My system is not decent

Chapter 1755

In the Tang Dynasty, an appropriate amount of salt was required to cook tea. The "Tea Classic" mentioned that the name of the container for putting the salt was "鹾隐" (cuó guǐ).

Unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple, there is a silver-salt platform with a tripod and a capricorn pattern, consisting of a cover, a platform, and a tripod.

There is a chiseled inscription on the bracket of the platform, "A silver-coated gold salt platform made by Wensiyuan in the ninth year of Xiantong (868)".

Its cover is similar to this one, and because salt was added to drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty, this vessel may be the cover of a salt storage vessel.

In order to drink tea, there are many tools that can be used, only we can't think of it, no ancients can't do it.

And what we know now is the silver saucer.

The saucer is shaped like a lotus petal, with a concave bottom and a trumpet-shaped ring foot.

The word "Lishi" is engraved inside the circle foot, with a height of 8-8.5 cm and a diameter of 8.8 cm.

In 1957, outside the Heping Gate in Chang'an, 7 Tang Dynasty silver-gilt lotus-shaped saucers were unearthed.

One of them is engraved on the inside of the ring foot: "Dazhong 14th year in August, a piece of gold and silver was created in the muddy gold-painted tea tuozi, and a total of two eight coins and three characters were recovered."

Cha Tuozi is the saucer.

If these are familiar to us, then there are still unfamiliar ones, such as tea bottles.

We are not familiar with the tea bottle, but we know it when we talk about the stick pot. This thing is actually a stick pot.

The tea bottle has a tower-shaped lid, the lid button is in the shape of a pearl, the mouth is wide, the neck is tied, the abdomen is curved, the foot is short, and the shoulder is equipped with a long flow and a handle.

There is the word "Lishi" at the bottom, with a height of 25.4 cm, a diameter of 6.6 cm, and a bottom diameter of 8.4 cm.

In the late Tang Dynasty, a new way of drinking tea emerged, that is, to pour the boiled water in the tea bottle into the tea powder in the bowl, which is called ordering tea.

The most important utensil for ordering tea is the tea bottle, that is, the teapot, which is used for both boiling soup and ordering tea.

Cai Xiang's "Tea Record" says: "The soup bottle, the smaller the bottle, the easier it is to wait for the soup, and the tea is sure to make the soup..."

With so many tea sets, if they are luxury goods, it is not too extravagant, because they are still practical utensils after all.

Like an incense burner or something, then it is really a luxury.

Since drinking a cup of tea can produce so many tea sets, burning incense is no problem.

From this cellar, a gilt and silver smoker was also unearthed.

It is a pity that this gilt and silver smoker has been damaged. It is now 16 centimeters high and 23 centimeters in bottom diameter.

Because it was damaged when it was unearthed, judging from the existing part, it can be divided into upper, middle and lower layers, which can be disassembled.

There are symmetrical hollow Ruyi cloud patterns on the four sides of the ring foot, a bird is engraved on each side, and curly grass is decorated in between.

The second layer of the base is engraved with broken rhombus, vines and modified lotus petal belts.

The middle is a support plate, wide edge, folded edge, and flat bottom.

A circle of twining flowers is engraved along the surface, and the hem is decorated with broken rhombus patterns for a week, with caviar patterns as the ground.

The upper part is the furnace cover, straight wall, arc top, gourd-shaped button, and the button is decorated with double petals and lotus patterns.

The inside of the circle foot is also engraved with the word "Wisdom".

A silver smoker was also unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple. When it was unearthed, it was covered with a sealed ink book "Dayin smoker, minister Yang Fugong".

The smoker is an auxiliary tea utensil. People in Tang Dynasty paid attention to the environment of drinking tea. Indoor incense can keep the air fresh and add meaning to drinking tea.

In addition to these things, the silver hairpins are the most numerous, which can be regarded as daily necessities. However, 1760 silver hairpins were unearthed in a cellar, which is too many.

Moreover, these silver hairpins are not small, generally 19.5 to 26 centimeters long.

Like the folded hairpin among them, the beam of the hairpin is divided into semi-circular and cloud-shaped.

About 20 of them are gilt, and are carved on both sides of the hairpin beam, decorated with vines, rhombus patterns, and bead patterns.

The Tang Dynasty emphasized hair beauty and liked high buns. Hairpins are the most popular decoration on top of buns.

Gold and silver hairpins are very long, and some hairpin beams are very delicately decorated.

