How to repair broken porcelain?

The restoration art of a real craftsman: a teapot with more than 200 spikes.

20 17 10 Zhengzhou122 October "Porcelain" is an ancient handicraft skill in China, and the well-known allegorical saying "All porcelain workers" comes from porcelain. Simply put, it is to nail the broken porcelain firmly with metals such as copper, iron and tin, so that the porcelain can be repaired and reused.

In modern times, due to the development of society, ordinary porcelain is broken and thrown away. Slowly, the industry declined, and the porcelain-making skills gradually disappeared. However, a few people still insist. Chen Ying, a 32-year-old native of Xinxiang, has enjoyed the traditional handicrafts of China since he was a child. Four years ago, he saw the ceramic cutting technology in Beijing and was deeply attracted. Then he devoted himself to the research of ceramic cutting technology after work. After hard exploration and practice, Chen Ying quickly became a well-known porcelain-cutting artist in the circle, and many people admired his porcelain-cutting skills.

10 year 10 22, when I saw Chen Ying in a small studio in Zhengzhou, he was carefully sent by a friend to repair a accidentally broken pot cover. Chen Ying first draws the positions where holes need to be punched on both sides of the broken pot cover, then carefully drills two small holes with a hand drill, then embeds tiny copper bars in the two small holes and gently knocks them flat with a hammer, and finally fills them with powder and polishes them.

It took Chen Ying more than 200 nails to repair the broken teapot.

Chen Ying said that a piece of broken porcelain needs to go through the processes of picking, sewing, punching, nailing, nailing, polishing and powder filling, ranging from four or five hours to two or three days. Now some people touch porcelain, not because of the value of the utensils, but because of their feelings for the utensils, so they must be careful when repairing them. Chen Ying joked that our line of work can be said to be "repairing feelings".

Every time I see a happy face when a customer comes to pick up the goods, I am very satisfied. I hope to inherit and carry forward this kind of handicraft with rich cultural connotation, which is facing gradual decline and extinction.