The combination and creation of traditional cultural symbols such as blue and white porcelain and rubbings not only requires exquisite craftsmanship but also creativity to connect the past and the present and make the works vivid. Mingxi Qing Kiln in Jingdezhen is good at reproducing poetry and paintings on porcelain with the visual effect of traditional paper rubbings combined with traditional blue and white techniques, making utensils more humanistic.
Today, Tongxin She Teahouse recommends the "One Flower, One World Small Tea Bowl" as a joint model of Mingxi Qing Kiln and Dunhuang Research Institute. It is red and blue, classical and elegant, and full of life wisdom.
The whole body of the tea bowl is in the blue-ground and white-flower expression technique, matched with vermilion-rubbed Buddha statues. The blue and white blank space reservation refers to a method of expressing blue-ground and white-flower decorations or patterns with underglaze blue and white. The water-dividing pen is fully soaked and a large area of water is divided on the green body. When dividing water, the tip of the pen cannot touch the green body. Only by using the pen to push the blue and white pigment to flow on the green body can the desired picture effect be achieved. Therefore, the difficulty of painting is much higher.
The blue and white color is rich and vivid. In the bright cobalt blue, the brush strokes and dynamics left by the precipitation of the blue and white pigment are faintly visible. Compared with ordinary blue and white porcelain, the painted utensils have richer picture levels and stronger three-dimensional sense. The vermilion is a pure scarlet color, full of the charm of metal and stone, and has an ancient taste. The Buddha statue has no specific expression and is serene and unhurried. Everything has a spirit and is beautiful. "One flower, one world, one leaf, one Bodhi." This is an aesthetic consciousness and also an oriental philosophical consciousness. It contains the meaning of seeing the big from the small, observing the whole from the details, and looking at the overall situation from the subtle.
The Buddha sits on a lotus pedestal, symbolizing maintaining a pure heart in the secular world and being calm and introspective. The pattern in the inner core of the tea bowl echoes the body of the bowl, and it is unified inside and outside and has a sense of wholeness. The tea bowl is small and easy to hold, full and has charm, and it is suitable for appreciation and use.