Cooking tea in winter is very elegant.
When cooking slowly and carefully, waiting with three or two friends by the fireside, the water is gradually boiling, the air is dense, the tea leaves are fragrant, and the tea fragrance is bursting. It is a moment of purity and harmony in the trivial matters of the world.
And this is inseparable from a good pot.
"The silver pot is the most valuable for boiling water, and the silver pot is the most important for making tea."
A good silver pot is always the "white moonlight" in the minds of tea people, which can be said to be a must for tea banquets.
Why is silver expensive for boiling water and tea?
The ancients said that boiled water in a silver pot is "silk like silk", which means that the water quality is as smooth as silk, which can enhance the taste of tea. Secondly, compared to "the soil of sand, the brittleness of porcelain, and the rust of iron", a handmade silver pot is durable.
Silver pots have been precious since ancient times. They are not only durable, but they can also be handed down to families in Yazang.
Silver, a born gentleman is proud and immortal for thousands of years. Used as a tea vessel, the vessel can support people. The silver pot can be regarded as a good teacher and friend of tea. The silver pot makes the water softer, the tea fragrance more clear and high, and the tea soup is sweeter and smoother. This is unmatched by other vessels. The industrial silver pot adds color to the whole tea table, but it is not easy to find a favorite silver pot. The handmade silver pot is time-consuming and laborious, and the output is scarce. A handmade silver pot needs to go through dozens of processes such as design, molding, tire making, carving, assembly, hammering and polishing!
Today, Tongxinshe Teahouse brings you this 9999 sterling silver Seiko precious silver pot, which comes from the "Hongji Treasure Collection" of a century-old pot-making family.
The "Hongji Treasures" located in Heqing, Yunnan, began in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and has been passed down for five generations, and still insists on using traditional pot-making techniques to make pots. The silver pot produced by Hongji Treasures is a rare treasure that can be used and stored. The pot is made of 9999 sterling silver and has been hammered for thousands of times. Whether it is difficulty, practicality, beauty, or Its own value is far more than the silver pots commonly used in Japan to make foreign silver.
"Sifang Collection Series Nail Silver Pot"
This pot was made by the fourth-generation descendant of "Hongji Treasures", the old silver pot master, Mr. Hong Jike.
Collection-grade large Liangliang boiled mercury pot, limited to only 2 pieces.
Each silver pot is formed by the difficult "one-mouth punching" process, and is decorated with traditional sawn nail craftsmanship, with turquoise as the pot button, and square nailed pot. The pot is large and has a capacity of 1000ml. The fourth-generation inheritor of "Treasure", made by Mr. Hong Jike himself. Made of 9999 sterling silver (sterling silver) beaten thousands of times and decorated with turquoise. The dark retro color is worn to reflect the old texture. The difficulty of the square nail pot lies in the square, and the difficulty lies in the "one punch". The whole pot body (including the spout) is made by beating a piece of silver, the square is neat and symmetrical, and the spout has beautiful lines.
The "Heart Sutra" is engraved on the four sides. Near the bottom of the pot, it imitates the natural rock texture on the left and right. The spout is short and fat, with three curved spouts, the root of the spout is large, the spout is small, and the water is full of momentum, fast and fierce. The flat and short spout incision also makes the water cut off very neatly. The handle of the pot is made of high-quality iron ore, smelted and polished into a flower window handle. The lid is a rare cut-cover type silver pot lid. The lid is covered on the body of the pot, and it seems to be integrated in the side view, which shows that its workmanship is excellent. The pot buttons are carefully equipped with high-porcelain and high-color turquoise buttons, which complement the shape and distressed color of the square sawn nailed silver pot.
There is an old saying in China, "If you don't have diamonds, don't work with porcelain."
Curium nails were originally used to repair broken porcelain, and they were repaired with metal "curium sons" that looked like "concave" characters.
The utensils repaired with curium nails have a unique beauty, and when applied to utensils, they can be like Venus with a broken arm, which is quite a "defective beauty". And when this technique is applied to the silver pot, another completely different beauty is born. The use of sawn nails on the silver pot has a sense of wabi-sabi that has gone through the vicissitudes of life.
