The Role and Types of Tea Cups for Tea Ceremony

Tea cups are the utensils for holding tea, and they can generally be divided into two sizes: small main cups and large cups. Below is the role and types of tea ceremony teacups that I have carefully organized for you, take a look.

Tea Ceremony teacups role

A small teacup, contains endless mysteries. It is not only one of the indispensable tea utensils, but also gives a sense of beauty and fun when tasting tea. From the selection of the soil, the cup type of holding, glaze drug coloring, Shi kiln sintering, tea cups in the production of each link, are hidden in the University of knowledge. Tea cups and tea mingling, skin and cup edge of the caress, more tea people in the cup to play when the cup, have some fun, and China's long tea culture, as well as successive generations of literati for the cup of the song of praise, but also to create a cup of tea within the depth of the sprinkler.

Types of Tea Cups

Zhan: tea cups. Open mouth, slanting body, deep belly, rounded feet, slightly smaller body. In the Song Dynasty, there were black, white, sauce, green, white and green and white glazed tea cups, with black glaze being the most expensive. Tianmu cups are also called tianmu zhan, Jianjian. In fact, from the Song Dynasty onwards, the marigold became a special apparatus for drinking tea, which also means that the matter of drinking tea began to enter the level of spiritual enjoyment from the level of life.

Cups

Pressed hand cups: mouth flat and flared, the abdominal wall is nearly vertical, from the lower abdominal wall inward, rimmed feet. Grip in the hand, slightly flared mouth just fit in the edge of the hand, the volume of the size of the right, the weight of the right amount of light, stable and fit the hand, so it is called? Pressure hand cup? To Ming Yongle Qinghua pressure hand cup is the most famous.

Skimming mouth cup: mouth slightly flared outward, slightly convergent abdomen, rolling round foot. Tire thin, the tire texture is fine and moist, this shape is also the most commonly used and most common, the roundness of the tea broth in the mouth is higher than the previous one, but it is more real and normal, the degree of gathering fragrance and flavor is higher than the previous one, and the overall feeling is more natural and real.

? Bending the waist? Cup: It is used as an allusion to bending over to serve others, from "Jin Shu ` Tao Qian biography". After this, it is not a good idea to use it as an allusion. After this, "not for five buckets of rice bend waist" has become a synonym for "backbone". Became a pronoun for having a backbone. The height of the cup is medium-sized, gathering fragrance and flavor, and also fits the curve of your hand. Next time the boss invited you to drink tea, remember to see clearly is not a folding cup ah.

Hexagonal cup: Anyone who likes to collect Ru kiln mouth cups, should not be immune to hexagonal. The shape of the moderate size, cup type endurance, six square, the shape of the upright, line surface refreshing, angular, applied to the Ru glaze, with a more rounded. The hexagonal stream is straight and upturned, with a curve in the square. The owner prefers this hexagonal cup with a little curved surface, square and round.

Lotus petals cup: the Ru glaze, different from the skimming cup cup type is the mouth of the cup decorated with small lotus petals, like a newborn. Simple and elegant, glossy, practical and generous. Cup body open piece such as fish scales, cicada wings, after a long time, the tea color will be attached to the cracks, the formation of unpredictable, beautiful pattern.

Bucket hats: Bucket hats, an ancient rain and sunshade utensils, still everywhere in the mountain villages and water villages. Bucket hats cup modeling such as straw raincoat hat, mouth large, small foot, take the beauty of its ease and comfort, simple and elegant lines, high firing difficulty, in the simplicity of the great wisdom, especially precious. Taking a cup of tea, like Jiang Shang in the Weishui, in the mountains and waters of the heart of the world, in the ordinary to see the way of great wisdom.

Rounded cup: the belly is slightly bulging outside, the caliber is slightly inward, but also more real and normal, but the effect of its poly fragrance and poly flavor is obviously better, the integrated taste is the best. This cup is good, big belly can accommodate.

