The porcelain industry in the bowl kiln has always been a secret place that I am fascinated by. In my memory, the porcelain there, whether it is a delicate blue and white porcelain vase, or a light and delicate bowl, plate and cup, is so lovely that it makes people feel reverence for the porcelain craftsmen behind it. Porcelain has always occupied a place in the history of human civilization. An ordinary piece of clay can make everything grow, and it can also be transformed into practical dishes and cups on the people's dining table, or a blue and white porcelain vase as warm as jade on the collector's table.

In the bowl kiln near Bajing Village, Songshan Town, Luoyuan County, there are many kilns built by ancestors by the mountains and rivers, and they still exude the brilliance of life in the sun and among the trees. A look at the porcelain fragments scattered on the hillside and in the ditch will make you realize the vividness of these "lives". In the process of burning again and again in the porcelain kiln, Zeng also longed for the rebirth of the fire and became the favorite object of people's hands. However, these porcelain pieces have not been eclipsed with the passage of time, and they are always projecting a breathtaking force, trying to become a secret door for future generations to peek into a period of thousands of years of prosperity.

A few flowers fell in my dreams. Walking into the bowl kiln, people will be shocked by the rows of ancient kilns like a long dragon lying on the slope, just like the appearance of the year.

Before the Song Dynasty, Luoyuan's local tea and clay paper were the main commodities of foreign trade. Later, some shipbuilders and officials took advantage of the abundant kaolin (commonly known as bowl soil) resources in the bowl kiln and hired a large number of porcelain workers from Putian Xinghua, Zhejiang Taizhou and other places to make porcelain here. Its porcelain-making industry has been juxtaposed with famous kiln sites in Fujian such as Dehua kiln and Jianjian kiln, and it was brilliant for a while.

　　明清時期，碗窯里隸屬拜井裡小獲鋪，當地曾經聚集著來自全國各地的瓷匠達千人以上。其中，曾、黃、陳三大姓瓷匠佔主導地位。至明代，碗窯里制瓷業達巔峰狀態。據陳承群的《羅源陶瓷業瑣記》一文描述：“明永樂年間，朝廷開放國外貨船入境，瓷器開始恢復對外銷售。碗窯里的制瓷業盛況空前，當地瓷窯林立、工棚倉庫鱗次櫛比，形成首尾約里許的一條街。”

Luoyuan Bay, a natural deep-water port, has developed maritime transportation since ancient times and is an important starting point port of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. According to the Southern Song Dynasty Geography General Chronicle "Jisheng of the Land": "There are often ships into Luoyuan Port to send anchorage". Those porcelain craftsmen who came to the bowl kiln from all over the world successively built kilns at the foot of the nearby Shadaoliang Mountain, Dengmo Mountain, Opposite Mountain, Pinggai Mountain and other places to fire porcelain bowls, disks and other utensils, and exported them to Arabia and Europe and other countries by sea. Among them, the shallow bowl with an open green color celadon is particularly popular with customers.

There have been ups and downs in the industry, and there have been ups and downs several times. The "Relocation Order" promulgated in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1681) stipulates that coastal residents should move more than 0 miles from the interior. For a time, the porcelain workers and villagers in the bowl kiln were moved, the porcelain kiln was deserted, and the workshop was burned down, which made the porcelain industry interrupted for a time. It was not until the "relocation order" was lifted in the twentieth year of Kangxi (0) that the people of Porcelain Village were allowed to return to their homes and rebuild the "Porcelain Capital" in the ruins. After several years of hard work, it was not until the middle of the Qing Dynasty that the local porcelain industry was basically restored.

A large amount of kaolin resources in the bowl kiln provide convenience for the firing of kiln products, but this loose soil is also easy to lead to landslides. Historically, there have been many natural disasters such as landslides, which have silenced the local porcelain industry several times. Among them, there are two most serious impacts: one occurred in the third year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1928), heavy rain fell from the beginning of August to the middle of the month, resulting in flash floods, and mudslides almost destroyed the bowl kiln; The second is the first day of the seventh lunar month of the 0th lunar month, Luoyuan rained for three consecutive days, the bowl kiln was flooded again, the landslide was continuous, the bowl kiln was destroyed, the villagers had to relocate, and the porcelain industry was in a slump until the middle of the Republic of China.

In the dark, these disasters also seem to rewrite the different fates of generations of porcelain craftsmen. "The fruit is full of Bodhi Circle, and the world is open." Everything is born with new vitality in the quiet, and the porcelain craftsmen in the bowl kiln have undergone several changes and embarked on their own new journey.

The ancestor of Lankou Village, Zeng Xuexing, his second brother Zeng Xuequan and cousin Huang Juchun, together with many porcelain craftsmen in the bowl kiln, created this porcelain capital that shines in the land of Fujian. The peach blossoms reflect the water around the village, and Lankou Village, which is thriving, is in harmony with the neighborhood and revitalizes all industries under the spring breeze of the new era. According to Zeng Yuhong, deputy director of the village committee, the well-preserved Catholic church in the village, which was built in 1647 years, was built by the descendants of the surname Zeng at that time. He said that in the past, for the continuation of the genealogy, the clansmen had been to Jiangxi, Putian, Luoyuan, Lianjiang and other places to search for their ancestors, and now based on the judgment of various historical sites, and the people surnamed Zeng in the village still retain the local language and accent of Luoyuan today, it can be roughly confirmed that their ancestors came from Luoyuan's bowl kiln.

I didn't have much of an impression of the kiln, except that I had heard that there was a story about the historical porcelain, and the hillsides in that area were sprinkled with porcelain tiles. In fact, compared with several major porcelain capitals in China, Luoyuan kiln is only a peony plant with a relatively prominent appearance in this garden. The countless porcelain craftsmen who came all the way to work here, their hard work and silent dedication, let us see a grand scene of the porcelain industry for thousands of years. The flowing water took away their sweat, but Qingshan still remembered their names, and with porcelain, their hard work and wisdom will always be shining in the long river of human time.

Blue sky and green fields. On the way back from leaving the bowl kiln, I saw the scene of gulls and birds flying and flying on the shore of Luoyuan Bay, and they were nesting in the mud on this vibrant land, which reminded me of the rising new energy base nearby, which also carries the beautiful vision of countless craftsmen in the millennium!

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