Recently, there have been topics related to traditional Chinese glass, and I have thought of the anecdote about the "glass screen" in ancient literature. These anecdotes reflect a certain historical truth and have a foundation of real life.
The image of the glass screen first appeared in the novels of the writers of the Eastern Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. One of the most representative and most poetic ones is found in "The Remains of the Past": "Sun Liang is a green glass screen, very thin and clear, every night under the clear night. Often with Ai Ji four, are Zhengu Excellent color... Let the four people sit in the screen, and the outside looks like no separation, but the fragrance is not accessible." ("Taiping Guangji")
That is to say, when the Three Kingdoms, Wu Sun Sun Liang made a green glass folding screen, often set in the moon when the night is clear, and then let his favorite four pets sitting in the screen, others can clearly see To the shadow of the four beautiful people, but they can not smell their fragrance, the best interpretation of the concept of "may not be just".
In the works of the same period, the glass screen is often emphasized - that is, the transparent characteristics of the glass screen. For example, "Tai Ping Yu Lan" is a quotation of "Hanwu Old Things". On the Shentai built by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the doors and windows and the screens are "made of white glaze, and the smelting of the cave is also clear." Also recorded is an interesting anecdote in "Pickups". Han Wudi once gave a beautiful man a piece of purple glazed screen, and Dong Wei placed it under the bed. As a result, the waiter looked at the bed through the glass screen. The candlelight of the head mistakenly thought that there was no barrier in the middle, so it stood on the outside of the screen and forced the fans to cool. Of course, it took a lot of effort to achieve the goal.
China's glass manufacturing history is very long, and it has reached an astonishingly developed level. However, from the pre-Qin to Han, influenced by the concept of advocating jade, the biggest purpose of glass manufacturing is to imitate jade, and obtain it in the field of “imitation jadeâ€. A wonderful achievement. On the other hand, since the Han Dynasty, transparent glassware produced in foreign countries such as Persia and Rome has been imported into China and is regarded as a treasure. During the Jin Dynasty to the Northern Dynasties, exotic glass manufacturing techniques were introduced, including precious techniques for firing transparent or translucent glass.
According to legend, there is a famous record in the "Bao Puzi" written by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: "Foreign water bowls are made of five kinds of ash, and there are many ways to do it today. Today, this slang is not willing to believe, it is the natural thing of Yunshui, jade and the like." It is clearly stated that people in Guangdong have obtained the technique of making glassware in foreign countries, and the artifacts are similar. Crystal, that is, colorless transparent glass.
There is also an important record in the "History of the West" in the "Northern History": Some people from North India came to the Northern Wei Dynasty when they came to the Northern Wei Dynasty, brought the glass technology of North India, burned the glass on the spot, and made the glass become ordinary. Items are no longer so precious. This glass technology has a variety of colors, but it also has a transparent character. Taiwu Emperor even ordered a large account (the hall), which is studded with stained glass windows.
Therefore, in the era of "Xijing Magazine" and "Picking Up the Book" and other works, the upper class generally enjoys imported or locally produced transparent glass products as luxury goods. This inspired the writers' imagination to give new life to their lives and even to the distant Western Han court.
In fact, there is probably no translucent glass screen in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era, but in the era of the Eastern Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, this kind of luxury furnishings should not be uncommon in the life of the nobility. Of course, it was not possible to make a large piece of flat glass at that time. Therefore, the screen could only be covered with a wooden frame skeleton, and then a small piece of glass was embedded therein.
In the glass at that time, there are fewer colorless transparent products that require higher technical level, and most of them are transparent or translucent colored glass. Therefore, the colored glass of "purple glass" and "green glass" is also embedded in the screen. . Only from this detail can you see how the writers have recorded the true history unintentionally.
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