The eunuch and the Hundred Households of the Jinyi Guard rubbed their eyes, making sure they were not seeing things, fists-sized pearls, and coral trees as tall as a man, such things could only exist in heaven, and could never be of the Human World!
Ming Country also had its own merchant courtyards selling goods, including porcelain, silk, tea, and writing materials like brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones.
Porcelain, before the blue and white of the Yuan dynasty, was the art of fire and earth, focusing on the craft of firing, seeking the quality of the porcelain itself. After the emergence of blue and white porcelain, the craft became rougher, with all sorts of paintings, a myriad of colors, the more vibrant the better, even producing pieces that had been fired a dozen times over as a display of skill, increasingly flashy.
