Chapter 384 is written in the brochure
The fourth cousin took a stove lid with a hollow pattern of flowers and plants, and the button was a sitting lion stepping on a hydrangea, and placed it on top of the fish basket stove.
"The lid of the incense burner is also particular. It needs to be integrated with the furnace body below. This one is from the Tang Dynasty. It does not match your stove. It is suitable for temporary use."
“Incense burners in the Song Dynasty were mainly spherical incense burners, that is, It means that the furnace body and the furnace cover are combined into a spherical or oval shape. "
"The main function of the furnace cover is to disperse the smoke and disperse the aroma to facilitate the release." My uncle said: "Just stay away from me."
Placing the incense burner about two meters away from the three of them, Zhou Zhi felt that the orchid fragrance in the small courtyard had changed.
In addition to the floral scent, there is also a fruity scent, and both scents become clearer and brighter. You can identify it carefully. Between the breaths, there seems to be a sweetness at the end of the breath. taste.
“It’s really different!” Zhou Zhi praised: “No wonder the ancients were so obsessed with incense, this enjoyment is also extremely comfortable.”
Good incense almost does not have smoke, next The three of them sat together and enjoyed the fragrant smell, forgetting to talk for a while.
After a while, the fourth cousin said: "Let me draw a pattern for you."
After finishing speaking, he stood up and started writing: "Spherical censers were more common in the Song Dynasty, and were mostly made of porcelain. The upper part of the lid has a hollowed-out curly grass pattern, and the aroma overflows from the hollowed-out holes."
"Spherical censer shape Very small and very popular among literati Liu Chang, a great scholar of the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem called "Celadon Fragrance Ball Song": "The immortals in the blue sky are picking cold jade, and the blue light is as bright as a candle. The toad's fat is quenched on the Kunwu stone, and the flowers are carved by hand. It's so cool in the misty night." Hey, jade wisps are fragrant like purple mist, people rise up and fly towards the clouds at dawn, It seems to be suspicious of this. The blue and white porcelain incense burner blends into the tranquility and elegance of the night, which is vividly expressed."
"For example, the upper cover of the Song Yue kiln incense burner in Zhejiang Provincial Museum is decorated with three petals. The hollowed out leaves and branches are probably like this Look, you should pay more attention to it in the future."
Fourth aunt said with a smile: "In fact, it can be used as a string incense burner or a stew incense burner, as long as you can bear it."
"These two are the same. How to play? ”
"The incense-stewing method is suitable for using a deep furnace. When stewing incense, first use an incense shovel to make a hole in the middle of the tightly packed ashes to the bottom of the furnace, and open the hole slightly."
"Use an incense spoon to add incense powder Enter the cave and do not need to exit when lighting the incense powder for the first time. Smoke, and then add the incense powder should be burned from time to time, and the time interval should be as long as the color of the previous incense powder changes. Do not let the smoke come out." Your Excellency, the poet himself. The stick of ancient ambergris is fragrant but not smokey."
"When the incense powder is burned from the bottom to the ashes, use an incense shovel to slowly bury the ashes into the incense powder and form a cone. Done.”
“ However, you should pay attention to the timing of raising ashes. If the ashes are raised too early, the incense will be suffocated in the furnace; if the action is too stuffy, the ashes will be hot and scattered, and the ashes cannot be raised; if the ashes are not raised correctly, smoke will easily come out. Once the smoke comes out, The aroma will be greatly reduced.”
"It seems a little complicated." Zhou Zhi shook his head.
“There is also the fumigation method, which involves burying lit charcoal in ashes, placing mica pieces on the ashes, and then placing fragrant powder or honey-refined fragrant pills or fragrant beasts on top of it to incense directly.”< br>
“This is quite simple.” Zhou Zhi smiled and said, “I should be able to do it.”
“But this method has very high requirements for incense. The test is not the level of burning incense, but the level of making incense.”
“It’s more difficult, right?” Zhou Zhi Somewhat speechless: "Then I'd better learn to make fragrant seals honestly."
"There's no future." Fourth Aunt spat, "Can't you learn everything?"
"I'm afraid you'll bite off more than you can chew." Zhou Zhi smiled: "Don't talk about me, teach Fourth Cousin first." , I said in submission.”
