People's daily life can't be separated from ceramic products, even if they raise a pot of flowers, they need a ceramic flowerpot. So who was the first person to invent pottery? According to ancient records, his name is Ning Fengzi, and he is a skillful craftsman around the Yellow Emperor. There are many stories about his pottery making among the people.
Legend has it that people in the period of the Yellow Emperor knew how to cook food with fire, but there were no pots, pots, bowls and cans. They can only cook their prey with an open flame and grab it with both hands. When you are thirsty, go downstream and drink water with your hands. This is especially inconvenient for the elderly and children.
On one occasion, Ning Fengzi caught many pointed tail fish from the river and set them on the fire. The results were all burnt. Ning Fengzi was angry, so she sealed the remaining pointed tail fish with mud and put it in the fire. Just then, the Yellow Emperor sent Ning Fengzi out on an errand, and he left for three days. When he came back, someone asked about cooking fish. Ning Fengzi remembered the pointed tail fish he put in the fire when he left, and hurried to the fire to plane. Who knows that when you dig out the fish, there is no fish left, only a mud shell can be seen, and you can eat it; Knock it with your hand again and it will jingle. Everyone around him laughed. Someone sarcastically said, "Ning Fengzi is good at burning many soft fish into hard fish." Ning Fengzi didn't care. He just held the burnt mud shell in his hand and looked around. Then he said to everyone, "Don't laugh. Although the fish is not eaten, it can cook something useful. " .
Then he took the mud shell to the river and filled it with water. After careful observation for a long time, he found that the water put into the mud shell did not leak. Ning Fengzi likes to use his head very much. He wondered what it would be like to seal the mud on something else and burn it. He saw some stumps that had been cut down on the river beach. He had a brainwave, scraped out the sediment by hand and stuck it on the stumps, and then set it on fire for three days and four nights. When the fire went out, he looked at the ashes; At present, it is not half a stump of the mud lake, but a hard mud jar with reddish soil. Ning Fengzi used animal leather bags to fill the hard mud jar with water from the river until it was full, and no water leakage was found.
Ning Fengzi was so happy that she forgot everything and wanted to bring the hard mud jar back with water to give good news to everyone. Who knows, I pushed too hard and broke the mud jar. The water flowed all over the floor. Ning Fengzi is not discouraged. Sitting on the ground, he has been thinking that soil can become a hard shell after fire, which can hold both water and food. Why not burn more? But he doesn't know how to burn it. He reported these two experiments and his own ideas to the Yellow Emperor and invited him to see the broken clay shell. Huang Di was very happy after reading it, and thought this invention was very useful, so he appointed Ning Fengzi as the "Zheng Tao" (official) of Qiaoguo, that is, the later official kiln porcelain prosecutor in our common historical records.
I don't know how many experiments and failures have been experienced, but the first batch of pottery of the Chinese nation has finally been successfully fired. The appearance of pottery has solved a big problem in human daily life. Over the years, archaeologists have found a large number of painted pottery in Banpo, Xi, Qiao Shan in Huangling, Yangshao and Longshan in Henan, such as pointed-bottomed bottles, cans, bowls and pots, which fully proves that pottery-making has a long history of several thousand years in China.