Seeing the interesting eyes in the eyes of the old man opposite, Li Chixin hurriedly covered it up, and he continued, "During the Wanli period of my dynasty, Xie Zhaoqian also mentioned the word Pucha in his book "Dian Luo", which said: 'Shishu is used by Pucha and steamed into a ball'. This is almost the first time that the word Pu Tea has appeared in writing, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" also has a record of 'Pu'er tea out of Yunnan Pu'er'. ”

The two of them tasted tea and enjoyed the snow, and for a while Li Chixin found that he was not very nostalgic, that time was the era of PM2.5 rampant, he thought in his heart, "In this era, if there is no famine, no war and man-made disasters, it will not be a paradise for the rest of your life." ”

"But providence often doesn't follow people's wishes!" Li Chixin sighed

The old man's wise eyes flickered for a moment, then he withdrew his gaze and added two pine cones to the red clay tea stove.

Li Chixin quickly recovered from his gaffe, he knelt on the futon, and took the small copper kettle in the old man's hand.

In front of the old man who had insight into the world, he did not hide his surprise, he brought the small pot in front of him, and looked closer, "Hey, it's really a good thing!"

Sun Chengzong was not surprised that Li Chixin knew the origin of Pucha, but he never thought that this person was so knowledgeable. The old man couldn't help but be more interested in this young man, "You must know that several of my treasures were once used by the palace in the palace, or when I washed the horses for the East Palace, the original prince of the East Palace, and later Xizong Zhu was given by the school." ”

In addition to the books that he never left his hand, he only brought a few commonly used things, a pot and a jar are the treasures in it, and he often played with it in his hands, and the old man was full of emotion when he saw things and thought about people.

"Does the red heart know this?" the old man's eyes flashed with wisdom.

Li Chixin naturally didn't dare to hide it, he understood it tightly, with the experience of an old man, it was effortless to understand himself, it was better to be honest than self-defeating, so it was not easy to give birth to unnecessary idleness.

However, he still hid a heart, re-brought the clumsy copper kettle in front of him, and looked at it carefully, then smiled indifferently and said, "This thing is a royal thing in the palace of the Xuande year, and only the prime minister can get this reward, but the mountain village man has not seen the name of it, and now it is really an eye-opener to see it!"

Li Chixin is not a sycophant to welcome the elderly, he has seen this thing in Sotheby's album, and he really understands the value of this thing, with his well-known real estate businessman's net worth, he can only watch from a distance and not blasphemy!

For this reason, he deliberately read a lot of books, and even Du Niang once disliked him. Later, Li Chixin learned that an old friend of his family had won a copper furnace in the Xuande period at the auction of Duoyunxuan in Shanghai, and he relied on his advantage of thick skin to see this thing.

Just at a glance, Li Chixin's eyes saw water, square lips, short neck, flat belly, three obtuse conical solid feet, the edge of the mouth is a beast-shaped ear, the year of the word Xuande can be seen in the outer bottom of the furnace, and the height of the furnace body is only about 20 centimeters;

This gold-sprinkled copper furnace, with its warm pulp and treasure content, is obsessive, and the more he looks at it, the more fascinated he becomes. When the collector saw Li Chixin's expression, he was also quite complacent, and explained to him: "The old saying is that there are five colors, the first name is the paper color of the Buddhist scriptures, and then the chestnut shell, eggplant skin, tangtang pear, brown, of which the paper color of the Buddhist scriptures is the first ......."

Moreover, through contact, this expert also made up for Li Chixin's evil knowledge, because if you mention the Xuande furnace, I believe that many literati may know it, and when it comes to the Xuande furnace, you can't fail to mention the historical customs of the Celestial Empire.

At the beginning of the 19th century, when the royal magnates of Europa did not understand the beauty of bathing, bathing and burning incense has a long history in our country; usually, people incense their clothes for ceremonial purposes, and more often than not, the ancient literati liked to burn a furnace of incense in the quiet room of reading and writing, creating an artistic conception suitable for the literati to be whimsical.

As early as before the Han Dynasty in China, there were incense burners made of pottery, porcelain, copper, iron and tin. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, with the rapid development of the bronze casting industry, the original miscellaneous incense burner material was gradually replaced by copper, and during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, it was the peak period of copper incense burner production.

However, in the third year of Xuande, the palace craftsman Lu Zhen and the Ministry of Works, Wu Bangzuo, not only built the Xuande furnace, but also made some pots and cups of similar size for Zhu Zhanji, the Ming Xuanzong of the Dafang family.

Legend has it that during the reign of Emperor Xuande, a great player, in order to satisfy his special hobby of playing with incense burners, he ordered the import of a batch of superb red copper from Siam; he instructed the imperial craftsman Lu Zhen and the Ministry of Works, Wu Bangzuo, to design and supervise the production of this furnace in accordance with the historical books such as "Xuanhe Bogu Catalogue" and "Archaeological Map" with reference to the styles of porcelain from the firewood kiln, Ru kiln, official kiln, Ge kiln, Jun kiln, Ding kiln and other famous kilns in the imperial palace.

In order to ensure the quality of these incense burners, the master craftsman Lu Zhen also wrote to the emperor, "If you want to make a good incense burner, you have to refine the copper six times; ”

Emperor Xuande was one of the few artists in ancient times who had both literary and artistic talents, and he had a strong sense of quality, so he immediately decreed that "the number of refining will not be reduced, and it will be doubled and refined twelve times, and rare and precious metals such as gold and silver will be added."

Master craftsman Lu Zhen is naturally striving for perfection, he led people to select gold, silver and other dozens of rare and precious metals, together with Siamese red copper after more than ten times of careful smelting, paid great effort, if used to metallurgically cast cannons, it is estimated that even the self-tightening technology of the cannon barrel can be verified; so after the tremendous efforts of countless skilled craftsmen, in Xuande three years, the excellent quality of Xuande furnace was finally successfully developed.

There are 3,000 incense burners cast from Siamese red copper mixed with precious metals, and no finished products have been seen since. Emperor Xuande, a young man of literature and art, saw this batch of incense burners that he had personally consulted, each of them was majestic and brilliant, and he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

And these incense burners, Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji, most of them, placed in a conspicuous place in the palace; a very small part of them were given by him to the imperial relatives and relatives who were resting with the country; and a very small part was given by him to the famous ministers and several temples with strong incense.

Two people, an old man and a young man, sat around the small red clay stove, cooking tea and discussing pots, and they didn't feel that the old and young were a little stupid.

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