What is the rabbit in the Song Dynasty and what is its function

Song Dynasty Jizhou kiln rabbit bottom tire, the real product is dark gray!

It is a tea set used in the Song Dynasty to hold tea soup.

The formation of rabbit hair is related to the content of iron oxide up to 9% in the fetus.

The black glaze on the surface of the porcelain has a silver filament-like crystalline pattern like rabbit hair, and this kind of porcelain (mostly found in tea cups) is called "rabbit hair jar". Since the Han and Tang dynasties, there have been a lot of kilns around the country that have fired black porcelain, and there are also some kilns that have fired rabbit millimeters, but only the kilns have been built to burn the black glazed rabbit milli jars to the extreme, and the product has the highest reputation and the greatest fame. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, it was specially fired for the imperial court.

The iron content in the carcass of the rabbit mill is as high as 9% or more, and part of the iron in the tire is melted in the glaze at high temperature (1300 °C), and the iron-containing glaze solidifies into a linear crystal in the cooling process, showing a unique markings of "rabbit hair".

Under the microscope, the "rabbit hair" is in the form of a fish scale-like structure, and there is a thick black line composed of hematite crystals on the edge of each side of the hair, which forms the visual effect of "rabbit hair".

The rabbit is most famous for its kiln burning in Shuiji Town, Jianyang County, Fujian Province. Black glazed porcelain in the Song Dynasty was extremely popular, which was related to the tea drinking style of the time. Tea leaves in the Song Dynasty were made into semi-fermented paste cakes, which were ground into fine powder and put into tea bowls before drinking, and then washed into boiling water, and a layer of white foam boiled on the surface of the water.

In the Song Dynasty, from the emperor to the literati, they all loved "fighting tea", that is, evaluating the quality of tea.

In many poems of the Song Dynasty, the tea cups that brought the tea cup to drink tea were recorded, and most of them talked about the stupid lease products of Fujian kilns, which mentioned rabbit hair, jade hair, rabbit hair spots, gold wire, etc., all of which are different names for rabbit hair. This black-glazed tea cup is covered with slender strips of texture inside and out, much like rabbit hair, and this pinstriped through-type Zen often flashes silver-gray and yellow-brown in the black glaze.

In 1969, advocated by the ** Academy of Arts and Crafts, and through the cooperation of the relevant domestic ceramic research institutes, the kiln successfully fired the antique kiln specialty rabbit milli pot. Bi Zhaosu is characterized by slender rabbit hair-like lines with crystals on the inside and outside of the body, and each fine line is shining silver. According to the subtlety of the hand, it is also called "Tianmu Zhan", "Golden Rabbit Millimeter", "Silver Rabbit Millimeter Guess".

Rabbit is one of the most representative products of the Song Dynasty kiln, and it is a treasure in the traditional porcelain-making process of the Han nationality. In the black glaze reveals the uniform and fine veins, because the shape is like the hair on the rabbit's body, the world is fierce and slender and long, and the folk call "silver rabbit hair", "gold rabbit hair", "blue rabbit hair" and so on. Among them, the "silver rabbit hair" is the most precious, a kiln lead code bundle bowl in the collection of Kyoto National Museum in Japan is such a treasure to make tea with a rabbit hair, the rabbit hair pattern reflects each other in the tea, which makes people love it.