Chapter 340：

"This is the famous tea saint," Zhou Ye stood up and explained.

"What, Tea Saint," everyone was surprised.

Then, the two suddenly became excited.

In terms of tea ceremony, Lu Yu is definitely an ancestral existence.

"Okay, let's drink tea first." Zhou Ye couldn't help but wanted to taste it.

Then, Zhou Ye asked for a little tea for Jia Lao, put it in the "Purple Gold Jade Sand Pot", and poured it into the boiled space divine water. As soon as it was poured in, a strong tea fragrance raged out from the inside, which was extremely mellow. .

This kind of tea fragrance is unmatched by other teas.

The clear tea is rich and full of tea fragrance.

"Let me do it." Lu Yu looked at the purple gold jade sand pot and the mutton fat jade emperor cup in Zhou Ye's hands. He felt a little itchy, and he knew some tea skills, so he dared to recommend himself.

Lu Yu actually coveted Zhou Ye's mutton fat Jade Emperor Cup for a long time.

I always wanted to use it, but I never got the chance.

Now, the opportunity has come.

"Okay," Zhou Ye handed the purple gold jade sand pot to Lu Yu.

"Hey, leave that jade cup with the white tiger pattern to me." Before this even started, Andy began to shout.

As the world's richest woman, Andy is the executive president of the Acacia Hotel, and she is more than ten million people.

Holds the jobs of an unknown number of people.

On his body, he developed a hint of tiger spirit.

"I want that peach blossom," Tong Liya couldn't help but say.

Slow hands mean nothing.

The eight cups are different. One cup is engraved with a peach blossom pattern, with a picture of monkeys picking peaches, the second cup is engraved with the pattern of eight horses, the third cup is engraved with dragon patterns, and two dragons are hovering around the cup. , the body is staggered up and down, end to end, the fourth cup is engraved with a phoenix flying with wings, the fifth cup is engraved with auspicious clouds in the sky, the cloud pattern is covered with the cup body, like a sparkling lake, the sixth Plum blossoms are dotted on the first cup, and branches and vines are intertwined in the body of the cup. The seventh cup is painted with a white tiger, fierce and mighty, and it is contemptuous of the world.

Zhou Ye reserved a cup for himself, but it was the second cup - "Eight Horses Junteng", and the remaining six cups, Li Huiyan did her part to let one go, and it was the fourth cup - "Phoenix Spreads its Wings", Xia Zhu Although he didn't come, he also left a cup for him. It was the fifth cup - "Auspicious Clouds in the Sky". The rest of the girls didn't like drinking tea much, and for some reason, they were reluctant to use such a good one. Therefore, Zhou Ye reserved the jade cup.

But in addition to the jade cup, Zhou Ye also has a set of tea cups.

This set of teacups was a precious gift from Zhuang Rui. Unfortunately, Zhuang Rui was not here at this time.

The tea set porcelain that Zhuang Rui gave to Zhou Ye is the famous one—Mao Porcelain!

Mao Porcelain is the top class of porcelain in red official kilns, and it is a kind of porcelain specially made for Grandpa Mao.

very precious.

Not many have been passed down.

It can be said that it represented the highest artistic achievement at that time.

The red official kilns in various specific historical periods and some special porcelain factories produced various living and decorative porcelains in various historical eras. Historical cultural relics, these "red official kiln" porcelain mainly include "leader's porcelain", "central government porcelain" produced during the Cultural Revolution, and gift porcelain for foreign heads of state.

With Jingdezhen Jianguo Porcelain Factory, Jingdezhen Art Porcelain Factory, People's Porcelain Factory, Hongqi Porcelain Factory, Sculpture Porcelain Factory, Hunan Qunli Porcelain Factory, Ceramic Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry and other units, they have successively produced certain living porcelain, Furnishing porcelain and gift porcelain, these units can also be called contemporary "red official kilns" 0…

Regarding the "red official kiln", it is said that there is a certain background of the times.

