Gucheng village may be the earliest place where Yingjing came at dawn. At dawn, next to the 108 national road, doors creaked one after another. The first thing the local people do after getting up is to move the earthenware casserole in the shop to the national highway and lay it piece by piece. Looking around, it was dark, stretching for about 1 km. It's spectacular. It seems that it has become a habit for villagers to go back to the house to freshen up after moving the casserole.
At 8: 30 in the morning, Hu Kezhong had already burned bluegrass pots in the second kiln. In the middle of the workshop, a cave with a diameter of about 1.5 meters was covered with wooden boards, and the pit was full of broken coal. A 5-meter-long iron pipe hung with a kiln cover tied with fine wire, and the blower whizzed, and clouds of hot air suddenly appeared in the cave.
40-year-old Hu Kezhong, wearing a khaki jacket, hat and rolled cuffs, "bah" spit out cigarettes and held up eight pottery embryos. His feet rested on the board and he dived into the cave quickly. After the release of eight pottery embryos, there were already bursts of sweat on his forehead. Hu Kezhong does this action dozens of times a day, burning 150 pottery embryos in a kiln, and opening 8 kilns a day when business is good. Hu Kezhong said that a few days ago, Guangzhou ordered thousands of bluegrass pots, which is a rare big order in the factory. He comes to the construction site at 6 o'clock every morning and leaves the workshop after 8 o'clock in the evening. When he got home, he couldn't stand up.
Soon, 100 pots went into the hole smoothly. Hu Kezhong ran to the iron pipe and labored on it. The kiln cover slowly left the ground, wandered in the air, and landed on the cave accurately. Hu Kezhong breathed a sigh of relief, pulled out a cigarette from his wrinkled pocket and lit it against the corner. About an hour later, the bluegrass pot in the cave was all red. Hu Kezhong hooked the bluegrass pot into another pit, poured sawdust on it and covered it with charcoal. Suddenly, a blue smoke rose in the air, which was "glazing". When many tourists arrive in Yingjing, they always get up early and go to the workshop to see the scene of the first kiln pottery coming out of the kiln. At that time, before dawn, every piece of pottery in the cave was crystal clear, redder and more charming than the sunrise on the horizon.
This is an ordinary sand pottery workshop next to Yingjing 108 National Road. There are several red brick tile houses with asbestos tiles on them, and the dim light bulbs look faint during the day. Rows of casseroles and bluegrass pots that have just come out of the kiln are neatly arranged on simple shelves nailed with wooden strips, and the pot covers are tied with iron wires and hung on the shelves. Large caves, chained German shepherd dogs, finished products on wooden frames and dim light bulbs may be your impressions of ancient cities and villages.
Pottery is probably the most amazing creation in the history of civilization. As early as the Neolithic Age, the ancients were making pottery. Because firing pottery requires thousands of degrees of high temperature, which is also a great revolution since the discovery of fire. Today, it is a miracle that modern people still use pottery. Ancient pottery in China can be divided into red pottery, gray pottery, black pottery and hard pottery due to different soil qualities. However, the invention of pottery is not the patent of a certain tribe. So far, there is not a tribe in the world that does not make pottery, which has become an important symbol in archaeology.
A large number of cultural relics unearthed in Yingjing have played an inestimable role in the archaeological research of Yingjing history. As the predecessor of earthenware, earthenware not only played a practical role in the development of human civilization, the birth of cookware and the evolution of eating style, but also can study the historical culture, living customs, cultural heritage and local customs at that time from the aspects of pottery types, types, manufacturing techniques and product circulation, which embodies solid archaeological value.
In September, 2004, Ya 'an successfully held the "One Meeting and One Festival" of tea culture, and hung the title of the ancestor of tea set in Yingjing Rock Road, which was another discovery of Wu Li, the ancestor of tea set in Yingjing. Finally straightened out the historical marriage between flue and Mengding tea.
Wu Lizhen, the ancestor of tea ceremony, was originally a Taoist Yan. It should be an indisputable fact that the sand wares in Guchengping, the hometown of Yan Dao, were the main daily necessities in Yan Dao's jurisdiction at that time. Wu Lizhen grows and picks tea in Mengshan, and naturally needs tea sets in his hometown. And sand just fills the gap in Wu Lizhen's tea set.
As the saying goes, "good flowers should be planted with good soil, and good tea should have good tea sets." The Qianlong edition of Yingjing County Records follows the folk saying that "Li Bai's cactus is of high quality and smells like Lu Tong jade liquid". Isn't this fragrant tea set that attracts Lutong the Yingjing sand ware? Mengshan used to be a strict road in history. Is it just tea and no utensils? I dare not assert that this vessel is full of Yingjing sand wares, but Wu Lizhen, a farmer and a Shan Ye citizen, can't afford the vessels of the Central Plains, so he can only use them locally. Isn't the strict sand container the first to bear the brunt? So, can it be asserted that tea culture originated in Mengshan and tea set culture began in Yan Dao? The inventor should be Wu Lizhen.
In the Romance of Wu Lizhen written by Mr. Zhang Guofang, it is mentioned that Wu Lizhen used a strict black sand pot to make tea medicine and brewed Mengding tea with a black sand pot, which is full of sincerity. Although the romance has some novel flavor, Mr. Zhang's many times of collecting wind and seeking roots are reasonable (see Chapters 3 and 6 of The Romance of Wu Lizhen, the tea ancestor). And we get a revelation from it: good tea with good utensils can cure diseases and prevent diseases. Isn't this a strong proof that Yingjing sand ware is non-corrosive, non-toxic and ecologically beneficial?