The Origin of China Red

1, origin. During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty suddenly wanted to pay homage to the sun god with a set of red porcelain, so he ordered the kiln director of Jingdezhen to step up the firing. However, the kiln workers tried many times, but they couldn't burn the sacrificial vessels that satisfied the court. The eunuch who supervised the kiln urged and whipped the kiln workers every day, and put some people in prison, claiming that they would kill people if they could not burn the red glazed porcelain urged by the emperor. Cui Lan, the daughter of an old kiln worker, was very worried after hearing the news. She ran to the imperial kiln factory and found that her father was also put in prison by the kiln supervisor. Grieving, Cui Lan jumped into the blazing kiln fire and protested the atrocities of the kiln director with his own life. Two days later, when the kiln worker opened the kiln where Cuilan burned her body, he was surprised to find that the ceramic body was red as blood. The red sacrificial vessel was burned, and people said that it was the blood of Cuilan that turned the ceramic blank into red, so this red ceramic was called red sacrifice. In order to commemorate the sacrifice of Cuilan for the kiln, the kiln worker later built the image of a girl with bricks when sealing the kiln door. This custom has continued to this day. Since then, emperors have spared no expense to burn red, but this crimson porcelain, like a mythical treasure, is very rare;

2. Name. In order to "resurrect" the red sacrifice and continue to write history, 1985, Hunan researchers accepted a task: to develop a high-temperature resistant red ceramic. In March 2002, a sample of ceramic red glaze was put into a high-temperature electric furnace, which greatly excited experts: the very pure red color did not decompose obviously at the high temperature of 1250℃. The big red glaze officially passed the expert group appraisal. This kind of porcelain was meaningfully named "China Red".