Square bucket cup: popular in the Ming Dynasty Jiajing period of a cup style, named because of the shape like a square bucket. In ancient times, the production of square ware, not like round ware can be used to rotate the pottery car, directly from the billet, the process is more special, the need to make the billet clay into a sheet bonded into. Due to the complexity of the process, technical limitations, Jiajing period square cup more irregular. Qing Kangxi period, there is a beam type square cup. There is a beam inside the cup, the two sides of the inner wall connected, thus strengthening the strength of the square cup in the firing process, so that the shape is very neat. The advantage of this large-mouthed cup is that the tea broth feels most rounded when it enters the mouth. But this is caused by the principle of physics, due to the large opening and low height, the surface tension of the liquid is the greatest, rather than the roundness of the tea soup itself. In terms of gathering aroma and flavor, this cup is the lowest.

Ear cup: also known as ? Goblet? Drinking utensils. Department of imitation of the Han Dynasty lacquer goblet, the body is oval, symmetrical small ears on both sides, so the name. Popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty to the two Jin dynasties, North and South Dynasties, varieties of green glazed pottery, celadon, etc.. This kind of cup has been rare, probably in the costume TV series can still see some.

Chicken bowl cup: open mouth, shallow belly, lying feet. Cup on the bucket color painting painting female and male chickens and chicks, between the rocks, orchids, peonies, so the name of the chicken bowl cup. Ming Chenghua doucai cocktail cup was famous for a while, the Qing dynasty dynasties have imitation, especially in the Kangxi, Yongzheng imitation of the best, a few can be messed up. A cup of several hundred million oh!

Jennifer cup: imitation of bronze shape, mouth flared, rounded belly slightly deeper, the front tip after the warping, bearing three high feet, the mouth on both sides of the symmetrical columns. Ming and Qing dynasties were fired, with blue, white glaze, blue glaze and pastel varieties.

High-footed cup: because the cup body has a high foot, so the name. Mouth slightly flared, near the bottom of the full, under the high foot, high feet have bamboo-shaped, cylindrical, quadrangular and so on. Ming and Qing dynasties have been burned, varieties of blue and white, Doucai, and so on.

Reclining foot cup: is a popular cup in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the bottom of the cup without a foot ring, was concave reclining foot and named. There are varieties of white glaze, blue, five-color, pastel, ink and other varieties.

Lohan Cup: Inspired by the traditional Lohan jar, with the theme of the Buddhist eighteen Lohan, using hand-pulled billet production, and the originality of the pastel craft techniques and underglaze blue and white technology, so that it has both the pastel delicate, pink, soft picture effect, but also underglaze blue and white crystal bright, moist and full of water sense and safe non-toxic, never fade characteristics. Therefore, it is a collection of ornamental, collectible and practical as one of the art treasures.

Bell Cup: also known as Yang Zhong Cup, Jin Zhong Cup, Pan style cup, popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Cup mouth flared, deep belly, rim, inverted like a bell, and thus named. Ming Chenghua, Jiajing, Wanli period with white glaze, doucai, blue and other varieties, the development of the Qing dynasty Kangxi, Yongzheng when there are blue, five colors. This kind of cup is currently on the market is also the most common.

Horseshoe Cup: popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Open mouth, oblique cut belly, concave bottom small flat bottom, most of the bottom of the official kiln ware with the year mark, the shape of the inverted like a horseshoe. Ming Dynasty to back to the blue, sprinkle blue, peacock blue, white glaze and other varieties are common. More popular during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, more colorful, to the abdomen decorated with four flowers is common.

Bowls

High-footed bowl: the same shape as the high-footed cup, slightly larger. Longquan kilns in the Yuan dynasty, Jingdezhen kilns burned, Ming and Qing dynasties continue to burn, varieties of green glaze, egg white glaze, blue and red glaze.

Palace bowl: flared mouth, wide and deep abdomen, round, square shape, mostly for the palace utensils, so the name. Ming Zhengde burned the most famous, there are? Zhengde bowl? The name.