Chapter 85 The Eight Gates
The tea has been brewed, Xu Yang is impeccable in terms of technique and artistic conception, even his master can't find fault with his apprentice, it can be said that Xu Yang is now a teacher!
"Not bad!" Xu Yang's master smiled with satisfaction.
"Get out, you old guy, this is not bad, with Xu Yang's young age to reach the master's level of tea ceremony, I don't believe that you guy is not secretly happy in his heart! If you are not satisfied, old man, I am satisfied with Xu Yang, and I will worship my 'door'!"
"You old thing, don't think about "skipping" here, you little bit of ghostly thoughts, don't think about hitting my apprentice's idea!" Xu Yang's master stopped doing it on the spot!
"Xu Yang!" the old man and his old brother finished laughing, and suddenly shouted.
Xu Yang knew that once his master told him to explain that he wanted to get down to business, he immediately stood up and listened respectfully!
"Kneel!" Xu Yang was stunned, but when he saw his master's face, he knelt on his knees! Xu Yang's uncle had been sitting there with a smile. Yaya saw that the old man was going to "punish" the eldest brother, and immediately knelt there.
Another old man hurriedly took the little girl in his arms and said to the little girl: "Your brother is not punished, but my brother's master has something to say." Don't worry!"
The girl sat in the old man's arms and watched her brother kneel there. Xu Yang seemed to feel something, kneeling there respectfully!
"I, Lu Feng Lu Xingyun, the master of the eight 'doors' of tea, 'door' and 'door', is passed on to the inferior Xu Yang today, hoping that he can bring our tea 'door' family to glory!"
Xu Yang took it with both hands, he had never heard of the "Eight 'Gates' of the Inheritance" and "Never heard of the Tea 'Door', but he knew that his master would not lie and make such jokes, and he had never known what his master's name was. His own master never really recognized himself as an apprentice. He used to call himself a master, although he was very sincere in his heart, but he knew that his master had never recognized himself. Why is this today?
"I know you kid has a lot of questions in his heart, but there are some rituals to do next, just now is the assessment of our tea 'door' and 'door' master, and then you have to serve tea and kneel down!"
After Xu Yang listened, he served tea with both hands, held the tea base with his left palm, held the tea bowl with his right hand, and served tea respectfully with both hands above his head. Lu Xingyun happily picked up Xu Yang's tea and took a sip gently, and then saw Xu Yangxing kneel and bow to the five bodies, and after kneeling three times and bowing nine times, the ceremony was completed.
Lu Xingyun said to Xu Yang: "Okay, you kid sit down, don't be so restrained! Now you are the master of the tea 'door' and 'door', I am an elder at most, hahaha Now I am nothing and light!"
"You guy, I really envy your good luck and receive a good apprentice who has passed on the mantle!" said the old man next to him in an envious, jealous and hateful tone.
Xu Yang asked confusedly: "Master, what kind of 'door' is this tea 'door'? It won't be the kind of 'gate' faction that fights and kills in the rivers and lakes! If that's the case, I won't do it!"
"What do you want? Come to be a teacher, I'll tell you about our 'sect' faction, you can take a look at the 'jade' card in your hand first!" Xu Yang looked at the 'jade' card in his hand after listening to Lu Xingyun's words.
Immediately looked at his 'jade' brand seriously! Zigang's 'jade' brand, such a term immediately came to mind, Xu Yang had only seen such a 'jade' brand once, and that was when he was in "Tianbaoxuan", he was particularly impressed by this 'jade' brand!
Immediately activated the ability in his eyes, and a terrifying scene appeared in Xu Yang's eyes, and the ability that had been invincible actually lost its effect. Xu Yang's eyes saw that the 'jade' card in his hand was rotated 360 degrees and began to be analyzed, and the name was analyzed: Zigang 'jade' brand?
There is actually a question mark behind it! This is uncertain, and there is also uncertainty in the ability in his own eyes, what makes Xu Yang even more uncalm is that with the analysis of the ability in his eyes, every knife and every moment on it, as well as every stroke of the only word on the 'jade' card.
The ability of the eyes began to appear 'chaotic' and 'chaotic', and the blue 'colored' arrows around the 'jade' card were 'chaotic', and the eyes were full of "??". Similarly, his eyes also felt sore, which frightened Xu Yang and immediately stopped the ability in his eyes. Once again, he looked at the 'jade' card with frightened and horrified eyes.
