Chapter 609 Born to be a rice bowl
Fangshan Restaurant is located in Beihai Park, not far from Miantang House. The restaurant is located among the ancient buildings such as Qiongdao Yilan Hall and Daoningzhai in Beihai Park, with mountains behind and water on its back, and verandahs. Surrounding it, guests can truly enjoy the feeling of "eating inside a cultural relic".
This restaurant was first opened by a few chefs from the Imperial Dining Room. It specializes in the Imperial Dining Room. Legend has it that it is the only restaurant in the capital that can recreate the Manchu and Han Dynasty banquets.
“After the re-opening and renovation, this place is even more splendid. There are now three courtyards, fifteen large and small restaurants, and more than 500 seats.” Mr. Ma is probably a frequent visitor, giving a group of people from the capital of Shu Introduction to guests.
The decorations in the hall are mainly dragons and phoenixes, plus large palace lanterns, bright yellow tablecloths, napkins, chair covers, and porcelain imitating the Qing palace's "Longevity without Borders" inscriptions. In the eyes of Jiang Wu and others, it is a masterpiece. However, in Zhou Zhi's eyes, it made the place vulgar.
"Yilantang is a palace in the fairyland, an offshore palace. Emperor Qianlong arranged it here after giving a banquet to civil servants," Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "Why is it arranged here? It is to 'de-palace'."
"Qianlong's original intention should be to be able to Restoring the elegant style of a literati, talking about calligraphy, painting, literature, and singing poems with his courtiers at a table filled with lakes and bamboos is unlikely to be the case now."
"That makes sense, now. The imitation meal is to move the things inside the palace to the outside. Bian'er is here to coax tourists." Mr. Ma said, "Qianlong and Yongzheng actually had a pastoral complex. They often ordered painters to paint themselves in landscapes and pastoral scenes, and he was a Han scholar in the painting."
"Then. I have a different mentality, but it’s not like Fangshan’s arrangement. "Pai, it just happened to be reversed."
"This is what Qian Lao said in "The Besieged City", the people inside want to get out, and the people outside want to get in." Liu Zhengyun said with a smile: "The Eight Great Sufferings in Buddhism." , one of which is ‘can’t ask for anything’!”
"Don't joke too much, everyone." Jiang Wu said with a smile: "I heard that this place was not open to the outside world before. For us, it used to be 'unable to ask for'."
"And today , coming here to have a meal is still something that many people cannot ask for.”
“Brother Jiang, do you have any plans for tomorrow?” Feng Cang asked, “Mr. When is Haitong's auction?"
"The day after tomorrow." Fei Guan said, "The original plan was to visit Mr. Lin from Haitong tomorrow."
"My arrangements have been made. That's it." Jiang Wu smiled and said, "I just came to visit Brother Feng and Brother Pan. The rest is to follow Zhu Zi and Mr. Fei to watch the fun."
"I still need to go to the school to have a look." Zhou Zhi said: "My sworn brother will soon go to the Capital Foreign Languages Institute to study English, and we have to go there too."
"Shouwai? It seems that Lao Jia is in Shouguang. Are you out?" Feng Cang asked.
"He is from the German Department." Wang Shuo said: "He holds the original works of philosophy all day long and pretends to be a big-tailed wolf."
"No need to work hard for teachers and professors." Zhou Zhi was frightened again and again. Wave your hand, these people have too many connections, they don’t care about you You can find a way to find people for anything you want to do in the capital: "It's just to familiarize yourself with the environment in advance."
"That's about it?" Master Ma asked: "That's easy, this I’ll arrange it in a few days!”
For Zhou Zhi, imperial cuisine is actually not as good as Huaiyang cuisine or even Cantonese cuisine that later generations often come into contact with.
In addition to the higher-end ingredients, it is not even as good as the home-cooked Sichuan cuisine of later generations.
However, the first-grade official swallow, which was often eaten at banquets in later generations, was eaten here for the first time in this life.
In addition, there are also swallow-tail peach blossom shrimp, first-grade tofu, and sea-red shark's fin, all of which are very good.
