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in Chinese history, crickets and cricket fighting is a big palace aristocrat, literati, be fond of. To the middle of Ming dynasty, keep the wind of insect, bucket is very popular. Xuande emperor to keep bug and bucket is preference.
from the literature of the reign of emperor xuande nine years and 7 months, in terms of the whole Ming dynasty ruling in 277, only a brief moment, is the most glorious page in the Ming dynasty, xuande emperor not only has excellent talents in military and civilian, and there are many good, such as “be careful word John”, “excellent HuiShi”, “the play of good boosted” and so on, especially to the crickets and cricket fighting is crazy, in order to meet the demands of crickets and the cricket fighting at that time, he ordered to fire a lot of porcelain cricket cans.
but there is a very strange phenomenon, in the old qing jintong kuan, 1174, the most is from the heart toward the save, but rare cricket cans. Taipei’s Palace Museum, it is nowadays the most authoritative collection, was not a cricket cans, and Beijing’s Forbidden City also is only a “da Ming xuande years” imitation ru glaze cricket cans. It formed a mystery.
very fortunately, in the spring of 1993, jingdezhen municipal government in austral the ground to build a house, east gate of archaeology in the Ming dynasty imperial plant near the site of jingdezhen ceramics exploratory trench, found a litter accumulation of blue and white porcelain, the recovery for crickets jar, all its ring foot and cover the inner bottom of the book has a blue and white regular script “da Ming xuande year” special, according to professor Liu Xinyuan textual research to the Ming dynasty written by the famous calligrapher Shen Du or xuande emperor YuBi, especially the dragon tank with a dragon with five claws, as stipulated in the system of the yuan and Ming dynasties, all decorated with the implements of the dragon with five claws, in addition to the emperor, princes to society may not be used. So you can be sure: dragon cricket cans for xuande emperor’s own thing in the world. Other with phoenix, tianma, sea, birds, birds, peony, melon and fruit and other decorative cans crickets, painting, elegant, sophisticated technology, should be the palace special thing in the world. This batch of rare and precious cultural relics unearthed, one is for xuande emperor have bug and bucket, provides the most powerful physical basis, unofficial accounts of the late Ming dynasty, although from hearsay, but true; Second, as the study of Ming dynasty palace life, the Chinese ceramic art and Chinese painting provides a very reliable, novel physical data; 3 it is to solve the riddle of why not jintong cricket cans in qing dynasty palace porcelain.
xuande emperor young success, military and political love you flow flower, letting the eunuch to all over the country and even from as far away as north Korea for “good” of birds and animals of flowers and trees and the extraordinarily, secret order one thousand, suzhou magistrate KuangZhong tribute cricket with hereditary posts a reward the crickets tribute, even a “good and will be very” atmosphere, to find fine for catching crickets, the rulers do not hesitate to dismantle wall, destroyed crops, eunuch to blackmail MinCai, extortion people, along the small flowers and trees and pest birds caused a disaster to the people. In January, 1455, xuande emperor died, the throne by his eight-year-old son, orthodox emperor Zhu Qi town of inheritance. To prevent Zhu Qi town plaything weary in well doing, waste studies, queen too zhang issued a command: “all the palace to play good thing in the world,” matter of no great urgency about all go, “officer in the leather is not bad”. “Go to” play “the aggressive good sound of crickets and xuande emperor to keep the needs of the bug and the bucket command of jingdezhen imperial plant fire extremely fine cricket cans. According to the relevant literature, xuande emperor died that year, according to the queen’s too this order not only to hit all the cricket cans off the court, it has not yet been rendered jingdezhen imperial which burn well crickets can all break deep underground, all the way to the orthodox, zhengde period still stop fire.
today, jintong kiln consensus has emerged among cricket cans is very precious.