Wen Yiming suddenly remembered what the master had said when he was chatting a few days ago, and said softly: "There are three major distinctions and fifteen minor distinctions in the soup. One is the shape discrimination, the second is the sound discrimination, and the third is the qi discrimination. The form is internal, the sound is external, and the qi is short. ”

"Such as shrimp eyes, crab eyes, fish eyes, and beads, all of them are cute soups; Such as the first sound, the turning sound, the vibrating sound, and the sudden sound, all of which are sprouting soup, until there is no sound, it is proficient. ”

"If the air floats in a wisp, two wisps, three or four wisps, and the wisps are chaotic, and the mist is difficult to wrap around, they are all sprouty soup; ”

"Wonderful!"

Yan Sihai clapped his hands and laughed, and said thoughtfully: "The ancients summed it up very incisively, in fact, it is to observe the boiling of water, before it reaches 100 °C, the bubbles in the water grow from nothing, from small to large, from intermittent bubbling to continuous bubbling. ”

"Small and large bubbles are attached to the wall of the vessel, called "shrimp eyes", and generally appear as soon as the water is heated. Then the bubbles gradually grow, like "crab eyes", like "fish eyes", and finally "beads" gushing out. At this time, the vaporization phenomenon reaches a climax, and the water temperature rises to 100 °C, which is like a "drum wave", that is, boiling. ”

Taking the boiling point as the boundary, it is called "Meng Soup" if it is not boiled, and it is also called "Blind Soup", and it is called "Pure Skill" when it is boiled. This is the form discrimination. In the Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian's "Treading Sand" has a sentence "The silver bottle of snow rolls into waves", which describes the situation when the water boils. ”

Before the Song Dynasty, the "鍑" was used to boil water, which resembled a kettle-type large-mouth pot, with square ears, wide edges, and the center of the bottom of the bell protruded like a "navel", which could be distinguished because there was no cover. After the Song Dynasty, the copper bottle with a lid was used to boil water, and whether it boiled only depended on "sound discrimination". ”

The so-called "initial sound", "turning sound", "vibrating sound" and "sudden sound" are all sounds emitted by the resonance of water vapor and the wall when it is not boiling, and it is boiling when there is no sound. As the saying goes, "boiling water doesn't make a sound, and the sound water doesn't boil." ”

"When the water boils, the general vaporization phenomenon is basically stopped, and the resonance is also stopped, so the boiling water does not make a sound, which is sound discrimination. Gas discrimination is to see the strength of the vaporization phenomenon, the water temperature reaches 100 °C, the vapor rises, until it is burned dry. When the steam rushes straight and the cap is lifted, the water must be boiling. ”

Wen Yiming nodded and praised, worthy of being a master, a few words in simple terms to explain the principle, and said with a smile: "Li Nanjin, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem about boiling tea and waiting: the insects chirp and the cicadas are urging, and suddenly there are thousands of carts bundled to carry them, and I can hear the loose wind and the water, and I am anxious to call out the ethereal green porcelain. ”

"Wonderful!" Yan Sihai laughed and said: "At the beginning of the arrival of the pine wind and juniper rain, the copper bottle was urgently drawn away from the bamboo furnace. ”

"The ancients said: old and young, are not the same! The old refers to the over-boiling of water, the overflow of beneficial minerals, the increase in the content of toxic substances nitrite due to evaporation, the non-irritation of water, and the pure taste, so there is a certain truth in saying that water is old and inedible. Tender refers to the water is not boiled, the minerals are not precipitated, the water is not good to drink, because the temperature is not enough, the beneficial substances in the tea are not fully dissolved, and the aroma and taste are not good. ”

The old man looked at Wen Yiming, and said excitedly with a red face: "I have to meet a confidant today, and life is happy!"

After speaking, the iron kettle made a second chirp, which was short and urgent, and then looked at the water soup, and the large and small bubbles gushed out like beads, which was very beautiful.

"That's it!"

Wen Yiming and Yan Sihai said in unison, looked at each other and smiled, the old man picked up the iron kettle, extinguished the charcoal fire, waited for the water to settle slightly, picked up the first purple clay pot on the table and said, "What do you think of this pot?"

Ling Tiancheng glanced at the pot and said helplessly: "The old man is embarrassed for me? The pot doesn't understand, it's embarrassing to say it, Yiming, what do you think?"

They were all acquaintances, Yan Sihai knew that Ling Tiancheng didn't understand the purple clay pot, so he mainly asked Wen Yiming to see how much magic this young man still had!

