At the entrance of the exhibition hall of "Purple Jade Ou Heart - China Jianzhan Culture Exhibition", the audience appreciates Jianzhan through the interactive electronic screen
"Purple Jade Ou Heart - Chinese Kiln and Kiln Culture Exhibition" is on display at the National Museum. In the scorching summer, when I calmed down to look at this exhibition, some visitors gave feedback, such as "there is a breeze blowing on the face from time to time, which is very ironing".
Where does the title of the exhibition "Purple Jade Ou Heart" come from? The curatorial team of the National Museum will share:
Fan Zhongyan's "Song of Fighting Tea with Zhang Min" has: "The green dust on the side of the gold mill flies, and the snow rises in the heart of the purple jade Ou. Because a small number of Jianzhan emitted a purple halo under the light, some literati described Jianzhan as "purple jade ou" or "purple ou". This is where the name of the exhibition comes from.
Not only Fan Zhongyan, but also many ancients once chanted for Jianzhan:
Ouyang Xiu's "Tasting Tea with Mei Gongyi": "I like to drink Ziou and drink, and I envy you with a lot of energy." ”
Huang Tingjian's "Full Court Fang · Tea": "Slender hand, grinding ointment shallow milk, golden partridge spots." ”
Mei Yaochen's "Second Rhyme and Uncle Yong's Taste of New Tea Miscellaneous": "The rabbit hair and purple cup are commensurate with each other, and Qingquan does not need to ask for shrimp and toad." ”
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Next, let's talk about why Jianzhan is all the rage.
Exhibition view of "Purple Jade Ouxin - China Building Kiln and Jianzhan Culture Exhibition".
Why is Jianzhan all the rage?
The Song Dynasty was a period of rapid economic and cultural development in ancient China, and social life showed a trend of popularization, secularization, and human culture. The Song people continued to refine the elegant taste from the details of daily life, paid attention to the pursuit of spirit and artistic conception, and laid the elegant tone for the social life of later generations.
In the late Tang Dynasty, there was a tea ordering method of boiling soup in a tea bottle, putting it in a bowl at the end, and then holding a bottle to pour soup. From the Five Dynasties to the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the techniques of ordering tea tended to be complex. As a symbol of the extremely exquisite way of drinking tea, it is known as the mainstream art of tea fighting, which originated in Jianzhou in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, which is a kind of evaluation and competition of tea and tea ordering skills, paying attention to the tea taste, tea aroma and the changes in the tea foam soup flower produced in the process of ordering tea.
A la carte tea demonstration
In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Xiang, then the Fujian Road Transit Envoy, conducted a systematic investigation and study of the tea fighting customs originating from the folk of Jianzhou, and wrote the book "Tea Records". Since then, the custom of tea fighting has gradually ascended to the hall of elegance, and first spread in the court and the scholar class, and then gradually penetrated into the people. Because of "white tea, black tea", Jianzhan was highly respected by the literati and doctors, and became the first choice for tea fighting customs in the Song Dynasty. Influenced by this, a number of poems praising Jianzhan appeared.
Tea Records, National Museum of China
"Son of Heaven Cloth Tea"
The popularity of Jianzhan is also closely related to the love of Song Huizong. Huizong, who loves literature and art, is also good at the study of tea affairs and building lamps, and once wrote that "snails and fine beads are packed together, and the glass urn is built with buds." The rabbit is even cooking cloud liquid, which can solve the red face and enter the drunken country".
In the first year of Daguan (1107), Huizong wrote "Daguan Tea Treatise", in which the classification and function of Jianzhan were introduced in detail. In the second year of Zhenghe (1112), Huizong cooked Taiping Jiaruigong tea with the rabbit and Huishan spring and gave Cai Jing to drink. In the first year of Xuanhe (1119), Huizong personally ordered tea for the ministers, which was known as "Tianzi cloth tea" in history.
Song Dynasty Liu Songnian "Tea Fight"
Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Song Dynasty Liu Songnian "Mingyuan Gambling Market"
Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Song Dynasty built kiln black glaze skimming bowl
Collection of Jianyang District Museum, Nanping City
Song Dynasty built kiln black glaze bundle mouth bowl
Collection of Jianyang District Museum, Nanping City
Song Dynasty built a kiln "for the royal" black glaze pot
Collection of Jianyang District Museum, Nanping City
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Exhibition Name: Purple Jade Ouxin - China Building Kiln and Jianzhan Culture Exhibition Venue: National Museum of China South 6 and South 7 Exhibition HallsExhibition time: It will be on display to the public from June 27, 2024, and is on display
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