“That’s right,” the fourth cousin also laughed: “There are only about two hundred pieces of Ge Kiln porcelain in the world, and those from the Song Dynasty are even rarer, and they have to be distributed. Put the lid on, it's really a bit crazy ""It's not good to be greedy for everything, hahaha... It's the same with a variety of orchids and sweet-scented osmanthus..."
After that, I started to play with the cultural toys brought by Zhou Zhi. In fact, Those items are also good things. The bronze painted silver tiger pen holder is from the Ming Dynasty, the longevity star tooth tip carved seal is from the Qing Dynasty, and the blue and white lotus leaf pen licking is very interesting. It was polished by the Qing people from the blue and white fragments of the Yuan Dynasty. It is quite exquisite. .
The most valuable one is the dustpan brick and inkstone, which was also made by the Qing Dynasty. However, the bricks used are Han bricks, chiselled into the shape of a dustpan. The key is that there is a seal script underneath - "A gentleman has nine thoughts: seeing is wise, listening is wise, Think of warmth in color, respect in appearance, loyalty in words, respect in deeds, doubts and questions, anger and difficulty, and meaning in gain."
The character is both seal and official, and his swordsmanship is ancient and clumsy, which is quite impressive.
“This is a good thing.” The fourth cousin nodded.
"Why?"
"Number of words." The fourth cousin said: "Han bricks with thirty-two characters are quite rare, but can they retain ink when made into an inkstone?"< br>
"Even if you can't keep the ink, it's good to make it an appreciation object." Zhou Zhi said: "I took it because I saw its beautiful calligraphy."
"So I still need to go out more often." Four My cousin sighed: "The bigger the city, the more good things there are."
"Listen He said BJ also has a Panjiayuan. If you get a chance, you should go and check it out." The fourth cousin then smiled and said, "This trip to the capital of Shu has improved your eyesight a lot."
< br>"I'm afraid that I won't be able to stand the test after going to Panjiayuan. After all, it's a mixed bag." Zhou Zhi said with a smile.
"Don't take action if you don't see it safe. With your current level, as long as you abstain from greed, you won't lose much." After the fourth cousin finished speaking, he made a thoughtful joke: "This time you will be rewarded Although the offer is generous, the work is also heavy. The one that comes up is the authentic Dharma book of the Song Dynasty, the Chengxintang paper of the Southern Tang Dynasty..."
"How about I take it away without bothering you, old man?"
"How dare you!" The fourth cousin laughed loudly: "Keep the things, take this, and come back in half a month!"
But it is a volume of "Collection of Ouyang Wenzhong Gong". There is a page of bookmarks in the volume, but it is "Essays on Sacrifice to Stone Manqing".
Wow Manqing! Born as a hero, died as a spirit. It is the same as the life and death of all things, and returns to nothingness, the form of temporary gathering; it does not die with all things, but stands out as immortal, this is the name of future generations.
This has been the case for all sages since ancient times, and those who write on the slips are as bright as the sun and stars.
This is a memorial essay written by Ouyang Xiu for his old friend in the fourth year of Zhiping, twenty years after Shi Manqing's death. The words are not gorgeous, but the emotion is unusually profound and touching.
The manuscript of this article has not been left behind. However, another ten years have passed. After Ouyang Xiu said goodbye to the political stage in despair, he once again looked through the poem manuscript left by his friend and finally left his own handwriting. , shining side by side with the calligraphy of a close friend.
"...he has been proud of his poetry and wine since he was a child. His majestic appearance, strange style of poems, and skill in calligraphy. His strokes are vigorous and his body is beautiful. He is treasured by the world."
In history, it was Ouyang Xiu's strong promotion and recommendation of Shi Manqing to his friends and the emperor that made him famous in the notes of many Song people.
In this time and space, it was Ouyang Xiu who left his own pen and ink to future generations because of the works of his close friends.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Shi Yannian's calligraphy was already "treasured". Now it has been blessed by many famous people's inscriptions and postscripts. After it is restored, how should its value be estimated?
Invaluable.
And this is just one item randomly pulled out from the paper bundle at the bottom of the box. If this one item alone is so terrifying, is the same for the others?
While thinking, Zhou Zhi walked to the door of the dormitory of the Sugar and Wine Company without even realizing it.
(End of this chapter)