ɦ 䣺 2014-01-1217:59:51389.Chapter 389 The Story Behind the Tea Set

In fact, except for Xu Yang, after seeing Xu Yang's tea ceremony, they have more or less understanding, as for what they realize, only individuals know, in general, Xu Yang's tea ceremony benefits this time are not only Xu Yang alone.

Drinking tea, of course, everyone will not sit there quietly and taste tea, Old Man Xu didn't squeak, as if he was thinking about something, and he didn't spare this old man, who let this old man be the head of the family.

Everyone chatted and talked about this tea set. This time it was also because Xu Yang was too brilliant, otherwise the magic of this tea set would have been discovered a long time ago. At this time, everyone also discovered the magic of this tea set, and the first to discover it was the fifth uncle. In fact, the biggest feature of this set of tea sets is that the fragrance of tea gathers but does not disperse. The gas is like smoke, like clouds floating on the cup.

"Hey, hey, can anyone tell me about this tea set? I found this tea set to be very magical! You see, the breath coming out of this tea actually hovers on the tea all the time without floating!" Everyone also discovered this characteristic at this time, and they all looked at Aunt Qi, and of course at Xu Yang. Aunt Seven smiled and said, "Xu Yang, you seem to know a lot just now, you can say it!"

Xu Yang smiled indifferently and said, "It doesn't matter who says it, then I'll say it." First of all, let me tell you how this tea set is carved, it is carved from a very rare purple robe jade.

Purple robe jade is a purple clay series, because the color is divided into purple, white, pink, yellow, intertwined, harmonious, so it is called purple robe jade, it belongs to a kind of gemstone jade, with it to make the ornaments, the color is gorgeous, with beautiful appearance, and the carving work is finely made, more ingenious, incomparable......"

Next, Xu Yang explained the purple robe jade, which is produced in the Fanjing Mountains around Yinjiang Autonomous County and Jiangkou County in Guizhou Province. The jade belt stone strikes several kilometers, and the upper and lower layers are carbon stone and granite attached to the interlayer, with an average thickness of 8~15cm, which is difficult to mine and produces less. There are a variety of clear layers of color in the stone, extending in parallel, evenly distributed, like strips of jade belt, and the exquisite pattern of its surface layer is shaped like a purple robe, so it is called purple robe jade.

Purple robe jade with steady purple as the main body, green stripes alternately, accompanied by orange red, milky white, yellow, brown and other colors, multiple layers of purple and a number of jade bands constitute a layered peculiar color, the texture is dense and delicate, warm and moist like jade, hardness 3~3. 5 degrees, bright colors, with high ornamental value.

Guizhou's unique purple robe jade is mainly a steady purple, with green stripes alternately, accompanied by orange red, white and other colors. Throughout the ages, purple represents the auspicious color, the so-called purple gas comes from the east, and the red and purple are the colors that the folk have always loved.

Purple robe jade has clear layers, delicate and soft feel, natural and harmonious color, high density, acid and alkali resistance, moderate hardness, good carving performance, diverse forms, each with its own characteristics and contains a variety of trace elements that promote human health, and is loved by the world!

Purple robe jade is produced in Guizhou Provincial Nature Reserve Fanjing Mountain, Fanjing Mountain is the ancient dojo of Maitreya Buddha, hundreds of millions of years to collect the essence of the sun, moon, mountains and rivers, to create this stone in the fine product.

The stone is mainly purple, jade and green, contains the meaning of big red and purple, folk legend that it has Buddha nature, can bring auspicious happiness to people.

Using the natural formation of purple robe jade and a variety of patterns, the use of unique handmade traditional carving technology, carved figures, landscapes, bonsai, tea sets, wine sets, four treasures of the study and other high-end handicrafts, tourist souvenirs, all repeated, has a very high ornamental, practical and collection value, but also a precious gift for relatives and friends.

Purple robe jade is unique to Guizhou and is produced in Fanjing Mountain, a holy place of Buddhism. The stone is dominated by a solid purple color, with alternating greens, accompanied by orange-red, white and other colors. With its beautiful ribbon fine and soft texture, it has been included in the series of famous stones in China, and is as famous as bloodstone, Shoushan stone, Qingtian stone, etc.

Purple robe jade has a metallogenesis history of 10-1.4 billion years. It gathers the essence of all things, absorbs the aura of the Buddha land, and has a tough, fine and soft texture. Because of the very small amount of proven reserves, coupled with the unique and gorgeous color band, delicate and soft texture, it is one of the world's famous stones. The handicrafts carved with purple robe jade have extremely high ornamental and collection value, as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties as a tribute to the emperor, its purple yellow jade belt is very emperorly, and at the same time has natural oil and unique luster, it is a rare high-quality jade raw material in ancient and modern times. Purple robe jade is mainly distributed in the deep mountains between the Yinjiang River and the Jiangkou on the southwest side of Fanjing Mountain, and it is very difficult to mine and feel precious. So far, it has been proved that it is only produced in Fanjing Mountain.

