Updated: 2013-11-2620:01:05300.Chapter 300 for spring and Tieguanyin

Tieguanyin tea, produced in Anxi County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, was invented in 1725-1735, belongs to the oolong tea category, and is one of the top ten famous teas in China. Between green tea and black tea, it belongs to the semi-fermented tea category, Tieguanyin has a unique "Guanyin rhyme", fragrant and elegant rhyme, "seven bubbles of Yuxiang Creek Moon Dew full of joy Lingyuntao". In addition to the health care functions of general tea, it also has the effects of anti-aging, anti-cancer, anti-arteriosclerosis, prevention and treatment of diabetes, weight loss and bodybuilding, prevention and treatment of dental caries, clearing heat and reducing fire, and sobering up by anti-smoke.

Tieguanyin is the best of oolong tea, and its quality characteristics are: tea strips are curled, fat and round, heavy and even, the color is sand green, and the overall shape resembles a dragonfly head, spiral body, and frog legs. After brewing, the soup color is golden and bright like amber, with a natural and rich orchid fragrance, the taste is mellow and sweet, and the sweet aftertaste is long, commonly known as "rhyme". The fragrance of Tieguanyin tea is high and long-lasting, which can be described as "seven bubbles with residual fragrance".

But if you want to really make a good tea Tieguanyin, you also need good tea utensils, water and the best tea ceremony cultivation. For a tea lover, although Xu Yang is not a tea addict, tea has become a part of his life, and seeing good tea is like a pervert seeing a beautiful woman. Although the metaphor is inappropriate, it does mean the same thing.

The purple sand tea set, developed from pottery, is a new type of pottery. It began in the Song Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has been passed down to this day. Mei Yaochen of the Northern Song Dynasty said in "Yiyun and Du Xianggong Xie Cai Junmo Sending Tea": "Xiaoshi cold spring leaves early taste, and the new purple mud is full of spring." "It is about the scene when the purple sand tea set began to rise in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zisha tea set is a kind of pottery tea set. It is dense and hard, with natural mud color, mostly purple sand, but also red sand and white sand. The fire degree of the pottery is 1100-1200 degrees Celsius, no water absorption, and the sound is thick and long. It is cold and heat resistant, there is no cooked soup taste for making tea, it can keep the true fragrance, and the heat transfer is slow, it is not easy to burn your hands, and it will not burst when you stew tea with it. Therefore, there was a saying in history that "a pot weighs more than two taels, and the price weighs every twenty gold, which can make the earth and gold compete for price". However, the fly in the ointment is limited by the color, and it is difficult to appreciate the beauty and soup color of the tea with it.

In general, the selection of purple sand is divided into five and a half steps, and the so-called five and a half steps are the characteristics of five and a half kinds of purple sand.

The first step: look at its color! Yixing purple sand is rich in color, in addition to more chestnut purple, there are red purple, brown purple, dai purple and so on. The so-called "purple mud" in other places outside Yixing burns out of a single color, generally orange, a closer look at a feeling of yellow mud, Yixing purple clay pot in addition to a large number of purple red, there are green, yellow, black and other colors, it can be said that the color is not similar, the product is not the same. The color of non-Yixing purple sand is single, stereotyped, and lacks change.

Some collectors believe that the purple sand mud should not be too bright, and the bright mud is mostly added with chemical raw materials. The natural purple sand mud is known as the "five-color soil", because the purple sand soil itself contains a large number of metal components. It can use raw ore mud to match many colors, and if the kiln temperature is appropriate, it can be said that it is in a variety of ways.

Look at this set of tea sets "purple mud"! And it is the best color!

In addition to its material, purple sand is also very important in terms of category, appearance and character. The shape of the purple clay pot is the most abundant among all kinds of utensils in the world, and it is known as "the square is not the same, and the circle is not the same". How to evaluate these changeable shapes is also a matter of opinion. As a category of artworks, purple sand can meet the different psychological needs of collectors, and the generous, delicate and ancient purple sand pots have their own merits. However, collectors mostly think that the ancient clumsiness is the best, followed by the atmosphere and beauty.

Compared with today's market and high-quality purple sand pots, the poor pot shape is dull and stiff, because it is not handmade, and does not pay attention to the proportional details of the lines and surfaces, so it looks more vulgar, and the real purple sand teapot is an integral part of the tea culture, and the artistic conception it pursues, that is, "indifferent and peaceful, beyond the world", and the ancient clumsy and this atmosphere are the most harmonious.

In terms of quality, this set of tea sets is an object of the Ming Dynasty, when you see the bottom paragraph, the two big characters on it look at Xu Yang and are stunned!

This fucking is a "spring" purple sand tea set, this ...... This...... How is this possible? Ji Yang's brain was a little down, not because of anything else, but because there was only one work in the world. The tree gall pot in the Chinese History Museum is made by him, the shape is simple, the finger thread is looming, and the inside and the body of the pot have the word "for spring" in seal script.

