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In 1869, Williamson, a British missionary, recorded in his book "Travel in Northern China" that he saw the grand occasion of colored glaze production in Boshan.

"I saw that the sky over Mount Boshan was shrouded in smog, and people were busy making glass nervously. At that time, regardless of age, about seven tenths of men and women were engaged in glass manufacturing, and they exported glass every year. More than 70 catties of glass products..."

Richthofen, a German missionary and geographer, and Williamson, a British missionary, both visited Boshan during the Tongzhi period.

They made vivid descriptions of Boshan in "Diary of Traveling to China 1868-1872" and "Travel in Northern China".

Qilu Boshan's feeder is an important commodity in China's foreign trade, with about 7000 tons exported via Jinan every year.

…Smart and wise craftsmen ground the rocks produced nearby and calcined them with potassium nitrate to make feeders.

The hills here are rich in quartz ore, lime (rock) and coal, which are important raw materials and fuels for making glass.

For thousands of years, the Chinese nation, which is good at making porcelain, lagged behind Europe significantly and far behind in the industry of making glass.

However, it is only in Boshan that achievements worthy of world recognition have been made.

At the beginning of Guangxu 30, Zhou Fu, governor of Qilu Province, approved the report of the agricultural, industrial and commercial bureaus of Qilu Province on the establishment of Boshan Glass Company, and allocated 5 taels of treasury silver as official shares.

At this time, the first glass company jointly established by government and businessmen in China was born.

"Historical Materials of Modern Chinese Handicraft Industry" stated: "Boshan is the largest glass manufacturing place in China. The abundance of raw materials and fuels, as well as low wages are the most important factors for its development. Since the European War, the temporary import of foreign goods has been eliminated. The demand for Boshan glass has won a very high price, from Manchuria in the north to Nanyang in the south, almost everyone knows the name of Boshan glass.”

The "Reedited Daily Encyclopedia" compiled and printed by the Commercial Press of the Republic of China records: "The organization of glass factories in our country began in the Guangxu period of the former Qing Dynasty, and there was Shandong Boshan Glass Factory at that time." It can be seen that its influence is great.

The initial sales methods of Boshan colored glaze were mainly market trade and long-distance trafficking.

Later, with the increasing development of production, a store specializing in the sale of Boshan colored glaze appeared - Liuhuozhuang, and its sales scope was wider.

According to historical records, from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Boshan successively established more than 100 material goods stores all over the country.

These warehouses are distributed in a network shape, with Boshan as the center, radiating to the whole country, and truly realizing "Liu" connecting the world.

Such a well-known craft will naturally not be obscured by now.

Chen Wenzhe knew a little bit, and found that Qilu is also a big province of glaze production.

It can be said to be a millennium glass, a new "net celebrity"!

After the founding of New China, Boshan glazed industry also ushered in a spring of rapid development.

The original glass workshop was reorganized and merged, and became a state-owned factory.

The production equipment and production process have been continuously improved, and product research and development have been continuously expanded.

Large-scale glazed enterprises represented by Boshan Art Liulichang came into being and developed into the leader of the national glazed industry.

After more than half a century of accumulation and research and development, up to now, Boshan glazed products have dozens of categories, thousands of types, and nearly [-] designs and colors.

Its representative works such as glazed flower balls, flower vases, ornaments and other thermoforming products are unique in technology, magical and amazing, and amazing;

Liuli inner painting products are exquisite in craftsmanship and unique, known as the "Qilu School of Painting" in the art of inner painting.

The engraving of nesting materials and precious color materials "chicken oil yellow" and "chicken liver stone" carving products are simple and dignified, and are well-known at home and abroad;

The lampwork products are exquisite, delicate and elegant, which is amazing.

Among them, the most familiar and recognized by the world are the glazed inner paintings and the rare "chicken oil yellow" utensils.

The skill of Boshan glazed inner painting was introduced from Shendu.

According to legend, during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Leyuan, a glazed painter in the capital of God, had superb interior painting skills, but he kept it secret.

In order to keep it secret, an old man was even specially hired to watch the door, and the visitors would be notified, and the guests could not be entertained until he cleaned up the painting tools inside.

One day at noon, Wang Fenggao, a businessman from Xieshun Maozhuang in Boshan, went to Zhou Leyuan's house on business.

Just as the old man at the gate was dozing off, Wang Fenggao, who wanted to find out, took off his boots and tiptoed in.

Zhou Leyuan was in a panic and had no time to clean up. Wang Fenggao got a glimpse of the secret of painting with the inner painting bamboo brush.

After Wang Fenggao returned to Boshan, he studied repeatedly and finally mastered the mystery of inner painting skills, and passed it on to Bi Rongjiu, Sun Tanpu, Xue Xiangdu and others.

They continued to carry forward it and formed the Lu School inner paintings with distinctive characteristics.

Due to their proficient techniques and unique styles, they formed an independent painting school in the inner painting art world, called the Qilu School of Painting, which is as famous as the Shendu School of Painting.

At that time, the county magistrate, the local gentry, and even foreign businessmen would come to the door with a lot of money to visit the old artists of the inner painting and ask for the painting of snuff bottles.

Later, Bi Rongjiu passed on the craftsmanship to Zhang Wentang and others, while Xue Xiangdu passed it on to his son Xue Jingwan.

The Anti-Japanese War broke out, and Boshan's internal paintings were interrupted for a while.

Xue Jingwan and Zhang Wentang also went to the mountains to switch to ceramic painting for their livelihood.

After the founding of New China, the creation of Liuli inner paintings resumed and improved.

Boshan's famous and precious cooking utensil "chicken oil yellow" rose in the early Ming Dynasty and was abundant in the Qianlong period.

Because of its grace and luxury, it is honored as "Royal Yellow" and "Topaz".

"Chicken oil yellow" is characterized by "running like jade, congealing like fat, sound like a chime, and price like gold".

Due to the high threshold and difficulty of making, it has always been exclusively used by the royal family and the court, and private production is strictly prohibited.

Later, after social changes, the production process of "chicken oil yellow" was once lost.

In 1972, Boshan Art Liulichang finally brought "chicken oil yellow" back to the world after repeated experiments.

At the beginning of the 21st century, after the bankruptcy of the Boshan Fine Arts Glass Factory, the research materials and related products of "Chicken Oil Yellow" were lost again.

Brothers Sun Jimin and Sun Jijie, who were born in the Liuli family, invested in research and development on the basis of ancient recipes, and successfully restored the firing technique of "chicken oil yellow", known as "Sun's chicken oil yellow".

In recent years, Sun Yunyi, the successor, has made some achievements after years of dedicated study and innovative creation based on the research results of his fathers.

They have continuously improved in materials, craftsmanship and technology, and device design, and have systematically improved the technology and formula of "chicken oil yellow".

This has enabled the production of "chicken oil yellow" and the glass relief processing technology based on "chicken oil yellow" to be protected, inherited and developed.

The most important thing is to greatly improve the yield and the purity of product color.

Therefore, the firing technique of "Sun's chicken oil yellow" has been rated as an intangible cultural heritage of Qilu Province, and its technology and formula have been approved as invention patents by the State Patent Office.

At this time, Chen Wenzhe was a little bit emotional, his skills, to a certain extent, also inherited Sun's skills.

Wouldn't it be a bit dishonest to compete with the company opened by Mrs. Sun if it was produced in a constant manner?

However, with just a little understanding, Chen Wenzhe felt relieved.