Drink and Read

November 18, 2020

From the early Qing Dynasty, Wei Yijie, a famous official in the early Qing Dynasty, “Jianjitang Collection”: “…Take his poems, drink and read them, and read them as the world’s scholars.” Tea soup and knowledge are entered at the same time, and both body and mind are satisfied. Describes an ideal life state of the literati in the past,

Coming back to the present, we hope that [and drink and read] can convey a lively atmosphere. Feel at ease in a daze, read books, and chat with the evening breeze. The lights in the room are extinguished, and the empty mirror-like scene is in the eye, feeling unconsciously relaxed.

Drinking and reading is such a living atmosphere.

There are poems in the evening, but I don’t make poetry, and they all melt in the quiet night quietly, and tea soup, but full.

The poetry of Wan Nong is no longer a sentence of “putting up in Fengya”,
On the contrary, it is the “easy to relax” that hides the rush of the day, sleep in the moon and the wind, and lives and saves oneself.

[Let’s drink and read] The device group, with poems,
The cups and bowls are all handwritten, each with a vivid face, including five tasting cups and one tea bowl.

And drink in the daily tea, and read between the words and poems.

Including Teacups

Alum red and white poetry and essay cup
Alum red poetry sculpture cup
Blue and white poetry sculpture cup
Engraving Cup
Turquoise green banana stone carving cup

There are five tasting cups, four of which are written by different craftsmanship, poems and poems from Wang Wei.

Wang Wei (701-761, 699-761), another Name Mojie, the name Mojiejushi, a well-known poet and painter in the Tang Dynasty, is known as the “Buddha of Poetry” because of his poetic Zen.

Wang Wei’s poems are also like empty mirrors, indifferent, but profound, unwilling to dismantle too much. “Dismantling” such a poem is a bit difficult. Unfavorable force may be “horrible.” It stays in the sights of daily life and reconciles with a similar feeling and atmosphere.

The last cup, without the verse, is carved with banana stone and covered with turquoise green glaze. Take the blank meaning, there are pictures in the poem. As far as the overall tea table collocation is concerned, it also corresponds to reality and fiction in the picture.

The Gaiwan (Tea Bowl)

The Gaiwna is a Turquoise green glaze with handwritten “Diary Chengtian Temple Night Tour” poetry.

It’s covered with turquoise green glaze and fired at low temperature, followed by Lu Pinglan’s handwritten word “Diary of Chengtian Temple Night Tour”, and the rim is decorated with gold. The turquoise green is clear and moist and quiet, the shape of the instrument is Zhou Zheng, and the writing is clear and comfortable, like a book under the moon.

The content of handwritten poems is familiar and detailed, and records the small things in life—— The author Su Shi wakes up in the middle of the night to see the charming moonlight, saying that although the moonlight is good, it needs the same appreciation from friends to have fun. Then he went to Chengtian Temple to find Zhang Huaimin, who just “has the people and did not go to bed”, so he was happy to be friends See the moon on the occasion. And this kind of friend who can be pulled out in the middle of the night to hang out with you, and immersed in the night shadow of bamboo and cypress with you is not easy to find, so at the end, the author sighs: “But there are fewer idlers like our ears.”