Antiques have the aesthetic and poetic qualities, and no one knows best than those who have pursued them. And this poetry, which is soaked with time and cultural attributes, has long been not limited to temples, auction houses and museums, but more exists among countless ordinary people who are obsessed with playing antiquity, and is reflected in the collection and dispersion of many years.
Fuzhou people love to drink tea. Lin Xin, who was born and raised in Si, loves tea more and loves old tea utensils even more. From jianzhan to the tea pot where the tea leaves are stored, he inadvertently discovered that a Song Dynasty tea had two words at the bottom of it, "Lone Condensation". A small piece of tea is brought in, so that the ancients and the present are reunited in the utensils.
Ouyang Yuansheng, who lives in Changsha, loves to play with antiquities, and his secret to playing with antiquities is that all antiquities must be integrated into his living space, so he calls his home an "antique zoo".
Feng Langquan, who has been working in the antique shop for more than 20 years, accidentally fell in love with bonsai. After obtaining an 800-year-old precious black pine "Cloud Dragon" from the Japanese bonsai master Kunio Kobayashi, there was an agreement between the two that Kobayashi Would make regular trips to Beijing to personally prune and take care of this bonsai antique with a bonsai age of more than 200 years.
Hua Xuehan, the god hand who stacked mountains and stacked stones, studied mechanical engineering, and all the money earned from opening an embroidery factory for more than ten years bought his favorite ancient architectural components, and then simply shut down the embroidery factory and transformed it into a classical Jiangnan garden, which was built for 15 years.
Compared with Hua Xuehan's obsessive investment, Zhang Jincheng in Wenzhou can be described as "not crazy, not demonic, not alive". For more than ten years, he diligently collected stone blocks and bricks and stone rubble left over from the demolition of ancient buildings, and finally built a Wenzhou Stone Carving Art Museum with traditional craftsmanship.
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