Chapter 206: The Master Craftsman Has No Name
Xu Li didn't care about other people's looks at her, but when she found that Su Zekai was also looking at her, she felt a little secretly happy in her heart.
She felt that she had found a way to attract Su Zekai's attention...
Not all boys like naive girls who only have pretty looks. Girls who are knowledgeable and well-informed are often more likely to attract equally outstanding boys!
Most people don’t know about these world-class porcelain brands!
Su Xing also looked at Xu Li.
In fact, some of what Xu Li said was not wrong. Among the top porcelain brands in the world, there is indeed no Chinese one.
Those famous Western porcelains are sought after by people all over the world, and even some of our Chinese people are proud to be able to buy authentic products of those brand porcelains.
Because of the Chinese people's pursuit of the trend, many fakes of foreign top brand porcelain have appeared in the Chinese market...
For example, Royal Copenhagen Porcelain was founded in 1775 by Queen Mother Julian Marie of Denmark. It has a history of more than years. In the early days, it only served the Danish royal family and has always been run by the Danish royal family.
They use high-quality porcelain clay and pure hand-painted porcelain painting techniques to produce many classic series of porcelain.
Take their Tang grass series, which imitates my country's blue and white porcelain, for example. It has been highly sought after by politicians, celebrities and royal families from all over the world.
Some wealthy people in our country also like to follow the trend and have such a set of porcelain at home to show off their taste.
If you search on Taobao, you will find these world-famous brand porcelains everywhere. Even if it is difficult to tell whether they are real or fake, they are not cheap and have good sales!
But are these world-class porcelain brands really better than our country’s porcelain?
not necessarily!
Su Xing couldn't help but spoke, "Sister Xu, I think there is a concept that I need to correct you on."
Xu Li was stunned and asked subconsciously: "What?"
Su Xing said: "You can say that the brand awareness of these foreign porcelains has surpassed that of our porcelain brands, but this does not mean that their porcelain-making skills have surpassed ours! Branding is a form of commercial operation. Some foreign brands are indeed better at marketing than we are, but their products are not necessarily better than ours."
Tea and tea utensils are inseparable. Anyone who drinks tea will have some understanding of tea utensils.
The most widely used tea utensils are ceramic tea utensils.
Many people who drink tea will start to play with tea utensils after a while, and eventually they will have some understanding of the entire ceramic culture, purple clay culture, etc.
Su Xing felt that he only knew a little bit about porcelain, but at this moment he couldn't help but want to correct some of Xu Li's statements.
Xu Li's eyes flickered for a moment, and she said, "But look at Japan. A lot of their culture comes from my country, but some things that we didn't pass down have been developed and promoted in Japan! For example, porcelain, their Minghai porcelain has also entered the top ten porcelains in the world. This is indeed due to some brand effect, but it cannot be denied that their craftsmen can calm down and have the spirit of craftsmen, and the things they make are indeed very exquisite."
Su Xing looked around the porcelain works in the store and said, "Let's not talk about anything else. Just look at these hand-painted, wood-fired porcelain works. Which one is not exquisite? You can see the exquisiteness of those foreign brands, so are our own works worse than theirs?"
Xu Li opened her mouth, but no words came out.
She couldn't say that the porcelain in front of her was not beautiful enough. If she did say it, everyone present would probably call her blind!
Moreover, although she was familiar with those foreign porcelain brands, she only learned about them on the Internet. She had never seen the actual porcelain of those brands, so she had no way to make a comparison.
Su Xing continued, "In the Japan you mentioned, there are rice cookers and sushi gods. It's really easy for Japanese craftsmen to be deified! However, our craftsmen have been mostly unknown from ancient times to the present, because we Chinese are reserved and low-key, not good at hype and creating gimmicks. Looking at the history of Chinese porcelain for thousands of years, who knows who discovered the secret of porcelain clay? Who was the first person to paint cobalt blue porcelain? Who were the first person to fill in color, build a kiln, and throw firewood? Generation after generation of unknown craftsmen used their wise hands to forge the original appearance of craftsmanship. They chose one thing and devoted their whole life to it without regret. This is why great craftsmen are nameless, but their craftsmanship lasts forever!"
Su Xing's words made all the tourists and shop assistants in the store silent!
Everyone's eyes were focused on this pretty girl who was talking so eloquently.
Some were surprised, some looked thoughtful, and some were full of admiration!
Mr. Ren put down the teacup in his hand and looked at the little girl in front of him with his eyes bright and sharp!
Su Yu's face flushed with excitement. She seemed to see her cousin who talked about tea and brewed tea in Guling Town again!
Su Zekai was surprised. This was...his introverted, low-key, and taciturn cousin? ?
Zhuang Yi's eyes were shining as he stared at Su Xing. In his eyes, this girl was glowing all over!
Xu Li said hesitantly: "But... the quality of those world-class brand porcelains should not be bad, right? After all, many world celebrities also like those porcelains..."
Su Xing said: "I didn't say that the quality of those world-famous porcelain brands is poor. I said that our porcelain is no worse than theirs!"
After a pause, she continued, "Porcelain originated in my country. Many countries learned how to make porcelain from my country. Take Japan for example. They started making porcelain in the Ming Dynasty by learning and imitating my country's porcelain culture and technology. Now in some high-end markets in Europe, Western porcelain is gradually gaining popularity, but Chinese porcelain lacks brand promotion and management. We pay more attention to good body materials, good patterns, and good glazes, and hope that porcelain will always remain as it is. However, I believe that as long as we continue to promote and publicize my country's ceramic culture, China will let more people in the world know that truly good porcelain is not found elsewhere, but in the East!"
"Well said!" A tourist couldn't help but applaud: "Our porcelain-making technology has always been the best in the world! There is no doubt about that!"
Another tourist said: "I have bought porcelain from Meissen in Germany. It is very gorgeous and thick. In comparison, I still prefer the delicate, restrained, elegant and charming porcelain from my country!"
"Haha...How many of the craftsmanship and patterns of those so-called brand porcelains abroad are imitations of our country?"
Xu Li's face turned pale and blue, and finally she forced a smile and said, "I'm not saying that our porcelain is not as good as foreign ones, it's just... it's a pity that we are a big porcelain country, but now those foreign brands of porcelain are more famous..."
Su Xing had already said what he wanted to say, and he didn't intend to continue harping on about some of Xu Li's words. After all, she was his cousin's guest, and it would not be good to embarrass her.
She nodded and said, "Oh, it's a bit regrettable."
Then I continued to fill out the mailing form.