Chapter 380: The Great Dragon Kiln
Professor Wu's action immediately startled everyone!
In the eyes of these officials, although Professor Wu does not have a good temper and does not know how to be a person, he is not a person who has never seen the world.
But this kind of person has become so out of shape after Lu Yu's words? !
And all this seemed to have been expected by Lu Yu, he picked up the teacup again, and said with a smile: "Let's have a cup of tea." ”
"Humph!"
Professor Wu hesitated for a moment, and finally sat down sullenly, directly picked up the teacup in front of him and drank the tea in one gulp, and said, "The tea is finished, you can say it quickly!"
Lu Yu raised his hand and poured him another cup of tea, shook his head and said, "Such a good tea, if Professor Wu just drinks it like this, wouldn't it be a tyrannical thing? Why don't you drink another cup?"
"I said, why are you so verbose!" Professor Wu muttered impatiently, but still picked up the teacup and slowly drank the tea from the cup.
Lu Yu watched him drink the tea with a smile on his face, and then asked, "How?"
Professor Wu was slightly stunned, then reacted, his lips moved and he nodded, "Good tea...... It is indeed a good tea! It has a mellow taste and a unique aroma! It is a rare good tea!"
Professor Wu said "good tea" three times in a row, and at the end, his eyes couldn't help but light up!
Lu Yu smiled with satisfaction, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the camera that was shooting in the distance.
With such a big move this time, reporters from local and provincial stations naturally have to come to grab the news, if they don't take advantage of this opportunity to promote Qi Hong, wouldn't it be a waste of opportunity?
In fact, long before Professor Wu arrived, Lu Yu had already known about Professor Wu.
Although Professor Wu is not a tea man, his home can be regarded as a famous family in the entire Chinese tea world! Thinking with his toes, this Professor Wu must have drunk countless good teas, and he can let him say the benefits of Qimen black tea in front of all the media, and its promotion effect is naturally self-evident!
After a little trick of "tricks", Lu Yu finally got down to business and said, "If Professor Wu likes it, I will send you some ...... when my Keemun black tea begins to be mass-produced and picked But now let's not delay the business, and please take a closer look at the fire dragon hill behind you. ”
Seeing that Lu Yu didn't even talk about tea anymore, Professor Wu had to suppress the "tea addiction" that had just been aroused and turned his head to look.
After just one glance, Professor Wu's eyes narrowed directly, and he said thoughtfully: "The shape of this hill...... Looks like a dragon's back?!"
Lu Yu clapped his hands and praised: "Good eyesight! This is also one of the bases for me to speculate that it is the Great Dragon Kiln!"
Professor Wu nodded slightly, but still frowned: "But if you speculate that there are the remains of the Great Dragon Kiln here just based on the appearance of the hill, it will be ......."
Lu Yu smiled, of course he knew what Professor Wu meant.
What is Dalong Kiln?
The dragon kiln is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese pottery workers, an extraordinary masterpiece!
The dragon kiln is named because its shape resembles the dragon in Chinese legends, and the one with a magnificent scale is called the big dragon kiln!
Most of the dragon kilns are inclined according to the slope of the mountain, and the brick masonry is built into a cylindrical tunnel with a slope straight flame type. The general length is about 30 to 70 meters, and the top is about 12 meters high. The angle of inclination is between eight and twenty degrees.
Its structure is divided into three parts: kiln head, kiln bed and kiln tail.
On both sides of the dome-shaped back of the dragon kiln, small holes for placing fuel are opened every one meter and three meters, which are called "scale eye holes", and there are generally more than 50 such scale eye holes.
The interior of the kiln is made of adobe bricks, all of which are arched.
Except for the kiln head, which is equipped with a separate fire chamber, the rest of the combustion chamber is in the passage of the firing chamber, that is, in the scale hole hole.
The tail end of the dragon kiln is generally not a chimney, and there is a fire retaining wall and a fireworks alley near the chimney.
This kind of kiln generally uses pine wood as fuel, which has high heat, long flame and less ash and silt. The production cycle is about four days, and the firing volume is large, and the yield is also very high.
However, this kind of kiln is gradually replaced by modern technology, the new type of inverted flame kiln, tunnel kiln, push plate kiln and electric kiln, with coal, diesel, electricity as fuel, the quality of the finished product is better than burning pine wood, and the production cycle only takes a few hours.
Now it seems that the Dalong kiln may have been gradually eliminated by history.
However, in the eyes of the archaeological circles, this kind of kiln is an extremely important historical witness! If there is a big dragon kiln somewhere, then it must be a sacred place for pottery in ancient times! This kind of discovery is often not only an archaeological discovery, but also a inheritance and the birth of a history!
Therefore, Professor Wu was so excited just now after hearing Lu Yu mention the three words of Dalong Kiln.
Only an archaeological expert like him can truly understand the value of the Dalong kiln site!
But now Lu Yu can conclude that there is a big dragon kiln buried in it just by the shape of this hill?!
Facing Professor Wu's questioning, Lu Yu said with a smile: "If you ask me to come up with real evidence now, I'm afraid it's unlikely." But I'd like to make a bet with you!"
"Bet?" Professor Wu frowned.
Lu Yu nodded and said, "I know that Professor Wu is not only an archaeologist, but also a scholar who is very proficient in classical kiln technology. It is no exaggeration to say that the kiln you designed is more perfect than many veteran kiln craftsmen. ”
Professor Wu nodded: "It seems that you know a lot about me. ”
Lu Yu said with a smile: "So, my bet is that if there are really the remains of the Great Dragon Kiln on this Huolonggang, then I will ask Professor Wu to personally design another complete Great Dragon Kiln for me to build on another hill......!
Lu Yu said and gently picked up the teacup, looked at the tea soup in the cup and said, "Then my Qimen black tea belongs to Professor Wu, how about it?"
Hiss!
As soon as these words came out, even Professor Wu couldn't help but gasp!
He didn't expect Lu Yu to come up with such a huge bet!
You must know that although he himself has a very high attainment in the construction of kilns, no one has ever been able to invite him to design a kiln himself, let alone this kind of dragon kiln that integrates ancient craftsmanship into Dacheng!
But even so, my own design may not be as good as the Qimen black tea that Lu Yu discovered, right?!
Professor Wu is in a family of tea people, and he knows better than anyone the value of the Keemun black tea he just drank! If this is really a tea produced in China, then the people who discover this tea will not only be able to obtain huge economic benefits, but also go down in history!
It's definitely not just about money!
Could it be that this Lu Yu already had conclusive evidence long before I arrived? He is saying this now just to trick me into designing a big dragon kiln for him?!
Thinking of this, Professor Wu groaned slightly: "Your bet has indeed moved me, but before I promise, I must personally walk around the hill!"
Lu Yu also nodded and smiled when he heard this: "This is natural, Professor Wu, please take it." ”