Chapter 13 Tang Kiln Tea Cup
This is a seemingly ordinary kettle and two tea cups, which are produced in Jingde, Ganzhou Province.
This kind of porcelain began in the Song Dynasty, and there were a large number of imitations in all dynasties. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was introduced to daily porcelain and became a mass-produced daily porcelain.
However, in the antique shop, this kind of blue-white porcelain has another name - Shadow Green. This is because this kind of porcelain was mass-produced and exported in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, most of the shadow porcelains were made of thin transparent flying phoenix and other patterns.
These patterns were carved by highly skilled ceramic artists on the blank, and fired with transparent green glaze at high temperature. However, the three tea sets in front of Xiao Yao were obviously not antiques from the Song Dynasty from the shape to the decoration.
Especially this teapot is obviously a product after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the pot also has the words "Agriculture Learning Dazhai" on it. However, these two tea bowls are obviously not the same as this teapot.
The two tea cups with lotus-shaped patterns are complete with the cup holder and the bowl cover, and the porcelain is extremely thin, the glaze is white and green, and the dark flower pattern is concise and elegant.
What is even more rare is that the tea soup swaying in the tea cup shows a dynamic beauty. Because Xiao Yao was more focused, his ability to see through the "eye consciousness" and unconsciously allowed him to see four green regular scripts at the bottom of the tea cup - Tao Cheng Jushi.
"Tang Kiln!!!" Xiao Yao's heart trembled.
Tang Ying, the most famous sacrificial official in the Qing Dynasty and the Qianlong dynasties, served for nearly 30 years and successively manufactured imperial porcelain for the emperors of the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties. Because he devoted himself to the ceramic affairs and practiced it himself, he accumulated rich experience in making porcelain.
All the porcelain fired by him are exquisite and are known as the "Tang Kiln".
Xiao Yao once read records about him, and I remember very clearly that Tang Ying's name is Jungong, but he also has many names: such as Jungong, Shuzi, Waji, Waji Laoren, Tao Cheng layman, Muzhai layman, Taoren, and Tao envoy.
Judging from the four-character regular script style on Zushan, this pair of teacups with lotus pattern shadow green teacups should have been made by Tang Ying himself and kept as porcelain for his own use, so he wrote the Tao Cheng Jushi's signature.
In his previous life, Xiao Yao's biggest hobby when he was an otaku was to search for information about these cultural relics and antiques on the Internet, so he was very clear about the value of the teacup in front of him after the rise of the folk collection craze in the past few years.
What he is considering now is certainly not how to buy this pair of tea cups. It is another thing he has been thinking about for a long time.
The campus of Guhe No. 1 Middle School is the former site of the Guhe County Academy, which was built in the first year of Baoying in Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty. Therefore, ancient buildings and cultural relics from all dynasties can be seen everywhere on the campus of No. 1 Middle School.
It was when he was in No. 1 Middle School that Xiao Yao became interested in literature and history knowledge. Later, although he chose physics when he took the college entrance examination, when he was in college, he liked to go to the Arts College to take classes as soon as he had free time.
He even took several liberal arts and history courses that were completely unrelated to the physics major.
In his previous life, he was staying in a vague life, except for doing odd jobs, and his favorite thing to visit was forums and sites for literature, history and antiques in the rest of his life. This was his only interest.
After he was reborn, he also thought about his future life, but in the end he chose to be a teacher. In addition to his personality, he had another consideration that he had more spare time as a teacher, and at least twice a year, the holidays were fixed.
With time, you can really do things like collecting and Taobao. Moreover, the folk collection craze has not yet emerged, and now it is a good time to collect.
Just like the pair of Tang kiln tea cups I met today, if it were ten years later, who would imagine that I would encounter such a famous porcelain treasure in a teahouse after drinking tea?
"Xiao Yao...Xiao Yao!" The Narcissus cried twice and saw that Xiao Yao didn't react and elbowed Xiao Yao with his arm, "What are you thinking! You're so enchanting?"
"Oh! It's nothing. I'm just thinking about the principal asking me to teach Teacher Zhou a history class for several months." Xiao Yao found an excuse to fool him.
"What's there to think about this? Haven't you already replaced two classes? The students' reactions were very good!" Narcissus said softly.