What kind of joke is this, Xu Yang is really not calm, although what happened today is too magical, and there are surprises, but after seeing this set of tea sets, Xu Yang is really not calm, this is actually related to his master Lu Feng, when learning the tea ceremony, every time he talks about Tieguanyin, Lu Feng always has to sigh, he has never seen a complete "for spring" purple sand tea set, which has taken root in Xu Yang's heart since childhood, so when he saw it today, he was shocked!

Insert a gossip: If you want to say that the person who is offering spring is also a legend, I remember that there is a story in the TV series "Kangxi Private Imitation" about "offering spring pots"!

For the spring, also known as for the Gong Chun! Originally, he was a scholar! And Wu Yishan was a celebrity at that time, and he had a very good relationship with Tang Bohu, a genius in the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, for the spring is with an old monk to learn the purple sand, in Wu Yishan has not yet been in the Jinshi, into Beijing to catch the exam, camping in Yixing Jinsha Temple, by chance, for the spring found that the monks in the temple here will burn utensils, and the outside practice is very different.

Under curiosity, it was found that the monks of Jinsha Temple will make the fine soil of the pottery urn of the pottery jar, clarify it, pinch it for the tire, regulate it and round it, make it hollow, and make it into a pot sample. Then "stealing the old monk's heart craftsman, but also digging fine soil, kneading the teaspoon hole, finger sweeping inside and outside", made into a "chestnut dark as the ancient gold iron" teapot, this is the famous purple sand teapot later. Because the pot is made for spring, it is commonly known as "spring pot".

It is said that the spring is the originator of the purple clay pot because of his role in the promotion of the purple clay pot. The Song Dynasty used various clay pots and clay pots made of purple sand, but the monks only made their own use, and the spring was the first person to be famous for making purple sand pots.

After talking about the spring pot, continue to talk about the five and a half steps of appreciating the purple sand utensils, and then the third step: touching it.

Pick up a purple clay pot, in addition to observing and judging, you can touch it with your hands, and if necessary, you can stick the pot on your face. Because Yixing purple sand contains a considerable proportion of sand, it feels comfortable to the touch, "It feels very warm when it comes into contact with the skin." The pot made of non-Yixing purple sand soil looks smooth, but in essence, it feels greasy in the hand." Generally speaking, good mud and good workmanship, the feel should be good, and the sand should depend on the particle size of the sand, and there should be no rough feeling in the hand.

The purple clay pot is a work of art with strong practical functions, and it is especially necessary to constantly touch its surface to make it feel comfortable in the hand. In addition, compared with other clays, a significant feature of purple sand is that the feel is different, touching purple sand objects is like touching bean paste, fine but not greasy. Therefore, the industry evaluates a purple clay pot, and the feel of the surface of the pot is particularly important.

The fourth step: smell its sound! Yixing purple sand is artificially made, the mud embryo has been hammered and pressed many times, and then through multiple processes, the finger prints of the makers on it can be described as tens of millions, and the sound of percussion after firing is relatively crisp, when the non-Yixing pot is formed, it is only spun out of the turntable through the mud, or made from the model, the mud has not been squeezed and has not been pushed by the artist by hand, pinching, touching, smoothing, scraping and other manual processes, so it lacks rhyme, and the sound will be muffled when knocked.

Step 5: Look at the inside! It is difficult to see the traces of handwork after many processes in the production of purple clay pots, but careful observation and touching of the inside of the pot can find some signs, "For example, the junction between the mouth and the body of the pot, if it is hand-glued, there are always a little traces at the intersection, because it is difficult for the pot maker to trim the inner body of the pot very smooth, and there is no need to deal with it very smooth."

The last half-step is: the artistry of purple sand utensils! Purple sand art is a form of artistic creation that "originates from life and is higher than life". A good purple sand utensil, in addition to paying attention to the perfection of the form and the exquisite production skills, should also examine the suitability of the pattern, the material of the decoration and the production technique. Besides, the art itself is emotion. Therefore, a more perfect work must be able to express the language of art. It should not only be easy to use, but also be able to cultivate temperament, enlighten the soul, and give people a spontaneous artistic feeling. As the late Zisha master Gu Jingzhou said, "In short, art must be decisive, simple, and straightforward, and it is necessary to express what you feel personally, so as to achieve both form, spirit, qi and state, so as to make the work vivid and show a strong artistic appeal."

The real "spring" tea set. In fact, Xu Yang has been drinking tea that is not bad, but it can only be compared with today a few times, and every time this kind of unavoidable opportunity, he will show 100% of his strength, just to taste a sip of high-quality tea!

It seems that the owner of this place really thinks so, now that the good tea leaves and good tea sets are complete, of course the water quality will not be bad, Xu Yang just saw at a glance that this is really real mountain spring water, and it is also high-grade mountain spring water. In today's society, all kinds of pollution, each in its own way, has destroyed nature, and there are only a few places to find a little good mountain spring water.

When Xu Yang reached the "pseudo-heaven and man unity", in fact, this was what his master Lu Feng told him, the unity of heaven and man in the eyes of the world is actually not really the unity of heaven and man, it can only be regarded as the unity of pseudo heaven and man.

When Xu Yang brought himself to this state, he felt that he should be deep in the mountains, and he could feel the breath of the mountains and the tranquility close to nature!