Jianyang since the early days of the Daduan Dynasty opened, after more than 600 years of wind and rain and often in, are all because of this place surrounded by mountains and water, soil particles are rich in phosphorus and potassium, open the kiln to fire porcelain, the shape is magnificent, the tire wall is as thin as cicada wings, the shape is ingenious, famous, and then there are three generations of porcelain masters, the royal inner courtyard was selected as a tribute, and gave the dragon kiln three mouths, and then the Jianyang dragon kiln swept the land of Kyushu, the officials and nobles regarded it as a treasure, which was produced in Qianyanzhou as the most.

In later generations, Daduan was atrocious, the people's grievances were boiling, and the city-states were destroyed everywhere, but only Jianyang burned the kiln for generations, and the people were saved from the war.

Shenguang Taizu Dingding Central Plains after Jianyang three dragon kiln at the same time fire sacrifice, the fire soared into the sky for three days and three nights, firing the founding of the heavy vessel "Kyushu Ding" and more than 600 pieces of porcelain sets in the first year of the new dynasty into the offering, the holy dragon Yan Dayue gave the decree that Jianyang Mansion was exempted from three years, and gave the three surnames of Song, Cui and Xie as the King James Governor Tao Official, and the generation of dragon kiln masters did not come out of the three surnames.

Xikou Cui's family can be traced back to thirteen generations according to the ancestral hall genealogy, the first ancestor of the hall was originally a seller who walked the streets and alleys, he was thirsty and unbearable to this place, he found a turbulent stream in the place where the boulder grass was covered, he drank water and rested and fell asleep, the stream under the boulder suddenly became a big river in his dream, the river was surging and rushing away, Cui's stood on the boulder far away from the river, the farther and wider the river surface, the river water converged into a big river and a long history.

The seller made up his mind to marry a wife and settle down on the spot, and the branches and leaves multiplied for 600 years, and the stream continued to flow for 600 years, and since then the place has also been renamed "Xikou".

At the beginning, the Daduan Dynasty fought with heroes from all walks of life, the Central Plains was devastated, the northern scholars could not withstand the devastation of the war and chose to move south, Cui Hanzhang moved his family from his grandfather's generation to avoid disaster, and the lives of people in troubled times were as cheap as grass mustard, not to mention family property, starvation was everywhere on both sides of the road, and he couldn't walk anymore when he stopped at the mouth of Jianyang Creek, and he didn't want to go.

Therefore, the lineage of Langya Cui and the Xikou Cui family are not in a genealogy, let alone blood kinship. The turning point of the matter happened in Hanzhang's grandfather's generation, of course, the grandmother is not a big long branch of the Xikou Cui family, but it is also a partial branch of the bloodline, just happened to be on the edge of the branch of the five suits, because of this, the grandmother went to the Cui ancestral hall to ask the elders for a day and a night before letting Hanzhang go to the clan middle school, Hanzhang became the only one in the entire school who was not a child surnamed Cui of the Xikou Cui family.

Speaking of Jianyang Mansion is located between the mountains, the old saying spreads that there are seven mountains, two rivers and one field, the vegetation is dense between the mountains and rivers, and the scenery is naturally beautiful, which is quite a paradise.

But only a few thin fields can not support the family, the kiln people mainly rely on fine porcelain circulation of the world, food, clothing, housing and transportation living expenses eighty percent rely on the external inflow, although because of the geographical location and inconvenient transportation, away from the war disaster, but also brought the people's livelihood withering dilemma, the last years of the end of the Jianyang people lived a poor life. Many kiln burners can't survive and give up their skills to go out to find a way to live, and few have come back for many years, and most of them have been buried in other places.

Shenguang Taizu Longen descended again, the whole Jianyang was rejuvenated, the kiln is a handicraft work is more physical work, and the foreigners who come here to take refuge often have physical strength but can't learn the craft, Hanzhang's grandfather is different, of course, thanks to the reason of the grandmother.

