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Legend of the Willow Plate

Nearly every home in our country contains a piece of some kind of the famous willow pattern pottery.
For nearly two centuries, it has been one of the most popular of china designs, and many of us as children have looked in amazement at the neat little figures of the familiar willow pattern.










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The well known blue and white plate with Chinese characters and doves flying around actually has a romantic story attached to it.
Blue Willow Plate

Koong Shee was a mandarin’s daughter
and Chang was her lover, ah me,
For surely her father’s accountant
might never wed pretty Koong Shee.

So Chang was expelled from the compound,
The lover’s alliance to break,
and pretty Koong Shee was imprisoned
in a little blue house by the lake.

The doughty old mandarin reasoned
it was time that his daughter should wed,
and the groom of his choosing should banish,
that silly romance from her head
.Blue Willow Fence

In symbols the dress she should wear,
her headband of scarlet lay waiting,
she should ride in a gold wedding chair.

He was busily plotting and planning,
when a message was brought him one day,
young Chang had invaded the palace,
and taken his sweetheart away.

Blue Willow BridgeThey were over the bridge when he saw them,Blue Willow Boat
they were passing the big willow tree,
and a boat at the edge of the water,
stood waiting for Chang and Koong Shee.

The furious mandarin followed,
the groom with revenge in his eyes,
but the little boat danced on the water
and traveled away with the prize.

But vengeance pursued to their shelter
and burned the pagoda, they say
from out of the flames rose the lovers
a pair of doves winging away.

They flew toward the western heaven
the pretty Koong Shee and her Chang
or so says the famous old legend
from the land of the Yangtze Kiang.

Blue Willow BirdsI wouldn’t be one to deny it,
for the little blue dove and her mate
forever are flying together
across my Willow ware plate.

 

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There are signs that pottery and ceramics are losing appeal for a younger generation. There are pottery and ceramic departments closing in teaching institutions throughout the country. The common understanding is that younger students are reluctant to commit themselves to the intensive study required to master pottery and ceramics. Why spend three years to learn just one art form when you can pick up PhotoShop in less than a week? Pottery wheels lie idle as students flock to the computer labs. With all the stressful actions in the world today, releasing that stress through pottery and ceramics would be very beneficial to ones well being.

 

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