Six hundred years ago, craftsmen in the Forbidden City used copper and fire to write a legend that will never fade.
During the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, the craftsmen of the Imperial Court were ordered by the Emperor to improve the enameling process. They perfected the enameling techniques imported from the West with the traditional Chinese bronze casting and porcelain firing. When the first piece of blue copper filigree enamel was taken out of the kiln, everyone present held their breath - that more pure blue than the gemstone, from then on was crowned with the emperor's year, known as "cloisonné".
The birth of each piece of cloisonné is a conversation with fire.
The craftsmen first use copper to shape the tire, and then pinch out thousands of patterns with gold threads as thin as hair. When pointing the blue, the glaze ground with blue copper ore has to be washed again and again until it shows the most correct azure color. When fired in the kiln, the temperature must be precisely controlled - one point higher will result in a cloudy color, one point lower will result in a dull color. After three calcination, seven polishing, in order to achieve that wipe through time also does not change its color "cloisonné".
In the National Palace Museum of Treasures, quietly displayed in the Ming Dynasty cloisonné incense burner. The twining branch lotus pattern on the stove body after six hundred years of weather, still blue and thrilling. Emperor Qianlong once wrote a poem for it: "Color like green gold stone, quality than the new moon". This blue, witnessed the Forbidden City's sunset and moonrise, listening to the deep palace of the zither whispering.
Today, this once secret palace skill has become a national intangible cultural heritage. Modern craftsmen still follow the ancient method, in the 1300 ℃ kiln fire to continue the legend of six hundred years. When we gaze at a cloisonné work, what we see is not only exquisite craftsmanship, but also a nation's eternal pursuit of beauty.
This blue color comes from the Daming Palace and goes to the future years. Today we condense the traditional Chinese craft of filigree enameling on a string of jewelry, and feel the ancient historical flavor at our fingertips.
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