Shi's Zhan Series 008: Shi's Flow-Cloud Living Glaze — The First Discovery and Naming of Chai Kiln Living Glaze and Dynamic Anchoring Based on Smartphone Natural Light Imagery
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: : This paper is Series 008 of the "Shi's Zhan" research. Abandoning instrument testing, composition analysis, and glaze formula speculation, the study relies solely on local glaze photographs taken by an ordinary smartphone under natural light as its sole source of evidence, constructing three Separate axes of image evidence: the time axis, space axis, and angle axis. The imagery demonstrates that the same local glaze surface exhibits continuous pale-white—azure—deep-green transitions across time (sunny/rainy), space (lit/mid-arc/backlit), and angle (micro-rotation), accompanied by goniochromatic band drift. To eliminate chromatic distortion caused by photographic highlight clipping, this paper introduces the "highlight clipping elimination method," collecting only diffuse reflection information to restore the true glaze color. Based on this, the optical phenomenon is formally named "Shi's Flow-Cloud Living Glaze" (SYLG), with "Flow-Cloud" derived from "after rain, sky clears, clouds break." A Chai ware criterion is proposed: any piece lacking this dynamic full process is not Chai ware. The Chai living glaze phenomenon was first jointly discovered by Weiyue Shi and Mingzhe Lyu, and jointly first named "Shi's Flow-Cloud Living Glaze" by the two. This paper was primarily written by Weiyue Shi, with Mingzhe Lyu assisting in observation, research, and naming. The study argues purely through imagery, constituting an anchor set.
Source: Figshare
Authors: Weiyue Shi, Mingzhe Lyu
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7224830628