Chapter 12: Long Insight
Before I knew it, it had been three days since I came back, and during this time I had been living in a mess, either sleeping or studying "The Lesson Before the Horse" every day, but there was no real gain.
By chance, I met my former classmates and played with them all day, and when I came home in the evening, I began to miss the days in Heilongjiang, although I was busy every day, but it was better than doing nothing now.
I wanted to experience the leisurely life of the elderly, so I made a bowl of gaiwan tea and lay on the old chair, still holding the book I had just bought from the bookstore.
It's Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" that tells some anecdotes, but nine times out of ten it is related to foxes, and it is inevitable that I will get tired after watching it, so I lost interest, so I buried my face in the book and began to doze.
While I was asleep, someone kicked the chair, and it began to creak, and I woke up, and I opened the book with one hand and complained, "Why can't I get a good night's sleep when I mess with someone?" "I'm sick of getting up!
When I opened the book, I opened my eyes to a face enlarged in front of my eyes, I was scared, and I involuntarily leaned back a few points, looking at the eyebrows and eyes that were somewhat similar to mine, and then reacted, isn't this Brother Dong? He immediately got up from his chair and smiled at him flatteringly.
Brother Dong glanced at me, sat down slowly, looked around, saw the gaiwan tea on the table and teased: "Yo, Huaizi, it's okay, comfortable!" ”
I had to laugh: "Dad, why didn't you say hello in advance when you came back?" I looked to the door and added, "Why don't you see my mother?" As soon as he heard what I said, my father put his hand on his forehead and sighed: "It's not that you don't know your mother's virtue, she wants to play, what can I do!" ”
"Then why don't you accompany her?" I asked. Brother Dong took a sip of tea: "It's not you yet, Lao Wei said that you arrived at the house, so I came back to see you." "Brother Dong's words are not painful, I can't guess his thoughts.
"By the way, last time you said on the phone that you wanted to explain something to me, what is it?" I suddenly remembered, so I asked him, but at this time, Brother Dong sold Guanzi, with an unfathomable face: "This is not busy in advance, I will talk about it when I am free in two days, and I will go to a few shops with me first." ”
I guess the old man might be up to his mind. I didn't want to go, but I couldn't disobey his wishes, so I stood aside and waited for him to speak. Brother Dong asked me about my situation in Heilongjiang all the way, and I told him everything I got.
He pondered for a moment, "What did you do in the big brother's room?" "Big brother? I didn't react for a while, but after a while, I realized that he was talking about the patriarch Chen Shoumo, and replied: "I didn't do anything, I just walked around his room and flipped through a few books." ”
This time it was his turn to be surprised: "Books? What book? I remember he wasn't a lover of books. After speaking, he seemed to recall something, and sighed.
"It's just some mythological stories, probably the god of water, the god of fire, the Queen Mother of the West and the like, nothing special." I saw that he seemed to be stuck in a memory, so I called out to him and asked, "What's wrong?" What's the problem? Brother Dong was a little distraught, and muttered, "It's nothing, it's just ......"
He didn't say the following words, I felt that something was wrong, and I wanted to ask again, when I looked at Brother Shangdong's eyes, his eyes had already recovered a piece of clarity, I knew that I couldn't ask the result, so I shut up with interest.
We walked side by side, but never spoke again. It wasn't until he went to another shop that he showed his previous shrewdness. After walking a few places, I realized the true meaning of Dongge's move.
The people he took me to see were all respected people in this area, and on the surface, he said that he was sweeping the top goods, but in fact, he was sounding the alarm bell for the bosses, and he should not move his mind. It seems that during my absence, many people stumbled on the Chen family openly and secretly, but this trip was really worth it.
Brother Dong and I went to the next shop as usual, but this one did not have the exaggerated decoration in front, but if you look closely at the door, you will find that the materials and materials are very exquisite. As soon as you enter the door, there is nothing eye-catching on the partition in the shop, and even dust has been piled up in some places, which shows that the business of the shop is not very good.
There was only one guy in the store, and when he saw us coming, he went directly to the back and called the boss. Brother Dong was still in an official tone, and the boss knew that Brother Dong had the habit of going to other shops to collect things, so he said: "I know that you are coming, and I will keep the things for you." With that, he lifted the curtain and went to the back room.
I glanced around, and my eyes were immediately drawn to the purple clay pot on the chessboard. I picked it up and took a closer look, looking at the design and texture, it should be Ge Jun's purple clay pot, although it is a modern thing, but it also has a great collection value, and his design drawing is even more difficult to find. I smiled, it seems that the boss here has some way.
At this time, the boss took something and came out from behind, and I immediately put down the purple clay pot and went over to join in the fun.
