Good peanuts are on the tree, and they can only be rewarded from afar, and if they are offered, they can be played closely; so we plucked them from the trees, put them in bottles, and made offerings for the heads, even though they only took two or three days, they were enough to make offerings for the eyelids.
Speaking of bottles, people today are so-called colorful, each different, the texture is porcelain, copper, jade, stone, brick, pottery, the style is square, large, tall and short. This is only an outline; if you talk about the details, you have to write a special book. In terms of porcelain vases alone, there are all kinds of official kilns, ge kilns, wood kilns, jun kilns, Lang kilns, Ding kilns, and so on, not to mention the various styles, not to mention; what names are used for bronze, zun, 罍, 觯, etc., which are named according to their styles.
Other jade, stone, brick, pottery is of less use, can also be used occasionally, in comparison or use pottery altar or Korean vase and other flower arrangements are the most appropriate, the altar mouth is large, can be inserted with multiple branches or a variety of flowers, if it is three or five branches of flowers, then use a small mouth of The Korean bottle to get it. Mr. Wu Changshuo paints every folded branch flower, likes to paint pottery altars and Korean vases, and looks up to feel quaint.
Although flower arrangement is a small way, but for the utensils can not be used casually, the Ming Dynasty Yuan Zhonglang's "History of Bottles" once said:
"The vase must also be sophisticated, such as the jade ring flying swallow, which cannot be placed in Maozi, and like Ji Nguyen Ho Lee, which cannot be invited in the liquor store." Taste the old bottles hidden by the Jiangnan people, verdant into the bone, sand spots up, can be described as the golden house of flowers, followed by the official brother Xiangding and other kilns, delicate and moist, all the essence of the flower god also. ”
According to his opinion, the flower arrangement is probably still based on copper bottles, so there is a saying that "verdant into the bone, sand spots rise", and the porcelain bottle is secondary, even if it is a famous kiln, it has to be subordinated.
However, the author thinks that it is not possible to generalize, such as the flowers with thick branches and large leaves, the weight is heavier, and it is easy to overturn in the porcelain bottle, and the copper bottle is appropriate. The author once used a bronze bottle to insert a cliff loquat flower, the branch is very thick, the main branch is a branch, the other branch obliquely down to make a cliff shape, and more than ten leaves, each piece is as large as the palm of a child's hand, if you use a porcelain bottle or a ceramic bottle to insert, it will be a burden, so you have to borrow copper bottles. The author once from an iron bone red plum tree in Meiqiu, folded a thick stem, but also inserted in a bronze bottle, not only feel that the weight is light, but also the color is also very harmonious, red and bright plum blossoms, set off the black and dark bottle body, have their own complementary magic.
Copper bottle water storage flower arrangement, can avoid the drawbacks of severe winter frost cracking, it is said that the excavated bronze bottle, because of the deep months of the soil, flower arrangement is better, the flower is bright, as in the branches, and open fast and thank slowly, prolonging life; the fruit of the flower branches, can also bear fruit in the bottle, but have not seen it with their own eyes, do not dare to believe. Porcelain vase flower arrangement, since it is more beautiful than the copper bottle, but the harsh winter is easy to crush, it is inevitable that the beauty is insufficient, it must be specially made tin gall, or the use of bamboo pipes, it is more beneficial and costly, otherwise put some sulfur in the water, it can also be freeze-free.
Flower arrangement should not be too much, with three or five branches being the most appropriate, and should not be too aligned, there should be high and low, and there should also be sparse and dense. The mouth of the bottle is small, it is easy to insert well, if the bottle mouth is too large, then Li Kasawong's "Idle Love" invented a "sprinkle" thing, saying that it is made of solid wood, the size of its shape, eclectic, which is flat or square, or a triangle, but it must be round outside, in order to fit the bottle. But this method is still too expensive; it is better to cut a branch, tie it horizontally within the mouth of the bottle, or use one more stick to make a cross shape, then the flower can be stable and will not be shaken.
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