people on craftsmanship is far greater than the management of brands. It is true that there is nothing wrong with eating fresh food all over the world, but no matter how good a person is, it is impossible to solve the world alone.

A fence with three stakes, a hero with three gangs.Even if he has golden fingers, he still needs all kinds of talents around him to help him, otherwise he will not be able to do great things if he is exhausted.

Mao Zhengcong took Su Yuan's hand, and said emotionally: "You have given us craftsmen a shot in the arm. Not only is the craftsmanship, but also the courage to share, and the modern management model."

"We are old, and we will rely on you to prop up the piece of sky left by our ancestors in the future. As long as we need to use old people in the future, just say it!"

Su Yuan is very grateful, and can feel the other party's true feelings. For an old artist who is over sixty years old, it is more comforting to have no successor. Without decades of persistence, it is impossible to appreciate the deep love in it.

Back at the workshop, I bought a complete set of porcelain making tools, and opened up a separate open space, which will be used as a practice place in the future.I bought high-quality clay from Mao Zhengcong, and started to try casting for the first time.

Flowing cloud hands!
Take a deep breath and step on the turntable with your feet. There is no electric option. It is easier to control the speed manually.Straighten the porcelain clay, hold the clay with both hands, and press down with the thumb of your right hand from the center point of the top to center it. This is the most important step in drawing the clay.

The left hand assists, and the right thumb expands from the center of the bottom to level the bottom well.With the left hand inside and the right hand outside, the middle finger of the left hand is opposite to the thumb of the right hand, and slowly lift up from the bottom, maintaining a constant speed, to pull the green body up.

Feel the touch of your hands with your heart, and slowly move upwards to pull the body up.The fingertips of both hands face each other inside and out, and the left hand expands outwards with a little force to gradually thin the green body, which can keep the thickness of the green body evenly.

Su Yuan activated Liuyun Hand, his body felt as if he had practiced it thousands of times, and his movements gradually became more and more skillful.

Experts demand that the utensils are completed when the utensils are ready, and the utensils are completely filled with mud. After pulling, the mud is just used up, and there is nothing left.

In addition to the mud on the hands due to drawing, the cuffs and the body are clean, the table top and the surrounding ground of the drawing machine must also be clean and tidy, without any mud splashing around.

Nowadays, in the industrialization of porcelain, grouting molding and single-knife machine wheel molding are mostly used, which is far from the ancient hand-drawn billet molding.

For a whole year, Mao Zhengcong only made a small bottle with lotus pattern.After proficiently making this shape, put your hands on the finished body, and close your eyes to feel the artistic conception of the gurgling stream.

Later, at the Longquan Ceramics Skills Competition, it won the No. 2 prize in casting. The speed is fast, nearly twice as fast as No.[-], but the size and shape are exactly the same as the regulations.

Not only that, the mud he used is only half of that of other contestants for works of the same specification, which shows how solid the old man's basic skills are.

The biggest difference between the drawing level is the material saving.If the craftsmanship is high, the plain tire can reach the specified thickness almost without repairing, and the surface can be flattened by one or two knives at most.

It not only improves production efficiency, but also saves resources and reduces production costs.For example, after more than ten years of stale porcelain clay, if you use a little less, you can't buy it with money, and it is definitely a non-renewable resource.

Su Yuan quickly found the feeling, closed his eyes, and felt the touch of soil flowing on his fingertips. No wonder it was called Liuyun Hand, as if wispy threads were running through the fingers, it was indescribable.

"Zero two?"

Opening his eyes, looking at the first result in front of him, he nodded with satisfaction.Fortunately, it was alone. If Mao Zhengcong saw it, he would definitely have a heart attack.

Good guy, he can catch up with his level of hard training for half a lifetime for the first time...

Let others live!

This is the egg screen cup?

Su Yuan picked up the small teacup that Yingying held in his hands. It was very rare in the world, only the Forbidden City kept one.The glaze is white with bluish tint, and has a strong jade texture.There are four white plum blossoms in the cup, which are as moist as jade and as light as paper.

There is no bottom line, and the outer wall of the ring foot has the pattern of the Great Wall. If each convex and concave unit is regarded as a deformed nine characters, there are exactly nineteen. After expert research, it may be that Hao Nineteen cleverly hid the name among them.

Taste it as an egg curtain cup, as thin as a curtain of chicken eggs, white and lovely, each weighing half a baht.According to records, one tael in ancient times was equal to 24 baht, which is one-twentieth of fifty grams, less than two grams.

Su Yuan took a look with the electronic scale, and it was more than three grams. It seems that a lot of practice is still needed to reach the state of mastery.

According to the weight analysis, the thickness of Hao Nineteen's egg screen cup will never exceed [-] mm, and the weight of the bottom foot is excluded, and it is even thinner!
(End of this chapter)