I saw a blue and black tea bowl, the blue pattern is like a little starry sky in the dark night, as if the mysteries of this world are in it, I can't find any better words to describe it for a while, if it is really a book to use the time to hate less.
Brother Dong took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and was also blinded by it for a while, and I waited for him for a long time without speaking. Brother Dong looked at it for a while and asked, "Fishy goods, right?" "The so-called fishy means fake, and the real thing is called sharp, which is the industry slang.
The boss touched his beard and smiled incomprehensibly: "It is worthy of Brother Dong, it is indeed fishy." ”
I looked at it for a long time and didn't see anything special about this bowl, so I asked, "Dad, what the hell is this?" "My dad took something and told me to take a closer look, but after looking at it for a long time, I could only see that it was a tea bowl with exquisite workmanship. The boss asked the guy to serve us two cups of tea, and motioned to sit down and talk slowly.
The boss said that this is the Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl of the Song Dynasty, which is the building of the black glaze of the Song Dynasty and used by the Song people to fight tea.
This tea bowl is a unique product of the Southern Song Dynasty, and later spread to Japan. The Japanese are very fond of this antiquity from China, and they find the magical pattern in it to be unpredictable, so they praise the bowl with the phrase "universe in a bowl".
Indeed, the pattern of this bowl due to the natural kiln changes is like putting people in the middle of the night on the seashore to see the brilliant starry sky, and the starry sky is deeply hidden with mysteries, like the unknowable vast universe.
The reason why this bowl is a unique treasure in the world is because if the Yao Chang Tianmu tea bowl is placed in the dark, its flare will flash a slightly bewitching light, and the color will change and be unfathomable.
Although the diameter of this tea bowl is only 12 centimeters, it can make the viewer think of the starry sky of the universe.
It is said that there were two such miraculous tea bowls, and when they spread to Japan, they immediately became a treasure sought after by princes and nobles. One of them was obtained by Oda Nobunaga, but unfortunately this treasure was destroyed in the Honnoji Rebellion due to frequent killing campaigns at that time.
The other was attributed to Tokugawa Ieyasu and was revered as a secret treasure, and the next three generations of shoguns, Tokugawa Iemitsu, gave it to his nurse Kasuga Bureau.
In the Meiji period, the Yaobian Tenmu tea bowl was tossed and turned several times, and it came into the hands of Mitsubishi President Koya Iwasaki, but he thought that this bowl was a famous weapon in the world, and he was not worthy of using it, so he could only watch it, so although Koya Iwasaki owned this tea bowl, he never used it to drink tea in his life. The original Ayowa Tenmu tea bowl is now in the collection of the Seikado Bunko Library in Tokyo, Japan.
Dong Ge added later: "The preciousness of this tea bowl lies in the "Yaochang" technology, which refers to the fact that the successfully fired black porcelain can glow with yellow, blue, green, purple and other colors on the surface film under the light.
However, in order to create a rainbow-like effect on the surface of the finished porcelain, it is necessary to form a very thin film of iron crystals during the firing process. ”
I naively asked Brother Dong if the current technology could be fired, and he shook his head and regretted: "Therefore, the appearance of the tea bowl is gorgeous and abnormal, which does not conform to the aesthetic habits of people advocating simplicity, elegance and indifference in the Southern Song Dynasty." Moreover, the process of this kind of Yaobian porcelain is extremely difficult, and the number of firing is originally small, and then it gradually ceased to be fired, and the amount of survival can be imagined. Although some porcelain-making experts in Fujian today have been working hard to restore this firing process of their predecessors, the level that can be achieved is still far from that of the Southern Song Dynasty. ”
After this period of popular science, I have to sigh that I am short-sighted, and there are still many things to learn.
I asked, "This replica looks so exquisite, and the real thing can be imagined!" At this time, the boss took the tea bowl and looked at it and said: "No, this is not even an imitation, at most it can only be an ornament, the pattern on it is just painted with modern technology, and the degree of subtlety is less than one-ten-thousandth of the real product." ”
Brother Dong was obviously very satisfied with the harvest of this trip, asked the guy in the shop to wrap up the things, and called the boss to call him to pay more attention to the licensed goods and collect them in time.
When I got home, Brother Dong told me that he had bought it for me to practice. There are some things I only recognize, but I really can't discern the fishy tip, and I think I still have to work this.
In the past few days when Master Fu didn't come, I decided to learn from Brother Dong and accumulate experience. Now the antique market is mixed, it is an old object and dare to take it out and shout, this bowl of rice may be gone one day, learn more things, maybe I will write a book "Treasure Record" or something like this in the future, rely on this to eat? I laughed at myself.