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Dream to Huizhou, a lifetime of obsession.
The town is surrounded by mountains and water, and the pink walls are deva. The slowly swaying flowing water, the towering horse head wall, everything is staggered and orderly, and life and poetry are gently placed in this heaven and earth.
Huizhou is a quiet and quiet isolated from the outside world.
"Many people like Huizhou because of the rain, Huizhou is like an ink painting, but few people find that to create this moving beauty, it is a piece of moisture-absorbing and moisture-proof, hidden affectionate green bricks."
Yu Youhong, the inheritor of the Three Eagles of Huizhou, went to the village near Wuyuan to collect wind, which coincided with showers, the cornices were dripping rain, and the horse head wall became mottled due to infiltration.
Elder Yu collected centuries-old Ming and Qing Dynasty green bricks from the villagers piece by piece, some of which were broken and defective, full of dark green moss marks, but there was a sense of historical mots.
Unexpectedly, such an inconspicuous green brick, through the skillful hands of Elder Yu, was actually made into a beautiful object on the tea party - the pot cheng.
The natural texture of the brick surface has been retained, with a kind of humorous and introverted temperament, and the cleverly added auspicious pattern of Huizhou architecture transforms the century-old vicissitudes into elegance.
Boiling tea and pouring water, the water marks sometimes change and sometimes absorb, and the green brick pot is like being infiltrated by the trickle of time a little, and there is a kind of endless power.
The daily price of old green bricks is ¥158 from the classic special of green bricks, then you must first understand Huizhou.
Guhuizhou is a province and six counties, located at the junction of Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces, with juxtaposed mountains and looping streams, which is a famous thousand-year-old paradise at home and abroad.
There were six counties in ancient Huizhou, namely SheXian (present-day Huangshan, Anhui), Yixian (present-day Huangshan, Anhui), Qimen (present-day Huangshan, Anhui), Xiuning (present-day Huangshan, Anhui), Jixi (present-day Xuancheng, Anhui), and Wuyuan (present-day Jiangxi Province).
For thousands of years, it has given birth to a profound Hui culture, and has become one of the three major regional cultures of China that Chinese and foreign scholars have focused on: Huishang merchants who dominated the Chinese business community for more than 500 years in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Cheng Zhu Lixue, who developed here, Huizhou opera, one of the sources of the national essence of "Peking Opera", as well as the Xin'an School of Painting, the Hui School of Seal Carving, and the Hui Cuisine...
Zhu Xi, Hu Shi, Zhan Tianyou, Tao Xingzhi, Hu Xueyan... Those well-known celebrities are also from Huizhou.
But what haunts Chinese is one of the world's cultural heritage sites, the Huipai building.
Huipai architecture is one of the important schools of ancient Chinese architecture, known as "Chinese ancient architecture classics" and "the supreme achievement of Chinese village culture", and has always been respected by architectural masters.
It carries the theoretical idea of "the unity of heaven and man" in Chinese culture, and is rich in cultural heritage and formal beauty;
And green bricks are the cornerstone of this beauty.
Whenever it rains, the horse's head wall made of green bricks with good water absorption will be mottled and left, beautiful as ink paintings - "Huizhou a dream, six counties smoke and rain." "This is the unique rhythm of the appearance of Huizhou architecture.
The brick carving derived from green bricks is an artistic existence.
In the Huipai residence, the gatehouse is the face of the master's family, and looking at the brick carvings on the gatehouse, you can see the owner's family property, occupation, social influence and status.
Therefore, there is a saying in Huizhou: "a thousand two silver seven hundred doors", if you use one thousand two silver to build a house, the gate tower will cost seven hundred taels. Whether poor or rich, the façade brick carvings must be exquisite.
The Shexian Museum has a brick carving of the stove temple, and it has been proved that this exquisite brick carving cost 1200 craftsmen.
The exquisite ornamentation makes the green brick have artistic beauty, no gold stone brilliance, but the charm is elegant. "The door cover is full of algae, and the wall is carved into a wall."
After a hundred years of wind and rain, the green bricks have recorded the ups and downs of personnel in the courtyard, and the rise and fall of the past, which has been given a warm and simple sense of history.
Whether it is dozens to hundreds of huizhou ancient mansions made of green bricks, they are auctioned; Or the rise of modern and modern ancient brick collections loved by Lu Xun, Wu Changshuo and other literati and inkers, all of which prove the value of huizhou old green bricks one by one.
