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Monogatari:
Spring is easy to pass away and easy to grow old. The bowl of the Song people is to hold the spring in the palm of their hands, cherish the most ordinary days, and seriously love themselves.
It's spring, and who doesn't want to say to the spring flowers in March, "Come to my bowl!" ”
On ordinary fireworks days, bowls are something we are all too familiar with.
Open the cupboard, everyone's home bowl may be different, a variety of printed ceramic bowls, transparent and heavy glass bowls, colorful children's plastic bowls... In short, contemporary bowls not only have a variety of patterns and styles, but also can be used in all seasons, year after year.
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But for the Song people, this was not the case. Their bowls, as if they belong only to spring, have the faint color of the spring breeze and willows, the flexible pattern of the spring swimming fish, and the simple and light joy full of spring vegetables.
Spring of the Song people, in a bowl.
Ma Weidu said: "Song porcelain is the peak of Chinese aesthetics. ”
The Song people advocated cyan and white, and when they fell into one bowl after another, it was celadon such as jade, and white porcelain won snow.
Perhaps the most moving part of this beauty lies in the faint color of simplicity, such as the mist of spring, like the birth of spring water, such as the spring dawn of march in Jiangnan.
And the cyan color of Song porcelain alone, there are azure blue, pink blue, plum green, shadow green... It seems that even the sense of time flow in spring has been stretched.
In particular, the most representative ru kiln of the Song people, glaze color azure, also known as rain over azure. I remember the first time I saw the Ru kiln blue glazed bowl in the Palace Museum, I suddenly understood that the sky in Song Huizong's dream was clearly Hangzhou in March, Jiangnan:
In the early morning after the rain, a touch of azure slowly swims with the wind, with a faint green, a faint white, a faint pink. If it were not for the glaze of agate as in the legend, perhaps there would be no texture and color of "like jade, non-jade, and victorious jade".
Northern Song Dynasty Ru kiln light azure glaze bowl arterial shadow - photography
Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" said that celadon silver snow and white porcelain jade ice are the most suitable "ice porcelain snow bowls" for drinking tea. Although we often say today that the Song people like to use black cups to order tea, Liao Baoxiu, a researcher at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, found that the Song people who love to drink tea will still use such ice porcelain snow bowls in the Tang Dynasty.
After crushing the spring tea into the end of the tea, it is put into a celadon tea bowl, and while filling the water, it is hit in a circle with the tea spoon until the tea soup is foamed like a snow wave. Lifting the azure tea bowl, it was as if you could see the foam of the Spring River and the faint moon.
This is the bowl of the Song people, the eternal spring in the hearts of the Song people, and the color of life advocated by the Song people: pure, pure, pure and pure
Northern Song Dynasty Ruyao Kuikou Diantuo Arterial Shadow - Photography
No era has interpreted spring so extremely with monochrome glaze like the Song people. But the dignified and introverted Song people also have naughty times. Since you don't like too gorgeous and vulgar beauty, then make a fuss about the pattern.
Cultural relics Bo Aortic Shadow once photographed a bowl at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, that is, a Yue kiln bowl from the Fifth Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, and his sigh was only four words: a bowl of spring water.
That poetry really makes people's hearts tremble, and the flowing lines of the bowl body are deep and shallow, like a faint Jiangnan smoke wave.
Seeing this blue glazed water ripple bowl, perhaps we will feel, what is the spring water blowing in the hearts of the Song people?
Maybe it's the Farewell of Nanpu whose "Green Eyebrows Have Been Shallow", the Spring Heart Swaying of "Warm Rain and Sunny Wind Breaking the Frost", or it may be in the eyebrows of "Water is eye waves, mountains are eyebrow peaks gathering"...
Five generations - Northern Song Dynasty Yue kiln blue glaze water ripple bowl Arterial shadow - photography
The other Yaozhou kiln bowl is even more agile and cute. The arterial shadow that has photographed tens of thousands of cultural relics also found that "Yaozhou kiln porcelain is mainly floral patterns, and the theme of water waves swimming fish is less, and the water ripples of this bowl flow naturally and have a strong sense of three-dimensionality." ”
When the Song people picked up a plum bottle and poured the spring brew into it, the momentum of the wine swirled in the bowl, and with a loud cry, even the swimming fish at the bottom of the bowl almost jumped out of the water.
