Chapter 640: Pile of Gold and Jade
According to the history of Qingxi, Wang Shirang, a Qing Dynasty man, once lived in Nanyanfeng, and accidentally found that there was a tea tree in the Layer Stone Desert Garden that was very different from other tea trees, so he carefully transplanted it in the flower garden of the study and cultivated it carefully. Later, this tea tree grew luxuriantly with branches and leaves, and the second year it was harvested as a finished product, the appearance was black and fat, and after drinking, it was fragrant and mellow, refreshing to the heart. In the sixth year of Qianlong, Wang Shirang went to Beijing to offer this tea, and Emperor Qianlong was very happy after tasting it, so he summoned Wang Shirang to inquire in detail. Wang Shirang said that this tea was found under the Guanyin stone, the tea leaves were black and strong, the body bones were as heavy as iron, and the appearance was as beautiful as Guanyin. Emperor Qianlong gave the name 'Tieguanyin', which is the origin of Tieguanyin. These tea trees, which have been guarded by the government since then, have become imperial teas. Later, my master's father was able to transplant a bud of an old tree by chance, and then gradually had the scale of a tea garden, which is the foundation of my Daguan tea garden!" Zhou Deqing said proudly.
Chinese like to seek history, Tang Chen knows it.
In general, Chinese people like to look for their roots in history because China's history is long enough. It's like there is a joke that someone asks: Why do Chinese like history so much? Can you talk about the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Republic of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, scolding and self-absorbed at the same time...... The people of the United States are the opposite, they like to talk about the future. Answer: Because China has a history of more than 5,000 years, the history of the United States is unsightly - that is, the history of the blood and tears of the Indians, the history of the black slave trade, and the history of the struggle of imperialism, which cannot be put on the table at all, so they talk about the future, like to use the future money, and suddenly there is nothing (financial tsunami)......
Although it is a joke, it can be seen that it seems that Chinese talking about history has become the norm, and Zhou Deqing is just one of them.
It's just that there is another saying that history is always used, written by the victors, and the real history may have been buried long ago. No matter how fair the historian's pen is, he also has personal preferences, not to mention how much credibility can be achieved by the historical materials deliberately written down by some people in order to whitewash the peace? In contrast, some wild histories seem to be a little more convincing.
When Tie Guanyin came, Tang Chen naturally smiled, he couldn't take it seriously.
However, Daguan Group must hype up the concept of "tribute tea", "ancient tree tea" and "best Tieguanyin", so that the company will have popularity and its products can be better sold, which is already an indisputable secret.
Of course, blind hype is not enough, the Tieguanyin of Daguan Tea Garden is well-known, which is the key to the long-term survival of the enterprise.
Tang Chen felt that as long as the quality of Daguan Group was maintained at this level, there was no need to be harsh on feng shui. Good product quality is already the greatest conscience of an entrepreneur, and it can be regarded as accumulating yin virtue and doing good deeds for the majority of consumers. If a person accumulates virtue, good feng shui will naturally come, and there is still a need to find any feng shui treasures?
If the quality and price of Daguan Group's products are high, then even if Tang Chen finds a good feng shui treasure for Zhou Deqing, it will inevitably lead to the decline of the family business, and even become an accelerant.
After all, Feng Shui is not omnipotent, only Feng Shui that operates according to the laws of heaven and earth can be beneficial to people, otherwise it will be harmful. Many people turn priorities upside down, thinking that Feng Shui is the key, which is actually a big mistake. Feng Shui is just an adjunct, and what really works is what you do. The ancients often said that "there are gods in the head of the head", which is not a lie, and many times it is reflected in the process of feng shui from good to bad, and such examples abound. A landlord is not benevolent to his wealth, and not only the tenant peasants look down on him, but even his peers look down on him, and over time he is excluded from the circle of landlords; an official who is a vegetarian for the corpse of an official is corrupt and will eventually be imprisoned one day; and a dynasty that is inconsiderate of the common people and rises up from the pole to go forward and succeed him...... So Chinese philosophy is dialectical, and Feng Shui is also dialectical, because both are from the Book of Changes, with the same roots.
According to Tang Chen's vision, Zhou Deqing does not have to pursue perfection in feng shui at all, the Zhou family's mid-mountain villa is already the best feng shui bureau, even if Tang Chen makes a move, it is just a difference in layout.
Judging from the shape of the drink, the mid-mountain villa of the Zhou family is called the "Pile of Gold and Jade" Feng Shui Bureau.
Gold, because the mountain on which the Mid-Levels Villa is located is, in the eyes of Feng Shui masters, like ancient gold ingots.
Some people will ask, ah no, this shape is wrong, shouldn't the gold ingot be cocked in the middle of the two ends, like a "mountain" character?
In fact, this is brainwashed by the TV series, ancient gold and silver ingots have never been cast into this "gold ingot" shape. Although many times, the ancient court allowed gold and silver to be cast into ingots privately, and the shapes were also strange, taking gold ingots as an example, there were horseshoe-shaped, rectangular, cuboidal, oval, and gourd-shaped...... But there won't be a gold ingot-shaped.
Silver ingots have more shapes, because there are no uniform and strict regulations on the casting and issuance of silver ingots in the Chinese dynasties, and free casting is allowed. As long as it adapts to the circulation environment and folk customs at that time, there are no regulations on the shape of silver ingots under the premise of ensuring quality.
There are many different shapes and shapes of Chinese silver ingots. The shape of the silver ingot in the Han Dynasty is cake-shaped, the Tang Dynasty is generally rectangular strip-shaped, and there are cake-shaped and boat-shaped at the same time, the shape of the silver ingot in the Song Dynasty is mainly collar, and the shape is wider and thicker compared with the Tang silver, the four corners of the front are slightly warped, and the weight is in the shape of a weight, and the two arcs at both ends form a girdle shape. The shape of the silver ingot of gold is similar to that of the Song Dynasty; the shape of the silver ingot of the Yuan Dynasty is not much different from that of the Song Dynasty, and the difference between the ingot without inscription is that the periphery is warped, and the middle is concave, and most of the Yuan ingots have no inscription; the length of the silver ingot in the Ming Dynasty has become shorter than that of the Yuan Dynasty, but the thickness has increased, the girdle has been smaller, the arc shape at both ends has disappeared, the periphery has increased, especially the two ends are more prominent, forming a double wing; from the Qing Dynasty to the withdrawal of silver ingots from the monetary field of the Republic of China, the shape of silver ingots is mixed, and it is difficult to count. It can be roughly divided into ingot-shaped (both sides are warped but the middle will not protrude), round, rectangular, square, weight-shaped, archway-shaped and other categories.
The reason why it is said that the mountain of the Zhou family's mid-mountain villa resembles an ancient gold ingot is because this mountain resembles the ancient horseshoe gold, that is, a gold ingot like a horse's hoof, which is a popular gold ingot shape in the Western Han Dynasty. The characteristic of horseshoe gold is that it looks quite round, low on one side and high on the other, and has a long, gentle slope in the middle. The Zhou family's mid-mountain villa was built on such a mountainside. You must know that horseshoe gold is an official gold ingot cast in the Western Han Dynasty, which shows that the meaning is high.
There may be a lot of jewelry, such as jade, agate, crystal, etc., but the Chinese people's favorite is still yellow and clear gold. Therefore, gold is also equivalent to money.
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