冬日烹茶，雅趣無窮。
慢火細烹之時，與三兩好友在爐邊靜候水漸沸、氣氤氳，茶葉片片，茶香陣陣，是在塵世瑣事中得片刻純粹與和諧。
而這，離不開一把好壺。
「煮水以銀壺為貴，泡茶以銀壺為尊。」
一把好銀壺，總是茶人心目中的「白月光」，可謂茶席必備。
為何煮水、泡茶，以銀為貴？
古人說，銀壺煮水「絲若絹」，就是說水質爽滑猶如絲絹，能提升茶的口感。其次，相比「砂之土，瓷之脆，鐵之鏽」，一把手工銀壺，經久耐用。
銀壺自古就是貴器，不僅耐用，還可雅藏傳家。
銀，天生君子傲骨、千年不朽。用作茶器，器可養人，銀壺可謂是茶葉的良師益友，銀壺使其水更柔和、茶香更清透高揚、茶湯更甜滑，這是其他器皿難以媲美的，茶席上擺上一把手工銀壺，增添了整個茶席色彩，但想要尋得一把心儀的銀壺，也非易事，手工銀壺耗時費力，產量稀少。一把手工銀壺，需要經過設計、制模、制胎、雕刻、組裝、錘打、拋光等數十道工序！
今天，同心捨茶館為大家帶來了這一款9999純銀精工珍品銀壺，來自百年制壺世家「洪記寶藏」。
位於雲南鶴慶的「洪記寶藏」，始於清朝光緒年間，至今已有五代傳承，仍在堅持使用傳統制壺技藝制壺。洪記寶藏出品的銀壺，是少有的品、用、藏皆具的珍品，壺以9999純銀為料，歷經千萬次錘打成型，無論是難度、實用性、美感、亦或是本身價值，都遠超於日本常用以洋白銀打造的銀壺。
「四方珍藏系列鋦釘銀壺」
這把壺由「洪記寶藏」第四代傳人，老銀壺師傅——洪繼科老師，親制打造的。
珍藏級大提梁煮水銀壺，限量僅2把。
每把銀壺均採用高難度的「一張口打出」工藝成型，並配以傳統鋸釘工藝裝飾，搭配綠松石作為壺鈕，四方鋦釘壺，壺身大，有1000ml容量，由「洪記寶藏」第四代傳承人，洪繼科老師親工製作。採用9999純銀（純銀）千萬次捶打而成，並配以綠松石作為裝飾。深復古色做舊，以體現蒼老質感。四方鋦釘壺之難，難在於方，難在於「一張打」。整壺壺身（包括壺嘴）由一張銀片捶打而成，四方工整對稱，壺嘴線條優美。
四面鏨刻有《心經》，近壺底附近左右仿自然似岩肌理，肌理處做有鋦釘，十分巧妙，富有古韻。壺嘴短肥，系三彎嘴，壺嘴根部大，壺嘴口小，出水衝勁足、快而猛。平短的壺嘴切口，也使得斷水十分利落。壺把精選優質鐵礦，熔煉打磨成花窗式把型，壺把反復打磨拋光，紋理質感皆具，亦提升整壺美感。壺蓋少有的截蓋型銀壺壺蓋，壺蓋蓋於壺身，側面觀之似渾然一體，自可見其做工優異。壺鈕則細心配有高瓷高色的綠松鈕，與四方鋸釘銀壺的造型與做舊之色可相得益彰。
中國有句古話，叫「沒有金剛鑽，別攬瓷器活」，說的便是這叫「鋦釘」的古老手藝。
鋦釘原本是把破碎的瓷器進行修復，用看起來像「凹」字一樣的金屬「鋦子」，對其進行修復。
採用鋦釘修復的器物，有著獨特的美感，應用在器皿之上可與斷臂的維納斯一樣，頗具一種「殘缺美」。而將此技藝用於銀壺之上，另一種迥然不同的美感便誕生了，在銀壺上採用鋸釘，有一種歷經滄桑的侘寂之感。