Anciently known as浄琉璃 (浄琉璃), I am always silent when things appear-Liang Mingyu and his path of glazing

Lapis lazuli, the boat is full of sweat, the matter is different, the rise is extreme, the thoughts are gathered. --Du Fu's "ripple pattern"

Lapis lazuli is one of the seven treasures of Buddhism. The word "Liuli" is actually a foreign language, originated from the Pali Veluriyam, which is said to be the language used by Buddha Chodamo Siddhartha to propagate Buddhism in Tianzhu. This ancient Chinese material, which was selected as a national non-legacy in 2008, has been hidden in temples for 2,300 years. Even in today's society, Liuli also more in the corner of the museum quietly tell their own past, for the general public it has been a kind of life is very far away from the things.

In the previous decades of the development of the commodity economy in the wave of this technology has been neglected too normal, after all, glaze is indeed the production of art is quite time-consuming, it is from the idea, design, sculpture, firing, fine repair, polishing to the completion of the work, need to go through nearly twenty exquisite and tedious process to complete.

However, there is such a pursuit of perfection of the craftsman, because the smallest flaws make him in one day will smash more than 1,500 glazed cups, designed by him to produce glazed works are quite popular, he is the ancient glazed artist, tea people - Liang Mingyu.

Like the tea ceremony, fine brush, Buddhism, in the design circle for more than ten years and have their own design company, these several labels arbitrarily pick one out, you can do this world in the interesting people, Liang Mingyu, but a combination of four into one, perhaps it is these qualities in his body, in order to allow him to do a design thinking "Zen" craftsman.

He is also a "Zen" craftsman with a design mindset.

He is still doing his own design company, in order to send a small gift to customers at the end of the year, he has just studied Buddhism from the "Namo Yakshi Liuliguang Rulai Benwang Gongde Sutra" in the scripture "I wish that in my next life, when I get Bodhi, the body is like a glaze, inside and outside the clear and transparent, pure and without flaws and filth," inspired by designing the "bathing in the light of the Buddha," this his He was inspired to design "Bathe in the Light of Buddha", the first piece of glaze work in his life.

He matched this "Bathing in Buddha's Light" with a poetic sentence: "It is the smiling Lohan in the grotto in the past life, and it is you and me looking up in the Buddha's light in this life. It is the clarity tempered by thousands of degrees of heat, and it is the clarity of mind when we see each other. When picking up the life of the tea cup in order to realize a ray of illusion, I will slightly raise my head to look for, all the encounters at this moment, when I tilt my head, is the time when the Bodhisattva lowered his eyebrow, the eyes intersected in a split second, so that I have felt from now on to look up to the excellence of the Bodhisattva lowered his eyebrow is compassion, as I tilted my head in order to bathe in the light of the Buddha, to wash the eyes of the earthly world, and then with the glazed glass cup of pure water to feed my compassion to moisten the clean land in my heart, so that my soul Bathe my soul in Buddha's light from now on."

The glazed small shamisen works are quite popular, friends have repeatedly asked for, Liang Mingyu thought: glaze is not exactly the Buddha for him to open another window of art?

Each process of glaze artwork has its own variable factors, and it needs to be fired at a high temperature of about 1000 degrees, and it needs to be repeatedly experimented in the process, and the color of the work is the same as that of the others, and it is very difficult to produce. The ancient craftsmanship decides that there are no two pieces of glaze in the world which are exactly the same as that of the so-called "heavenly craftsmanship". The so-called "heavenly craftsmanship is self-made" is the uniqueness of the glaze products. Taste the color flow of different glazes carefully and you will find different moods, and the glaze artwork after firing successfully has the color of flowing clouds and colors; its quality is crystal clear and brilliant.

Therefore, whether it is a glazed cup or incense burner, ornaments, Buddha statues, the works made by the hands of Liang Mingyu reveal his ingenuity of craftsmanship, calm as water or ingenious glazed works, like a dream, like a dream, like an obsession, with meandering Zen and peace.

Because of his love for tea culture, Liang Mingyu pondered the craft of glazed tea sets after embarking on the path of craftsmanship. Although the history of glaze is long, but there has never been a glaze tea set, especially the glaze process began to revive the modern era, only to see the glaze made of flowers and green ornaments, which has the glaze to do the tealight. Because of the material of the glaze contains heavy metal elements, such as if subjected to high temperature will produce heavy metal dilution out of the reason, and in the water temperature instantly high temperature, there will be cracked. Generally speaking, people will give up on this difficult task, but Liang Mingyu, as a "rookie" in the glazing industry, has been searching for craftsmen and checking all the information.

Time and again thinking, over and over again testing, so that he finally delved into the non-toxic and harmless formula to maintain the casting process, glazed material tea finally appeared. Liang Mingyu also became the first to make the first person of glass into tea.

In a sense, glaze is a symbol of personality, a spirit, a realm. It is because glaze has the identity of the "seven treasures of Buddhism" and the elegant temperament of glaze tea set itself fits Liang Mingyu's Zen master, Mr. Zong Shun, the postgraduate tutor of China Buddhist Academy, advocated the three precepts of Zen tea - quit pomposity, quit extravagance, and quit vulgarity, so the tea set was made of glaze. So at a tea ceremony for 100 people at the Berlin Zen Temple shortly after the birth of the glazed tea ware, Liang Mingyu and his glazed tea ware drew a lot of amazement. How many people can think that Liang Mingyu, who caused this amazement at that time, has only been in contact with glaze technology for two years.

In recent years, in some large-scale tea activities and many art invitational exhibitions, will from time to time see the figure of Liang Mingyu appeared, by his hands made of glazed tealight and glazed Buddha's reputation is gradually rising, quite popular, and his face has not been a hint of complacency, just continue to silently produce that beautiful glaze, continue to repair his and the Buddha's edge.

He said, "It's never the alarm that wakes you up, it's the dream, the self-discipline, the faith."

Editor | Six Gods

Artisan | Liang Mingyu - Glazing Craftsman