If you pay attention to the Song ware collection, you should remember the "big coffee auction method" of Sotheby's in London as early as 1970 about a Northern Song Dynasty Ru kiln celadon daffodil basin.
At that time, two big names in the collection circle, Eiichi Anzai and Escanazzi, both took a fancy to this treasure, and after some fierce bidding, Anzai finally paid 46,000 pounds (that was 1970!). The high price of it will be pocketed.
And Anzai Eiichi also has a fondness for another kind of Song ware, that is, the wooden leaf cup.
Do you wonder how a person who loves the delicate and elegant azure color of the Ru kiln like the humble natural breath of the wooden leaf cup?
▲Song Dynasty Jizhou kiln black glazed wood leaf pattern cup Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
In terms of aesthetic taste, the wooden leaf cup and the Ru kiln can be said to be two extremes.
Its color is mostly black glaze, rough tire quality, porcelain is half porcelain and half pottery, because of the large amount of sand in the porcelain clay, so although it looks like pottery, knocking but there is a metallic sound, the overall texture is different from the delicate and warm Ru kiln such as jade.
And this simple and natural background color, especially rich in charm, there is also the blend of Zen culture.
Jizhou kiln is located in Jiangxi, Jiangxi is the birthplace of the five schools and seven schools of Zen Buddhism, Zen culture can be described as an important local cultural gene. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Jizhou had the largest number of Zen temples, including 29 Luling and 25 In Taihe.
The Yonghe kiln in Luling is surrounded by famous temples such as Bunjue Temple, Zhidu Temple, Huideng Temple, and Baoshou Temple. The unprecedented prosperity of Jiangxi literature in the Song Dynasty is closely related to the "Zen Yue" that is commonly popular among scholars.
Some scholars believe that the probability of monks participating in the production of Buddhist and tea utensils at that time was very high. On the one hand, the monks designed according to the philosophical and aesthetic requirements of Zen Buddhism, and then guided the kiln workers to produce. On the other hand, for monasteries with large amounts of agricultural property and monks, such as Honkaku-ji Temple, it is likely that the production will be carried out by the monks themselves.
Moreover, at that time, tea drinking had become one of the Buddhist qing rules, and the monks of the Song Dynasty Shi Daoyuan "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record" volume 12 asked Jizhou Zifu Rubao Zen master: "How is the monk's family style?" The teacher replied: "Three bowls of tea after the meal" - it can be said that the sense of permanent life on the wooden leaf cup comes from the companionship of the present at that time and the application of anytime and anywhere.
▲Song Dynasty Jizhou kiln black glaze leaf pattern bowl Jiangxi Provincial Museum collection
The Song people's "use" of the wooden leaf cup, drinking tea is the first level, and the deeper is in the search for Zen.
Because of the "Cypress Interpretation Method, Mulberry Leaves Can Pass Zen", the leaves used in the wooden leaf cup are mostly mulberry leaves, and they are often dead or broken mulberry leaves, and this concept is related to a Zen case:
A monk asked the Zen master of Yunmen, "How are the leaves of the tree falling?" The Zen master of Yunmen replied: "Exposing the golden wind", that is, when the delusion has been broken and the disturbing state of mind is pure, the beautiful state of no-self is achieved.
The mulberry leaves are then pasted in the porcelain blank, and then a layer of transparent glaze is added to the kiln for firing, during which the leaves are burned to death, leaving only a clear outline to cover the bowl. After the vessel is formed, take a cup of tea, put the tea into the cup, you will look parallel to the bowl, that is, you will see that the leaves seem to float in the wandering water, Zen agility, poetry.
Some scholars believe that the Song Dynasty Poplar Fa Shun Zen Master said: "What does the golden wind body reveal? The avenue never changes. A leaf floats in the sky like water, and the Linchuan people call the ferry head boat "In the middle of the "one leaf floating in the sky like water", this describes such a delicate scene.
At this point, you should be able to understand Eiichi Anzai's heart. When the monk Rongxi brought Zen Buddhism and tea back to Japan from China, the "aesthetics of silence" was gradually deeply rooted in the local tea culture, and the spiritual core of living in harmony with nature and being satisfied with getting rid of material culture was entrusted by Muyezhan.
Therefore, it is better to say that the wooden leaf cup is another peak of the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty.
If Ru kiln ware is a beautiful poetry, the materialization of the imperial spirit aesthetic, and the exquisite and noble seat decoration; then the Jizhou kiln ware represented by the wooden leaf cup is the nature of the blossoming and falling of flowers in all seasons, spring to autumn, and the impermanence of life.
▲Song Dynasty Jizhou kiln wood leaf pattern cup Guanfu Museum collection
The so-called Jiyue is rare and the clouds are easy to disperse, and the Jizhou kiln is also the "guest in the seat" of this rotation and impermanence.
At the latest in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, this very characteristic kiln mouth fireworks gradually extinguished. The New Gegu Commentary: "Its kiln ceased firing. There are still relics in its kilns, and there are relics excavated in Yongle. "Yonghe Yaoling Zeng Clan Genealogy" (Qianlong Thirty-five Years of the Qing Dynasty) Yun: "When the porcelain city was long abandoned, people sometimes dug up those who found it, and the abandoned kiln fortresses were listed in their places, such as mountains, such as Fu, such as Gang, and ruling" - the regret in these records jumped out of sight.
However, the disappearance of things has lasted for a long time, just as the British Museum in the United Kingdom has called the wooden leaf cup "the artifact of the world", and Japan has listed its collection of wooden leaf cups as a national cultural relics - true beauty can travel through time, space and region.
This is nostalgia for such a "true beauty", and the Guanfu Museum has re-fired the "Guanfu Wood Leaf Tianmu Cup" to continue the beauty of the ancient artifacts and the inner connotation of the Zen spirit
【Guanfu Wood Leaf Tianmu Cup】Taking the Southern Song Dynasty Jizhou kiln wood leaf pattern cup as a reference, the three types of bucket cup, tea bowl and bending cup are used as models, and the two types of burnt single leaf and double leaf are used
What needs special emphasis is that the "Guanfu Wood Leaf Tianmu Cup" is fired by the natural mulberry leaf ancient method, and it is not printed or sprayed▼
The so-called good instrument has a true rhyme, the breath also has a source of flow, and the guanfu production is a continuation of the Zen magic thing, and it is also a thing that can accompany life for a long time.
"Half of the wall of the mountain house to wait for the bright moon, a light of tea to reward the sound" - the encounter is known to the sound, we are not in a hurry, and borrow things as a basis, slow, far!
Guan Fu accompanies you...