Glaze Color Spring Deep

The kilns in Changnan Town have been burning for eight hundred years, creating a secret color of azure and iron-clad rules - women are not allowed to enter the kiln room, are not allowed to handle the kiln fire, and are not allowed to join the first row of the association. Shen Yanqing decided to break into this forbidden road. My mother was the only female painter in the royal kiln at that time. She was expelled from the master for breaking the rules and was eventually buried in the mud together with the collapsed kiln roof during a thunderstorm night. What was left to her was only half a piece of azure porcelain, with half a line of words engraved on the inside: "After the rain, the sky breaks the virginity", and the other half was hidden in the hands of the guild leader who forced her mother to death. Ten years later, Shen Yanqing returned to Changnan Town and opened an unknown small kiln deep in an alley. She burned three kilns of porcelain, lost all her mother's savings, had the kiln entrance blocked by the guild, and was scolded by her aunt for being embarrassed. The merchant who came to inspect the private kiln promoted Lu Huai and sealed her kiln with his own hands when they first met. Later, he changed from a confiscator to her export route, from a rival to an ally, and finally became the person who would help her knead mud by the kiln fire, with his sleeves always stained with china clay ashes. During the porcelain competition, the secret-colored porcelain she held out reflected the figures in the sunlight, leaving the entire hall of old craftsmen speechless. The head of the guild, Zhou Jingzhi, the man who personally drove her mother away, finally admitted: "The rules... May be wrong." However, it is more difficult for all the female craftsmen in Changnan Town to enter the kiln openly than to fire a kiln of good porcelain. She has walked this road for twenty years.