In ancient China, the firing technology of porcelain was already very high, and many porcelains with different types and decorations appeared. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a very popular porcelain bottle type - mallet bottle, this kind of porcelain bottle is elegant and generous, and has a beautiful meaning, and is deeply loved by the people. Today, let's take a look at the traditional porcelain vase with beautiful shape and meaning.
From the appearance point of view, the mallet bottle can be roughly divided into two kinds: round and square, the square mallet bottle is generally skimming, short neck, flat shoulder slightly folded, the bottle body is roughly four-barrel, the top is slightly wider, the bottom is slightly narrower, the bottom of the bottle has a square wide foot, there are several common categories of blue and white ware and three-color ware. The round bar mallet bottle in the Kangxi period was generally shorter, with a straight short neck, a handicap, and round shoulders, and a long cylindrical shape below the neck with a circled foot; After the middle of the Kangxi Dynasty, the shape tends to be slender, in order to distinguish it from the mallet bottle in the Yongzheng period, it is also called the hard mallet bottle, and the common varieties are blue and white, colorful, sprinkled with blue and gold, and colorful Kaiguang. And in the Yongzheng period, there is also a kind of soft mallet bottle, the shape is not as tall as the hard mallet bottle, the mouth is extravagant, the neck is tied, the shoulders are slipped, the straight barrel-shaped abdomen, the abdomen is slightly closed, the toes are smooth, and there are two kinds of blue and white and colorful are common.
The mallet bottle is named because it resembles the mallet used by women in ancient times when pounding clothes. In ancient times, because the clothes of the ancients were generally made of kudzu hemp, the material of the clothes was very hard, and it would be very uncomfortable to wear if it was not beaten, so the ancients would often use a mallet to beat the clothes when washing clothes. In ancient times, as the poem said - "Chang'an is a month, and thousands of households pound clothes", the sound of pounding clothes one after another often represents family reunion, which can arouse the wanderer's expectations for the family, which has a beautiful meaning of sustenance. Moreover, the bottle is homophonic to "peace", which also represents people's yearning for peace and stability, and reflects people's hope to stay away from war and reunite with their families. Therefore, the mallet bottle has also been loved by many people.
Today, the mallet vase is also a very common type of porcelain, and many people choose the mallet vase when buying vases and furnishings, which reflects his unique aesthetic taste and is in line with the concepts and tendencies of the Chinese from ancient times to the present.