: 16 Tea and Jade

的 A Boeing passenger plane from New York, USA to London, UK stops at London Heathrow Airport.
Chen Rui stepped off the plane.
"Mr. Chen?" A tall man in a black suit, sunglasses and a grim expression came over and asked Chen Rui.
"I'm."
"Earl Hill asked me to pick you up, please follow me."
Chen Rui followed the man in black sunglasses to a luxurious car.
The man opened the rear door and let Chen Rui sit in.
Then opened the front door, sat in the driver's seat, and drove the car to the London area.
After half an hour.
The car stopped in front of a manor house.
I had a bodyguard in black waiting here long ago. When I saw the car stopped, I walked up quickly and helped Chen Rui pull the door.
锐 Chen Rui got out of the car and looked around.
This is a mansion full of medieval classical style, with large stone columns and carved statues full of medieval style.
The fence is formed by large and small pieces of random rocks. It has an irregular beauty. This irregular beauty is like the "gold wire" on the kiln. It is a pathologically incomplete beauty. This pathologically incomplete Beauty gives people a different aesthetic sense.
The wall of the sampan experienced the wind and rain, and the erosion of the years, though, seemed mottled, old and vicissitudes.
Through the mottled wall, people can intuitively feel the long history and cultural precipitation of the manor.
"Mr. Chen, I am the earl's steward, Burke Wise, the earl is waiting for you in the living room, please come with me." A middle-aged man in a tuxedo and very medieval gentleman came over to Chen Rui Said.
Followed Berk to Hill Manor.
The bodyguard in black in the manor looked grim.
A few dog handlers each walked around with four German Shepherds in their hands.
In one corner of the manor, there were several huge iron cages, each of which held a wild untrained fierce cheetah.
She and Burke sat in a battery car and walked along the lawn aisle to the main building in the middle of the manor.
"Hello, Mr. Chen, you are welcome to come to my manor."
"Thanks for your invitation."
"Sit down."
Fen guests and hosts sit down.
"Like tea or coffee," Count Hill asked Chen Rui.
"Drink tea."
The Buter steward next to Su Lili whispered to the maid.
Soon, the maid brought a tea set and a pot of tea.
Earl Hill poured a glass for Chen Rui himself, and then poured himself a glass.
"This is from West Lake Longjing in your China. It has a flat and pretty shape, green color, green and mellow inner taste, soaked in the cup, and the buds are green. 'The four must be famous.' This small tube of tea is the best tea produced in Longjing. Eighteen imperial teas are fine before the rain. "Count Hill is very familiar with Chinese tea culture.
I was in college before, and an old professor who had brought Chen Rui was very fond of drinking tea. In his spare time, he told Chen Rui some knowledge about tea.
With eighteen imperial teas and fine buds before the rain, Chen Rui knows a little.
The so-called eighteen imperial teas refer to Qianlong's six trips to the south of the Yangtze River and four visits to the Longjing tea area to watch the tea harvesting and tea poems.
On the way home, she brought the Longjing tea back to her queen mother, and the queen mother died after drinking, and even said that this longjing tea was a panacea.
Qian Qianlong immediately passed the decree to seal the eighteen tea trees in front of the Hu Gong Temple as "Yucha", which is harvested every year for the Queen Mother to drink.
The fine buds before the rain are taken with one shot and one shot, and the annual output is very small, very precious.
2005In 2005, in the West Lake Longjing Tea Garden, 100 grams of eighteen imperial teas were hammered at a price of 728,000 yuan per catty. After 10 years, the price has increased more than several times.
锐 Chen Rui held up the tea cup and looked at it.
The tea leaves are soaked in water, and the buds and leaves are tender and green.
The soup color is clear and bright green.
I smelt it gently with my nose, the fragrance was tender and scented.
Finally, Chen Rui took a cup of tea and took a sip, savouring fresh and sweet.
"It really is the best tea." Chen Rui began to praise.
After drinking tea, Chen Rui's eyes suddenly attracted the cup on his opponent.
The cup is light and clever in the hand, and feels like a light cloud.
The whole body is exquisite and thin, giving a hazy sense of transparency.
The texture is warm and smooth. Through the light, you can see the green tea leaves inside.
The decoration of the cup is also very exquisite. A lotus bud is carved along the cup with various art combinations such as round carving, relief carving, and hollow carving. Then embossed textures, forming a visual contrast of bumps, enhancing its artistic expression effect.
The lotus flower buds carved out by the lotus root are budding, thin and hairy, with no axe marks.
This is a blue and white jade tea cup carved from a whole piece of blue and white jade.
锐 Chen Rui thought of a jade, called Dudustan jade, so he also taught jade or Islamic jade.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the House of Internal Affairs set up a workshop specifically for imitation of Khendustan jade, absorbing the advantages of Khendustan jade's unique shape, smooth pattern, and thin body. Combined with the traditional methods of Chinese craftsmanship, it created the Xifan Style jade.
锐 Chen Rui carefully admired the blue and white jade cup with her gaze.
"Mr. Chen also has a non-interest in antiques." Earl Hill saw Chen Rui admiring the cup in his hand, and UU reading www.uukanshu.com asked with a smile.
Chen Rui put down the White Jade Cup and said with a smile, "Antiques are the history held in my hand. I think antiques are the carrier of culture and the witness of history. Through each piece of antiques, you can understand the information of the past history and culture, which makes people helpless Addicted to it.
Also, through 'playing', you can develop a person's sentiment. "
In college, Chen Rui was exposed to antiques at an accidental opportunity, and has been very interested in antiques since then. Usually, when he has time, he will visit antique streets and antique cities near the school. He will reveal from each antique The vicissitudes of history and culture.
It's endless.
Earl Hill is also an antique lover.
He has very deep knowledge in art appraisal and appreciation.
不同 Unlike Chen Rui, Earl Hill was rich and he could buy any art he liked.
In his family's collection room, he has collected more than 2,000 British and foreign artworks for more than 500 years, from medieval furniture and decorations, paintings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artworks, including four Picassos The works of Andrew Wise and Monet also include ancient Chinese ceramics, cloisonne, and tomb sculptures in the Tang Dynasty.
The two talked very well.
Earl Hill took Chen Rui to visit his manor.
The manor is very large, more than 1,000 acres, including the main building, living room, 3 living room villas, storage room, 11 artificial lakes, green lawns, ponds, woods, gardens, slopes, mountains and rivers, horse farms and so on.