The Palace Museum 100 020 golden splendor glazed tile

Glazed tile, Royal tile. In the antique street of Liulichang, glazed tiles of yuan, Ming, Qing and three dynasties were fired. Emperor Qianlong probably felt that this place was too close to the imperial palace. The smoke from the firing of colored glaze polluted the blue sky, and the pungent smell affected the air quality. Therefore, he ordered the glaze firing base to be moved to Mentougou in the western suburbs. Now that place is also called Liuli canal, which is still firing glazed tiles.

Glaze the formed tiles and put them into the kiln again to make them bright and lustrous, just like glass. Different colors are due to different metal oxides in glaze.

The red iron oxide glaze will be fired into yellow glazed tiles. The glaze of copper oxide is green. Cobalt oxide burns blue.

In the Forbidden City, where everything has rules, the use of these colors is also orderly. The five elements in the five elements represent a direction and a color.







Different specifications of glazed tiles, bite each other, layer upon layer, extending to the eaves end of the tile. It has a round hole on its back, which is nailed into the tile to prevent sliding. The glazed tiles of the whole roof are connected to form an airtight protective umbrella to protect the palace from wind and rain.



At this moment, the rain glides over them, with their breath, dripping into the courtyard and returning to the earth.