Why Longquan celadon is worth collecting?

Longquan celadon embraces lush and moist nature, and is famous for its warm and jade-like glaze color and simple and dignified shape. It was first burned in the Southern Dynasties with a history of 1500 years. Longquan Jincun Kiln burned "secret porcelain" for money in the Five Dynasties. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Longquan people made full use of rich natural resources and gave full play to the art of earth, water and fire, and successfully produced pink-green and plum-green glazed porcelain, which made the glaze color of celadon reach its peak. Since the Song Dynasty, Longquan celadon has been exported to many countries and regions in Asia, Africa and Europe.

The glaze color of Longquan kiln melts all kinds of cyan of green hills, green waters, blue sky and grasslands into the glaze layer, which is quiet and elegant, like beautiful jade, and reflects the color of nature's soul. Longquan kiln was introduced to Europe in the middle of Ming Dynasty, and people were fascinated by the charming glaze color, which can't be described in words. At that time, the famous novelist Durf's estelle the Shepherd was being staged in France. When the protagonist Sheila appeared in a blue dress, people thought that only this blue color could match it, so "Sheila Tong" became the laudatory name of celadon in Europe.

The book Description of the Portuguese Kingdom, which records the porcelain trade between the West and China, says: "Longquan kiln is the most beautiful thing that people have found. It looks cuter than all gold, silver and crystals." For more than 1000 years, Longquan kiln has penetrated into all aspects of people's life and art. The products are well-made, dignified and elegant, with soft and subtle glaze color, which conforms to Confucian cultural thoughts and is extremely artistic.

These three pieces of porcelain are products of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The waterwheel helped us hear the sound of running water, as if it had brought us into the long river of history. The exquisite products of Longquan kiln make people feel the massiness of history and culture and the amazing wisdom and great creation of their ancestors. Longquan celadon, which is "green as jade, bright as a mirror and loud as a chime", is also valuable in that the aesthetic ideal of "harmony between man and nature" is based on the original creativity of celadon craftsmen, with nature as the blueprint, porcelain as the carrier, jade as the value orientation, starting from nature, fulfilling people's expectations, embodying a neutral and complete aesthetic feeling and conveying people's inner sentiment cultivation and spiritual pursuit.