Chapter 82: Tea Meets Confidant

In Duan Shanshan's worldview, Tancheng City has the so-called three treasures of history, that is, the "Jianben" of the Masa Bookstore in Tancheng, which is as famous as the "Zheben" printed in Lin'an, Zhejiang Province, and the "Shuben" printed in Chengdu, Sichuan Province in the Song Dynasty (although the Jianben is mostly known for its cheap paper, shoddy printing, and low marketing prices); the Zhulin Jingshe (later renamed Kaoting Academy, that is, the site mentioned at the end of the previous chapter) where Zhu Xi lectured in his later years, and the "Jianzhan" produced by the "Jianyao", one of the eight famous porcelains of the Song Dynasty 。 Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's a shame to say it, although there is a description in the local history of the junior high school textbook that "Jianzhan is the royal tea set of the Song Dynasty", but unfortunately because the name of the so-called "royal royal" is really rotten, many specialties in northern Fujian, such as tea, lotus seeds, bamboo shoots, citrus and so on, have played this signboard, so Duan Shanshan has not taken it as a thing when he was studying. The reason why he was really in awe of Jianzhan and left a deep impression came from the experience of playing the stand-alone version of the Sixth Day Demon King in middle school.

Most of the stand-alone versions of the Sixth Heavenly Demon King of the past dynasties have a treasure system, which is divided into weapons, armor, famous horses, artworks and Nanban (in fact, it should be imported from Europe through the South Seas) and other categories, and the most advanced tea utensils in the artwork classification, such as "Xingjian Zhan Tianmu", "Rabbit Hao Zhan Tianmu", "Oil Drop Tianmu", "Yao Chang Tianmu", etc., are actually all built by water!

It is conceivable that Duan Shanshan was shocked when he learned about this incident through the game, and naturally began to pay more attention to Jianzhan, and viewed a lot of related materials and articles on the Internet through search engines.

This "Ya Qu Zhai" is a shop specializing in the construction of tea utensils, and of course, the shelves are basically imitations of modern works rather than cultural relics. However, in addition to the relatively new condition, these tea vessels fall into the eyes of Duan Shanshan, who is not an expert, and in fact, they do not look much different from cultural relics.

Most of the tea utensils in the store belong to the rabbit cup according to the classification, and at this time, a middle-aged woman walked up to Cai Pingping and introduced: "Girl, this is the rabbit hair cup Tianmu, the goods in our store are the best on this street, your vision is really good!"

"Auntie, I can understand that the texture of this teaware looks like wisps of rabbit fluff. Cai Pingping stared intently at the rabbit bowl resting on the bracket covered with golden silk cloth, and asked curiously, "But I want to ask you, what does 'Tianmu' mean?"

"Well, I really don't know this, these tea utensils are all fired by my son, and I wrote down the name he said, and I don't quite understand the reason for this. The aunt didn't expect this customer to ask a question that had not been answered in advance, and she was a little overwhelmed, and couldn't help but cast a pleading look at a young man in the store who was bowing his head to make tea.

However, before the young man noticed the gaze cast at him, Duan Shanshan, who was behind Cai Pingping, spoke leisurely at this time: "Because more than 700 years ago, many monks in Japan crossed the sea to study in Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang Province to seek Dharma, and when they returned to China, they brought back to Japan the black glazed porcelain tea set used in the local temple - that is, 'Jianzhan', and later used the name 'Tianmu' to call this kind of tea vessel that looks like a bowl or bowl, so generally speaking, Tianmu refers to a tea vessel shape. ”

Hearing his explanation, Cai Pingping nodded suddenly in understanding, and the aunt who solicited business turned her gaze at the young man in the store from asking for help to asking for verification, and the young man also put down the teapot in his hand in surprise and glanced up at Duan Shanshan.

"You just mentioned 'in general', so is there any other way to say this so-called 'Tianmu'?" Cai Pingping blinked, keenly hearing some implicit meaning from Duan Shanshan's words, so she continued to ask.

"Well, yes, there are also people in Japan who think that the so-called 'Tianmu' refers to the black glazed ceramic tea ware such as Jianzhan, which refers to the texture, color rather than shape, but this view is not in the market and has been questioned more. Duan Shanshan replied with a smile.

After explaining how the place name of Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang Province was related to the Tancheng Jianzhan that could not be beaten by eight poles, and then evolved into the shape or texture of the tea vessel, he finally answered the casual inquiry of the curious baby Cai Pingping. The young man who made tea in the store nodded to the aunt, stood up and walked over and greeted Duan Shanshan with a smile: "Welcome, this gentleman, you know a lot about our Jianzhan!"

"It's not 'you build a lamp', but 'we build a lamp', I grew up in Tancheng, although I don't know much about speaking Tancheng's local dialect until now. Duan Shanshan laughed and laughed at himself.

The aunt proudly introduced Cai Pingping and Duan Shanshan: "This is my son, and the porcelain in our store is basically fired by him!"

The young shopkeeper nodded and smiled at each other with Cai Pingping and Duan Shanshan, and then said to Duan Shanshan with a little bit of comparison and competitiveness: "Can you tell which of these tea utensils on display in the shop is the most valuable?"

Duan Shanshan felt that this sudden challenge was quite interesting, so he walked back and forth in front of the shelves on both sides of the wall like Cai Pingping did at the beginning, looking at the dazzling tea utensils casually.

