宣德炉（Xuande incense burner）.doc

宣德炉（Xuande incense burner） The bronze incense burner made in the years of Xuan Ming in Ming Dynasty, referred to as Xuan furnace". The custom of incense has a long history in China, people usually put the clothes in order to etiquette incense is more ancient literati love in reading and writing study, burned a stick, creating a "netrose night reading" the mood. Therefore, before the Han Dynasty, pottery, porcelain, copper, iron and tile were made of materials. In the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, with the rapid development of bronze casting industry, the other materials were gradually replaced by bronze incense burner. During the Ming Dynasty, the period of "Xuan de" was the peak stage of the bronze incense burner. The Ming Dynasty Xuande reign of emperor, in order to meet the pet censer hobby, ordered the special import batch of copper from Siam country, instructed the imperial carpenter Lu earthquake and industry assistant minister Wu Bangzuo, according to Huang Fu in the kiln, kiln, kiln, kiln, Ding Jun, a porcelain style, and the "Xuanhe Bogu catalogue", "archaeological map" and other historical records, supervised the design and incense. In order to ensure the quality of incense craftsmen, choose gold and silver and other dozens of precious metals, with copper with carefully cast more than 10 times. After the finished copper incense burner and crystal and jade, is the Ming Dynasty handicraft treasures, casting of furnace successfully opened later copper stove first, in the long history, become known as the copper incense burner furnace. The use of these three years declared in three thousand to create bright copper incense, never produced, these are hidden within the Forbidden Palace Xuande furnace, ordinary people only know its name not the. After hundreds of years of groundless talk, really three years Xuan cast bronze censer is extremely rare. In order to reap huge profits from the Xuande in the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, the dealer generic X