Unfortunately, time has annihilated more than 5,000 ancient villages, and only nearly 100 are relatively well preserved.
Master Yu Youhong, who has been wandering in Wuyuan, Huizhou for many years, found that many ancient brick walls in some villages were corroded and dilapidated, abandoned by local villagers, or used to grow vegetables on the wall, and his heart was full of sighs.
As a non-hereditary heir of the country, he decided to do his part to awaken the beauty of old green bricks.
It should be known that Yu Youhong has superb Brick carving skills of the Hui sect, he once took on the task of protecting and restoring ancient buildings in his hometown, and led more than 100 craftsmen and apprentices to restore the wood carvings of more than 100 Ming and Qing ancient buildings.
He can carve more than 50 figures and more than 30 birds and beasts on less than 3 square feet of Nan wood, up to nine floors high, and the windows of the pavilion can be opened!
Usually, it is rare to go out of the mountains, and private works are rare in the market, and they usually win awards, and some are also collected by the Jiangxi Provincial Museum.
In order to make the old green brick beautiful and practical, in addition to carving Huizhou ornaments, he combined the water absorption of green bricks and the modern literati tea tasting hobby to make green bricks into pots.
Each piece has a hundred years of history, can be collected, high artistry, can be described as a treasure!
When Elder Yu hopes to let every old green brick find a confidant, we are willing to be the drinkers of this beautiful thing and recommend them to you near the Mid-Autumn Festival.
All are Ming and Qing Dynasty orphan old green bricks, handmade by craftsmen a hundred years ago.
The ornaments are from the hands of the intangible cultural heritage master Yu Youhong, and the collection value is high.
It can be used with tea utensils, flower utensils and incense utensils to nourish and nourish people.
Auspicious ornamentation, with Huizhou charm, suitable for self-use and gifting.
The daily price of old green bricks starts from 158 yuan
Most of the Huipai buildings have now been listed as protected cultural relics and are not allowed to be demolished without authorization.
These old green bricks were collected from local villagers by Elder Yu and his team when they restored ancient buildings or visited more than a dozen ancient villages in Wuyuan.
Then manually select the traditional Huizhou open bricks one by one, the color is blue-gray, the bricks are too brittle and hard to carve, and never use seriously broken, angleless green bricks.
Each old green brick has different specifications from modern bricks, has a history of hundreds of years, and can be called a unique product, precious and rare.
They are carefully cleaned and thoroughly dried before they can be selected, which can be clean and transformed without losing the original sense of simplicity.
It is then cut by experienced old artists, gradually showing the outline of the brick carving, with squares and circles, setting a lifelong wind bone.
Fine carving, but also the soul of the green brick pot, the difference is a millimeter, it loses the sense of beauty.
Elder Yu used bricks as paper, the carving knife flew freely in his hand, the ornament was born, and the green brick pot had a soul.
Because each piece is from the hand of Mr. Yu Lao, accompanied by a careful handwriting, the whole brick pot is more selected from old wood carving and re-inlay, the beauty and collection value are good.
Because the old green bricks were handmade by bricklayers a hundred years ago, after a hundred years, they will contain small stones or gaps of different sizes, and the yield rate is less than 20%.
This is also the trace of history given to it, each piece can not be copied, meet is the fate, please consider clearly after placing an order.
Huizhou old green brick, the color is green and gray, dense and heavy, strong water absorption.
It is the key to the picturesque water marks on the white walls of the Huipai building, making it into a pot bearing, and the tea is poured up for easy absorption.
People who love tea can drink it, and the tea that cannot be drunk or rinsed can be used to nourish it.
Over time, the green bricks have a unique color, smooth and warm, and there is a faint smell of tea.
Because of the good water absorption, it is also very convenient to take care of after use, and it can be dried in a ventilated place without cleaning and wiping.
Because the wind bone is quite obvious, the touch is warm, and there is still the sound of gold and stone when knocking, it is also very suitable for any flower utensil, which is unique and elegant.
Use it to hold incense burners, meditate on it, such as looking at three-dimensional paintings, listening to silent poems, and dreaming back to the huizhou stories in the leisurely time.
Even when not in use, it is placed on the table, which is an elegant work of art.
Each pot holder is accompanied by a foot pad that can be attached to the bottom four corners without framing the table top.
This time, the new 8 pot bearings and 1 kind of incense ware lid combination, each pattern, are taken from Huizhou culture or brick carving representative ornaments, full of meaning.
