The most ceremonial thing in spring
is watching the flowers!
The ancients more than four hundred years ago also nodded
and took out a flower viewing artifact
In this way, the breath of spring was left on the wall
Three highlights will show you
Colorful phoenix and chicken pattern gourd wall vase
Spring is fixed on the wall!
Half a vase is actually a movable flower-viewing artifact
When you see this cultural relic for the first time
You must be curious
What's the point of making only half a vase?
△Gourd wall vase with colorful phoenix and chicken pattern collected by Tianjin Museum
You need to know something about "wall vase" ↓
Wall vase, so named because most of them are hung on the wall surface
The shape of the vessel is half of the common vase
△Colorful Phoenix Chicken pattern gourd wall vase collected by Tianjin Museum
The side against the wall is flat and has holes.
It is convenient for hanging.
It is an ancient decorative item. Everything became a vibrant spring
△Colorful phoenix and chicken pattern gourd wall vase collected by Tianjin Museum
As a very popular household item at that time
wall vase can not only be used to arrange flowers and enjoy flowers
, but also decorate the wall with a "little fresh style"
elegant and elegant Practical
△ Doucai Lotus and Animal Ear Wall Vase Collected by the Palace Museum
The ancients also hung the wall vases on cars and boats
Carry the spring scenery with you
You can see spring flowers and smell the spring breeze anytime and anywhere
No wonder the ancients saw it The more I look at the wall vase, the more I like it.
They all post on their “moments” to praise its beauty.
“Dopamine” from four hundred years ago.
Why can colorful porcelain be so stunning for hundreds of years?
In addition to the unique shape of the vessel
another attraction of the colorful phoenix and chicken pattern gourd wall vase
lies in the color on its surface
Highly saturated red, green, blue, yellow various colors
depict the The drooping banana leaf pattern, cloud and phoenix pattern,
Ruyi cloud head pattern and flower and bird rooster pattern
can be called the "dopamine" version of the national style more than 400 years ago.
This type of porcelain is called "multicolored porcelain"
Bright and bright The pattern comes from a unique manufacturing process
△ A large plate of Qing colorful flowers collected by the Shenyang Palace Museum
The entire firing process of multicolored porcelain is divided into five steps
Blank preparation → Blue and white painting → Firing → Color painting → Secondary firing
Firing to produce blue and white patterns After that, other colors are used to describe the remaining patterns on the porcelain surface, and it is fired in the kiln again. This is the secret of its high saturation and beauty. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the division of labor in porcelain production was extremely detailed. According to the "Jingdezhen Ceramics Record", only color painting was included. It requires the participation of
emulsion workers, sample workers, painting ministries,
color workers, color fillers, and furnace workers
△Kangxi Colorful December Flower God Poetry Cup Tianjin Museum Collection
Every step is closely related Buttoning and meticulousness
are what create the stunning century-old colorful porcelain
Flower arrangements, hairpins, and gift flowers
What are the flower season limited rituals of the ancients?
In addition to placing flowers in wall vases, what else is there to watch from a height
the ancient ritual of limited flower seasons?
As early as in "The Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci", there are records of
wearing flowers and folding flowers to give each other . The Vishnu and the girl teased each other and gave them peony as a gift.——"The Book of Songs·Zheng Feng"
The ancients in the Southern and Northern Dynasties
would use "golden plates" to place flowers in spring
In the Tang Dynasty, people regarded the plates and basins as the earth to arrange flowers
Every flower and stamen is particularly delicate and beautiful
△The mural of Li Xian's tomb in the Tang Dynasty shows the palace attendants holding flowers.
Women even love to wear hairpins on their heads.
During the flower season, the ancients competed to buy flowers, appreciate flowers, hairpins, and arrange flowers.
△ Cultural Expo Calendar丨Want to wear Tang suits? This painting
"If you go to the forest and the flowers are blooming, you will see the flowers when you go out."
It seems that in ancient times
check-in "Internet celebrity flower viewing spot" is also a must-do list in spring
The spring scene is just right now
The ancients of the Ming Dynasty must have been On such a spring day
fold a flower
and put it in a vase on the wall
This spring beauty will last four hundred years
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