Locusts on Porcelain

[Locusts on Porcelain] The Palace Museum’s "World Longquan" special exhibition concentrates more than 800 Longquan celadon relics from 42 institutions around the world. On October 8, the famous South Song Longquan green glazed tea bowl "Horse Locust Trigger" came to the exhibition. On October 20, it will be moved to Zhejiang Museum together with the exhibition.
The Kuikou tea bowl is 9.6 cm high, 15.4 cm in diameter and 4.5 cm in foot diameter. The whole glaze is lustrous as jade. There are several punching lines at the bottom of the tea bowl. It is named for the nails on the punch line which are very similar to locusts.
As for this piece of porcelain, Ito Dongya, a Confucian scholar in the Edo period, wrote a detailed account of the book "The Story of Tea Ou Caught by Locusts and Horses" to the effect that during the Chunxi reign of Emperor Xiaozong in the Southern Song Dynasty (the first year of Emperor Hirokakura’s reign in the first year of the first year of the first year in the first year of the first year of the first year of the Japanese Emperor Hiroyama), in order to actively carry out trade with the Song Dynasty, he distributed a large amount of gold to the Buddhist monk Buddha Zhao gave the Longquan tea bowl as a gift in return for peace and prosperity. After many twists and turns, the tea bowl finally went to the eighth generation of the shogunate shogunate. After that, the tea bowl went to Japan for more than two hundred years. There was a crack at the bottom of the circulation process. The artistic taste of the bowl was rather unsatisfactory, so the messenger sent the tea bowl to China, hoping to create another model. Sample tea bowl. At this time, however, the Ming Dynasty craftsmen in China were unable to make such an excellent celadon tea bowl. In desperation, the Chinese craftsmen could only use metal curium nails to repair the cracks and send them back to Japan (it was also said that Hideki Toyotomi found craftsmen from North Korea to curify the tea bowl again under the cooperation of Japanese craftsmen). When Zuli Yizheng saw the bowl again, he saw that the metal spikes on the wall of the bowl were like giant locusts, sticking to its surroundings. He could not help calling for "leeches and leeches" and greatly appreciated its exquisite pottery skills. From then on, the tea bowl was called "horse locust stumbling" and became famous for it. The tea bowl of "horse locust trip" was handed down from Fuli family to Kokura family, and finally donated by Mitsui Chaebol to Tokyo National Museum of Japan as a handed-down treasure.