Baby play mode

Taking the baby as the protagonist, the content includes fishing, teasing birds, playing cuju, driving ducks, spinning top, climbing trees and folding flowers, etc. , lively and interesting. Also ask the baby to play with maps or dolls. It was first seen in the underglaze painted teapot of Changsha kiln in Tang Dynasty. The star anise flowed down to draw a chubby baby, dressed in a Chinese-style chest covering, with a lotus stick on his shoulder and a ribbon in his hand. During the Song and Jin Dynasties, Yaozhou Kiln, Ding Yao Kiln, Jiexiu Kiln, Jingdezhen Kiln and Cizhou Kiln respectively used carving, printing and painting techniques to express baby play patterns. Or a boy playing with flowers; Or twins are swinging on the boat; Or riding a bamboo horse; Or spin the top. Among them, the picture of the doll play in Cizhou Kiln is the most vivid. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more baby plays, including Si Er, Sixteen, Twenty and Hundred. , especially Sixteen Children and An Hundred Schools of English Opera. Like other decorations, the decorative patterns of children's play on porcelain in the Qing Dynasty also have meanings, depicting the game scenes of aristocratic children, such as colored lights, riding officials and dancing dragons.

In ancient China, many children were blessed, and lotus was homophonic for "lotus", so the boy who played with lotus eyes meant "lotus gave birth to a precious child". Decorative patterns are mostly composed of one or several naughty and lovely baby boys, or walking with lotus leaves on their shoulders, or several babies playing with a bunch of lotus flowers. There are sitting, standing, playing and noisy games and actions in different postures, which are full of fun.

The theme of baby play patterns in Ming and Qing dynasties is also very common. The infant play in Ming Dynasty has rich patterns and distinctive features, which not only fully reflects the life scenes of children in Ming Dynasty, but also is generally lively, full of childlike interest and auspicious meaning. The common ways of playing are lotus play, cuju play, flying kites, playing hide-and-seek, fighting crickets, playing lanterns, playing martial arts and playing games. "Babies Playing in the Garden" depicts children's realistic activities in the garden, such as setting off firecrackers and riding wooden horses. These paintings are neat and elegant. The characters in the suburban baby play are abstract and close to the stick figure style.

Baby images in jade articles in the Ming Dynasty often stand out from the forehead and the back of the head. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the pattern of baby play in the Qing Dynasty is more exquisite, and the clothes are decorated too much, which is obviously different from the jade carving boy in the Song Dynasty. The baby bowls of Zheng De and Jia Jing in Ming Dynasty are the representative works of blue and white in this period. In the Qing Dynasty, there were blue and white porcelain, underglaze multicolored porcelain, pastel porcelain and other decorative varieties.