This sentence is used all over the country and everyone knows what it means. Usually people say that a person is powerful, difficult and calculating, and they will blurt out: "He is not a fuel-efficient lamp!" " "However, what most people don't expect is that there is such a thing as" saving oil lamps ",which is also the source and source of" saving oil lamps ".
There is a phrase "save the oil lamp" in Ci Yuan. According to the explanation of the entry, the "oil lamp saving" originated from Lu You, a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. Notes on the Old Temple highly praised "saving oil lamps": "Copper lamps are not used as book lamps, but porcelain lamps are the most fuel-efficient. There is a porcelain cup in Shu, and the lip of the cup is filled with water, which can save half of the oil. " Don't use copper plates to hold oil when reading, porcelain plates are the most fuel-efficient. There is an oil dish in Sichuan, like two oil dishes stacked together, with a sealed edge and a small hole on the side. Inject a small amount of water into the interlayer from the hole, and then pour lamp oil into the oil pan, which can save half of the oil.
So, what is the real meaning of "saving oil lamps"? Why do people give a new meaning to "not a fuel-efficient lamp"?
On 1999, the Three Gorges Archaeological Team of Beijing Institute of Cultural Relics excavated a "provincial oil lamp" in the Song Dynasty at Shituo cemetery in Fuling, the Three Gorges reservoir area. According to records, the provincial oil lamp appeared in Sichuan in the Tang Dynasty, and it was still very popular in the Song Dynasty. During the Tang and Five Dynasties, the products of many famous kilns in China had a unified style of practicality and artistry, but some of Qiong Yao's works had high scientific and technological content, which reflected the unity of practicality, artistry and scientificity. The most typical one is "saving oil lamp", which is well known all over the world.
It is understood that Qionglai pottery is a kind of pottery from Qionglai, Sichuan, which is made by high temperature firing, with brown, green and yellow underglaze colors as the main colors. It is little known in modern times, but it has a long history of 1600 years. In 1970s, it was discovered with the development of archaeology in China. In China, it first used high-temperature glaze technology, applied carving technology to ceramic modeling, and decorated it with colorful paintings. Known as the originator of painted ceramics in China, its underglaze color was hundreds of years earlier than the famous Tang Sancai, which influenced later Jun kilns and Changsha kilns.
The fuel-saving lamp consists of a dish-shaped upper half and a bowl-shaped lower half, and the side of the bowl has a small hole.