Wen Yiming took the purple clay pot, and started with a warm and moist jade, thick pulp, and deep treasure. When he opened the lid of the pot, he was fragrant and sighed: "It's better to see than to smell, Yan Lao is really a great connoisseur, a good Xi Shi pot of Gu Jingzhou!"

"The green mud of Huanglong Mountain, the texture of the pot is simple, the sand is delicate and full of grainy beauty. The pot is bright and beige and green, and gradually turns into a warm and bright color after soaking, and the pulp feeling is good and easy to soak and raise, and it is gloomy and blue. Produced in the vein of Huanglong Mountain, it is the grease in the purple sand mud, so it is called the mud in the mud. ”

Wen Yiming gently stroked the pot and said eloquently: "It is suitable for oolong raw tea, and the light roasting series is the best." Tieguanyin, medium roasting or heavy roasting series is on it!"

"Good!"

Yan Sihai was surprised and exclaimed: "No wonder Xiaoyou can pick up the missing Mansheng pot, his eyesight is amazing, and he admires it!"

Then he picked up the second pot, handed it to Wen Yiming and said, "How about this pot?"

"Half moon pot, the moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time!"

Wen Yiming put down the Shih Tzu pot, took the half-moon pot and said: "The half-moon pot has always been simple and unpretentious, elegant and dignified and occupies a unique place, from ancient times to the present, it has been prosperous for a long time, and the so-called weak water is three thousand, only drink one scoop." ”

"The half-moon pot made by Gu Jingzhou has harmonious lines, relaxation and conciseness, echoing before and after, one is Yang, one is introverted, and there is a degree of relaxation, like a beautiful article, the more you read, the more drunk you are, the so-called bright moon sends acacia for thousands of miles, and the half-moon is more dense!"

Open the lid of the pot, take a deep breath, and praise: "The high-quality Huanglongshan original mine vermilion mud, mud-colored vermilion and slight Yan, with a dense and silky sand feeling, the hot water showering immediately shows the delicate and bright red characteristics, the body of the pot wanders purple light and appears, and the mysterious and charming charm makes the pot lovers intoxicated." The tea soup is bright and lively, happy and decisive, easy to spread the fragrance and gather sweet and sweet. ”

"Yes, this pot is also a rare thing!" Yan Sihai introduced: "Vermilion mud is heavy, so it is not easy to form sand, and it needs to be mined from the harder part of the tender mud mine. The age is longer, and the color is more red after the pottery, the ancient name is the stone bone, and then after the complicated manual training procedures of the ancient pottery research institute, it can become pottery, especially not easy!"

Wen Yiming put down the pot and sighed secretly: "This is the hidden tyrant, any two of them are Gu Jingzhou's masterpieces, and each auction is at least seven or eight million!"

"As for the third one?" Wen Yiming directly picked up the third one and said with a smile: "Chen Mansheng's stone scoop pot is small in shape and large in shape, the center of gravity is sagging, flat and stable, the spout is short and powerful, the water is smooth, and the body of the pot is pyramidal, dignified and generous. ”

"Small coal kiln pure vermilion mud, red mud precious variety, is currently very rare. Due to the high shrinkage ratio and high pulp content, the high mesh mineral soil will show wrinkles after sintering, and the surface of the pot is flat, but if you look closely at the side, there are many fine and tight natural shrinkage flowing textures, like fish scales, such as water waves, beautiful!"

Ling Tiancheng nodded secretly, he had seen this Mansheng pot treasured by Yan Sihai, the other party had hundreds of ancient and modern masterpieces in his hand, and now there were twenty or thirty of the most popular Gu Jingzhou works. A lot of them were private customized models back then, and now they are heavy weapons when they are taken out for auction!

After all, there are too many pots in his hands, and it is better to hide and keep them, but the old man would rather spend less and live a simple life, and he is not willing to sell any of his favorite things, which is the character of a collector.

The stone scoop was first called "Shi Cho", and Cho was interpreted as a hanger in "Ci Hai", a small cooking vessel with a handle and a stream. Cho changed from metal utensils to pottery, which was first seen in the poem "Sencha in the Trial Courtyard" by Su Shi, a scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty: "And the study of the public family is a famous Qin, and the brick furnace and stone Cho line accompanies it." ”

Yan Sihai picked up the Mansheng pot and said with love: "Su Dongpo changed the metal cho to the stone cho, which has a close relationship with the tea ceremony at that time. When he was demoted to teach in Shushan, Yixing, he found that the local purple sand pot to cook tea tasted better than copper and iron utensils, so he took local materials, imitated the metal hanger and designed a sand pottery pot with both flow and beam to cook tea, which is called the Dongpo Tiliang pot by later generations, which can be described as the earliest purple sand stone Cho pot. ”