In 2013, I just came into contact with Song porcelain, and soon felt that I had a better taste for myself than Yuanming blue and white, Qing Doucai, etc. Roughly look at its appearance is not good, silent, and the details are extremely exquisite, gentle and tranquil, free and solemn, unforgettable for a lifetime. In the Song porcelain, the official kiln, the Ru kiln, the real product of the brother kiln, less to have nothing to do with themselves, the kiln is too slender, dare not use it, the Yaozhou kiln is complicated, I see too much dizziness, Longquan kiln is more literary, I don't want to aggravate my literary and artistic tone.

Like Jun kiln, the clouds are in the blue sky and the water is in the bottle, a very small hand handle tank, look at it for a long time, the whole person can go in: close to the transparent blue, like the blue sky for a while, like the lake for a while, no two places are exactly the same; Different shades of blue, occasional shades of red, golden edges, uneven pores and cracks, clouds and water, monsters and birds.

I prefer to build a kiln, which is low-key to inconspicuous black-brown glaze, thick to warm iron clay tires, convex and concave to just hold the hat shape of the mouth with both hands, which is more regular, quieter and more sullen than the Jun kiln. Thousands of years ago, the building lamp, disinfection, go to the soil, boil, serve for a while, can be used to drink tea after a thousand years, a little to make, there is a treasure light similar to ancient jade faintly flowing. Jianzhan was known as the first tea cup in the world in the Song Dynasty, and spread to Japan through the area of Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, known as the Tianmu Zhan of Tang Dynasty, and was regarded as a tea drinking artifact in all dynasties.

The artifact in the artifact is the Yao Chang Tianmu Lamp, and there are only three complete vessels in the world, which are stored in: Seikado Bunko Art Museum in Japan, Ryuko-in Temple in Japan, and Fujita Museum of Art in Japan. Written in the eighth year of Eisho in Japan (1511), the "Juntai View Left and Right Accounts" recorded: "Yao change, the supreme divine product of Jianzhan is a rare thing in the world, its ground is black, there are small and thin star spots, surrounded by jade white halo, beautiful as brocade, ten thousand things also." "The records of our country have habitually added a lot of gods and ghosts and virgin feelings, during the Ming Dynasty (1573~1619) Xie Zhaoqian wrote the "Five Miscellaneous Quirks" and said: "It is rumored that when the kiln is first opened, one boy and one woman will be used, and their blood will be sacrificed alive, so the essence is knotted and condensed into a strange ear. Recently, it has been forbidden, and there is no need for human sacrifice, so there is no change. ”

In the language of science, the common characteristics of these three Yaochang Tianmu Lamps are summarized as follows: the glazed film layer of the Jianzhan presents blue-purple brilliance, and the optical principle of Yaochang is thin film interference. To sum it up in the language of liberal arts, it is: like brocade, like a peacock feather, like an oil drop in the rain, like a mother-of-pearl, like the back of the head is seen in the eyes of a stick, like the vast starry sky at night, you can see the truth of the whole universe from a single lamp, and this truth is so beautiful that it makes people cry. Writing here, the big question comes: China is the origin of the kiln, the Song Dynasty from the emperor down the whole country loves tea and tea cups, why are the three Yao Chang Tianmu cups all in Japan, and our country has not seen any heirlooms and unearthed pieces?

In early August 2015, Yantai was unusually hot and rainy. When it rains, the sea is even dirtier, and people who swim in the sea for an hour become green-haired water monsters. I watched the rain, drank wine, and slept in the house, and had three dreams related to the Yao Chang Tianmu in a row. Wu Xuezhe, the master of the big kiln in Shuiji Town, Jianyang, the Great Song Dynasty, was taking a nap and was woken up by the old potter Zheng Shangsheng desperately, "The kiln is open, the artifact is out, I have never seen it in my life." ”

