The fourth cousin took a stove lid with a hollow pattern of flowers and plants, and the button was a sitting lion stepping on an hydrangea, and placed it on top of the fish basket stove.

"The lid of the incense burner is also very particular. It needs to be integrated with the furnace body below. This one is from the Tang Dynasty. It doesn't match your furnace. It's just for temporary use."

"Incense burners in the Song Dynasty were mainly spherical incense burners, which means that the furnace body and furnace cover together should be spherical or egg-shaped."

"The main function of the furnace cover is to disperse the smoke, break up the aroma, and facilitate the release." The fourth cousin said: "Wait a little while I hold it away."

Placing the incense burner about two meters away from the three of them, Zhou Zhi felt that the orchid fragrance in the small courtyard had changed.

In addition to the floral scent, there is also a fruity scent, and both scents become clearer and brighter. You can identify it carefully. Between the breaths, there seems to be a sweetness at the end of the breath.

"It's really different!" Zhou Zhi exclaimed: "No wonder the ancients were so obsessed with incense. This enjoyment is also extremely comfortable."

The fragrance was so good that there was almost no smoke. Then the three of them sat together and enjoyed the fragrant smell, forgetting to talk for a while.

After a while, the fourth cousin said, "Let me draw a pattern for you."

After finishing speaking, he stood up and started writing: "Spherical incense burners in the Song Dynasty were more common, and were mostly made of porcelain. The upper part of the furnace lid has a hollow curly grass pattern, and the aroma overflows from the hollow curly grass holes."

"The spherical incense burner is very compact in shape and is deeply loved by literati. Liu Chang, a great literati in the Song Dynasty, wrote a song called "Celadon Incense Ball Song": "The immortals in the blue sky are picking cold jade, and the blue light shines on people as bright as candles. The toad's fat quenches the knife and Kun

My stone, I am willing to carve flowers with my own hands. How can I be embarrassed? The misty night air is clear and quiet, and the jade wisps are fragrant like purple mist. At dawn, when people fly towards the clouds, they seem to be in it.' Melting the blue and white porcelain incense burner into the tranquility and elegance of the night,

Show it to the fullest.”

"For example, the Song Yue kiln incense in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum has a three-petal curling leaf and a hollowed-out decoration on the upper cover. It looks like this. You should pay more attention to it in the future."

The fourth aunt smiled and said: "Actually, it can be used as a string incense burner or an incense burner, as long as you can bear it."

"How to play these two kinds of games?"

"The incense stewing method is suitable for using a deeper furnace. When stewing incense, first use an incense shovel to make a hole in the middle of the tightly packed ashes to the bottom of the furnace, and leave the hole slightly open."

"Use an incense spoon to put the incense powder into the hole. There is no need to smoke when lighting the incense powder for the first time. Then, it is better to burn the incense powder until it reaches the maximum. The time interval is based on the color change of the previous incense powder. Also, do not let out smoke."

"Yang Wanli burns incense in seven words: 'Without literature or force, the fire is even, and the curtain behind the curtain is closed so that no wind can catch the wind. The poet burns ancient ambergris himself, but there is incense but no smoke.' That's right."

"When the incense powder burns from the bottom to the ashes, use an incense shovel to slowly bury the ashes into the incense powder, forming a cone shape."

"However, you should pay attention to the timing of raising ashes. If the ashes are raised too early, the incense will be suffocated in the furnace; if the action is too stuffy, the ashes will be hot and dispersed, and the ashes cannot be raised; if the ashes are not raised correctly, smoke will easily come out. Once smoke comes out,

, the aroma will be greatly reduced.”

"It seems a little complicated." Zhou Zhi shook his head.

"There is also the incense method, which involves burying lit charcoal in ashes, placing mica pieces on top of the ashes, and then placing incense powder or honey-refined incense pills or incense beasts on top of it to incense directly."

"This is quite simple." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "I should be able to do it."

"But this method has very high requirements for incense. The test is not the level of burning incense, but the level of making incense."

"It's more difficult, right?" Zhou Zhi was speechless: "Then I'll just learn to make fragrant seals."

"There's no future." The fourth aunt spat, "Can't you learn everything?"

"I'm afraid I'll bite off more than I can chew." Zhou Zhi smiled: "Don't blame me, you teach your fourth cousin first, and I'll convince you."

