Why did ancient people like to write poems on porcelain?

Most folk porcelain is of practical type, and its commercial nature is obvious. If porcelain is a commodity, it must be promoted. Starting from the Changsha kilns, many finishing touches of advertising text have appeared on porcelain. Tang Dynasty Changsha kiln writing pot. The text on the Cizhou kiln's wine pots and wine jars is related to their uses, and they are all direct advertisements for the contents. one. Cizhou Kiln of the Song Dynasty

Plum vase of wind, flowers, snow, moon, wine, color, wealth and fortune. The combination of the beauty of poetry and the beauty of porcelain brings consumers into an elegant realm of cultural enjoyment, where they can appreciate and compose poems while drinking. ?We have traveled thousands of miles to see each other, but we have not arrived at the right time. ? Changsha celadon of the Tang Dynasty ? I gave birth to you and am old? The text decoration of Cizhou kiln poetry pots is mainly reflected on the porcelain pillows. Workers copied popular poems, tunes, aphorisms, etc. in ancient society on porcelain pillows in various fonts, which played a role in sowing cultural seeds.

2. Yuan and Ming celadon

Blue and white porcelain in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties is decorated with many inscriptions. On a goblet of Yuan blue and white flowers stored in a cellar in Gao'an, Jiangxi, there is an inscription: "A hundred years of life is always drunk, and there are thirty-six thousand occasions", indicating the purpose of the utensil. A hundred years of life are always drunk, so there are thirty-six thousand of them. In the blue and white folk kilns of the Jiajing and Wanli periods, there are also eulogies and auspicious symbols that were not seen in the previous dynasties, such as "Wealth and Good Utensils", "High-grade Fine Utensils", "Refined", "Longevity and Wealth", "Wan Fu You Tong". , "Fu Shou Kang Ning" and so on, reflecting the confidence of the porcelain workers in private kilns in the quality of porcelain and their desire to pursue a better life.

3. Poems on Porcelain

There is a Tang poem. The carrier of this Tang poem is very special. It is not included in a certain collection of poems and recorded in paper form, but is used as a decorative pattern on porcelain. , as glaze, became part of the porcelain.

After more than a thousand years of waiting, it was discovered. This poem is the shocking "Poetry on Tongguan Kiln Porcelain", which was unearthed from the Tongguan Kiln site in Changsha, Hunan between 1974 and 1978. There are twenty-one poems in this group, and the most eye-catching one is undoubtedly: You gave birth to me before I was born, and I gave birth to you and you are already old. You hate that I was born late, and I hate that you were born early.

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