There are also sea cucumbers stewed with ginseng and abalone stewed with deer antlers, which made the married men smile and the little children tremble. It is said that the Empress Dowager West's favorite pea yellow and steamed buns were not appreciated by Zhou Zhi. However, Zhou Zhi was a little surprised by the variety of barbecued meats with ethnic minority characteristics.
Actually, many of the dishes here are not suitable for supplementation during summer vacation, and summer vacation is not even the time to take supplements!
However, Yu Bin couldn't resist Yu Bin's enthusiasm and amateurishness. This meal really left Zhou Zhi with a dazzling meal and an empty stomach.
Master Qiao was also foolish and bold. Seeing that Zhou Zhi only had a taste of the ginseng, sea cucumber and deer antler stewed abalone, he simply brought them over to help his foster brother consume them.
There is no need to arrange accommodation after coming out of Beihai. Yu Bin was very wise and said that the Miantang residence has been sorted out and the three large rooms in the west wing can be lived in.
Of course you can't miss this opportunity. Many of Ma Ye's gadgets inside are high-quality products found on the ground in the capital. Zhou Zhi felt that he hadn't seen enough in one afternoon.
Just right.
Although it is said that "you don't look at jade under the lamp", it is only for business. The two of them chatted in the room and talked about porcelain. Basically, when they talked about porcelain, Mr. Ma said wait a minute, and then Not long after leaving the house, he came back with something in his arms: "Come and take a look at this!"
The foundation of Mr. Ma's collection has basically been laid by now.
Though the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, Zhou Zhi has not yet received any items from Jun kiln.
Mr. Ma also didn't receive it, but he did have a four-leaf hanging screen with ten pieces of Song Jun porcelain inlaid on each screen, for a total of forty pieces.
Even the fragments cost Ma Ye 1,600 yuan in 1982, only half the price of the Yongzheng painting table purchased by Feng Cang, and equivalent to a worker's five years' salary.
The purple of Yuan porcelain gathers into objects, and the purple of Song Jun pervades the whole. "A family's wealth is not as good as a piece of Jun kiln", which refers to the purple Jun kiln.
The value of ordinary Jun kilns without red, even those with golden edges and sky blue glaze, will be greatly reduced. There is another saying to describe it: "If a Jun is not red, it will be poor for the rest of its life."
Inside the complete vessel, there are two plates in Mawei. The two plates look more like the base of the celadon glaze is printed with leaf patterns. This is called "polymerized object shape". Among Jun kiln porcelain, Typical characteristics of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.
It is a little different from the Song Dynasty Jun kiln porcelain that is filled with sky blue plus lilac, rose purple, or grape purple, and is as beautiful as the morning light and sunset, but it still has purple after all. Although it is not diffuse or excessive, it is more like a "purple spot". But it’s already remarkable.
Such an opportunity is very rare. Under Ma Ye's generous guidance, Zhou Zhi conducted extensive research on the only famous porcelain from the Song Dynasty that he did not own. I have a long-term understanding of glaze, vertical glaze, beige edge, sauce edge, brightness, bubbles, turbidity, and even the feel of the body and glaze. It can be said that I am making great progress, from theory to practice, from entry to proficiency.
Knowledge is like this. Sometimes it talks about accumulation, sometimes it talks about opportunities, sometimes it talks about inspiration, and sometimes it talks about breakthroughs.
Zhou Zhi has studied Song porcelain in depth. As for the famous kiln entrances in various places in the Song Dynasty during the same period, it can be said that except for the Forbidden City where the five famous kiln utensils and their imitations from all generations are gathered, There are actually not many people among the people who can surpass him in education and vision.
Even if it is a Jun kiln, although I have never tried it personally, from theoretical research to high-definition large-scale pictures, Zhou Zhi has a basic plan in mind. Tonight, it was just a matter of shaking off the window paper.
But the happiest person was Ma Ye, who believed that Zhou Zhi was born to eat his own rice.
(End of this chapter)