What do you mean by shoveling a bowl?

The meaning of shoveling a bowl is actually to fill the bowl.

In the past, people didn't want to throw away the broken bowl, but found a tinker (a tinker often doubles as a bowl) to repair it and continue to use it. Bending refers to the use of bent nails to repair broken utensils. The way to repair the bowl is to scrape the uterus with palladium. The craftsman put the broken bowls together, tied them with thread first, and calculated how much palladium scraping was needed.

Make a mark, then use Jin Gangzuan to drill holes on both sides of the joint of the outer wall of the porcelain bowl, then carefully nail a copper or iron jujube pit palladium shovel into the hole with a mallet, and finally apply a special white plaster on the hole punched by the palladium shovel, and then wipe off the excess plaster with a cloth, and a bowl will be repaired.

Bowl shoveling is to put the broken parts of porcelain, pottery and other utensils together, so that the broken bowls can be reused, and there is no need to buy new bowls. In the past, bowl shoveling was a popular profession and a profitable profession. Shovel technology is a unique method for the ancient working people in China to repair artifacts, which has a history of thousands of years.

The historical origin of shoveling bowls;

"Shovel" is also divided into thickness, and "Seiko" means "Shovel Show". It is said that the shovel maker's business is related to the children of the Eight Banners in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the children of the Eight Banners in Beijing liked to enjoy flowers and play with porcelain and jade. Once the precious teapot at home accidentally cracked, so they asked someone to try to repair it. Repairers are ingenious and take advantage of the direction of cracks.

During the Republic of China, the craftsman trade came into being, gradually moved towards the people, and soon reached its peak. Many players are interested in putting soybeans in the new teapot, filling it with clear water, cracking the teapot wall by using the expansion force of soybeans when meeting water, and then asking shovelers to make patterns with silver shovels, and even the lid, spout and handle of the teapot are inlaid with patterns, thus raising the shovel embedding to a manual art.