Suddenly, a tea bowl that looked distinctly different from other porcelain intrudes into his field of vision, immediately attracting his full attention. So he walked over quickly, and while carefully looking at the tea bowl, he couldn't help but let out a surprise exclamation: "Boss, I really didn't expect you to have a Yao Mutant in this store?"

When Duan Shanshan turned around and gave a thumbs up to the young shopkeeper in admiration, the boss also gave Duan Shanshan the same thumbs up.

Seeing that Duan Shanshan seemed to have succeeded in finding the most valuable tea vessel in the store, Cai Pingping also walked up to him curiously and lowered her head to take a closer look, and then immediately let out a disgusted protest.

"Oh, this is the most valuable one, I don't think this tea vessel looks as good as a rabbit!"

In fact, she was right, at first glance, the surface of this tea vessel is irregularly scattered with large and small light spots or halos like fingerprints and animal hoof prints, which may be questioned as defective in the eyes of laymen. Compared to the delicate texture of rabbit hair, it is obviously the latter that is more likely to make a beautiful first impression.

"Whether it looks good or not is a more subjective evaluation, and everyone's aesthetic standards are different, so I won't comment on it. Duan Shanshan explained with a smile, "The reason why Yao Chang is rare is because this thing is not something that can be fired if you want to, and the firing of this kind of porcelain has great chance, and it belongs to the type that cannot be copied in batches, and it is precisely because of this characteristic that it is very rare in the world." There is a saying that 'rare things are precious', so this kind of Yaobian porcelain is the most precious. At the end of the Muromachi Shogunate in Japan (16th century), there was a book dedicated to the history of Chinese art and fine arts, called "The Accounts of the Left and Right of Juntaiguan", which described: "Yao Chang (Tianmu) is the supreme product, a rare thing in the world, worth 10,000 horses of silk, the second is the oil drop (Tianmu), worth 5,000 horses of silk, and the rabbit (Tianmu) is even more inferior, worth 3,000 horses of silk." ’”

After listening to this explanation, Cai Pingping asked the boss in disbelief: "Is what this guy said true?

"Ah, I'm sorry, but this is not for sale in the shop. The young boss hurriedly refused, but the smug and joyful smile on his face couldn't be stopped, "But I won't tell you two that there were several merchants from Taiwan who took a fancy to this change, and the offer reached more than six figures, and I rejected them." I've burned thousands of pieces of porcelain in the past few years, and that's all I can do, and I want to keep it as a treasure in the town!"

Cai Pingping's mouth opened wide in amazement, with an expression of disbelief, but Duan Shanshanyun was indifferent, as if the boss said that rejecting the six-figure offer was a matter of course.

"Two connoisseurs are distinguished guests, please sit down and have a cup of tea. The boss smiled and stretched out his hand to invite the two, and the two gladly agreed, and walked to the tea table in the depths of the store and sat down.

"It just so happened that I just brewed a pot of Zhengshan small seeds, please taste them. The boss took out four rabbit cups, poured half a cup of hot tea into each, and distributed them to everyone.

"The tea utensils are good, and the tea is good. Cai Pingping took it honestly and unceremoniously, skillfully picked up the tea bowl and put it under her nose and sniffed it gently, then pursed her lips and took a sip, and after putting down the tea bowl, she first praised it, and then turned around and criticized, "But boss, your tea art level needs to be improved!"

"Haha, I really haven't learned the tea ceremony, I'm just drinking it myself. The boss explained a little embarrassed.

"Let me show my hand, okay?" Cai Pingping seemed to be interested, and stretched out her hand to signal the boss to hand her the set of tea-making utensils in front of her, and the boss agreed with great interest, reaching out and pushing a bunch of tea-making tools over.

"Originally, this kind of tea bowl was more suitable for matcha in ancient times (the Japanese tea ceremony is based on matcha), rather than the tea art that we are used to using roasted tea leaves for brewing, but it is not too much of a problem to use it reluctantly. Cai Pingping first explained with a smile, and then began to show her tea art.

I saw that she first took out the tea leaves in the teapot with a tea clip, and then scooped a spoonful of tea leaves into the teapot with a teaspoon, then reached out and poured boiling water from the kettle, held the teapot with both hands and shook it lightly a few times, put down the teapot and used the tea clip to receive each person's tea bowl in front of her, held the pot in one hand and picked up the tea bowl one by one with the tea clip in the other, cleaned it with the first tea, and poured the used tea into the tea case. Then pour boiling water into the pot for the second time, still gently shake it a few times, and then hold the pot with both hands to fill the tea bowl with tea water one after another, and each time the tea is poured into another bowl, and so on, until the last few drops of tea are more comprehensive.

When Cai Pingping smiled and sent the tea bowl to everyone, Duan Shanshan, the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper's mother were all a little stunned. This little girl has done the whole set of ceremonies, the movements are elegant and smooth, and every link is unthinking but without stopping, just like the tea master performance in director Zhang Yimou's work "Impression of the Big Red Robe" this year.

"Don't underestimate me, I'm also a person with a tea master qualification certificate!" the daughter of the owner of the tea company announced with an expression of "come and praise me", half showing off and half happily.

P.S. Happy Zongzi Festival to everyone. Today, my brother-in-law invited the two families to dinner.,The author is going to set off before I finish this chapter and have no time to revise it.,If there is a clerical error, I hope you Haihan.。 By the way, my brother-in-law is a builder, and there is really a Yao change in his shop, which is not an advertisement, it is really not haha.

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