The wooden box packaging is also elegant and decent; After removing the green bricks, the wooden box can also be used as a book collection and jewelry box.
The whole brick pot bears, retaining the solemn and stable square, reproducing the original shape of the old green brick in Huizhou, thick and without losing the ancient charm.
The four corners converge slightly, presenting an aesthetic charm of soft kegang, which is also in line with the character of Chinese: angular and angular, implicit and introverted.
The tea party has it, and without further ado, it can show the host's high taste.
In the emblem carving process, the sea wave pattern is a classic ornament, and this old green brick ornament has evolved from it.
The pattern is like the ripples stirred up in the water, like the lake surface in the smoke and rain, waving out an orderly beauty.
When the tea soup falls, it seems to disturb a pool of spring water, and it is still and moving, pleasing to the eye.
The swastika is also called "Longevity Jin", which means "auspicious collection" in Sanskrit, which means auspicious, ten thousand blessings and long life.
The swastika hovers around, concave and convex, solemn and sacred.
The edges are warm, angular and delicate, reflecting each other and revealing outstanding temperament.
The ornamentation is similar to the ancient "copper coin pattern", which is used as a pot bearing, and the water absorbs itself, which has the meaning of gathering wealth and gathering qi.
And look closely, the slightly rounded inward arc square, there is a kind of cultural idea of "heavenly round place".
The square is calm and stable, the circle is complete and harmonious, and the combination of square and circle is also the "Tao" pursued by Chinese for thousands of years.
Evolved from the traditional Han allegorical pattern "Fang Sheng Pattern", Katsuhara is a hair ornament worn by the mythical "Queen Mother of the West".
Concentric symmetry and continuity, with the meaning of commonality and unity, it holds the wish for a better life.
The atmosphere is simple and the charm is long.
Elder Yu also designed four more models according to the elements of Huizhou window leakage, named after the four gates of ancient Wuyuan.
The shape has a garden mood, each piece is equipped with 4 green brick cups, full of elegance. This brick is shaped like a begonia flower leaking window, although the brick is a copper coin pattern, it is like the feeling of water waves, which is very beautiful.
As Su Shi's poem "Begonias", "The east wind is full of sogo, and the incense mist is empty of the moon corridor." "The six-window design of the traditional garden, with a circular arc, under the careful appreciation, there is a sense of beauty. It should be described in Zhu Zi's poem, "The clouds and shadows of the sky linger together." "It is like a full moon in autumn, and its appearance is simple and quiet, as if it has been hanging for a thousand years in the gentle countryside of the white-walled Dewa. There are mountains to look forward to, water to maze, and minimalist beauty permeates them. There is its tea ceremony, one side of the world, not like the world. The original is a square design, but it is willing to hide the edges and corners, only for the world to gently pick up. Tea rises and falls, and the light is transparent. Green bricks overlap, light and dark, with any tea utensils, are elegant. The design inspiration for this set of covers and incense inserts comes from the Emblem Merchant culture that has dominated the Chinese business community for more than 500 years.
Huizhou merchants must go out to do business with three items: flat burden - is the responsibility, the scale - is fair, abacus - is wealth. The abacus can be held in hand, the outer carved beautiful pattern, hand-embedded copper, has the meaning of gathering wealth, used to taste incense, full of elegance. This scale is covered and nailed from ebony drilling, and is from the hands of a teacher who has been making rod scales for more than 30 years.
It not only allows the lid to be placed, but also keeps the tea party clean. Although it is small, it can show the taste and intention of tea people. Wen Zhenheng of the Ming Dynasty said in the "Chronicle of Long Things": "Stone makes people ancient." Taste the stone and get the fun of the ancients,
Privately, I think that an ancient Huizhou green brick also has such a wonderful feeling. The bricks seem to be scarred and mutilated holes, but they are also a testimony to the wind and rain. It may have heard the children running outside and laughing, or has felt the heavy rain pouring on the body, forming the beautiful appearance of ink paintings,
On ordinary days, although the touch of the hand is cool, it will eventually be warm, and when it is used by itself, the fun of pitching will be gained.
Near the mid-autumn festival of the full moon, the gathering of friends, there is this brick, sweeping the ancient style.
The daily price of old green bricks starts from 158 yuan
Editor-in-Charge: Yang Sichao
Proofreader: Zhang Liangliang