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Plum bottles are slender and beautiful, with a small bend and a short neck, which gradually widens from shoulder diameter to foot diameter. The biggest difference in the style of plum bottles is that the curve of bottle shoulder and the width of bottle foot diameter have different characteristics according to different dynasties and places of origin.
In the Tang Dynasty, plum bottles were called "chicken leg bottles" because of their slender shapes, such as chicken legs. During the Song and Jin Dynasties, there were many kilns in Cizhou kiln in the north and Jiexiu kiln in Shanxi, and there were also many kilns in the south. The main varieties are celadon, white porcelain, black porcelain, blue-and-white porcelain, painted porcelain and carved porcelain for cosmetics.
Song dynasty called it "wine classics" or "classic bottle". During the Republic of China, the name of the book Drinking Six Zhai on Porcelain written by Xu Zhiheng was widely accepted. The modeling of Yuan Dynasty tends to be mature, and Jingdezhen has produced a large number of works. After the Ming Dynasty, the forms of works increased. Besides round plum bottles, there were flat plum bottles, octagonal plum bottles and octagonal plum bottles in Yuan Dynasty. There are blue and white, blue and white glaze red, glaze red and other glaze colors.
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Main applications
1, wine storage device
As for the use of plum bottles, we can know from literature records, handed down objects and ancient paintings that plum bottles should be practical at first, mostly used for holding 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.
In addition, there are other inscriptions that reflect the basic functions of plum bottles from the side. For example, there is a Tao Mei bottle unearthed from the local folk kiln in the Ming tomb in Guilin Museum, and the word "Forever" is engraved on the shoulder of the bottle. "Forever and ever" itself has the meaning of blessing, but also implies the harmonious meaning of "Tianzang wine", which shows its dual functions of blessing and wine storage.
Step 2 show and appreciate
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.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Meiping