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Introduction to the open-mouthed vase with colorful characters: The open-mouthed vase with colorful characters presented to Leighton Stuart by Zhou Enlai during the Nanjing negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. It is made of porcelain. The main pattern on the abdomen is a picture of the Eight Immortals, and the whole body of the vase is decorated with large irregular ice cracks. It is a porcelain produced in the Jingdezhen kiln in Jiangxi Province in the early years of the Republic of China, imitating the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. On November 15, 1946, the Kuomintang disregarded the opposition of the Chinese Communist Party and the people of the whole country and brazenly convened the "National Congress" organized by one party. The door to peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was closed by the Kuomintang. On the 19th, Zhou Enlai led some comrades of the CCP delegation to leave Nanjing and return to Yan'an. Before leaving, Zhou Enlai asked Wang Bingnan, who was in charge of foreign affairs in the delegation, to present an open-top bottle with colorful figures to Leighton Stuart, the U.S. ambassador to China.