Jingdezhen imperial kiln chicken cylinder cup sold for 280 million Hong Kong dollars. How many billions are still buried underground in the factory?

I spent more than half of my trip in Jiangxi. The deepest feeling is that Jiangxi is really a good place. I don't know if I don't come. The wonder of Sanqing Mountain, the God of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, the beauty of Lushan Mountain and the secret of the old temple in Poyang Lake are all shocking. Starting today, we will officially visit Jingdezhen, one of the three major porcelain capitals in China. This is also the longest time to burn porcelain for the royal family in history, and the appearance rate of natural fine products is also the highest. That chicken cylinder cup, which is famous at Sotheby's auction house for HK$ 28 1 10,000 (full name of Ming Chenghua official kiln Doucai chicken cylinder cup), comes from Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory.

It's getting dark when I come out of the Laoye Temple beside Poyang Lake. We drove directly to the hotel in Jingdezhen. I walked on the Hangrui Expressway for about 2 hours, and the whole journey went smoothly, without going the wrong way as before. At that time, it was already past 8 o'clock in the evening in Jingdezhen city, and another car of my companion had arrived at the hotel in advance and helped us open a room.

Schematic diagram of the route from Jiujiang and Laoye Temple to Jingdezhen go on road trip

I have to say that this 1004 porcelain culture boutique hotel is very good. From the gate to the yard and then to the room, all kinds of exquisite porcelain and tiles can be seen everywhere. I didn't expect to see the true meaning of porcelain capital, but I already felt her charming atmosphere in the hotel.

The next morning, after a hasty visit to Jingdezhen ancient kiln, we drove along Wenhua Avenue to the Imperial Kiln Factory Scenic Area. Manager d of the scenic spot is standing outside the gate waiting for us at this time. As soon as I saw him, I proudly said that when I came to Jingdezhen to see porcelain, I must go to the Imperial Kiln Factory, which is equivalent to the soul of Jingdezhen porcelain!

Yuyao factory archway

Different from ancient kilns, the main purpose here is to restore the pieces of official kiln porcelain excavated by archaeology and then show them to tourists. The appearance of Imperial Kiln Factory is actually very interesting: as early as the winter of 1982, when Jingdezhen Municipal Engineering Department laid underground cables along Zhushan Road, it inadvertently excavated the remains of the official kiln in Xuande period of Ming Dynasty. Since then, the Ming Dynasty porcelain-burning imperial factory has been rediscovered and strictly protected.

Yuyao factory kiln site ruins

In other words, after we enter the park, every inch of land under our feet may be buried with priceless porcelain treasures. Manager D pointed to the half-dug horseshoe-shaped kiln site and joked that many people who don't know may think that what lies here is just a broken wall. In fact, there are many articles in it!

Through the reddish-brown kiln bricks in the kiln site, it seems that you can still feel the temperature of the kiln when burning porcelain.

Laiyu Kiln Factory is actually related to a news I saw on the Internet. 20 14 Liu Yiqian, a wealthy businessman, photographed the only chicken cylinder cup in the world for HK$ 280 million. At that time and many years later, the auction figures created by Jigang Cup occupied the first place in the porcelain auction list, and no one else could compare with it. It can be said that it is the best and only display!

Knowing that I was interested in the chicken cylinder cup, Manager D told me some stories about it. In the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen fell in love with his wet nurse and named him Wan Guifei. But both of them had no children for a long time, so the emperor ordered the imperial kiln factory to carefully burn this chicken cylinder cup, which means that they hope to have a happy dragon. (Looking back, yes. The pattern on the chicken jar cup is just a male, a female and a chicken.

On the top floor of the exhibition hall, we came to collection room of Jigang Cup, and the projector played the process of making and repairing Jigang Cup on the wall. There is a photo of Liu Yiqian, a Shanghai collector who took away the chicken jar cup, drinking tea with the chicken jar cup in his hand. Liu Yiqian in the photo is very proud.

I remember when interviewed, Liu Yiqian said that he wanted to express his excitement in this way. I thought to myself, this cup has a history of five or six hundred years. Emperor Daming and Wan Guifei should have used it in those years. If it is used for drinking tea, is Liu Yiqian also equivalent to attracting royalty?

Reminiscent that the 280 million Hong Kong dollars chicken cylinder cup was taken from Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory, I can't help thinking, how many cultural relics worth hundreds of millions are buried underground in this ancient factory?

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