Lifting the already reddened and sour tears, he 'rubbed' his eyes, wiped away the tears in his eyes and looked at his master, who is now more and more interested in this 'jade' brand. Let your invincible abilities "eat" it, this thing is definitely a good thing.
"Hehe, boy, don't cry 'excitedly' for the teacher to give you something!" Lu Xingyun took a sip of tea and teased.
"Master, this can't be the legendary Zigang 'Jade' brand, right?" Xu Yang also asked in an uncertain tone.
"Yo ho, boy, you still know the Zigang 'jade' brand, then tell me! Where did you see it!" Lu Xingyun said, and the other old man seemed to be excited to listen to Xu Yang's words.
"Hehe, you don't know this, I work in an antique shop in the capital, and it's not trivial to know this thing! The two old men and Yaya were amused by Xu Yang's appearance, and at this moment, the annual 'Spring' Festival Gala began!
Yaya has been looking forward to it for two days, and every year she wants to see the 'Spring Festival' Gala! So she ran to the sofa and hugged the big "Winnie the Pooh" that Sister Sun bought for her to watch the 'Spring Festival' Gala!
"First of all, let me first talk about Lu Zigang and his people! History records that Lu Zigang was a craftsman and sculptor in Jiajing and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. Lu Zigang learned art in a 'jade' workshop in Hengtang outside Suzhou since he was a child, and became a good hand at cutting 'jade' skills quite comprehensively.
Every piece of 'jade' ware in Lu Zigang will fall into Zigang. Once the emperor summoned Lu Zigang and asked Lu Zigang to carve a horse for him. And it is clearly stated that the payment is not allowed. Lu Zigang went back and carved it and dedicated it to the emperor, the emperor looked at it carefully, and let the other ministers see that there was no payment, so he was very happy and rewarded Lu Zigang. Later, when he was a prime minister, he looked carefully and found that in the ears of the horse, he found the "Zigang system" micro-carved font. Later, the emperor also found out, but the emperor did not get angry and punished Zigang, but praised him!
And this 'jade' brand to be sure of the genuine, must first find Mr. Zigang's carving! Every unfortunately, your apprentice and my eyes can also, here I found Mr. Zigang carved the word "Zigang", although many later generations of carving masters also want to imitate the carving of Mr. Zigang's 'jade' carving, but so far has not found which master can carve the object of nine images!
There are many descriptions of the items carved by Lu Zigang in the "Suzhou Mansion Chronicles", and I remember a few good sentences to describe the carving of Zigang!"Lu Zigang, grinding 'jade' wonderful hands, making narcissus hairpins, exquisite and kitty, 'flowers' are like hair"; Lu Zigang, grinding 'jade' and recording herds, making narcissus hairpins, exquisitely kitsch, 'flower' stems are as thin as a hair"!
Another celebrity also has a special admiration for Lu Zigang, and he also wrote in his anthology, "Kun Wufeng is difficult in the end, and he is sad about Lu Zigang in Suzhou", "There is a little charm Chen Miaochang, and there is no smoke and fire Dulanxiang." Kunwu Peak is like the end of the south, and he is worried about Suzhou Lu Zigang", this person is Xu Wei, Xu Wenchang!
Of course, according to legend, after Lu Zigang became famous, there were three incurable sayings, "'jade' and 'color' are not beautiful, 'jade' is not good quality, and 'jade' and 'sex' are not good." You must know that the better the quality of 'jade', the higher the hardness, and the greater the difficulty of carving. According to Lu Zigang himself, his unique skills are all from the original "fine" carving knife "Kun Gong". But this "Kun Gong knife", he has never revealed it, and his "manipulation" knife skills have never been passed on to others!
Whether there is such a "kun sword" is still two theories, although there are rumors in some records and wild history, but so far no one can prove the existence of this magic knife!
Of course, Lu Zigang did not leave his "Kun Gong knife", nor did he pass on his "manipulation" knife skills, and the carving skills of "Zigang 'jade'" are still unique skills and difficult to imitate. Since the Qing Dynasty, there is no lack of "Zigang 'jade'" fakes, and there is no lack of masters, but the level of carving is far from "Zigang 'jade'", during the Qing Dynasty, Suzhou 'jade' ware industry will enshrine Lu Zigang as the ancestral inheritance of the industry, bow and worship!"
Xu Yang's eloquent conversation was far beyond the expectations of the two old men! Next, Xu Yang's performance was even more incredible!