Chapter 312: Tea Fight
"The celadon series, Cizhou series, and Jun porcelain of Song porcelain have always been loved by the Japanese. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Song Jin's Cizhou plus color bowl, green grass leaves between red flowers, we call this kind of red color porcelain "Song Chi painting". As for the blue and white flowers of the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, they are also very prevaricated, and they have a soft spot for the five colors of Wanli at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and they are crazy about it. ā
"China's export of blue and white porcelain at the end of the Ming Dynasty had a great impact on Japan, and the tea set of "Wuliang Dafu Wu Xiangrui made" was highly respected, and the Japanese who studied in China introduced China's blue and white technology to Japan, and the porcelain industry was worshiped as a god. China's Ming Wucai influenced Japan and produced famous porcelain such as Imari and Kutani. ā
"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, porcelain often had abrasion on the edge of the mouth, which the Chinese regarded as disabled, but we Japanese did not think it was lacking, and even nicknamed it "worm ha". A little bit of "worm" on a piece of export porcelain at the end of the Ming Dynasty will not affect the price, just like a goddess with a broken arm and a beautiful woman with a mole, but it is more charming. The Japanese are the only ones who are indifferent to the blue and white and pastel ware of the middle Qing Dynasty, and do not like the dazzling and overly decorated. ā
"The Japanese don't particularly like snuff bottles and jade miscellaneous, especially jade, and there are very few people who know about it. The Four Treasures of the Scholar's Office, Japan is an important export market in China's history, especially the ancient inkstones in major museums and business names, which are regarded by many Japanese as "scholars' pets". ā
"Tokyo Eisei Bunko is the top old brand of the study, but because the domestic market has been very chaotic in the past ten years, for example, bloodstone was originally very expensive, but because of the Bahrain stone and artificial dyers, many Japanese people are discouraged. So now the market is not good, and there is no brand effect. ā
Wu Tianyuan wrote it down with his heart, these are all valuable experiences, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure! With Goro Sakamoto's guiding light, Tianyuantang will be able to avoid many detours in the future.
"In the next step, I will make every effort to revive antique porcelain, focusing on Song Dynasty porcelain, you are each ready to integrate channels and contacts, wait for my first batch of results next month, and then start to slowly develop the Japanese market!"
Wu Tianyuan suddenly received a call from Yasuda, saying that there was important news over there and asked him to come over for an interview. Wu Tianyuan came to Yasuda's house and saw him with an excited face.
"It's done!" Yasuda Xing said: "It is worthy of Tianyuanjun, even the Yasuda family attaches great importance to it, not only agreeing to in-depth cooperation, but also letting me be fully responsible for all matters!" ā
Wu Tianyuan said with a smile: "I have said a long time ago that there is no problem, this is no harm to the Yasuda family, and I will ask Yasuda Jun to take care of it in the future!" ā
The two of them laughed and drank while planning their next steps, discussing how to use various channels to enhance brand value and influence.
After arranging Japan, Wu Tianyuan returned to the capital and immediately contacted Lao Tang, asking him to continue to recruit troops, recruit all talents and resources around him, expand the assembly line as soon as possible, and increase production.
The antique porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties has been very mature, and now there are higher-end channel sales, and the price has increased at least tenfold. Longquan celadon has also been successfully studied, and the rest is to continuously improve the process. The next step is to make every effort to imitate the kiln and the kiln, and the results will be produced within a month.
After Geng Lao heard about it, he personally went to Jingdezhen to live for a long time and helped Tang Tianming to study the formula together. He also specially invited a few masters to form a group to reproduce the lost craftsmanship of his ancestors. With Wu Tianyuan's secret recipe, the progress is very fast.
In the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin was fond of drinking tea, and set up tea affairs organs in the court, and the tea used in the court was divided into grades. Tea ceremonies have become a ritual system, and giving tea has become an important means for the emperor to envelop his ministers, cherish his relatives, and even express friendship to foreign envoys. As for the folk, the tea culture is full of vitality, some people move away, the neighborhood wants to "offer tea", there are guests, to pay tribute to "ingots tea", to "get married" to "tea", to get married to "set tea", to "make tea" when in the same room, and relatives and friends gatherings are inseparable from the tea party. ā
While eating, several people chatted: "The Song people usually take "ordering tea" as the basic form of tea affairs, the so-called "guests order tea, send guests to order soup". The procedure of ordering tea is to burn tea, grind, bake, wait for soup, whisk, and cook, and the key is to wait for soup and whisk. ā
"The main feature of ordering tea is that the cake and tea are roasted first, then crushed and crushed into fine powder, and the tea powder is sifted finely with a tea luo." Luo fine tea floats, Luo rough is the end of the float. "A spoon of tea, first inject the soup to make it extremely even. Add another injection, the ring back blows, and the soup can be stopped by four minutes. Shenqi's face is bright white, and it is better to have no water marks on the lamp. "Put the sifted tea powder into the tea cup, pour a small amount of boiling water, stir it evenly, then inject boiling water, and hit it repeatedly with a bamboo tea whisk to make it foam, so that the side wall of the tea cup does not leave water marks is the best."
Lao Tang sighed: "The highest art of tea drinking in the Song Dynasty is "tea fighting", which embodies all the skills of the Song people in tea tasting. Tea fighting, also known as tea fighting, is a custom to evaluate the quality of tea in the form of competition. There are strict requirements for materials, utensils and cooking methods, and the effect of tea fighting is measured by the color and uniformity of the tea noodle soup flower, and whether there is any trace of water at the junction between the inner edge of the cup and the soup flower. ā
"If you want to win the championship in tea fighting, it also lies in the operation, Huizong's palace tea fighting, in fact, compared to the pilot tea skills, the tea is good, and the water is also the same, which is the premise. The tea fight is still a face milk flower, and whether to "bite the cup" or not is the winning and losing rules of the tea fight. ā
"The criterion for judging the victory or defeat of the tea fight is that it is excellent to regard its face as bright white and without water marks on the lamp; Jian'an fights to test, the first of the water marks is negative, and the durable one wins. In other words, one looks at the brown color, and the other looks at the water marks. The two families fight each other, often more than once, for example, the one who fights three times and has two seer water marks is negative, so "the saying of winning and losing: one water is different, two waters." "Tea fighting also includes tea soup, so only those who have the best color, aroma and taste can achieve the final victory."
Geng Lao said with a smile: "The winner of the tea produced after the tea fight was often used as another name for the best tea. The price of the best tea is extremely expensive, such as the dragon and phoenix group, eight cakes a catty, each cake two taels, the cost of gold two taels, and the prince will sigh "gold is easy to get, the dragon group is hard to find!" ā
After the "Little Dragon Troupe" created by Cai Xiang came out, the Dragon and Phoenix Troupe competed to become a third-rate product. During Xining, the "Miyun Dragon" appeared, and the Xiaolong group had to take a back seat. Later, the "Dragon Regiment Shengxue" made of silver silk water buds weighed about one and a half dollars per cake, and its cost was "30,000" and 40,000 yuan. ā
"For thirty thousand, you can buy a hundred stone of grain. Among them, the best "white buds" and "dragon group shengxue" in the "tribute tea" specially used by the royal family are made only two or three catties in the country every year, and the world cannot see them at all. The "Little Dragon Group" and "Miyun Dragon", which have a slightly larger output, are only when the sacrificial ceremony is held in the imperial court, and a few close ministers are fortunate to "give a cake together". Ouyang Xiu said that he had been in the dynasty for 20 years, and he only got a cake of "Little Dragon Group" given by Song Renzong. He treasured it for several years, and only occasionally took it out for a look at family and friends gatherings. (To be continued.) )