Chapter 0788 – Broken

“Old Yu, you help me greet the guests! Mr. Zhuang, you’re an expert, let’s go inside and talk.”

Hearing Yu Zhengjun nodding his head and recognizing his words, Xu Guoqing pulled Zhuang Rui, completely disregarding the fact that his own hand still had paint on it, and this hand made Zhuang Rui’s snow-white shirt with five more fingerprints.

“This …… Mr. Zhuang, I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, I’m trying to ask you to teach you, in my work in the end what is broken, was you to see out ah?”

Xu Guoqing is no longer humane, but also knows that his action is a bit inappropriate, and at that moment he snapped and let go of his hand, but he still has an eager look, and those bright eyes are staring at Zhuang Rui through the lenses, dead on.

Zhuang Rui looked at the print on his sleeve, could not help but laugh bitterly, he also saw, Xu Guoqing this person’s brain does not have any problem, but he just put his attention, all on the research of ancient ceramic craft, so outsiders seem to feel that this person is a little strange.

But all people who have made outstanding achievements in certain fields have this or that kind of strange temper, like Picasso just can’t live without women, to the ninety-something years old, there is still no shortage of beautiful women around.

And more scientists also had many peculiar habits that were not known to outsiders, but when they became famous, all of these quirky faults became advantages.

“Call me by my name, Zhuang Rui!” Zhuang Rui said with a smile.

“Huh? I thought your name was just Mr. Zhuang, come on, let’s go inside and talk.”

Xu Guoqing scratched his head in embarrassment, which added one more color on his head, but looking at Zhuang Rui’s eyes, this forty year old man was looking innocent.

Zhuang Rui was also a bit curious about what Xu Guoqing’s studio actually looked like, so he followed him and walked in from a side.

Peng Fei feel Xu Guoqing this person spirit a little problem, afraid that he hurt Zhuang Rui, also followed in, and Li Dali this time is specially accompanied by Zhuang Rui, naturally there is no reason to wait in the outer room, at the same time, a few people all walked into Xu Guoqing’s laboratory.

“Boy, this …… is your studio?”

Zhuang Rui just walked into that side, was startled, this room is four or five hundred square feet size, but the center of that thing, let Zhuang Rui see is jaw-dropping.

Dare Zhuang Rui from the outside to see that big chimney, is inside the house, the diameter of almost ten meters of brick chimney appeared in a house, that is still quite shocking.

In the side of the place, filled with different heights of the shelves, in each shelf, almost all have the embryo type has been done, but not yet color into the furnace firing porcelain, Linlin total no less than hundreds of pieces.

This is not to mention, in a corner of the house, there is also a crusher, raymond mill, and extremely professional air mill, these are very professional crushing tools, can be mined as well as some of the sun-dried hard soil, grinding into a very fine powder.

Zhuang Rui know, the real meaning of the best imitation porcelain, that is need to spend a lot of work, not only to the ancient method of building kilns, but also must use the original porcelain clay.

Even the glaze pigment used in color, also need to grind some colored ore powder, and then high temperature heating to mix their own, the market chemical raw materials, is absolutely not available.

Even after completing these processes, in the firing time will often appear scrap, like this firing out of modern imitations, the value is not cheaper than some of the years of antiques, and even had it.

Zhuang Rui can see, here all the objects of the embryo making, painting, glaze color and firing process, are Xu Guoqing one person to complete, based on this alone, need to master several disciplines, if Xu Guoqing does not have that kind of fanaticism, it really can not do.

“Zhuang Rui, you haven’t said it yet, how did you see the flaws in those works of mine.”

To be honest, Xu Guoqing was still extremely confident in his imitation of the three-colored ceramic figurines, because whether it was in terms of the clay or the firing process, he had strictly followed the ancient secret recipes.

In Xu Guoqing’s thought, unless he did a carbon 14 test, Xu Guoqing didn’t believe that with the naked eye and other instruments, he could detect that those objects were fake?

“Hehe, let me call you by your name, Mr. Xu!”

The other party is older than himself, calling his name is not appropriate, Zhuang Rui thought of a name.

“Call whatever you want, tell me quickly!” Xu Guoqing had no interest in what Zhuang Rui called him, he now wanted to know about his own burnt Tang Sancai, what are the deficiencies and what needs to be improved.

Zhuang Rui shook his head with a smile and said, “Worker Xu, let me ask, from which dynasty did the saying of having an official kiln start?”

“It’s from the Song Dynasty! Although the Han and Tang dynasties also have kiln sites dedicated to the royal use, but the supervision is not so strong, and the folk are not distinguished. From the Song Dynasty onwards, the royal ceramic utensils, only and folk distinction, but Zhuang Rui, what is the relationship between this and my Tang Three-color ah?”

Xu Guoqing burned the Tang Tri-color, it was some years ago, he felt that the process of Tang Tri-color has been completely deciphered by him, there is no challenge, so in recent years has been studying the Song Dynasty Magnetic Kiln, so to Zhuang Rui’s question is a casual answer.