"That's right," the fourth cousin also laughed: "There are only about two hundred pieces of Ge Kiln porcelain in the world, and those from the Song Dynasty are even rarer. They also have to be equipped with lids. It is indeed a bit crazy."

"It's not good to be too greedy for everything, hehehe... It's the same with a variety of orchids and osmanthus..."

After that, I started to play with the cultural toys that Zhou Zhi brought. In fact, those items are also good things. The bronze painted silver tiger pen holder is from the Ming Dynasty, the longevity star's tooth tip carved seal is from the Qing Dynasty, and the blue and white lotus leaf pen licking is very interesting. It is from the Qing Dynasty.

It was made by polishing the fragments of blue and white flowers from the Yuan Dynasty. It is quite exquisite.

The most valuable one is the dustpan brick and inkstone, which was also made by the Qing Dynasty. However, the bricks used are Han bricks, chiselled into the shape of a dustpan. The key is that there is a seal script underneath - "A gentleman has nine thoughts: Seeing is wise, listening is wise,

Think of warmth in appearance, respect in appearance, loyalty in words, respect in deeds, doubts and questions, anger and difficulty, and understanding of meaning."

The characters are both seal and official, and the swordsmanship is ancient and clumsy, which is quite impressive.

"This is a good thing." The fourth cousin nodded.

"Why?"

"The number of characters." The fourth cousin said: "Han bricks with thirty-two characters are quite rare, but can they retain ink when made into an inkstone?"

"Even if you can't keep the ink, it's still good to make it an ornament." Zhou Zhi said, "I took it because I saw its beautiful calligraphy."

"So I still need to go out more often." The fourth cousin sighed: "The bigger the city, the more good things there are."

"I heard that BJ also has a Panjiayuan. If you get a chance, you should go and check it out." The fourth cousin then smiled and said, "This trip to the capital of Shu has improved your eyesight a lot."

"I'm afraid that I won't be able to stand the test after going to Panjiayuan. After all, it's a mixed bag." Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"You don't have to take action when you don't see a chance. With your current level, as long as you abstain from greed, you won't lose much." After finishing speaking, the fourth cousin made a thoughtful joke: "Although you have given me a generous reward this time, you can't lose anything."

The work is heavy, and the one that comes up is the authentic Dharma book of the Song Dynasty, the Chengxintang paper of the Southern Tang Dynasty..."

"How about I take it away without bothering you, old man?"

"How dare you!" Fourth cousin laughed loudly: "Leave something behind, take this and return it in half a month!"

But it is a volume of "Collection of Ouyang Wenzhong Gong". There is a page of bookmarks in the volume, but it is "Essays on Sacrifice to Shi Manqing".

Woohoo Manqing! He is a hero when he is born, and he is a spirit when he dies. He is the same as the life and death of all things, but returns to nothingness, and is in the form of a temporary gathering; he does not die with all things, but stands out as immortal, and he will be named by future generations.

All sages and saints have been like this since ancient times, and those who are written on the slips are as bright as the sun and stars.

This is a memorial essay written by Ouyang Xiu for his old friend in the fourth year of Zhiping, that is, twenty years after Shi Manqing's death. The words are not gorgeous, but the emotion is extremely profound and touching.

The manuscript of this article has not been left behind, but another ten years have passed. After Ouyang Xiu said goodbye to the political stage in despair, he once again looked through the poem manuscript left by his friend, and finally left his own handwriting, side by side with the calligraphy of his best friend.

shine.

"... He has been proud of his poetry and wine since he was a child. He has a majestic appearance, a strange style of poetry, and he is skilled in calligraphy. His strokes are vigorous and his body is beautiful. He is treasured by the world."

In history, it was Ouyang Xiu's strong praise and recommendation of Shi Manqing to his friends and the emperor that made him famous in the notes of many Song people.

But in this time and space, it was Ouyang Xiu who left his own pen and ink to future generations because of the works of his close friends.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Shi Yannian's calligraphy was already "treasured". Now it has been blessed by many celebrities' inscriptions and postscripts. After restoration, how should its value be estimated?

immeasurable.

And this is just one item randomly pulled out from the paper bundle at the bottom of the box. If this one item alone is so terrifying, is the same for the others?

While his thoughts were wandering, Zhou Zhi unknowingly walked to the door of the sugar and wine company's dormitory.
Chapter completed!