Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 382 Written in a Brief Book

The uncle of the fourth cousin took a hollowed-out flower and plant pattern, and the cover button was a furnace cover with a lion sitting on a hydrangea and placed it on the top of the fish basket furnace.

"The lid of the incense burner is also particular. It needs to be combined with the lower burner body. This one is from the Tang Dynasty. It doesn't match your burner. Let's use it temporarily."

"The censer in the Song Dynasty was mainly spherical, that is to say, the body of the censer and the cover together should be in the shape of a sphere or an egg."

"The main function of the furnace cover is to disperse the smoke and disperse the aroma, which is conducive to the release." The fourth cousin said: "Wait for me to stay away."

After placing the incense burner about two meters away from the three of them, Zhou Zhi felt that the fragrance of orchids in the small courtyard had undergone some changes.

In addition to the floral fragrance, there is also a fruity scent, and the two scents have become clearer and brighter. When you carefully identify it, there seems to be a sweetness at the end of the breath.

"Sure enough, it's different!" Zhou Zhi exclaimed, "No wonder the ancients were so obsessed with the way of incense, this enjoyment is also extremely comfortable."

There was almost no smoke in Haoxiang, and then the three of them sat together to enjoy the fragrant breath and forgot to talk for a while.

After a while, the fourth cousin said, "Let me draw a pattern for you."

After speaking, he got up and moved his pen: "Spherical incense burners in the Song Dynasty were more common, and the material was mostly porcelain. The upper part of the furnace cover was hollowed out with scroll patterns, and the fragrance overflowed from the hollowed grass holes."

"Spherical incense burners are very small in shape and are very popular among literati. Liu Chang, a great literati in the Song Dynasty, wrote a song "Playing as a Celadon Incense Ball Song": "The fairy in the blue sky picks cold jade, and the blue light shines like a candle. The fat of the toad quenches the knives." My stone, what's wrong with engraving flowers with your hands. The misty night air is clear and clear, and the jade wisps are fragrant like purple mist. At dawn, people fly towards the clouds, as if doubting it.' Melt the blue and white porcelain incense burner into the tranquility and elegance of the night, Performed brilliantly."

"For example, the Songyue kiln incense in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, the upper part is decorated with three-petal curling leaves and branches, and it looks like this. You should pay more attention to it in the future."

The fourth aunt said with a smile: "Actually, it can be used as a incense burner or an incense burner, as long as you can bear the elbow."

"How do these two games play?"

"The incense-simmering method is suitable for using a deep furnace. When simmering incense, first use an incense shovel to open a hole in the middle of the tightly packed ashes until it reaches the bottom of the furnace, and the opening of the hole is slightly open."

"Put the incense powder into the hole with an incense spoon. When the incense powder is ignited for the first time, there is no need to emit smoke. Then the incense powder should be burned to the maximum. The time interval between the previous incense powder and discoloration is the same. Do not allow smoke to come out."

"In Yang Wanli's Seven Words on Burning Incense, 'There is no literature or martial arts, and the firepower is even, and the wind will not be able to close the curtain. The poet burns the ancient dragon's saliva, but if there is incense, there will be no smoke.' Yes."

"When the incense powder burns from the bottom to the mouth of the ashes, use the incense shovel to slowly bury the ashes into the incense powder, forming a cone shape."

"However, you should pay attention to the timing of the ash. If the ash is generated too early, the incense will smother the furnace; , the aroma will be greatly reduced.”

"It seems a little complicated." Zhou Zhi shook his head.

"There is also the fumigating method, burying the lit charcoal in the ashes, placing mica slices on the ashes, and then putting incense powder or honey-refined incense pills or incense beasts on it, and incense directly."

"It's quite simple." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "I should be able to."

"However, this method has high requirements for incense, and the test is not the level of burning incense, but the level of making incense."

"It's more difficult, right?" Zhou Zhi was a little speechless: "Then I'd better learn how to play Xiangzhuan honestly."

"No prospect." The fourth aunt spat, "Can't you learn everything?"

"I'm afraid I won't be able to chew too much." Zhou Zhi smiled: "Don't talk about me, you teach your fourth cousin first, and I will convince you."

