Most of the territory of Gong County is mountainous or hilly, but now it is a famous place in the Tang Dynasty...

The first is the porcelain industry.

The famous porcelain firing places in the Tang Dynasty were Xing Kiln, Gong Kiln, Ding Kiln, Hunyuan Kiln, Tongchuan Kiln, Changsha Kiln, Yue Kiln, Shouzhou Kiln, Hongzhou Kiln, and Qiong Kiln. In ancient times, ceramics were strictly speaking, porcelain and pottery were two concepts. The word porcelain was created in the Han Dynasty and refers to pottery with glazed. However, it was only after the Tang Dynasty that high-temperature porcelain was fired that porcelain was successful.

However, Tang porcelain has a rough craftsmanship and has not had a high status in history. After the Song Dynasty, porcelain began to be successful and reached its peak. As for the most expensive Yuan blue and white porcelain in the collection industry, it is not that it has the best craftsmanship, but that the Yuan blue and white porcelain has little inventory and the price has become hyped up. In fact, the quality and technology of Yuan blue and white porcelain is not as good as Ming blue and white porcelain, and it is even worse than Qing blue and white porcelain.

Gong Kiln is the magnetic kiln in Gong County, the hometown of Wang Hua. Now, some white porcelain products have been fired. But now this white porcelain process is vulgar. From the outside, most of them are full glaze inside and half glaze outside. The gloss is fired. If you look closely, you can find some small black brown spots on the glaze, which makes people feel that they are not as beautiful. If you open it, most of them are beige tires with a rough texture. You can see many large bubbles on the inner abdominal wall with the naked eye.

This kind of porcelain is not worth mentioning in the eyes of Wang Hua, a porcelain firing expert who can be called a master. However, modern porcelain has been glazed very uniformly and has a very high degree of porcelain compared to before. Because of this, porcelain has quietly become popular among the people.

Another production in Gongxian County is the most famous Tang Sancai!

The three Tang Dynasty Sancai origins, Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, and Luoyang refers to Gongxian. To be precise, Gongyao is mainly concentrated in Wang Hua's hometown, Tianling Mountain and Huangzhi River. People often have two misunderstandings about Tang Sancai.

The first misunderstanding is that most people regard it as a noble work of art. This is an extremely misunderstanding. It is an underworld object, which is equivalent to paper money, wreaths and other things. At this time, there was no saying that paper money and wreaths were burned, so Tang Sancai was used to bury it, which was equivalent to burning paper money. Therefore, if the official put Tang Sancai in the cabinet or on the desk at home, it would be ridiculous.

The appearance of Tang Sancai was also because of the rapid development of the ceramic industry in the Tang Dynasty. After the Zhenguan reign, the country was strong, all industries were prosperous, and the trend of luxury rose, so the trend of grand burial also rose. In Wu Zetian's hands, Tang Sancai's technology officially reached its peak. Although the court prohibited the exaggeration and stipulated the number of officials and the number of items buried with them. It didn't work, and it was severely exceeded the specified number every time. This trend also encouraged the prosperity of Tang Sancai.

The second misunderstanding is that many people think that its craftsmanship is very developed. In fact, this kind of development is just equivalent to the Tang Dynasty. It is just a kind of pottery and cannot even be called porcelain. What's valuable is its bright colors and shapes. Therefore, it has unique artistic value and has no craft value. Later generations can easily forge fake three-color, but it is just that the sense of historical vicissitudes cannot be forged.

But Wang Hua still likes to watch kiln workers burn three-color colors. He does not see kiln workers wearing glazes, but watches kiln workers carve various exquisite shapes with kilns and "open their faces" with pens. Every time he sees it, if he is not afraid that others will say he is weird, he wants to try it in person. But the kiln owner will not let him do this.

A Tang Sancai first chooses soil, abortion, shape, cool it after high temperature burning, and then use glaze and low temperature burning. As for the characters, the head is not glazed. After the glaze is burned out, then draw the thrush, tap the lips, and draw the hair. This process is called "opening the face".

It was not until this time that a complete Tang Sancai was completed and then transported to various places as a funeral object and entered the underground again.

The wheels were squeaking and dumb, and these ox carts were transporting the ceramics from Gongxian into Luoyang.

Wang Hua took one of them and followed them into Luoyang City.

Gong County is not far from Luoyang, but because of the heavy load of the ox cart, it was the next day when it arrived in Luoyang, and it was late.

When Wang Hua found an inn to stay, Luoyang City was already brightly lit. But there were only some inns, restaurants and brothels open, and purebred business transactions had been closed. The business model of the Tang Dynasty was mainly on the yard, open during the day and rest at night. "In the city, beating the drums at noon on the day, and the crowd met. Seven minutes before the day entered, three hundred beatings at noon on the day, and the crowd scattered."

