What is the nickname of the small cup for tea tasting? What did the ancients call it?

Small cups used to taste tea were called teacups by the ancients.

Lamp, also called jar, is a kind of vessel smaller than bowl, so it is also called bowl, and the literature of Song Dynasty is also called Ou. Light, small cups mean.

According to archaeological or documentary evidence, there were porcelain lamps in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and tea drinking became popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Tea lamps in the Tang and Five Dynasties were most famous in Yueyao in the south and Yao Xing in the north. And the teacup began to be equipped with a holder.

In the Song Dynasty, the wind of fighting tea was very strong, and exquisite tea sets were highly respected. There are roughly two shapes of teacups: one is that the mouth edge is straight; The other is a crooked mouth, like a trumpet, and some are decorated with gold. The book has the words "Shoushan Fuhai". In addition to building kilns, the official kilns, Ge kilns, Ding kilns, Jun kilns, Longquan kilns and Jizhou kilns in the Song Dynasty generally burned tea lamps.

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Ancient famous black glazed tea lamp

Song dynasty loved fighting tea, so it is appropriate to observe the tea color and water marks easily. Black glazed porcelain teacups are most suitable for fighting tea.

In Song Dynasty, many people produced black porcelain in kilns. With the market demand and the efforts of ceramic artists, the firing technology of black glazed porcelain in Song Dynasty has developed greatly, and the firing technology is becoming more and more mature, which makes the black glaze show special texture effects and patterns such as rabbit hair pattern, partridge pattern, oil drop glaze, hawksbill glaze, paper-cut flower leakage and leaf pattern.

Ordinary black glaze was once very popular, and the cups made by it were deeply loved by tea people, especially the black glazed cups built in kilns, and the black glazed cups in Jizhou kilns were also very famous.