There are wonderful sculptures on the roof and eaves of Longshan Temple in Wanhua, Taipei, which are beautiful and unique. Last time I went there, I specially brought a 500-return shot to record this precious picture in a complete way.

The roof and eaves of Longshan Temple in Wanhua, Taipei, are wonderful and unique. Last time I went there, I specially brought 500 refill lens , and recorded this precious picture in full. These sculptures are made of from Taiwan's unique toe pottery.

Jiaozhi Tao koji pottery historical origin.

"Jiaozhi Pottery", A colorful glaze soft pottery developed by in Chiayi, Taiwan, also known as "Chiayi Fire" or " Chiayi ... Jiaozhi Fire is an artwork that integrates shaping, carving, painting, and burning pottery. The most famous Jiaozhi Fire author in Taiwan was Ye Wang in Chiayi in the late Qing Dynasty. His works are known as "Taiwan's unique skills". The theme of the works are folk legends and historical stories, as well as flowers.

Jiaozhi Pottery is the most Taiwanese traditional local art craft. It originated during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty and originated from the south of the Wuling Mountains in Guangdong (ancient name "Jiaozhi") , hence the name is "Jiaozhi Pottery". Jiaozhi Pottery is a low-temperature colorful glaze, which is a kind of pottery that combines soft pottery and Guangyao. The production of Jiaozhi Pottery is entirely based on the skillful potters who use their hands and bamboo strips to bond and modify the clay piece by piece, and then color them with colorful glaze to make them gorgeous. It is then fired many times, integrating the beauty of sculpture, color and pottery. Its characteristics are that the crystal bright and gorgeous gem glaze presents a diverse and rich Chinese folk style, and includes techniques such as molding, painting, pottery firing and other techniques and religious culture of Chinese folk crafts. It can be called the national treasure of Chinese folk art.

Jiaozhi Pottery , also known as Chiayi burning , is a decoration of traditional buildings in South China and Taiwan (such as temples). It originated from Tang Sancai , is a low-temperature color-glazed soft pottery, which is mainly developed and continued by the people. In the early days, it was most common in water truck blockages in temples. In modern times, Jiaozhi pottery was less and less installed in water truck blockages, but Jiaozhi pottery can still be appreciated in temples. For example, medium and large wall blockages, but not every temple will have them, but this type of Jiaozhi pottery must be customized by hand, and the production steps are complicated.

Jiaozhi pottery originated from

A special pottery making technology introduced from South China to Taiwan. According to artists in Taiwan, this skill was not called Jiaozhi pottery in the early days. The name of Jiaozhi pottery came from Japan to Jiaozhi pottery, while Taiwanese artists were called Nanbai. Later, due to the change of the times, Taiwan introduced ht from Japan during the Japanese administration. ml2 overglaze color , the artist at that time also called this type of glaze color water scalding, and because in the production of Japanese overglaze color, it is easier to operate than the glaze color originally from the Guangdong system. Later, for a period of time, the pottery glaze color in temples was almost replaced by this water glaze (water color glaze is raw glaze, and the glaze color appears after firing, and its thickness and warmness are its characteristics). Until now, the glaze color used in Jiaozhi pottery is mostly gem glaze system by Mr. Lin Tianmu (the gem glaze is fuse glaze, and the glaze color is stable and bright), with a delicate texture than water glaze. The glaze color is like a gem and the glaze effect produced different flow glaze effects as the pottery is different, which is very beautiful.

Jiaozhi pottery process

  • Drawing
  • Cut shaping body (pinch, push, shaping, paste, engrave, scratch)
  • Dry the pinched work to a semi-dry state
  • Did the back or bottom of the blank (to prevent cracking during firing)
  • Dry it completely and simmer (to 1100 degrees Celsius)
  • After the vegetarian firing is completed, it will be glazed
  • Finally, glaze (temperature is about celsius

850 degrees-900 degrees)