It was first burned in the Sui Dynasty and became popular after the Tang Dynasty.
It is said that it was originally used as a funerary object, and later it was used as a bedding and pulse detection.
In the Song Dynasty, the development of porcelain pillows entered a prosperous period. Porcelain pillows have not only increased in shape compared with the previous generation, but also advanced in decoration techniques. The successive adoption of carving, scraping, picking, printing and stacking techniques has greatly enriched the expressive force and artistry of porcelain pillows.
Li Qingzhao, a poetess in the Southern Song Dynasty, has a famous poem "Drunken Flowers": The fog is thick and the clouds are sad forever, and the gods are refreshing and the golden beast disappears.
Double Ninth Festival, lying in bed, in the middle of the night, the cold on my body has just been soaked.
Dongli drinks until dusk, and faint chrysanthemum fragrance overflows his sleeves.
Don't say clear autumn is not a person, the west wind rolls the flag and beads curtain, and the person in the curtain is thinner than that Huang Ju.
The jade pillow mentioned here is a blue-and-white glazed porcelain pillow.
Porcelain pillows, that is, porcelain pillows, are painted with colored glaze into beautiful pictures or engraved with poems.
Sui and Tang Dynasties have been fired, and Cizhou Kiln, Dangyangyu Kiln and Bachun Kiln were used in Song Dynasty. Dengfeng kiln did more.
Pillow is an important appliance in people's daily life.
Pillows in ancient China were first made of natural stone, and then gradually expanded to use wood, jade, copper, bamboo, porcelain and other materials.
Among them, porcelain pillows are the most numerous and widely used.
Like other daily-use ceramics, it came into being with the development of porcelain-making technology.
Porcelain pillows first appeared in the Sui Dynasty (58 1 ~ 6 18), and mass production began in the Tang Dynasty (6 18 ~ 907). They reached their peak in Song Dynasty, Jin and Yuan Dynasties (A.D. 10 ~ 14) and in Ming and Qing Dynasties (A.D. 17).
In the history of porcelain pillows, the porcelain pillows fired by the northern Cizhou kiln system in the Song Dynasty (960 ~ 1279) are the most representative.
There are many kinds of porcelain pillows produced in this period, including geometric pillows, animal pillows, architectural pillows, character pillows and so on.
The decorative patterns of porcelain pillows are also colorful.
The commonly used decorative patterns are animal and plant patterns, figure patterns, landscape patterns and text patterns.
The modeling and decoration of porcelain pillows directly or indirectly reflected the culture, customs, fashion and pursuit in social life at that time.
This is especially obvious on porcelain pillows with characters and patterns.
The decorative techniques of ancient porcelain pillows are different due to different dynasties and different places of origin.
Before the Tang and Five Dynasties (7 ~ 10 century), porcelain pillows were mainly molded and finely twisted. During the Song and Jin Dynasties (10 ~13rd century), painting was the mainstay, and more complicated decorative techniques appeared.
With the continuous improvement of technology, modeling and decoration techniques in porcelain industry, the technical and artistic achievements of porcelain pillows are becoming more and more brilliant.
In addition to the Cizhou kiln system in the Song Dynasty, many famous porcelain kilns in the north and south of China have fired exquisite porcelain pillows. Porcelain pillows produced in various places also have their own characteristics in terms of process modeling and glaze decoration, and the overall style is consistent with the characteristics of the corresponding times and porcelain kilns.