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Ru Ware 汝瓷

In Jay Chou's songs, there is a song called "青花瓷", in which the lyrics "天青色等烟雨,而我在等你" refer to a color of the Ru ware.
周杰伦的歌曲中,有一首名为《青花瓷》的歌曲,其中歌词天青色等烟雨,而我在等你中的天青色是指汝窑的颜色。



Ru kiln ranked first among the five famous kilns of "Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, and Ding" during Song Dynasty, named after its location in Ruzhou, Henan during the Song Dynasty. It is famous for its unique glaze color and firing process.
汝窑在宋代时位居汝、官、哥、钧、定五大名窑之首,因其窑址位于宋时河南汝州境内而得名,以其独特的釉色和烧制工艺而闻名于世。
It is highly popular in the collection industry, and there is even a saying that 'even if one has a wealth, it is not as good as he has a piece of Ru porcelain'.
在收藏界中备受欢迎,甚至有纵有家财万贯不如汝瓷一片的说法。
 
What color is it? Why did Ru kiln become an official kiln?
 
It is the color: the blue of the sky in a clearing amongst the clouds after rain.
下雨过后,两朵云散开的地方的颜色,介于蓝和绿之间的一种复合色。

In Chinese Yi (philosophy), the sky is yang and the earth is yin. After the rain, the sky becomes clear, and after the rain, the blue of the sky is the yang which is more powerful. This philosophy also influenced ancient Chinese ceramic culture.
The blue glaze in Ru ware has been endowed with a certain symbolic significance, which is the more powerful yang can dispel yin and evil energy. Therefore, it is regarded by successive emperors as being able to control the evil energy in the palace.
在中国易学中,天为阳,地为阴。雨过天晴,下雨过后的天晴,更是阳中之阳,这种易学的哲学思想也影响了中国古代的陶瓷文化。汝瓷中天青色的釉色被赋予了一定的象征意义,是阳中之阳,能驱散阴气和邪气,因此被历代帝王视为能镇宫中邪气。

 
What are the two difficulties of Ru ware?
1. It cannot be analyzed by present technology.
   现在科技手段无法将其破译。
2. Two times changes in the Kiln (No porcelain can compare to it): Any porcelain is a kiln transformation, from low temperature to high temperature. After a ceasefire, it is of the same color. After the ceasefire of Ru ware, there will be two time changes in the kiln, the first being chemical changes and the second being physical changes.  
After the ceasefire in the kiln, you need to control its cooling rate. Only when the cooling is just right, will it gradually change from bean green to sky blue.
 二次窑变(任何瓷器都无法相比的):任何瓷都是一次窑变,从低温到高温,停火后,它是什么色就是什么色。汝瓷停火以后,它是豆青色,不是天青色,在窑中还会进行二次变化,第一次是化学变化,第二次是物理变化,在窑中停火以后,你要控制它冷却速度,只有冷却恰到好处,它才会逐渐由豆青色变成天青色。
 
What practical value does Ru porcelain have? 
 
Making tea, or serving wine, its taste is different from other porcelain.
不管泡茶、盛酒、它的味道都和其他瓷不一样
 
On 3 October 2017, a Ru ware brush-washer dish, 13 cm (5 in) across, set a new record auction price for Chinese ceramics at Sotheby's Hong Kong, fetching HK$207.86 million.
2017103日,在香港苏富比拍卖行,有900年历史的北宋汝窑天青釉葵花洗34口叫价,以天价2.0786亿港元成交,创下了中国陶瓷拍卖的新纪录。