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Porcelain Power CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Tuesday, December 22, 2020 | 17 LIFE Rear view of the kiln, PORCELAIN POWER where the chimneys are located A rare variety of ancient celadon, whose production technique was lost more than a millennium ago, has captivated the public’s imagination, Hu Yuyan and Ma Zhenhuan report in Cixi, Zhejiang province. The kiln has openings hey were placed inside a lac- whose city logo features a mise vase. on either side, which quered wooden box, wrapped in To bring the ancient art closer to people, are meant for putting silk and hidden in an under- the Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln Museum offers in firewood ground treasure chamber that celadon-themed workshops on weekends Thad been sealed for more than a thousand and public holidays. Dragon kilns years — until an accidental discovery 33 Participants can try their hand at making The specifications of years ago. and painting celadon themselves at these a dragon kiln built They were 13 pieces of the legendary free events. Talks about the culture and his- during the Tang Dynasty mise celadon, discovered in 1987 in Famen tory of celadon are also organized for stu- (618-907). Dragon kilns, Temple’s underground palace in Baoji, dents and the general public. usually built on Shaanxi province, when work was being The Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln Museum An archaeological park featuring the Yue mountain slopes, got done on the holy site. at Cixi’s Shanglin Lake, which was a Kiln Sites at Shanglin Lake opened in 2017. their name because The Chinese characters for “mise ware” celadon-production hub that operated It offers free admission and receives an they were long and were inscribed on a stone tablet in the pal- for a millennium. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY average of 340,000 visits a year, park narrow and looked ace. It listed items that Tang Dynasty (618- authorities say. somewhat like the 907) emperors had presented to Buddha. “The technique for making mise ancient Chinese totem Mise (literally, “secret-color”) celadon its crystalline texture,” says Du Liuqi, a staff celadon remains a mystery,” Du says. was created using a technique lost more member at the Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln It continues to be one of the than a millennium ago. It was primarily Museum in Cixi. “best-kept secrets” of Chinese produced for the imperial court. “A mise vessel is so smooth and translu- ceramics. Prior to the discovery, people could only cent that it looks like there is water in it imagine its beauty based on limited clues when there isn’t. To ensure the quality of Contact the writers from ancient texts, such as a poem that mise, ceramists made its sagger using the through compares mise celadon to “a piece of the same fine materials for making the ware huyuyan@ moon dyed with spring water”. itself to minimize contamination during chinadaily.com.cn 41.8m In 2016, mise celadon was unearthed at firing, as opposed to the containers made of the Housi’ao kiln, part of the Yue Kiln Sites average-quality clay for regular celadon. at Shanglin Lake in Cixi, Zhejiang province. “Saggers for mise ware were non-reusa- Studies have shown that this was the much- ble because they were sealed with glaze for admired porcelain’s production site. maximum protection and had to be broken Mise ware represents the finest of Yue to retrieve the finished products.” celadon, which features a grayish shade of The Yue kilns at Shanglin Lake produced green and tactility that make it jade-like. celadon for more than a millennium. Cela- “One thing that sets mise celadon apart is don has become part of the identity of Cixi, 2-2.8m 6.5m 130 The kiln has a falling Collection of clay, making gradient of 13 degrees of sagger and drying them from head to tail Heat is maintained in the kiln Getting clay for by burning additional celadon making firewood in regular intervals The gates are sealed after placing the ware but before lighting the fire After the burning process, the celadon is taken out of its sagger Fire is lit from this entrance Drying the Green color unglazed ware The pale-green/ olive-green color has been a preferable color of ceramics since Making the ancient times unglazed ware Dipping the unglazed ware into the glaze Mixing clay in the after it has been dried right proportion Source: Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln Museum GRAPHICS BY MUKESH MOHANAN & LI XIAOTIAN / CHINA DAILY Sealing the sagger after placing the glazed ware Wuhan Conservatory of Music. “My experience with Celadon Ou Music has been extremely valuable The sounds of ceramics sing throughout the ages in that I have had the opportunity to study it and help keep it alive.” By HU YUYAN in Cixi in a modest building in Cixi city. Lake area in Cixi, which was part of tening to the rustling of the leaves of Lake in 1998, Zhu says. To reach a larger audience, Zhu [email protected] The building houses the Cixi Cela- Yue prefecture in the Tang Dynasty bamboo trees,” she says. Members of the troupe are gradu- says the troupe has created a web- don Ou Music Troupe, which recent- (618-907) and is now a county-level Yue Celadon Ou Music reached its ates of conservatories around the site, a TikTok account and a WeChat The Cixi Celadon Ou Music Troupe ly enthralled international visitors city in Ningbo in East China’s Zheji- zenith in the Tang and Song (960- country, including the Wuhan Con- account. recently performed well-known pie- with its performance. Ou refers to ang province. 1279) dynasties, and began to decline servatory of Music, the Xi’an Con- It also plans to tour the country in ces, including Molihua (Jasmine vessels such as cups and bowls. Czech audience member Eva in the late Song Dynasty, according servatory of Music and the Sichuan 2021, she adds. Flower) and Meihua Sannong These ceramics with a greenish Katuscakova describes the music as to Zhu Yafang, head of the troupe. Conservatory of Music. Their ages (Three Variations on the Plum Blos- sheen are called Yue celadon. “heart-touching”. The ancient art has regained range from 22 to 35. Online som), on ceramic vessels and percus- The material was first made in the “If you close your eyes while they momentum following the excava- “I’m very proud that I am a Celadon Scan the code to hear sion instruments, accompanied by Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) in play, you feel like you are at the royal tion of celadon musical instruments Ou Music artist,” says troupe member an audio version. flutes, bells and stringed instruments locations including the Shanglin court, sitting by a lotus lake and lis- at the Yue Kiln Sites at Shanglin Zan Hao, who graduated from the .
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