"That's right." The fourth cousin also laughed: "There are only about two hundred pieces of Ge Kiln porcelain in the world, and the Song Dynasty porcelain is even rarer. It is indeed a bit crazy to have to match the lid."

"It's not good to be greedy for everything, hehehe... It's the same with a variety of orchids and osmanthus..."

After talking, I started to play with the Wenwan brought by Zhou Zhi. In fact, those few things are also good things. The tiger pen holder backed by copper and silver is from the Ming Dynasty. The carved seal on the cusp of the birthday star is from the Qing Dynasty. It was polished by people with fragments of Yuan blue and white, which is quite delicate.

The most valuable is the dustpan brick inkstone, which was also made by the Qing people, but the bricks used are Han bricks, chiseled into the shape of a dustpan, and the key is that there are seal characters underneath-"A gentleman has nine thoughts: seeing Simming, listening to Sicong, Think warm in color, respectful in appearance, loyal in words, respectful in things, ask questions in doubt, think difficult in anger, think righteousness in gain."

The characters are both in seal script and official script, and the knife skills are sophisticated and clumsy, which is quite impressive.

"This is a good thing." The fourth cousin nodded.

"Why?"

"Number of words." Uncle Si Biao said: "Han bricks with 32 characters are quite rare, but can it retain ink when made into an inkstone?"

"Even if you can't keep the ink, it's good to be something to enjoy." Zhou Zhi said, "I took it because of the beautiful calligraphy."

"So we still need to go out more." The fourth cousin said with emotion: "The bigger the city, the more good things there will be."

"I heard that there is a Panjiayuan in BJ, you should go and see it if you have a chance." The fourth cousin continued to laugh and said, "Your eyesight has improved a lot during this trip to Shudu."

"I'm afraid that if we go to Panjiayuan, we won't be able to stand the test. After all, good and evil are mixed together." Zhou Zhi laughed.

"If you're not sure whether to make a move or not, with your current level, as long as you refrain from being greedy, you won't lose much." After finishing speaking, the fourth cousin joked with Zhou Zhi: "Although you paid generously this time, but The work is also very important, and it is the authentic calligraphy of the Song Dynasty, and the Chengxintang paper of the Southern Tang Dynasty..."

"How about I take it away and don't bother your old man?"

"How dare you!" The fourth cousin laughed loudly: "Keep the things, take this, and return it in half a month!"

But it is a volume of "Ouyang Wenzhong Public Collection", and there is a page of bookmarks in the booklet, but it is "Worship of Shi Manqing".

Woohoo Manqing!Live as a hero, die as a spirit.It is the same as the life and death of all things, and the one that returns to nothing, the form of temporary gathering; the one that does not die with all things, but stands out for its immortality, is the name of future generations.

This has been the case for all sages and sages since ancient times, and those who are written in the bamboo slips are as clear as the sun and stars.

This is four years after Zhiping, that is, 20 years after Shi Manqing died, Ouyang Xiu wrote a sacrificial essay for his old friend. The words are not gorgeous, but the emotion is extremely profound and touching.

The manuscript of this article did not remain, but ten years later, after Ouyang Xiu was discouraged and bid farewell to the political arena, he once again read the poems left by his friends, and finally left his own handwriting, standing side by side with his best friend's calligraphy shine.

"...Since I was young, I have been proud of my poetry and wine. His majestic appearance, his poetic style is strange, and he is also good at calligraphy. His strokes are strong, his style is beautiful, and he is treasured by the world."

In history, it was Ouyang Xiu's strong admiration, recommending Shi Manqing to his friends and the emperor, that made him famous in the notes of many Song people.

But in this time and space, it is Ouyang Xiu who left his pen and ink for future generations because of the works of his best friend.

At the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shi Yannian's calligraphy was already "treasured by the world", and now it has been blessed by many famous inscriptions and postscripts. After restoration, how should its value be estimated?

immeasurable.

And this is just one piece randomly picked out from the paper bundle at the bottom of the box. This one is so terrible, so is it the same for the others?
Thoughts were dazed, Zhou Zhi strolled to the door of the dormitory of the sugar and wine company without knowing it.

(End of this chapter)