Episode 197 Lingnan characteristics

He was born in the ancient city of Chaozhou carving family "Zhuo Yuxuan", since childhood by the culture and art of the edification, love calligraphy, bonsai, strange stones.

In 2008, because of a wax stone left by his ancestors, he aroused his enthusiasm for strange stones, so he embarked on the road of appreciating stones, collecting stones, and appreciating stones, and set up a condensation stone museum in his own commercial building.

Jiulong and his entourage came to the Ning Zhen Stone Pavilion with the super version, and the owner received them very warmly.

Mr. Cheng, with a handsome face, bright eyes, and a resolute image unique to a soldier, was shown in front of him, and there were no polite words, so he directly beckoned everyone to sit down and make kung fu tea.

Chaozhou Gongfu tea, can be exquisite, Chaozhou gongfu tea is Chaoshan tea ceremony, is the most representative tea ceremony of China's ancient tea culture.

According to research, in the Tang Dynasty, the tea culture has been very perfect, people in the coastal area are very fond of drinking tea, in Chaoshan local tea is the best etiquette to entertain guests and to improve, this is not only because tea has a health effect in many aspects, but also because since ancient times, tea has the artistic conception of "treating gentlemen, purifying the mind and body".

Today, Kung Fu tea has penetrated into all corners of social life, all over the world and abroad, silently playing the role of a bond of communication and friendship, and the strong tea fragrance moistens and soothes people's hearts.

Chaoshan Gongfu tea is a unique tea drinking habit in Chaoshan area.

"Gongfu Tea" is very particular about tea sets, tea leaves, water quality, tea making, tea pouring, and tea drinking.

The kung fu teapot is very small, only the size of a fist, thin porcelain, translucent, and the tea leaves in the pot can be faintly seen.

The cup is only half the size of a ping-pong ball. The tea leaves are made of oolong tea with full color and flavor, and semi-fermented tea is the best.

When putting tea leaves, the pot should be filled with a full pot and compacted with your fingers, and it is said that the more solid the pressing, the more mellow the tea.

It is best to precipitate the water, and when making tea, pour the freshly boiled water into the pot immediately, and pour it out once or twice at the beginning, mainly for hygienic reasons.

When pouring tea, several teacups should be put together, and this cup should not be poured full and then that cup, but should be poured back and forth in turns, so as to avoid the situation of strong before and then light.

When drinking, you lick it with your tongue and taste it slowly, and talk about it while tasting tea, which is called kung fu.

Kung Fu tea tea juice is thick, alkaline, just drink a few cups, will feel slightly bitter, but after drinking, the more you drink, the more bitter and sweet you feel, so that people are refreshed, especially after the feast and then drink the best effect.

According to the owner's introduction, Jiulong pretended to drink kung fu tea, and listened to the history of Cheng Zong's Tibetan stone while drinking.

Mr. Cheng said that since the professional appreciation, he has formed an indissoluble bond with the stone, and he loves the strange stone, cherishes the stone as his life, and strives for perfection in the selection of the stone.

After six years of continuous accumulation, Mr. Cheng has collected nearly 1,000 square stones, and has won many awards in stone exhibitions in Chaozhou, Shenzhen, Qingyuan, Huadu, Hezhou, Liuzhou and other places.

In 2009, five works that participated in the Chaozhou Stone Exhibition won three golds and one bronze;

In 2011, he participated in the Qingyuan Longhu Stone Exhibition and won more than 10 gold, silver and bronze awards, showing the style of Chaozhou colored jade.

Now there are Chaozhou colored jade carvings, Chaozhou wax stone carvings, Taishan jade carvings, Yunnan Huanglong jade carvings, Chaozhou water flushing wax stone, Zijin water flushing wax stone, Yunnan water flushing wax stone, Huanglong jade seed material, Huanglong jade grass flowers, etc.

In 2009, he found a stone species (Chaozhou colored jade) near the famous wax stone production area in Chaozhou - Dengtang Shitian, he boldly tried to study and discuss with the carver, using various carving methods, ingenious colors, and took the lead in carving out a lovely work, and paid a lot of effort for the development and utilization of Chaozhou colored jade, and thus ended the history of Chaozhou stone without jade.

In order to promote and promote the culture of Chaozhou wax stone, in 2009, he was the executive editor of the book "China Chaozhou Wax Stone Treasure Book";

Walking into the Ninghua Stone Museum, the elegant and peculiar Yunnan Huanglong jade is dazzling, and the distinctive Chaozhou colored jade makes Kowloon admire.

Mr. Cheng said: "The art of appreciating Chaozhou wax stone is important in the "four products", that is, to appreciate its stone color, stone quality, stone shape and stone pattern.

"In today's wax stone art, the color of wax stone has been endowed with a lot of humanistic connotations, integrated into human emotions, and placed on a wonderful reverie.

"Such as yellow wax symbolizes noble and auspicious, full of gold and jade;

"Red wax symbolizes joy and peace, good luck;

"White ash represents high elegance and elegance, elegance and refinement.

"Wax stone is known for its hard quality like jade, warm and delicate;

"The hardness of wax stone is generally about 7 degrees on the Mohs scale, which is comparable to the hardness of jade, jade has "four beauties" - warm, moist, hard and dense, and wax stone "four beauties" have both, and wax stone does not need to be carved with sharp weapons and can show the" fine light and introverted ", so some people say that the beauty of wax stone is like jade. ”

Regarding the modeling skills of Chaozhou wax stone, Mr. Cheng has a lot of experience, and he specially introduced:

Chaozhou is known as "Linghai Famous State", "Seaside Zoulu" said, the treasure of the world, the scenery is pleasant, there is a wealth of wax stone resources, its gold wax, lychee jelly and other high-quality varieties are extraordinary, by Chinese and foreign collectors as a treasure, Japan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and other stone appreciation circles are known as "rich stone".

Chaozhou wax stone modeling skills is an ancient Chaozhou traditional art, a long history, the source can be traced back to the Tang and Song dynasties, the Tang and Song dynasties due to the continuous injection of the Central Plains culture, Chaozhou economy and culture have been greatly developed, the traditional Chinese stone culture has also spread here, the late Tang Dynasty Prime Minister, the stone treasure Taidou Li Deyu degraded Chaozhou Sima, the Chinese stone culture to Chaozhou.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was another prosperous period of Chaozhou wax stone modeling skills, there was no lack of famous people and businessmen and even ordinary people who were lovers of strange stones, playing with Tibetan wax stones, and using stone modeling to become the art decoration of the desk hall, and its artistic taste promoted the development of folk wax stone modeling skills.

Due to the development of modern socio-economic culture, people's awareness and participation in stone appreciation activities, Chaozhou stone appreciation culture has gone to the homes of ordinary people, and part of the stone appreciation culture has been integrated into some folk activities;

After the reform and opening up, with the revival of China's stone culture, Chaozhou wax stone modeling skills have entered a new era, Chaozhou stone lovers have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, increasing day by day, stone appreciation activities are unprecedentedly active, the atmosphere of stone appreciation is very strong, Chaozhou wax stone modeling skills in the diversification of modeling and technical changes have reached a very high level, Chaozhou wax stone has participated in the national large-scale stone exhibition for many times, and has achieved very impressive results.

With the change of the times, Chaozhou wax stone from a simple ornament to the present form of a variety of forms of modeling and artistic conception, because of the texture of Chaozhou wax stone condensed, bright color, strange form, unique plastic art, appreciation value is extremely high, its varieties are numerous, dizzying.