Craftsmanship is the ability to make a living, but also the skill of walking the divine light, who does not know the world of Jianyang Dragon Kiln? As for the generation of Hanzhang, he gave up the precious craftsmanship and studied and studied, and the hard-working kiln people couldn't understand it.

The breeze in the wilderness is blowing, the mountain scenery is deaf, and he just wants to return home in a hurry, Hanzhang is in a happy mood and trots and walks, and he runs to Jianyang Xikou in one day.

The clouds gather in the green stream, and the wind and birds want to cry. Stop and look at the terraced fields coiled, the longitudinal and horizontal, the cooking smoke is dotted on the side of the meandering stream, the quiet blue river flows, and the boat is not tied to the horizontal.

The mountain, towering and unique, is mostly steep and elegant, containing the character of the Northland. The water, clear and meandering, has the tenderness of the south of the Yangtze River.

When autumn is thick, thousands of smoke are heavy, and it is named Qianyanzhou.

There are countless mountains and rivers in Qianyanzhou, hands and feet are connected, the breath is connected, blend with each other, nurture the mountains, forests, water and grass, surrounded by mountains, the valley is hidden deeply, the strange peaks are stacked, the peaks and peaks are high, the layers are facing each other, the devil's axe is wonderful, the postures are varied, the height is different, the green water is entangled, the waves are floating, the smoke waves are vast, the blue waves are dissolved, a good picture of gorgeous and colorful ink and wash Danqing, so that people are intoxicated in the meantime, forget where they are.

Cui Hanzhang walked along the road under his feet, with green trees competing beside him, mountains and flowers, water birds frolicking on the beach, and a group of fish jumping in the waves.

Farther away, there is a kiln mouth with red light lingering on the ridge, and the entire stream mouth is shrouded in the twilight afterglow, and the hometown is timid and does not dare to take a step, just want to quietly enjoy the beautiful scenery of the idyllic sunset, perhaps because he has never appreciated its beauty since he was a child, and the return of this trip makes people feel the beauty that has been neglected by ordinary times.

Crossing the boulder at the mouth of the stream, the villagers greeted warmly along the way, "Ah, Xiao Hanzhang is back", as if the countryside that had been silent for a long time was rejuvenated, children chased and frolicked, and the buffalo in the field whispered, and the villagers all knew that Hanzhang was the first kiln burner to return from Jin'an to participate in the scientific expedition in nearly a hundred years.

The warm sun and wind were slow, and under the crowd of children, Hanzhang walked to the door of his house, and saw his grandmother sitting in the yard basking in the sun, and his mother was sewing and mending the daily change of clothes, and some bold children shouted: "Grandma Cui, Brother Hanzhang is back."

Grandmother Cui Shi looked up and saw Cui Hanzhang standing in the middle of a group of children with a happy smile on his face, although he was old but in good spirits, his silver hair was neat, his grandmother wanted to stand up to welcome the children returning home, Hanzhang ran forward quickly and hugged his grandmother, "Just come back safely."

Mother also put down the work in her hand and stepped forward to pat the dust on Hanzhang's body, "I haven't eaten yet, I'll go make you something to eat", although the mother has never read and write, but always understands and speaks, and follows her grandmother to keep the whole family in order, Hanzhang took out all kinds of pastries bought in Jin'an City and distributed them to the children, and the childhood of a rush and bouncing was the most carefree.

The evening breeze in the mountains is blowing, the green bamboo is swaying, the quiet courtyard looks particularly peaceful, the grandmother is smiling and listening to him telling all kinds of strange things in Jin'an City, the mother is busy with a sumptuous dinner, and the little sister Hanling turned over her brother's burden until she found the most popular hair accessories in Jin'an City.

The family gathered around the dining table to enjoy the joy of family reunion, and before I knew it, my father drank too much of the old wine he brewed, the firewood in the stove had slowly burned to the end, and the yellow dog in the yard was full of bones and lay in the nest squinting and dozing.

