The steps of the museum are very high and the furnishings are simple. But in the county town of northern Jiangsu, with such a museum, it is very literate and rich.
When traveling in other places, I always like to go to local museums. However, when traveling with a group, museums are rarely used as tourist attractions. I had to spend some time sneaking by myself and feasting my eyes.
Therefore, at home, I feel particularly relieved to see the Changxing teapot exhibition in the museum.
There is a professor at NTU named Kang Er. A few years ago, the topic he talked about in CCTV lecture room was teapot. I also learned a lot from his funny talk. It turns out that the small teapot coincides with the world view of the Chinese people. The ancients in China believed that gold, wood, water, fire and earth were the elements that generated everything, and the raw materials of teapot were composed of five-color soil. The completion of a teapot happens to be the crystallization of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Therefore, holding a teapot in your arms is the foundation of holding everything, that is, holding a vast world.
But the teapot should be our "patent" in Yixing, Jiangsu, and it is also available in Changxing, Zhejiang. What kind of thing is it? Actually, the reason is very simple. The original Yixing teapot was inseparable from Shushan, Nanjie and Lihe. The 50-meter-high Shu Mountain is a world of mud and fire, and the 500-meter-high South Street is crowded with pot merchants. They transported the fired purple sand products to all parts of the country through the 20-meter-wide Lihe River ... Later, with the development of land transportation, the purple sand production center moved to Dingshan, Yixing, and the 500-year-old Shushan was quiet. However, the purple sand in Dingshan is far from meeting the market demand. Therefore, Changxing and Yixing, Zhejiang, which are close to Dingshan, are in the same geological structure zone, and the clay properties are similar. Changxing teapot is also proud.
The Changxing purple clay pot exhibited in Dafeng Museum this time is from the hands of more than ten famous purple clay masters in Changxing. I know nothing about teapots. Watching the teapot is just a pleasure of life. Through the thick glass of the showcase, I can only feel that the workmanship of each pot is exquisite, elegant and ancient. "Golden nail pot", "contented pot" and "spring pot" left a deep impression on me. It's like reading a book leisurely, stopping at interesting places and reading more. There is also a pot watcher next to it. Seeing my seriousness, he came forward to ask me about the "ancient dream pot" I was tasting. How much is this pot worth? I smiled and shook my head.
I'm just one of the spectators. To tell the truth, I appreciate Changxing's pot very much, but I appreciate the way of holding the pot and drinking more. During my life in the old city of Taizhou, there was a stall next to my home selling some daily necessities. An old man I still don't remember, he sits in front of a stall every day, rubbing a pot in one hand and closing his eyes. He only opened his eyes slightly when someone was shopping. Pick up the pot and have a sip of tea. Then, slowly take out the Japanese goods that the guests want from the stall. That sentence has never been forgotten.
How much is a pot worth? Ma Mo, a collector who founded the first private museum in China, said a word when talking about collection: In the past Republic of China, many people always bought teapot with good appearance and made by the master, and then hired someone to raise it. This pot is also exquisite. There is a saying called external repair and internal repair. External repair is to make tea and rub it frequently. Over time, let the pot wall lubricate. The key to internal cultivation is that it doesn't matter if one pot has two teas, and the tea soup brewed by the teapot with two teas can maintain the original flavor, and the quality of the cultivated pot can be seen as elegant. The pot raised in this way has a high collection value. After listening to Ma Ma's remarks, I suddenly realized that the old man who makes tea has never only made a kind of tea called roasted green, but he is also raising pots? In retrospect, not necessarily. However, time is like pouring tea, and the old man is like a pot, with the warmth that tea can't take away. And that warm fragrance has been warming my heart.
Changxing's teapot is a rising star. It is said that the "first giant pot in the world" has been made ten times, and one of them is placed in front of the hall of China Tea Museum. Changxing has also established a purple sand museum. But on the market, there are fewer and fewer real teapot. Many of them are mass-produced by adding chemicals to loess. From the outside, it is difficult for us laymen to tell the difference. There is no difference between drinking tea with a fake teapot made of loess and drinking tea with red bricks. The former may be harmful to health. A good friend told me the other day that someone gave him a pot made by a master. "It is said that the market price is 30,000." He said. I went to see it specially. He put the jar in a conspicuous place in the bookcase for supply. Seeing this, I somehow remembered the old man again. That jar.
How much is the old man's pot worth now? I am ashamed of this flash.