Red Clay Tire Under Gray Glaze

The core metaphor of Zhaotong kiln's porcelain making technology, "red soil body and gray glaze", deeply deconstructs the relationship between human nature, destiny and background color. The author started from a visit to an ancient kiln, and extracted the soul of the whole article from the old craftsman's lament that "red soil is thin, but human life is heavy." The article compares the process of making porcelain to the process of human socialization: the red clay tire symbolizes the tough bones and simple background formed after repeated hardships in life; the gray glaze of grass and wood is a metaphor for the packaging of the world, and the gilding of power and desire. The real key point lies in the "kiln change", which points out that people and the environment have long been difficult to distinguish the glaze from the long-term dyeing. Subsequently, the article uses the fate of Chen Wangan, Chen Wangchuan and Li Jianguo in the novel to show three paths of "glaze cracking". Chen Wangan is an awakened person who takes the initiative to remove the glaze and regains the underlying color in his desire for power; Chen Wangchuan is a perseverant who has his disguise shattered by reality, is reborn after being shattered, and takes root; and Li Jianguo is a tragedy in which the glaze of a fetus was crushed into mud by survival, painfully questioning the powerlessness of the small people at the bottom in the torrent of the times. In the end, the article returns to the question of the original intention: no matter how bright the glaze is, it cannot become a fetus. No matter how the glaze peels off, as long as you keep your conscience, bottom line, and warm red earth background, you will still stand firm and straight, and you can bloom flowers on the thin soil.