After Cui Hanzhang sent his grandmother to sleep, he helped his mother wash the dishes and chopsticks, and his mother took the hairpin sent by her son all night, and the emerald green hairpin was inserted in the green silk bushes.

Cui Hanzhang's family has been poor since he was a child, and his food and clothing are all saved, and in his father's words, the kiln people are not so poor and exquisite. Therefore, in the past, he was a mosquito on the leg of the split, mosquitoes and flies in the abdomen of fat oil, fortunately, Jin An saved a lot of money by staying in Yunshen Temple, and at this time he spent all his money on buying gifts for his family.

Five more chickens, the sky is slightly bright, the mist in the mountains is drifting like silk yarn, Hanzhang's father has gone to the kiln after breakfast, the kiln is not more than ordinary farmers, first to temper the physical strength, the soil pulping needs to be tempered to strengthen the toughness of the soil, and then enter the kiln to practice endurance, the fire is high temperature and fierce, and the kiln needs to be supervised by the kiln worker in the middle fire, otherwise the deviation of the heat and strength is to burn the porcelain of a kiln.

Those who can practice these are qualified to enter the room to learn the craft technology, learn the craft with understanding, the master takes the entry to practice to see the individual, some people are a potter in their life, but what inspires the younger generations is the miracle of the predecessors of the masters, the exquisite and magnificent porcelain is after all fabricated and fired by one hand, and the kiln porcelain is the foundation of the entire Jianyang.

Hanzhang went to the Cui family school as usual early in the morning, the school occupied two side halls of the clan ancestral hall, the ancestral hall was built in the middle of the highest peak of the entire Xikou, at first there were Xikou Cui clan elders as the enlightenment, and later like Hanzhang at this age the need for scientific research gradually increased, Cui specially hired Mr. Shuo Ru Lou from the Qulan Academy of Jin'an Mansion, it is said that Mr. Lou came from the famous family of Taikang.

The mountain road is winding, and the master of the building stands in front of the ancestral hall and looks at Hanzhang who climbs the mountain, thinking of a lot of the past, and the young man should be bathed in the spring breeze. The master and apprentice started to scrutinize and review this year's big exam from the details, and the master of the building lightly twisted his beard and fell into contemplation, and couldn't help but think of the rumors at the beginning of the year, it seems that what Madman Xu said is true.

Hanzhang ran smoothly to the backyard under the cliff wall to play a bucket of mountain spring water to boil tea, just happened to take out the Shenxiu Peak wild tea cake presented by the master of Zhenru to pay homage, maybe it is the fragrance of water tea, boiling water brewing fully released the fragrance of wild tea, the master was attracted by the fragrance of tea and couldn't help but praise: "good tea".

After slowly drinking and sipping back to Gan for a long time, there was a faint medicinal fragrance inadvertently refreshing people's hearts, and the master of the building rarely showed a very interested look, and said a serious advice:

"Since you choose to be in danger, you must be ready to give it a go."

Tomorrow will begin to resume daily schoolwork, and at the same time to practice more of your kiln handles, those styles are not simple, some such as the old bear in the mountains leaning on the tree to tickle, some like the branch ape stretching and jumping, the style is simple and unpretentious but contains technical skills, who has not stumbled through the ups and downs of a lifetime.

After the master finished explaining his schoolwork, he returned to the inner hall to meditate and rest, his mind was silent, and the dark world was like a mist veil wrapped around the mountains of Xikou, and the fluctuations near the leylines of the dragon kiln became more and more frequent, and it didn't take half a moment to make people unable to be quiet, exhaling a breath of turbidity, and the master laughed at himself.

After the adjustment of the teacher, the coursework is more focused on secular human feelings, and moral articles and secular human feelings have never been separated and opposed, and their internal literary ideals are idealistic, but the world is superficial and only takes the expression without delving into the truth.

The building teacher is a bit eccentric in teaching, and it is strictly forbidden for students to argue about right and wrong, only reasoning, and if it makes sense, it will be smooth, and if it doesn't make sense, it will be thought behind closed doors.