In May 1956, when Taizu listened to reports from the central and southern provinces, the Southern Hunan reporting group mentioned the establishment of a porcelain company to take charge of the Liling porcelain industry. He also inquired about the specific situation of Liling Porcelain Industry in detail, and even asked about the temperature at which the porcelain was fired.

After that, the state immediately invested 8 million yuan, and the Ministry of Light Industry sent an expert team to improve the Liling kiln, which made key preparations for the state leaders and state organs to fire underglaze multicolored porcelain. The first batch of special porcelain fired by Liling kiln for Taizu was the Victory Cup.

On April 11, 1958, the Hunan Provincial Party Committee was instructed to trial-produce a batch of tea cups for the head of the central government. This glorious task was undertaken by the Liling Ceramics Research Institute at that time.

The central government sent a special person to send a barrel-shaped teacup with no 0.6 flowers, no lid, rough porcelain and gray color that had been used in Yan'an.

After repeated design and modification by Liang Liukui, a senior engineer of the Institute of Ceramics, the cup lid was added, and a glaze process was created at the bottom of the cup. A total of six styles were trial-produced and sent to Changsha for appraisal four times. Finally, a practical and beautiful tea cup was fired.

On July 2, the first batch of 60 teacups were sent to the "Zhonggong", including 30 underglaze flowers and 30 white ones.

On August 19 of the same year, according to the notice of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee, another 60 pieces were sent. Since then, Taizu used the special porcelain made by Liling.

This is also the early stage of Mao porcelain.

Chapter 512 Water Point Peach Blossom "7501" Project

In the spring of 1975, the director of the Central Office issued a top-secret document to the Jingdezhen State Porcelain Office; a set of special porcelain was specially designed and fired for Taizu, which was required to represent the highest level of Chinese porcelain craftsmanship and surpass any previous dynasty.

The Western Jiangxi Public Security Department specially organized a working group to station in the Ceramic Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry at that time to supervise the project of "Porcelain for Leaders". 7501" project.

According to Mr. Yang Huoyin, one of the main persons in charge of "7501", the former deputy director of the institute, one of the designers of the peach blossoms on the enamel, the current chief arts and crafts artist of the institute, Mr. Liu Ping, the director of the art room of the institute, tableware and utensils Ms. Wang Guiying, the main designer of the model, recalled that one day in early 1975, a deputy secretary of the Jingdezhen Municipal Party Committee in western Jiangxi came to the institute and conveyed instructions from the superiors to leaders such as Party Secretary Tang Boheng and director Fang Zong, requesting The institute develops and produces Taizu's living porcelain. The leadership of the institute attaches great importance to it, and 02 regards it as an important task.

Because it was the beginning of the year, Director Fang Zong designated this task as the No. 1 task in 1975, namely "Task 7501", and made a project arrangement for "7501", codenamed "7501".

After the "7501 Project" production document was officially issued, the Ganxi Provincial Public Security Department immediately formed a special working group, and the director led the team to Jingdezhen to supervise the implementation of this project. At that time, the Institute of Ceramic Industry Science, like many other units, was under military control. After the military representatives and business leaders formulated a specific implementation plan, the general mobilization was carried out in the whole institute.

At that time, the Institute of Ceramics gathered a group of Jingdezhen's best ceramic technical talents, and selected more than 40 design, production and production personnel with excellent technology, political progress, and no problem of origin. The organization and management of the project are extremely strict. All personnel involved in the project have undergone strict political review. Posts are set up around the kiln, and no one is allowed to enter without the approval of the engineering headquarters. Anyone with a "problem" in history would not dare to approach the kiln. From material selection to molding, from glaze matching to color painting, to sintering, packaging and other processes, most of the processes are completed by hand, and there are public security personnel watching to ensure product safety.

Before making, first of all, two tons of selected materials must be manually selected from ten tons of high-quality raw materials.

At that time, there were not enough manpower, and the engineering headquarters transferred hundreds of "Red Little Soldiers" to join in the selection of materials.

