【Cultural Collection】: During the Han and Tang Dynasties, lacquerware was replaced by porcelain, and the porcelain cup was no longer made into an oval shape of an ear cup, but a round. This is because the porcelain is pulled on the wheel and shaped, making it convenient to make a circle.
【Cultural Collection】: This is the surviving Tang Dynasty Xing kiln tea bowl, when the tea bowl was directly diameter of about ten centimeters, which is larger than today's tea cup.
【Cultural Collection】: Another kind of teacup in the Tang Dynasty was the toyo cup, in order to prevent hot hands, a tray was added under the teacup, which later evolved into today's lid bowl.
【Cultural Collection】: Some of the bronze yaos that were drunk during the Shang Zhou Dynasty were with handles, and the lacquer ear cups of the Han Dynasty had ears, which was also equivalent to the function of the handle. Curiously, The Chinese porcelain cup has not been put.
It is not that the porcelain workers cannot do the handle, it is estimated that they did not remember that the mugs that had been put into China were introduced to China in the late Qing Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a kind of cup, which made the bottom foot very high, and played the function of a handle, also known as a goblet.
【Cultural Collection】: The Tang people eat tea using the Sencha method, putting the tea powder into boiling water and boiling, but also adding salt and spices, as if people now drink soup.
In the Song Dynasty, it was popular to order tea, mix the tea powder into a paste, put it into a tea cup, pour boiling water, and then stir out the white foam with the tea basket. Why do you have to foam tea?
At that time, there was a game that swept the country, tea fighting, where several people gathered together for tea, more white foam than who had more white foam in their cups, and lasted longer. Then the white tea foam, of course, is clearly set off by the black teacup, so the Song Dynasty is the most popular black teacup.
[Cultural Collection]: The original pattern of celadon white porcelain controversy, did not want to be taken advantage of by black porcelain, Huizong also specially wrote a "Great View of Tea Theory", saying: "The color is noble and green and black, and the jade is the best."
【Cultural Collection】: When using the tea brewing method, it is suitable for tasting the soup color is white porcelain, so the white porcelain cup of the ming dynasty kiln is the most respected.
But at that time, the kiln had stopped burning, and it was replaced by the teacup of the Jingdezhen kiln, and the white glaze level of the Ming Dynasty town kiln exceeded that of the dingyao kiln, which was as moist as gelatin, and was called sweet white glaze by posterity.
The Xuande cup in the picture above is semi-circular, like the lower part of the chicken heart, so it is called the chicken heart cup.
【Cultural Collection】: Chenghua Chicken Bowl Cup, caliber eight centimeters, the volume is only less than half of the Tang and Song Cups. The trend of smaller teacups became more pronounced in the Qing Dynasty, with smaller teacups and smaller teapots.
【Cultural Collection】: Chicken bowl cup open lying foot, the shape of the instrument is called Chenghua cup, the picture is Doucai.
【Cultural Collection】: The bowl similar to the hand cup is called zhengde bowl, also known as the palace bowl, which is the perfect shape. Because the yield is too large, many people feel rustic.
【Cultural Collection】: This kind of cup looks like a horseshoe, so it is called a horseshoe cup. In the Ming Dynasty, most of them were monochrome glazes, and in the Qing Dynasty, they painted more doucai.
【Cultural Collection】: Like a bell, also known as this cup height, suitable for painting figures.
【Cultural Collection】: Doufang Cup, like the bucket used to measure rice in the past, square, so it is called Doufang. In the past, there was no gypsum mold, and this kind of cup could not be pulled and formed, and it was necessary to use mud pieces to stitch together and bond, which was very difficult to make, and the deformation rate in the firing process was also very high and precious.
There is also a kind of square purple sand pot also called doufang, but it is upside down.
【Cultural Collection】: Fair Cup, ancient and modern are different. The current gongdao cup has a variety of shapes, and there is a duck-bill shaped flow, which is used for tea.
Tea is too thick when it is soaked in the pot all the time, so pour it into a fair cup when it is brewed, and then divide it into the tea cup.
【Cultural Collection】: In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a villain in the Cup of Justice, which hid a clever mechanism, and when the wine was poured, the wine leaked out. This ensures that everyone drinks the same amount of wine, so it is fair.