"In Search of Qianli Xiu"
Senritsu was a famous tea ceremony craftsman who was active in Japan in the 16th century, and was known as a tea saint by the Japanese because of his high artistic achievements in the tea ceremony. His unique and profound insight into the aesthetics of the tea ceremony not only captivated the world, but also made the heroes such as Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi have a green eye for him.
If Qian Lixiu's unique aesthetic concept originated from a love affair in his youth, what kind of moving story would be sung and wept and haunted?
Taking this bold hypothesis as a starting point, the Japanese writer Kenichi Yamamoto wrote the novel "The Death of Rishio", and the movie "In Search of Senritsu" was adapted from this, also using the retrograde flashback technique, which powerfully outlined the legendary life of the tea ceremony master Senritsu before committing suicide by cutting his abdomen.
This film is arguably the most complete picture of the aesthetic picture of the tea ceremony in history. So, how does the aesthetics of the tea ceremony manifest itself in this film? Let's explore it together with the pictures in the movie!
The beauty of nature
In the tea affair, everything pursues a natural state. If you can feel the details and beauty of nature in the process of tea, it is very valuable. In the film, in order to hold a tea party reception, Li Xiu went with his disciples to the deep mountains where the cherry blossoms were in full bloom in the early stage of preparation, and folded the branches for the tea room decoration.
While the guests were drinking the prepared tea, the disciple pulled open the barrier and blew in, and the cherry blossom petals slowly fell, and the guests held a naturally fired stoneware tea bowl and drank tea soup in the gift of the season and the beauty of nature.
After this perfect tea incident, the guests were touched by the scene created by Li Xiu with the help of natural forces, and Li Xiu's disciples were lamenting the master's high skill, but Li Xiu said, "No one can compare with you professionally, but tea is the most important thing to be in line with your heart." ”
The beauty of defects
Okakura Tenshin says in the Book of Tea that the tea ceremony is a worship of "imperfections," a gentle temptation to achieve some possible perfection in a life that we all understand is impossible to be perfect. Although the Japanese tea ceremony pursues the spiritual "one heart", it advocates facing the imperfections of real life and learning to appreciate defects.
For example, the tea bowls used in the tea ceremony, whether from the shape to the color, can often be seen to be uneven and consistent ceramics, some left and right asymmetry, some glaze without foot color, some are rough surface, each unique "defect" will become a special place for tea people to repeatedly touch and taste.
In the film, Takeno Shoou talks to Rishiu about the clay pot placed in the tea room, and Rishio takes the jar and throws it sideways. The charm of its flaws jumps to the eye.
The beauty of simplicity
Simplicity, simplicity, and simple beauty are reflected in many aspects of tea, and natural materials, landscaping, and integration are all simple wishes of tea people. It was the season of camellia blossoms, and Li Xiu's wife saw that the flowers in the courtyard were blooming beautifully, and folded a branch and placed it on the side of the stone well, as if the water was full of elegant aroma.
The beauty of simplicity in the movie is not only the evergreen and elegant flowers in the tea garden, but also the hanging paintings in the tea room, which are mostly ink pastels. Or on the wooden pillar or beam of the tea room, it seems that there is no fine carving, but there is a quiet vitality of the plain beauty, which is unforgettable.
Recalling that when she was young, on her way to save the Goryeo woman, Rishu saw that the hibiscus flower coincided with the blossoming, and on the way to escape, she folded it and carried it with her, temporarily avoiding the small house with a bamboo tube filled with water and placing its hibiscus into the tube.
A natural life blooms again. The depths of simple and plain beauty contain the beauty of dry silence.
The beauty of the withered mallet
Withered, after the vicissitudes of the years, it still has the beauty of silence.
The tea room in the movie, the calligraphy or painting in the hanging scroll, the ink is thin and difficult to distinguish. Although the old spotted tea box can be seen at a glance, its withered shape makes people feel the heavy power.
Li xiu advocated that the tea ceremony should not rely on expensive or ornate tea cups, that items should be made for use, and that the fit of the tea bowl and the hands gradually brings with it the beauty of the years in use.
The beauty of the occult
Shiyun"The courtyard is a little deeper", which has the same artistic conception as the beauty of the mysterious. In the movie, the path to the tea room passes through trees and rocks, twisting and turning to help break the shackles of ordinary situations.
The beauty of light and shadow
Light, the encounter with things in the flow, has the power to touch people's hearts between movement and stillness. As the best carrier for displaying light and shadow, the film naturally integrates this flow of light and shadow into it.
Senritsu: The tea ceremony is more important than life
Before the age of nineteen, his name was Chiyo and Shiro, and he was the son of a fish shop owner.
At the age of nineteen, he wandered the flower streets and was bohemian, when he met a beautiful Koryo woman. The other party's exquisite and otherworldly appearance instantly captured the young man's heart.
After this, Ritsu learns the tea ceremony from Takeno Shoou and uses this as an opportunity to reunite with a Goryeo woman. Since then, Chimune yi has shined in the tea industry with a unique style, and has been accepted as a tea head by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Qianlixiu, who stands at the top of "beauty", manipulates and masters it at will, as long as it is approved by him, it is the guarantee of the best. In addition to showing an unprecedented, beautiful and beautiful tea style at the tea party, Rishio also repeatedly contributed to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambitions and built a miracle through the atmosphere between the tea parties.
Tea ceremony, aesthetics, love, enmity, Qianlixiu's ups and downs of life have finally become a "Search for Qianlixiu", I want to explore the story of the master more deeply, I suggest you still enjoy the movie in its entirety.
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