"In fact, having said so much, the reason why the purple robe jade is famous is also because a big official in the Ming and Qing dynasties gave this kind of jade to the emperor to celebrate his birthday. Everyone also knows that the emperor is respected by yellow and purple, and there is a brocade yellow dragon robe, and purple qi comes from the east. Therefore, this kind of jade is also very popular with the emperor.

However, the production of purple robe jade is really small. It can be said that the vast majority of people who play jade can't get a piece of purple robe jade treasure! In fact, not to mention the historical value, just in terms of materials, this set of tea sets is already a sky-high price.

Qing Qianlong was a tea lover. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong visited Hangzhou six times and visited the West Lake tea area four times. When he drank Longjing tea in front of the Hugong Temple of Longjing Lion Peak, he appreciated the fragrance and mellow taste of the tea leaves, and then sealed the eighteen tea trees in front of the temple as "imperial tea", and sent a special person to take care of it, and the tribute was made to the palace every year, of course, the tea guest was himself, and the ruins of "Royal Tea" still existed. In the sixteenth year of Qianlong, that is, in 1752, he toured south to Hangzhou for the first time, watched the process of tea picking in Tianzhu, and wrote "Watching Tea Picking and Singing", which has "the hearth is slightly added to the fire, and the dry kettle is swirling and frying." Slow frying and fine roasting have a second, and there is a lot of hard work". The emperor's ability to observe the hardships of tea farmers and the difficulty of making tea is also commendable.

Emperor Qianlong did not die in office, but "knew the old man and gave way". Legend has it that when he decided to give up the throne to his fifteenth son (that is, the later Daoguang Emperor), an old minister admonished with regret: "The country cannot be without a king for a day!" Emperor Qianlong, who had been drinking tea all his life, picked up a cup of tea on the imperial case and said: "You can't go without tea for a day." Maybe it's a humorous joke, maybe it's "I should quit drinking," or it's a bit of both. Qianlong was in the tea ceremony, with the dignity of the emperor, the poor and extravagant, and the pursuit of Seiko, and any pomp and circumstance could be done. He initiated the tea banquet held in Chonghua Palace, which was luxurious and grand, and extremely exquisite. According to Xu Ke's "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", it is recorded: "In Qianlong, three days after New Year's Day, the poet who appointed the princes and ministers was able to feast in Chonghua Palace, perform a drama and give tea, and ordered to imitate the Bailiang style couplet, in order to remember its prosperity, and resume the two chapters of the imperial poem, and order the ministers to be with it, and take it for granted." He also stipulated that whenever a banquet is held, tea must be held before the wine, which is of great significance to the Chinese people, who attach great importance to the order of priority.

Tasting tea and water, Qianlong is unique. He tasted the "Junshan Silver Needle" produced in Dongting and praised it endlessly, so that the local people paid an annual tribute of 18 catties. He also gave the name of Fujian Anxi as "Tieguanyin", and since then Anxi tea has become famous and has not faded to this day.

After Qianlong abdicated in his later years, he was still fond of tea, and set up a special "roasted tea dock" in Beihai Jingqingzhai to taste leisurely. He lived for 88 years and was the longest-lived emperor of China, and his longevity should be related to it. Of course, as an emperor, he must have used a lot of longevity techniques, and drinking tea is one of his health preservation methods. Many anti-aging techniques in ancient China are not very effective, and some "pills" and the like are even more disadvantageous, and only drinking tea may be the only hobby that can never get tired of it for many years.

It is precisely because the emperor loves tea, so the tea set production is also the most glorious period in the whole history, this set of "Qiankun Zilong tea set" in our hands is actually between Qianlong, when the emperor got a piece of purple robe jade by chance, Qianlong was really worried about what to carve this piece of purple robe jade.

Of course, a generation of favored ministers and Shen understand the thoughts of this master, but in the past era, the subordinates were not allowed to be the masters of the master, otherwise one day the master was in a bad mood, and he would be able to think of this matter and trouble you. Of course He Shen understood, so he thought of an idea, he asked Qianlong to go to Ji Xiaolan, this Ji Xiaolan is not only good at smoking, but also has the literati's love of tea, and in Ji Xiaolan's hand, there is a set of extremely precious purple sand tea sets in the previous dynasty.

When Qianlong saw this set of tea sets, his eyes were extremely hot, and it was not easy to open the product, and Ji Xiaolan was also very conspicuous, Qianlong was a very self-paying emperor, how could he let a courtier compare himself, he didn't have it, he let people be unique in the world.

At that time, there was a famous jade carver, the real name is unknown, only known to be a Taoist, called Qingshi layman! Secluded in the mountains and wilderness, and Shen is worthy of being a favored minister, all over the mountains, finally found this Qingshi, the intention is explained, originally Qingshi was unwilling to succumb to the imperial power, but after hearing that it was a purple robe jade, he was greatly moved.

After half a year, the Qingshi Taoist carved out a set of tea sets, and on the day of the tea set, he threw a knife and said loudly: "There are no regrets in this life!" Tea set of exquisite not to say, this is everyone can see, in Qianlong there are too many fine tea sets, not one more, if there is no characteristic, then this is just a set of precious and exquisite tea sets, not for the heirloom.

Or He Shen said: Let's make a pot of tea and see, this pot is very good to brew......"