This statement is said to have originated from Song Huizong. The Ru kiln at that time was exclusively used by the Song royal family. After the kiln officials finished firing the Ru kiln porcelain, they asked Song Huizong to name the color of the porcelain. Huizong gave the imperial approval. : "After the rain, the sky is blue and the clouds break the virginity. This color is the future." From then on, the sky blue became the color name designated by Ru Kiln Porcelain.
The Song Dynasty was the earliest minimalist, and ancient aesthetics reached its highest level in the Song Dynasty, which required absolute simplicity, that is, simplicity of roundness, squareness, plain color, and texture. People in the Song Dynasty used ink to paint and bake single-color glaze porcelain.
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"After the rain, the sky is blue and the clouds are blooming, and this color represents the future." is used to describe the porcelain of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was the heyday of Chinese porcelain. Among the five famous kilns of Ding, Jun, Guan, Ge, and Ru, Song porcelain is unique in the history of Chinese ceramics for its elegant shape, pure glaze color, and delicate patterns.
Shape lines such as bamboo hat bowls are simple but full of tension. At the same time, although the porcelain of the Song Dynasty was mostly single-color porcelain, it had one major feature that the porcelain produced in other dynasties could not match, that is: seven parts artificial and three parts natural. If it was the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people who wanted to express landscapes on porcelain would usually paint the landscape on them, while in the Song Dynasty, porcelain was made with the poetic appeal in mind.