If project participants enjoy the honor of being politically trusted, but their work is very hard and risky, they often cannot rest for many days and cannot go home; if something goes wrong, they are likely to be arrested. The outline is classified as a political issue.

In this case, Mao Porcelain, which is very famous in the history of Chinese porcelain, was born.

"Mao Porcelain" gathers the collective wisdom of modern ceramic masters. It is an unprecedented design and production. It concentrated the best ceramic talents at that time. It is the pinnacle of ceramic masters' painstaking efforts, and it is also the crystallization of their high collaboration and collective wisdom. , they each exerted their talents, and concentrated the wisdom of many masters on a class of porcelain, which is unprecedented.

The immortal art masterpiece "Mao Porcelain", which is comparable to Song and Ming official kilns, has become a peak artistic masterpiece and a unique category in the forest of Chinese porcelain, together with Song and Ming official kilns. And nothing less, is a rare collection of treasures.

It contains huge information of great people and historical and cultural information. As a special porcelain for great men, "Mao Porcelain" not only contains huge information of great men, but also contains rich political, historical and cultural information, which is irreplaceable for any other porcelain. absolute value.

The pattern of "water point peach blossom" ordered by Taizu is fresh and refined. The designer of "7501" wool porcelain designed the decorative pattern of "water point peach blossom". First, the petals were dotted with glass white water, and the flower shape was drawn without hooking the flower head. The contour lines are then dyed with water-colored pigments for the second time on the glass white. The brush strokes are accurate and light, and the effect of delicate flower heads is achieved. Taizu was very satisfied with this flower ornament, and personally ordered the "Water Point Peach Blossom" plan as a special porcelain to accompany him.

Since then, "Water Point Peach Blossom" has also been used exclusively to refer to "Mao Porcelain", also known as "Red Official Kiln" and "Zhongnanhai Porcelain".

040 In order to fire this batch of porcelain, it is said that 1.2 tons of raw materials were selected from more than 10 tons to specially fire 7501 porcelain. As for the pattern, underglaze red plum and overglaze peach blossom are used. The reason for using plum blossom and peach blossom is that Taizu liked these two kinds of flowers, and he wrote poems specifically for these two kinds of flowers.

Why do all daily necessities have lids?

There are two explanations for this. One is that Taizu was very busy with work and had no time to drink, so he specially equipped a heat preservation cover; another is that the dining place was far away at that time, and it was inconvenient to bring it to and from, so it was specially added. cover.

Careful study can find that almost all porcelain has lids, bowls, saucers, plates, teacups, small vinegar bottles...

All the "7501" porcelains have a white background and look crystal clear; the colors on all the utensils are classified into two categories: some are gorgeous plum blossoms, and others are pink and tender peach blossoms. Different from the tableware used by ordinary people, except for the spoon, all tableware has a lid.

Chapter 513

At that time, the number of "7501" porcelain produced was 10,000 pieces, and only more than 4,000 pieces were intact after leaving the kiln. After careful selection, more than a thousand pieces were sent to Kyoto, and some were sent to southern Hunan, and the remaining part was left in the storage warehouse in western Gansu.

"According to the regulations, all the items in the storage warehouse should be destroyed, but considering that the special porcelain will be damaged during use and need to be replenished, only a part of it was destroyed, and the other part was kept as a reserve.

According to the variety, there are mainly tea sets, tableware, wine sets, vases, hanging plates, etc. According to the grades, there are mainly artistic ceramics, fine ceramics and general ceramics.

The porcelain used by the chairman of Liling in southern Hunan is mainly an underglaze double-sided multicolored flower thin bowl. , summer, autumn, winter.

At that time, more than 20,000 finished products were fired, and the relevant departments selected 40 sets of high-quality 12-centimeter porcelain and took them away.

Because the rose is also known as Yueyuehong, which symbolizes the redness of mountains and rivers in the whole country.

It is understood that less than 200 pieces of porcelain used by Chairman Liling have been left in the folk, which is one of the reasons why it is so precious in the Tibetan world.

After nearly a year of hard work by the producers, more than a thousand pieces of "7501" porcelain were finally fired before the end of 1995.

