Bamboo - "Sifting the wind and making the moon, dashing a lifetime, elegant and elegant, is for a humble gentleman".
Ancient literati have always loved bamboo.
Tao Yuanming did not forget to sketch out the pleasant place of "Arida Miike Mulberry Bamboo" in his ideal peach blossom garden.
Even though Wang Xizhi was drunk, when he recounted the actual situation of the Lanting gathering, he did not forget to emphasize that "there are Maolin cultivating bamboo here."
Du Fu even said frankly that "in the habitat of ordinary life, tree poles and bamboo must be planted."
The use of "bamboo" to depict "wind" is one of the bamboo interests of ancient literati.
This "fun of wind and bamboo" falls in the text, which is Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" in "Phoenix Tail Sensen, Dragon Yin Delicate".
Cao Gong felt that the wind blew through the bamboo forest as lush as a phoenix's tail, and emitted a long roar like a dragon's groan.
It is also in Su Shi's "Mr. Shi Muro Paints Bamboo Praise and Narration": "Bamboo also gets the wind, and laughs."
Suzi described the sound of the wind blowing bamboo, like laughter.
Coincidentally, the word "夭" plus the word "bamboo" just happens to be the word "laugh".
So what is laughter? Laughter is the direction of the wind changing the bamboo branches, and it is the bamboo leaves clapping in the wind.
And this wind and bamboo interest fell in the painting, and was placed by the ancient literati into a picture - "Wind and Bamboo Map".
▲ "Wind and Bamboo Diagram" (partial)
Meta Snow Window Cleveland Museum of Art
We often describe the wind as invisible and untouchable. It seems difficult to express and unfathomable. But we can easily perceive its existence.
Cooking smoke slightly oblique, branches swaying, paper kites soaring, stratus clouds rolling... These are the winds.
Wind is flowing air.
▲ "Autumn Color Map of Jiangshan" (Partial)
Southern Song Dynasty Anon
This "invisible and untouchable" wind blew the bamboo branches, so that the wind had shapes, colors and bones.
▲ "Bamboo Gull Diagram" (Biography) (Partial)
Northern Song Dynasty Cui Bai National Palace Museum, Taipei
With thick ink as the face, light ink as the back, the bamboo of the image, and the invisible wind of the painting. The paintings that fall on the paper are static, but the rustling bamboo forest and the breeze are ready to come out.
In this way, the ancient literati "captured" the wind with the bamboo forest.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Li Po National Palace Museum, Taipei
And when this fun of wind and bamboo falls in the tea, it may be a gentleman's breeze series of "fun bamboo pot".
Bamboo, flowerless, but evergreen in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Hollow, but tough between mountains and rocks. Born with discipline and humble feelings.
The ancients' appreciation of bamboo has transcended the bamboo itself.
As early as the Book of Poetry, there is "Zhan Pi Qi'ao, green bamboo is a lystate." There are bandits, such as cutting like a knife, such as grinding. The verses of the poem compare the posture of green bamboo with the wind of a gentleman.
The gentleman's wind, the character of the bamboo knot, is the fun of "wind and bamboo".
Guanfu Junzi Qingfeng series [Fun Bamboo Pot], with raw ore green section mud as the tire, the iron content is high in sand content, and after firing, it is slightly greened under different lights, fresh and elegant.
The shape of the pot-shaped bamboo knot is sunken upwards, straight and straight; the lines are rigid and soft, naturally extending, like a natural.
The curved flow imitates the shape of bamboo knots, growing upwards according to the trend of bamboo branches; the mouth is half round, which has both the hardness of the bamboo knot and the silkiness of the water.
The lid of the pot is inlaid lid type, the bamboo root is a button, and a section of bamboo branch is naturally extended, and the bamboo leaves on both sides extend outwards to grow freely, vigorously like bamboo knots breaking through the soil and bursting out.
The handle twists naturally, like a bamboo branch is elastic. A young branch escapes from the pot, as if there is a breeze through the bamboo forest, the bamboo branches float, and the bamboo leaves sway.
The Tang Dynasty poet Qian Qi wrote in "Tea Feast with Zhao Ju": "Takeshita forgot to speak to purple tea, and Quansheng Yuke was drunk with Liuxia." ”
Breeze green bamboo, between nature, the most suitable for tea.