How much does Song Huizong love to build a lamp? Not only in color, but also in form and use.

Song Huizong wrote a book of tea classics as an emperor for the first time in 5,000 years. Tao is the father of tea and water is the mother of tea. When it comes to tea, you can't live without it. Tea set was promoted to monarch in the book, and Hui Zong was unprecedented.

First, an emperor who is versatile but does not manage the country well.

There are hundreds of emperors in the history of China, but few modern people are familiar with them. Evonne, Song Huizong (1082- 1 135) is a famous one. The reason for his fame lies not only in his talent and high taste in calligraphy and painting, but also in his position as the king of national subjugation in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the eyes of the world, he is not only an artist, but also a bad king who has not done his job well.

Our main purpose today is not to evaluate his merits and demerits in state affairs, so let's put aside his statecraft and talk about his taste.

As an emperor, Song Huizong received the best education and the broadest vision. He has left many masterpieces in the fields of calligraphy, flower and bird figures, poetry and music.

In addition to the above fields, Hui Zong is also proficient in tea art. He not only wrote many tea poems and painted many tea paintings, but also personally ordered tea for courtiers, and even wrote a tea book "Daguan Tea Theory" with the respect of emperors.

Second, the characteristics of tea books in Song Dynasty

In the Song Dynasty, no matter the nobles, literati or ordinary people, tea was indispensable. When tea culture reached a new peak, Song Dynasty became a dynasty with high originality of tea books. There are few original tea books in Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty tea books have the following characteristics:

1, many monographs

There were about 30 kinds of tea books in Song Dynasty, of which more than half were about Beiyuan tea. Beiyuan produces tribute tea, which is very close to the origin of Jianzhan. Tribute tea is closely related to tribute exhibition. Beiyuan tea is valued, which is inseparable from the royal family's attention to it. In fact, the same is true for building a station.

In addition, Tu Zan of Tea Set in Southern Song Dynasty is a monograph on tea sets.

Unfortunately, many of these precious books have been lost.

2, the author has a high status.

The authors of many tea books in Song Dynasty were dignitaries and celebrities. For example, Ding Wei, author of Beiyuan Tea Story, and Cai Xiang, author of Tea Story in Song Dynasty. In Meng Qian Bi Tan, Shen Kuo also devoted himself to the study of China Tea Law and China Tea Benefit.

And one of the highest status, belongs to the emperor Song Huizong.

Third, there is no tea book that has never been seen before.

There have been hundreds of emperors in China since Qin Shihuang. Among them, Song Huizong was the only one who wrote tea classics as an emperor. Hui Zong wrote "On Tea" during the Daguan period of the Northern Song Dynasty, and later generations renamed it "Daguan Tea" when collecting this book. As for the author's identity, Daguan Tea Theory is unprecedented, and there is no one after it.

As far as the contents of the book are concerned, Daguan Tea Theory is a comprehensive tea book, which has unique views on the origin, preparation, identification and evaluation of tea, as well as tea sets and tea ordering methods, and is an important reference for future generations to study tea affairs in the Song Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to call it "the first tea book in Song Dynasty".

Fourth, "The First Tea Set in Song Dynasty" in "The First Tea Book in Song Dynasty"

The most well-known sentence in Daguan Tea Theory is that "the light is blue and black, and the jade is the best". Hui Zong's theory goes beyond this.

The full text is nearly 100 words, explaining the shape, color and usage of the teacup.

The School-based Edition of Daguan Tea by Zhonghua Book Company;

The color of the lamp is blue and black, and jade is the best, taking its glow and brown color. The bottom will be deep and slightly wide. When the bottom is deep, the tea leaves stand upright, which is convenient for taking milk; If the width is wide, the reed rotates completely and does not hinder the paddling. However, the amount of tea must be measured by the size of the lamp. Less tea will cover up the brown color; If there are many small cups of tea, you will never get enough soup. If the lamp is only hot, the tea will last.

This passage is said from three angles, any angle is the most powerful advertisement for Jianzhan at that time, and it is also the proof that Jianzhan ranked first as a tea set in the Song Dynasty.

1, the glaze color of the teacup

"The color of the lamp is blue and black, and the quality of jade is the best", which means making rabbit lamp in kiln. At that time, due to the constraints of process materials and other factors, it was difficult to imitate the level of kiln building, especially the fine rabbit lamp that met the requirements of Hui Zong.

Why should the teacup be black enough and "elegant" and "jade"? Hui Zong himself answered, in order to "get the color of its radiant tea", that is to say, the glaze color of the fine kiln-made rabbit hair lamp can best reflect the color of (white) tea soup.

2. The shape of the teacup

"The bottom will be deep and slightly wider. When the bottom is deep, the tea leaves stand upright, which is convenient for taking milk; If you are wide, you can transport the reed thoroughly, and it will not hinder the paddling. "

It means that the bottom of the teacup must have a certain depth and width. Deep at the bottom, tea is like standing upright in a cup, which is easy to beat out the milky soup flowers on the surface; If the bottom is wide, you can run the tea basket freely without being bound by the trip of the tea basket.

The kiln beam lamp completely meets the requirement of "deep bottom difference is slightly wider" In addition, the floor lamp is made of iron tires and is very heavy. From the mouth edge to the bottom of the lamp, the lamp wall is gradually thickened, and the center of gravity is also very stable, making it easier to blow.

3. Experience in using teacups

"However, how much tea you have to drink depends on the size of the tea cup. Less tea will cover up the brown color; If there are many small cups of tea, you will never get enough soup. If it is only hot, tea will last. "

Therefore, the size of the cup used must be determined according to the number of tea leaves. The bowl is big and the tea is small, the tea color is not obvious, the tea is small, and the water injection space is not enough. In addition, it needs to be hot enough so that the soup will last longer.

There is a circle of water injection line below the mouth of the kiln beam, which can effectively prevent the tea soup from overflowing when it is hit. The wall of the building is slightly thicker, and the tire bone is iron tire, which has good thermal insulation performance.

As the king of a country, Hui Zong enjoys the best food, clothing, housing and transportation in the world. In tea, there can be no exceptions, and in tea sets, the same is true. However, when it comes to tea lamps, Hui Zong himself wrote "On Daguan Tea", obviously every sentence is talking about building lamps. It can be said that the sword lamp is the "first tea set" designated by the Emperor of the Song Dynasty in The First Tea Book.

However, the word "lamp" in Daguan Tea Classic was taught by the real emperor to choose and use lamps. Such authority and influence were unparalleled in the Song Dynasty, which naturally had a far-reaching impact on the tea style at that time. To this day, many people still talk about it.