He once said: "Children are ignorant and ignorant, and the world is enough for you to measure with your footsteps and body and mind." "This group of children should also be like porcelain making, entering the kiln and leaving the kiln colorful.

The years are like a shuttle, back to the mouth of the river has been more than half a month, day and night practice, stepping on the morning light in a breath to climb the mountain to enter the hall atmosphere is not breathing, this day Cui Hanzhang after lunch along the trail to the back of the mountain to wander around to eat, in the school not far from the mountain turned right into the end of the dragon kiln, the end of the kiln mouth has not been used all the year round, natural inaccessible.

Cui's dragon kiln starts at the dark stream at the root of the mountain, the stream converges at the foot of the mountain and rushes out of a shallow water outlet, although the water mouth is shallow but has never dried up for hundreds of years, it has been continuously protected and repaired and expanded by the descendants of the clan, the surrounding is lush and green, and the water quality is the clearest.

Climb up along the mountain, the middle part of the kiln will gradually narrow, the fish-maw-like floor, the center is high and the sides are low, and then go up to end in the right side of the Cui ancestral hall, and there are dozens of eaves next to each other. Looking down from a high place, the mouth of the water in the distance is just like a dragon ball, and looking up from the foot of the mountain, its form is like a sleeping dragon, lying on the mouth of the stream leisurely.

Cui Hanzhang's impression is to see a dragon kiln as a whole ignition kiln, the whole dragon kiln as if alive, the kiln mouth is like a snort spewing thin white gas, the abdomen is red and lush, the fire is especially bright at night, and the distance is like a fire dragon descending into the world, extremely shocking.

Wandering around here, walking and stopping, I suddenly saw that there was snow at the junction of the end of the dragon kiln and the valley, and it was shrouded in dense purple gas, very much like the thick mountain fog in the morning, but the consistency was far better than the mountain fog, the strange thing is that I didn't hear the people of Xikou say that there was snow, and the heavy snow in Jin'an a while ago drifted to the mouth of Jianyang Creek?

The location of the valley in the mountains is very rare, squatting down to pick up a handful of snow in the hand to feel cold, suddenly there was a boom the mountain shook the ground, like the shaking of the ground cow turned over so that Hanzhang squatted on one foot and fell to the ground, his face was planted directly into the snow, and he ate a mouthful of snow, fortunately there was snow on the ground, otherwise he had to break the phase.

I got up and didn't care about the pain, I looked up and saw that there were rolling stones falling down the mountain and falling into the water mouth, and a small part of the dragon kiln collapsed, and I ran back to the school to see the building master looking in front of the door, and everyone was finally relieved to see that no one was injured.

In the ancestral hall, the elders of the Cui clan came out to discuss with the master of the building, and there has never been such a strange thing recorded in the clan for six hundred years, and the deeds of the earth cow have never appeared in the Jianyang Mansion Chronicle, which is very strange.

Lou Shi is shocked in his heart, gasping for breath is difficult to calm, the leylines have fluctuated frequently recently, in the meditation just now, he clearly felt the earth's veins gathering and surging, and suddenly erupted in the direction of the back mountain, and the charm of the entire stream mouth has attenuated a lot, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover without a hundred years of life, and the water level at the mouth of the water at the foot of the mountain has dropped a lot, exposing the bluestone that has been soaked in the water all year round.

After this toss, he returned home early, and at night he heard the little sister Hanling say that the little fat man of the Wang family was so frightened that he fell into the mouth of the water today and almost drowned, and when he was rescued, he found that the water did not reach his neck, this coward.

My father said that some small kilns had collapsed, and when they were safe in two days, they had to go to the kiln to help repair them. Hanzhang said that when he saw that a small part of Cui's dragon kiln had collapsed, his father didn't speak, but after eating enough, he told him not to run around for the past two days, and waited to go to the kiln together to help.

After a night without incident, the mother urged the children to go to bed early, and Hanzhang felt his body light through the layers of clouds and mist, soaring among the blue sky and white clouds in his dream......