The one in front of Wu Xuezhe is neat and dignified, and it is not much different from other high-level building lamps in appearance, but in the afternoon sun, the inner wall of the bowl presents a mother-of-pearl-like glow on the inner wall of a shell. "I haven't seen it, and I haven't heard it from my grandparents. "The firewood has been good lately, and the temperature seems to be a little higher than before, and we are well developed! Wu Xuezhe thought for a while, and the smile on his face froze in an instant: "Develop a fart! I was almost killed by you! Dedicated to the country? The emperor will indeed reward it, but if he asks us to make ten more, can we make it?" "One may not be able to make one." But I can try secondary glazing, secondary kiln firing. ”

"The bastards around the emperor will say, no matter what, it must be done, even if it is a blood sacrifice to the kiln god! I will take the blood sacrifice of your mother, your wife, your sister, and your daughter! I was almost killed by you, and our whole village was almost killed by you. Quickly load this lamp onto the farthest large cargo ship, treat it as a bad grade, mix it with the poor goods of the other kilns, and send it to the farthest place. Don't be clever, smash the lamp, bury it at the head of the village, the fragments will come out, the government will know, and force me to burn the whole vessel, I will burn you first. ”

In the third year of the Great Song Dynasty (1051 AD), Cai Xiang, the transfer of Fujian Road, sat in front of the bookcase, restless. Happily, the Xiaolongtuan tea he supervised was praised by the emperor, "the best dragon tea is the best". What is unhappy is that a group of celebrities like Ouyang Xiu said on the rivers and lakes that he, as a scholar, how could he do such a flattering thing. Cai Xiang thought about it, people are not gold, how can everyone like it? Anything that is top-notch is politics, and people will be jealous; even gold will be said by some people to be stinky shit. Life is short, it's better to ignore it and continue to be willful. Cai Xiang simply unfolded the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and began to write a concise and concise thousand-word essay to the emperor that involved all aspects of tea drinking: "Tea Record", the first part is about tea, and the next part is about tea utensils. Talking about tea utensils inevitably involves tea cups, and recently it has been rumored on the street that Jianzhan has some rare kiln new varieties, which are glamorous and close to demons. Cai Xiang resisted the curiosity that kept surging in his heart, did not go to check the real thing, and wrote on the rice paper: "The brown color is white, and it should be black." Jian'an made the black, the pattern is like a rabbit's hair, its blank is slightly thick, it is hot and difficult to cold for a long time, and it is the most important to use. Those who come out of other places are thin or purple in color, and they are not as good as them. Its green and white lamp is not used by the fighting family. Cai Xiang didn't mention the legendary kiln change at all. He is thirty-nine years old, and he has been an official in the system for so long, so he can still figure this thing out. If a very small number of unique products are promoted instead of mainstream first-class products, the value and price system cannot be improved, and fakes and imitations will inevitably flock to it, and in the long run, it will inevitably seriously damage the local economy. As for how to determine the height of the rabbit's hair, leave it to the emperor who loves to think about it. As soon as the emperor added flowers, the first in the world became a foregone conclusion, and his article of less than 1,000 words became an article for the ages. Hey.

About fifty years later, following Cai Xiang's statement in "Tea Records", Zhao Ji of Song Huizong wrote in "Daguan Tea Treatise": "The color of the cup is noble, green and black, and the jade is the best." ”

In the second year of Jiaxi of the Great Song Dynasty (1238 AD), the Mingkong Temple of Tianmu Mountain ushered in another group of monks from Japan to learn Zen Buddhism. These utensils turned out from the depths of the treasury were extremely crude, because there were too many monks who came, and the utensils were not enough, and the things that had not been liked by generations were turned out to make up the number. When it came to the last one, there was actually no choice, a building lamp was left in the basket, the glaze color was very different from the "rabbit hair", and the current aesthetic difference between the ancient and mysterious was huge, and the Japanese monk had no choice.

After drinking tea and looking at this lamp, he clearly saw the incomparably vast starry sky by the sea in his hometown. He said in his heart that a cup of life, for a lifetime, must be brought back to his hometown. One day in early August 2015, facing the border between the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, pondering these three dreams and human nature, I think I knew why I went to Japan. (Text/Feng Tang)