Among the many star-like pot styles, the stone pot has always occupied a place with its simple and elegant and dignified characteristics since its inception, and has been prosperous from ancient times to the present.
"Stone Scoop" was first called "Stone Scoop". "Cho" is interpreted in the Cihai as "hanging son, a small cook with a handle and a stream". "Cho" changed from metal utensils to pottery, which was first seen in the Northern Song Dynasty scholar Su Shi's poem "Trial Courtyard Sencha": "And the xuegong family is famous for Qin, and the brick hearth stone chole is followed." Su Dongpo changed the metal "cholex" to stone "chole", which was closely related to the tea ceremony at that time. Su Dongpo demoted officials to Teach in Yixing Shushan, and found that the local purple sand pot boiled tea tasted better than copper and iron utensils, so he took local materials and imitated the metal hanging to design a sand pottery "chole" that had both "flow" and "beam" to boil tea, which was also known as the "Dongpo Tiliang" pot by later generations, which can be described as the earliest "stone chole" pot.
The stone scoop is a shape that has not been broken, very popular with experts, after a hundred years can still continue, as a very classic pot type, what is worth appreciating?
First, concise and practical
Although ingenious and exquisite, it is too cumbersome, so that the pot type that makes it shelved can only be used for appreciation, and it loses the function of use, so such a model cannot be popular.
The most basic function of the teapot is to make tea; the stone pot is simple in shape, moderate in holding, and the practicality is very strong. This unpretentious quality is also the biggest reason why the stone scoop pot can be popular.
Second, simple and elegant
"Rustic" is generally used to describe mass culture, "elegant" is generally used to describe aristocratic culture, and these two words can be used to describe the stone pot at the same time, because the shape structure of the stone pot is very exquisite and has the characteristics of both.
The whole body of the stone pot is isosceles trapezoidal, that is, a large isosceles triangle cuts off a small isosceles triangle, the pot handle and the pot body form an equilateral triangle, the pot button is an isosceles triangle, the mouth, the pot mouth line, the bottom line of the pot and the other side of the barrel form a parallelogram, the two sides of the pot handle and the pot mouth, the bottom of the pot, the opposite side also form another parallelogram, and the quadrilateral is composed of two triangles, so the shape of the "stone scoop pot" can be said to be a collection of planar geometric triangles.
It is the special structural characteristics of the stone scoop pot that makes it feel stable and generous, which is also the reason why the stone scoop pot is deeply recognized by professionals.
Third, rigidity and softness go hand in hand
If the triangular structure of the stone scoop pot reflects a masculine beauty, then its bridge buttons, curved surfaces, and nail feet reflect the feminine beauty; soft in the middle with rigidity, is a very significant feature of the stone pot, and it is also an important reason for the popularity of the pot friends.
This characteristic of combining rigidity and softness is also in line with the traditional philosophical thinking of the mainland: the Confucian "strong and vigorous, self-improvement", and the Taoist "to the virtual pole, keep quiet and do", itself embodies a philosophical idea of rigidity and soft complementarity.
In the tea circle, there is a view of "the pot is changeable, the first stone scoop" is promoted, which shows how high the status of the stone pot pot in the classic pot type is. Perhaps, everyone likes the stone pot for different reasons, but the love for the stone pot is the same.
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