The number of wearing hairpins varies. In Tang Shijianwu's "Shouzhuang Ci", there are "twelve lines of inserting gold hairpins in vain", and in the murals of the princess's tomb in Xincheng, Tang Dynasty, a girl wears 6 hairpins.

Then there are silver bracelets, 229 pairs of silver bracelets were unearthed in this cellar, with a diameter of 5.2 to 6.3 centimeters.

It is in the shape of a curved ring, wrapped with silver wire at both ends, with holes at the end, and three convex ribs on the surface of the bracelet.

In the cellars of the Tang Dynasty in Hejia Village, Chang'an, a silver box was once unearthed with ink writing on the inner wall of "twelve hairpins and bracelets, a total of seven two one points".

After verification, there are 9 hairpins and 3 bracelets, a total of seven two one points.

The shape of the bracelet is the same as that of the silver bracelet, so it should be called the bracelet.

Then there are some special things, such as silver wine urns.

The silver wine urn is 55 cm high, 26 cm in diameter and 29.3 cm in bottom diameter.

Raspberry-style lid with a mushroom-shaped button, the edge of the lid is connected with the mouth of the urn by a chain link, and the lock is lost;
The urn has a straight mouth, broad shoulders, a bulging belly, and a flat bottom.

The middle part of the bottom is engraved with regular script "a wine jar and a lid (suǒ, the same as "lock"), etc., weighing two hundred and sixty four hundred and twenty-seven coins."

"鏁子" refers to the chain connecting the lids.

In the Tang Dynasty, every Lianghe is 37.3 grams today, and the actual weight of the silver wine urn is 9873.31 grams.

This utensil is named wine urn. "An Lushan Stories" records that Tang Xuanzong bestowed Anlushan with "eight buckets of gold and silver-plated wine urn", which should be used as a wine storage vessel.

Bai Juyi's "Ode to Homebrewing Ten Rhymes" said: "When the urn is opened, the fragrance is very strong, and after the bottle is sealed and stored, it tastes sweet and pungent."

If the wine vessel such as the wine urn is not too special, then other wine vessels are very special.

Few people can see such wine utensils as the silver-gilt tortoise "The Analects of Confucius Jade Candle", wine order chips, wine flags, and wine banners (dào).

Silver and gold tortoise body "Analects of Confucius Jade Candle" wine order tube, 34.2 cm high, 24.6 cm long tortoise, 22 cm deep.

It is composed of upper and lower parts. The base is a gilt silver turtle, supporting a round wine container, and the cover of the container is covered with caviar patterns.

Two pairs of swan geese are engraved on it, with curly grass and flowing cloud patterns in between, and are connected to the cover by a silver chain.

The body of the cylinder is made of caviar pattern, with a pair of dragons and phoenixes engraved on it, with curly grass patterns in between, and the four characters "Analects of Confucius Jade Candle" are double-hooked in the rectangular frame on the front.

According to Huang Fusong of the Tang Dynasty's "Drunken Country Sun and Moon", usually the chips, flags and banners of the order utensils are placed in one vessel.

The utensil is made of silver and is called "cage table".

"Every cage platform is made of platinum, of which there are actually twenty chips, twenty flags, and twenty banners."

"The Analects of Confucius jade candle" should be the genus of the cage table.

There are 50 silver-gilt wine order chips, with a length of 20.4 cm, a width of 1.4 cm and a thickness of 0.05 cm.

When unearthed, it was installed in a wine receptacle, and the size is basically the same.

The front of the wine order is engraved with the text of the wine order. The first half is selected from the "Analects of Confucius", and the second half is the content of the wine order, which can be summarized into 6 drinking methods.

"Drink by yourself", "Drink with you", "Persuade to drink", "Designated person to drink", "Place" and "Place";
6 drinking quantities: "five points" (half a cup), "seven points", "ten points", "forty points" (four glasses), "free drinking" and "letting go".

There are 8 wine flags, 28 cm long and 2.3 cm wide.

One is in the shape of a spear at the top and a ball at the bottom. It has a long and slender handle with the word "Wisdom" engraved on the handle.

In addition, 7 are made into the shape of bamboo joints, and one of them is connected with welded bamboo leaves.

The wine flag is 26.2 centimeters long, the top is in the shape of a curved spear, with a tassel decoration, a curved flag under the tassel, a circle of lines engraved on the flag surface, a slender round rod with the word "Lishi" engraved on the handle.

Flags and flags are the "tools of law enforcement" of the order.

(End of this chapter)