Spring bowl spring wine, perhaps only in this way, can express the grand and introverted joy that this bowl overflows.
Song Yaozhou kiln blue glaze print water wave swimming fish pattern porcelain bowl arterial shadow - photography
Similarly, the white porcelain bowls of the Song people also have such fascinating moments. And compared to celadon porcelain, the glaze of white porcelain is very light and thin, just convenient for carving flowers.
The Song people carved the shape of swimming fish and folded branches on the center of the plate of this kiln white glazed bowl.
It was two fat carps, tails in the ripples of spring water, small mouths one by one, as if the next second, they were going to catch the tender green water grass. Who knows, it's just because the lake is too clear and pure, and the spring flowers on the shore are reflected in the painting...
The ancients said, "To the vast and the subtle." "In the bowl of the Song people, there is the subtle life of the spring river swimming fish, and it also hides the endless life of the universe.
Song Ding kiln white glazed swimming fish pattern bowl arterial shadow - photography
I remember Jiang Xun once said, "Eating this thing is easier to approach aesthetics." If this sentence is applied to the Song people, it may be more appropriate.
Lin Hong wrote a book "Mountain Family Qing Offering", which introduced many seasonal delicacies, such as "willow leaf leeks" mixed with cold mix, "bijian soup" made with cress in February and March, and "fish soup" made of artemisia and river fish... Just listening to the name, the fresh and tender water spirit of spring is mouth-watering.
The Song people love the taste of spring, and they love to use exquisite and clean food utensils to present pleasing beauty to ordinary daily life.
The "jade belt soup" that Lin Hong drank when visiting friends in the spring may be served in a celadon bowl of the Longquan kiln when the cook brought it, the soup has spring fragrance, and the bowl has elegant colors.
This plum qingqing no longer only carries the dream of the imperial family, but also a bowl of green and white soup that the folk can taste.
Yuan Longquan kiln green glaze carved flower lotus petal bowl arterial shadow - photography
In the spring, sitting in the restaurant by the West Lake, the restaurant may use to load the white porcelain of the kiln. The small shallow plate is as clear as snow, a circle of rounded copper buckles at the mouth, the delicate peony pattern is permeated with low-key elegance, and the "green vegetable green silk white jade plate" seems to have immersed the body and mind in the situation of the willow gently blowing the white sand embankment.
Sima Guang said at a dinner party, "The food utensils are simple and vegetarian, and the food is not five flavors." "The Song people's cherishing of spring is in the light dishes, simple tableware, so that the spring taste as far as possible to retain the original beauty."
And this aesthetic, as written in the "Suiyuan Food List", "fried and fried, soup and bowl, in the middle of the mistake, Fang Juesheng color." Proper combination of food utensils and food will inevitably produce a more moving beauty of life.
Song Ding kiln white glaze engraved peony pattern dish (pair) arterial shadow - photography
The bowl of the Song people is the philosophy of eating well and living seriously, and it is also the minimalist aesthetic that is most admired in the heart.
In this way, no matter whether spring comes or goes, you can always eat elegantly, eat calm, and eat out of the world.2
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As Liu Zongyue said in a passage: "Artifacts are beautiful because they are used, beauty is loved, people use them more frequently because they love, they warm each other and love each other, and spend every day together." "For the Song people, this is not the case.
Spring is short, and spring is easy to pass away and people are easy to grow old. The Song people hold the spring in the palm of their hands with an incomparably affectionate affection; and the bowls in their hands are the observation of the passage of time, the attention to the ordinary days of life, and the most appropriate care for the people around them.
It is said that "beauty is the care of life", and I also pray that thousands of years later, we can still be touched by this beauty, no matter what the situation is, I hope you can always leave a strength to love your own days, cherish every spring day!
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