Study On Political Aesthetics Of Imperial Kiln Wares In Early Ming Dynasty

In the early Ming Dynasty,the centralization of authoritarianism reached an unprecedented height in history.In order to highlight the supremacy of imperial power,the Ming Dynasty set up an imperial ware factory,namely the imperial kiln,exclusively for the production of imperial porcelain.Imperial porcelain embodies both the emperor’s power and his personal pursuit.This paper adopts the method of literature study,image research and interdisciplinary research,based on historical records,notes and physical pictures of imperial kiln porcelain,to analyze the political symbols such as glaze color,pattern and knowledge of the imperial kiln ware in the early Ming Dynasty,and reveal the political aesthetic connotation of the imperial kiln ware in the early Ming Dynasty.Different from the production of civil kiln porcelain,the production of imperial porcelain has clear regulations and connotations in the aspects of glaze color,pattern and shape.Four kinds of single-color glaze porcelain sacrificial vessels,blue,yellow,red and white,were used to match the tombs in the four corners of Huan Qiu,Fang Qiu,Sun Altar and Moon Altar,and the sacrificial porcelain was strictly controlled,which was a powerful way for the emperor to build the legitimacy of the regime and strengthen the sense of hierarchy.In the early Ming Dynasty,emperors were keen to use red porcelain such as youligong and red glaze porcelain,believing that "red" was closely related to the Ming Dynasty and could bring prosperity to the Ming Dynasty.In the royal instrument decorated with five claw dragon pattern,is to borrow the "dragon" lofty image deification of the imperial power;On the imperial porcelain,it is the self-manifestation of imperial power.As for the rise of sweet white glaze and the prosperity of cricket pot is the emperor’s personal hobby.In the early Ming Dynasty,the wares of the imperial kiln became the material medium for the national language education in a specific era with its exclusive,exclusive and power symbols.In the early Ming Dynasty,the emperors continued to strengthen the concept of "imperial supremacy" through the political symbols on the imperial instruments,leading the public to repeatedly identify the political authority of the monarch and maintain the supreme ruling position of the monarch.