Porcelain Soul of Two Song Dynasties

During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty, hundreds of corpses of farmers were piled beside the official road in Queshan County - Zhai Chengjun's parents and younger brothers. Three members of the family died tragically because they could not pay Li Yan's exorbitant taxes on the fields. The half of the blood contract clutched in his mother's palm became the hatred carved into his bones and blood. From an apprentice in Ru kiln to a master craftsman in official kiln, he spent twelve years in the kiln fire to develop unique skills: he can make the azure glaze show brown and red spots under strong light, like an innocent soul weeping blood; he can make ice cracks spread along the dark carved lines, and the trajectory of the Big Dipper appears. When Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty fell in love with the glaze color of "After the rain, the sky and the blue clouds broke the virginity", he knelt in front of the emperor holding two porcelain vases. One was pure azure, and the other had a blood pattern hiding the word "injustice", which became the first knife to stab the powerful traitor. He thought that avenging his family would be the end, but he didn't know that the Jingkang war was already burning right before his eyes. When Yue Fei's "loyalty" porcelain seal and the porcelain plaques of his wife and children met in the chaos, the craftsman who only wanted revenge finally understood: in troubled times, the hardest thing is not porcelain, but the backbone. From Ruzhou to Lin'an, from official kilns to islands, he burned ritual vessels for worshiping heaven and anti-Jin army porcelain. Using purple gold earth to adjust the glaze color, and controlling the kiln temperature to open the pieces, the "purple mouth and iron feet" become the mark of the loyal soul, and the "sea green glaze" carries civilization across the sea to spread the legacy. Here are the presentation of intangible cultural heritage skills: from the azure of Ru kiln to the thick glaze of Guan kiln, from the "iron-foot double-layer glaze" to the yin and yang pattern of Cizhou kiln; there are also passionate legends in the turbulent times: the sympathy with Shao Chengzhang, the righteousness of the family and country with Yue Jiajun, see how a craftsman used glaze as ink and the kiln as the blade. In the ashes of Jingkang's shame, he burned the backbone of civilization that spanned the two Song Dynasties.