“Yes, it is true that the official kiln set from the Song Dynasty, the ceramics of the Han and Tang Dynasties, in addition to the Tang Three Colors are considered fine, the good things that have been handed down are not a lot of good things, which also verifies that things are not necessarily the more ancient the better, otherwise this mountain full of stones with the longest history, why is it instead the least valuable?”

Zhuang Rui’s words, not only did Xu Guoqing get confused, it was the two of them, Li Dali and Yu Zhengjun, who were also confused and didn’t know what Zhuang Rui’s words about this had to do with Xu Guoqing’s question.

“Perfection, Worker Xu, these three-colored terracotta figurines of yours, the only thing that’s broken is in the perfection.” Without waiting for Xu Guoqing to ask, Zhuang Rui gave the answer himself.

Xu Guoqing still didn’t understand and muttered, “Perfection? Is there anything wrong with perfection? It means that the imitation should be exactly the same as the real thing!”

“Perfection is of course right, but to be divided into the era, if it is the official kiln porcelain after the Song Dynasty, it is necessary to pursue perfection, a petal kind of grain thickness, the distance between the two petals size, that can not have the slightest error, but for the three-color porcelain, you do too perfect.”

After the Han and Tang dynasties of official kiln porcelain, as long as there is a little flaw, have to break up, the palace can not be used, also can not be passed on to the people, this is also since the Song dynasty after the successive generations of fine porcelain heirlooms, extremely rare and precious main reason.

Zhuang Rui’s words, so that Xu Guoqing’s eyes gradually brightened up, he wore crotch pants from the time, began to play his dad from the site of the Magnetic Kiln dug out of the porcelain, porcelain research can be said to be the depth of the extreme.

However, for the analysis of human nature, he was too far behind, and now after hearing Zhuang Rui say this, Xu Guoqing slowly understood.

“Zhuang Rui, you are saying that when the three-colored porcelain was fired in the Tang Dynasty, due to the lack of uniform regulation, many flawed three-colored ceramic figurines were preserved, and these porcelain pieces of mine are all perfect and flawless, and that is why you saw the flaws, isn’t it so?”

Xu Guoqing is also a very smart person, after hearing Zhuang Rui’s hint, a little thought, he understood the joints in the middle, it turns out that the perfection that he pursues has precisely become a breakage in the eyes of others.

“Yes, that’s it, Mr. Li, when you took these three colors to others for appraisal, were there also many people who said they couldn’t see it?” Zhuang Rui nodded and twisted his face towards Li Dali.

“Yes, a few experts also said that these objects were too perfect.”

What Mr. Li said about this is true, there are several experts who can’t find any faults, but their hearts always feel wrong, and in the end, they didn’t issue an appraisal certificate, and only pushed to say that they can’t see it.

“I understand, this is the moon is full, the water is overflowing ah!”

Xu Guoqing slightly lost, but the face then revealed a look of excitement, said to Zhuang Rui: “This Han and Tang porcelain does not pursue perfection, but I’m now researching the Magnetic Kiln, Zhuang Rui, you take a look, whether you can find out the cracks?”

“What? You are now starting to fire the Magnetic State Kiln?”

Zhuang Rui froze for a moment when he heard this, dare to say that this buddy does not play with the three colors, but changed to play with the Song Dynasty Magnetic State Kiln, you know, although the Magnetic State Kiln is a folk kiln, but it is one of the largest folk kiln systems in the northern part of Ancient China.

Not only the Song Dynasty, is the Liao Jin Yuan, Ming and Qing still continue to burn, firing history is long, has a strong vitality, passed down the fine porcelain is also the most.

And by the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, there is also a small part of the Magnetic State Kiln, specialized in firing official kilns for the Southern Song Dynasty court, so now the Magnetic State Kiln porcelain circulating on the market, its price is not lower than the market price of the remaining several Song official kiln porcelain.

“Right, it’s a pity that I have the embryo and everything done, but I don’t have the money to fire it.”

Xu Guoqing originally excited face, suddenly collapsed, to know, the firing procedure of antique porcelain, is the most important one, the firing time may be up to half a month long, the charcoal consumed, are a great expense.

Unlike now we use those ceramic plates, good embryo thrown furnace, directly with coal to burn, the whole of a computer automation on the burning out.

Xu Guoqing’s modern antique kiln, although it can also use the computer to control the temperature, but this buddy is now exhausted, not to mention the purchase of charcoal, that is, even the electricity can not afford to use.

“Open the door, open the door quickly.”

Just when Zhuang Rui wanted to take a look at the porcelain embryo made by Xu Guoqing first, the sound of calling the door came from the front door vaguely, and the wolf dog, too, woofed and barked.

“Mr. Zhuang, you guys chat, I’ll go out and take a look.”

In Xu Guoqing’s place, Yu Zhengjun is also considered as a half master, he knows that Xu Guoqing will be having a headache of funds, and will definitely not take the initiative to go ahead and open the door.