But this law in the south was much more relaxed. Later, even in capitals like Chang'an and Luoyang, there were also merchants working in the first half of the night. At the same time, merchants had a very low status at the beginning, which was related to Li Shimin's correction of the luxury of the Sui Dynasty. But later, the status of merchants gradually increased, and even some officials and officials from aristocratic families took the initiative to participate in commercial activities. Especially Chen Shaoyou, the three general vassals, accumulated wealth of hundreds of millions through trade.

At this time, after decades of rest and rest in the Tang Dynasty, people's ideas and concepts were in the transformation period, and the status of merchants gradually improved. The Du family and Yu family in Gong County and his own Wang family were also small gentry, but they still mainly made money through business.

But as the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, at night, almost all the markets in Luoyang have closed their doors.

After Wang Hua washed his feet, he went to bed, but he did not fall asleep. He lay on the bed, thinking about the knowledge he had learned before.

This time he came to Luoyang and his means to obtain wealth were not through porcelain, nor through Tang Sancai. Although this was his inner desire. But burning porcelain requires a lot of money, and now there is only the dozen taels of silver that Di Renjie gave him in his arms, which is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket.

As for Tang Sancai, whether it is a truly elegant craft or a slutch tool that cannot be used on the table, Wang Hua dares not burn it. If he burns it, he will never succeed in this world in his life.

His goal this time was another work of art, a work of lacquerware, which was indifferent to many descendants.

This kind of artwork has a history of more than 3,000 years in China. Before the Tang Dynasty, its function was very vague, and it could be used as handicrafts, daily necessities, and even as the underworld. However, after the Tang Dynasty, with the development of the ceramic industry, daily necessities gradually replaced relatively rough porcelain, and the underworld was replaced by Tang Sancai. In order to survive, technicians engaged in lacquerware had to strive for excellence in the production techniques and transfer the entire lacquerware to handicrafts.

The lacquer and other lacquer decorations, as well as techniques such as gold and silver flat removal, snail fine inlay, and skeleton-clad statues were all created at this time. But like porcelain, with the advancement of human technology, the more advanced the craftsmanship goes backwards. In terms of the rich craftsmanship, Tang lacquer is not as good as Song lacquer, Song lacquer is not as good as Yuan and Ming lacquer, and Yuan and Ming lacquer is not as good as varnish.

Lacquerware is not Wang Hua's major, but it is also his hobby. For his extensive interests and hobbies, his friend Cheng Shifa, a master of Chinese painting, once gave advice, saying that if he puts this energy into a certain aspect, he can become a famous craftsman who shocked the world. However, after listening to it, Wang Hua just smiled and did his own thing.

Although he was not afraid to be the top master in the lacquerware world in his previous life, this was in the Tang Dynasty. With his advanced knowledge of being ahead of the world's artistic concepts for more than a thousand years, as long as he takes action on lacquerware, he will definitely shock the world in this world.

This is his real way to come to Luoyang to make money.

Wang Hua lay on the bed and thought for a long time before falling asleep.

The next day he woke up and came to the vicinity of the West City in Luoyang. There are three markets in Luoyang City, West City, South City, and North City. The North City is on the north bank of the Luoshui River, outside the east gate, occupying a yard of land. There are also many silk shops, colorful silk shops, incense shops, etc., but because they are in the outer city, they mostly live in poor apartments, and some private houses of merchants, which are called the Kang City. The lacquerware that Wang Hua is about to make is the top lacquerware of this era, so naturally they cannot choose this market.

Nanshi and Xishi are in the city. Nanshi is located on Jianchunmen Street and is the largest market in Luoyang. It occupies nearly two yards, with 120 rows, more than 3,000 stores and more than 400 stores. Usually, the goods are piled up like a mountain. However, because there are many Hu merchants in it, Wang Hua skipped it.

The West Market also occupies a yard, on the west side of Houzaimen Nei Street. Although the scale is a little smaller, all the people who buy goods here are dignitaries. So Wang Hua inquired about it and finally chose to develop in this market.

Of course, he couldn't buy a toilet here even if he bought a little money, let alone a store.

Wang Hua borrowed a private house and made lacquerware products and asked the store selling handicrafts in the shop to resell it.

After renting the house, Wang Hua went to the street to buy some original blanks, various pigments and raw paint.

Then he looked at the blanks in front of him. The blanks of lacquerware are generally wooden, including silver, copper, tin, bamboo, rattan, porcelain, cloth, silk, leather, etc. But Wang Hua wanted to make top-quality lacquerware, not only used his artistic knowledge to paint, but also used his carving skills to carry out relief technology, so the tires selected were wooden.
Chapter completed!