Jingdezhen's chairman used porcelain. At that time, 22 kilns were fired, 14,103 pieces were put into the kiln, and more than 4,200 pieces were finished. Then, two sets of 138 pieces were selected from them, which were crystal clear and white as jade. It is said that each set includes: 48 pieces of 9-15cm cover bowl; 15-30cm cover plate (40 pieces; 10 pieces each of No. 1 and No. 2 tea cups; 10 spoons; vinegar pot, soy sauce pot, pepper tube, toothpick tube, cigarettes) A tube, an ashtray, a rice cooker, a tasting pot, a large soup spoon, and a tea can, and then a special person was sent to **** them into Zhongnanhai.

The remaining products were all destroyed on the spot according to the instructions of the superior department, but the Ceramic Institute destroyed only a small part of the porcelain at that time, most of which were bowl lids. After that, a part was taken out and displayed in the treasure cabinet of the VIP room, and the rest were sealed and stored in the warehouse.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1982, the research institute distributed some of the sealed 7501 together with other stock products to the staff of the institute as welfare, including the peach blossoms on the glaze left during the experiment, which were scattered into the society and acquired.

On June 20, 2013, at an auction in Poly Xiangjiang, a set of five underglazed multicolored woolen porcelain bowls was sold for a high price of 8 million yuan, becoming the "Bidding King" at the auction on the spot.

Moreover, wool porcelain is very rare.

Zhou Ye was reluctant to use this thing.

Very precious.

……

Here, it suddenly turned into a tea ceremony.

Everyone sat around and sipped tea together.

Especially Liu Shishi, who is even more integrated into it, there are not many such opportunities.

The older generation, especially Elder Jia, Elder Dong, and others of this generation, their feelings for Taizu are not generally deep. When they saw Mao Ci, their eyes suddenly lit up.

This thing is not common.

After soaking, the girls couldn't wait to taste it. Zhou Ye didn't like drinking tea before.

But I drank too much tea.

Especially good tea, you will like that feeling.

After Zhou Ye tasted it, he couldn't describe it.

This tea is really perfect.

The lips and teeth are fragrant.

Unforgettable.

"Husband, save me some of this tea." Andy also likes to drink tea, so ask for some first.

"I want too", Li Huiyan is also a tea lover.

"Okay, there's a lot in stock, but I'll use the fried tea this time. I'll send it to the first and second leaders. You can use the rest of the fried tea." Zhou Ye kept some for himself.

The others, I'm going to give them to the No. 1 and No. 2 leaders to taste.

Zhou Ye has incomparable respect for the No. 1 and No. 2 leaders. Of course, they should taste such a good thing.

The girls heard that Zhou Ye was going to send it to the No. 1 and No. 2 chiefs, and of course they would not refuse.

"Husband, can I follow along?" Li Huiyan took Zhou Ye's hand, her eyes full of hope.

He wanted to go.

"Do you want to go?" Zhou Ye glanced at Li Huiyan, "Of course you can."

"That's great".

……

After Zhou Ye went out, he prepared gifts and asked Ye Guangrong to take him to Li Huiyan's company first.

That is - Qingsi Clothing Co., Ltd.

The gift prepared by Zhou Ye, said to be expensive, is not expensive, but it is simple, and it is definitely not simple. If you want to drink it, you need to spend a lot of money.

In addition to tea, there are some vegetables and fruits.

There are also some beautiful wines.

Not only No. 1 likes to drink, but Mrs. No. 1 also likes to drink.

This is a health-preserving wine, which is very beneficial to the human body.

It was like the honey that Zhou Botong raised in the divine sculpture.

The more you drink, the younger you become.

Promote the circulation of the human body and strengthen the body.

……

What Zhou Ye brings are all produced in Shanhe Space, and they are all the top fruits in the world.

Here, I have to say that Andy can do business.

Now taste the fruit and wine of Acacia, which has formed a brand.

famous in the world.

Especially some rich people abroad, when they return to China, they bring back a lot of important things.