Song Dynasty Ru Kiln

Author: Zhao Qingyu
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Song Dynasty culture is diverse, playing a role in China's history as a bridge between the past and the future, innovating and renewing. It holds an extremely important historical position in the development of Chinese civilization and has laid a solid foundation for the high development of feudal culture in China in terms of promoting tradition, embracing innovation, emphasizing exchange, and accommodating both elegance and popular tastes. Ru porcelain culture is an important part of Song Dynasty culture. As a culture, Ru porcelain is not only rich in content and broad in scope but also uniquely distinguished by its exquisite craftsmanship, elegant shapes, lustrous glaze, and refined simplicity. Ru porcelain integrates science, technology, arts, and crafts, as well as Eastern aesthetics, making it a successful work. Particularly, in the aspect of blue glaze, the reduction of iron in Ru kiln has reached a mature stage, marking an epoch-making milestone in the history of Chinese celadon development.
Main Features of Ru Kiln Porcelain: Following the Northern Xiangzhou Kiln, Ru kiln porcelain not only carried forward the traditional techniques of underglaze carving, incision, and appliqué from the Sui and Tang dynasties but also adopted the glaze color of the Southern Yue kiln. It also applied the printing technique of Ding kiln and was influenced by the Yangzhou kiln in Shaanxi, adopting the technique of ( is a traditional method of supporting porcelain on small supports during firing). These innovations created a unique style of printed blue celadon, integrating the strengths of various kilns, and made it one of the important kiln sites in Central China.