"You think it's good too?" Xiao Yao said casually.
"I...I think what's the use of goodness?" Narcissus was stunned, but his heart was beating wildly, "The key is that students welcome and leaders trust them. Besides, don't you like literature and history?"
"Yes! All the classmates in our class said that Teacher Xiao's lessons were much more interesting than Teacher Zhou." Guo Yue, who happened to walk to their table, heard their conversation and put it together with a smile.
"Xiaoyue, you can't say that. Teacher Zhou is more experienced than me. You just started listening to my class with a little freshness!" Xiao Yao hurriedly stopped him when he heard Guo Yue say this, "By the way! Xiaoyue, ask your dad to come. The teacher wants to talk to him about something."
"Oh!" Guo Yue is also a smart child. She knew that what she said just now would be bad if Teacher Zhou heard it, but when she heard Xiao Yao's order, she hurriedly ran to call her father.
After a while, Zhou Chunhe, who was carrying a long flowing pot in his hand, walked to their table.
"Teacher Xiao, Yue'er said, are you looking for me?"
"It's nothing big, Brother Zhou! Come and sit down and say." Xiao Yao said with a smile.
"Teacher Xiao, what's the matter? Just say ok!" Zhou Chunhe is also a honest person and respects his daughter's husband very much.
"This pair of tea bowls is pretty good." Xiao Yao said casually, "Brother Zhou, I am a good tea person and I like these tea sets very much. I just looked at it carefully. This pair of tea bowls and a teapot in my house should be the same. So... I want to ask Brother Zhou to help me resell this pair of tea bowls to make a set of them."
"Oh!" Zhou Chun and Zhou looked at the pair of tea on the table after hearing Xiao Yao say this, and after a while, he suddenly said, "So it's these tea bowls! I have two more in my house!"
"Oh!" Xiao Yao was delighted when he heard that there were two more. Unexpectedly, there were four, "How did these four tea bowls come from?"
"I don't know this." Zhou Chunhe shook his head and said, "When the teahouse was put down, the original old shopkeeper had just passed away. His turtle didn't want to stay in this small county town. He wanted to go to those big cities and said that he wanted to go to Nangang for a walk. These tea bowls were originally placed on the counter, but Erluozi said that this was the old shopkeeper's own use. At that time, the old man said it was a pity that he didn't see a teapot, otherwise it would be a set. Unexpectedly, the teapot was with Teacher Xiao. This is a helping hand. If Teacher Xiao likes it, take it. Just a few bowls, it's a lot of money!"
"That's not the case. You can't use the students' homes for nothing if you become a teacher! Don't make it difficult for me to do it!" Xiao Yao waved his hand and said, saying that he doesn't have money now. If he knows the value of this thing in the future, what would he think in his heart?
"These bowls look beautiful, but unfortunately they are too thin and easy to break. I think they may be defective, so let's do it! Let's do it!" Zhou Chunhe stood up and was about to leave, "I'll get the other two for Teacher Xiao!"
"Brother Zhou! It's better to say that the price is better. If I take it in vain, others will gossip! If you really don't have money, then I'll leave. I don't want this tea bowl!" Xiao Yao said pretending to be angry.
"Ah! It's okay! Teacher Xiao, please give me 10 yuan!" Zhou Chunhe shook his head and left.
"Xiao Yao!" After Zhou Chunhe walked away, Narcissus approached and asked in a low voice, "What is this tea bowl?"
"This..." Xiao Yao scratched his head a little. It seemed that she had seen his purpose clearly. Although it could be denied, if he really did that, he would appear stingy.
Looking at her eyes and pretending to be calm as she spoke in a low voice, Xiao Yao suddenly had an idea and looked at the Narcissus and said, "Actually, I just think this tea bowl is unique and beautiful, especially when you took it to drink tea just now, the tea and beauty is even more beautiful, so I want to buy it and collect it."
When Xiao Yao said this, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, but he didn't notice that he had just taken the wrong one that the Narcissus had just drunk.
"You..." After hearing Xiao Yao's so-called explanation, he saw him drinking tea with the cup he had just drunk. The daffodil only felt his cheeks burning and his ears were hot. He was about to turn his mouth back but didn't know what to say.
Chapter completed!