The shape of "Meiping" was later named, and there was also a name in history called "Jingping". This is related to the royal banquet system in Song Dynasty.
There were many plum bottles produced by the people in the Song Dynasty, which were generally found in large and small wine shops. Plum bottles in the Song Dynasty were generally tall and thin, with sloping shoulders, long feet and close to a straight line, and a small bottom. The smallest diameter of the vase is from the shoulder to the lower part of the mouth. There are various ways to handle it, and it often rotates at an angle. Porcelain kilns are burned everywhere, but Jingdezhen blue-and-white plum bottles are the most exquisite.
Main applications
Plum bottles should be practical at first, and most of them are used to hold wine or other liquid substances. Its function continued until the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The use of plum bottles as wine vessels is reflected in many inscriptions on plum bottles. For example, the Shanghai Museum has two plum blossom bottles from Cizhou Kiln in the Song Dynasty, with white and black flowers, one with the words "sake" written on the abdomen and the other with the words "drunken wine sea" written on the abdomen.
With the development of society, plum bottles gradually have the function of display and decoration, and even plum bottles are often buried as funerary objects, as evidenced by a large number of Ming Dynasty plum bottles unearthed in Fanwangling District of Guilin City. These plum blossom vases have become the symbol of the hierarchical status of the upper rulers and the symbol of the meaning of "Feng Shui".
After the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the ornamental function of plum bottles became more and more obvious. Plum bottles were handed down from generation to generation in Qing dynasty, which should be related to the fact that plum bottles were mainly used for display and decoration at this time.