Zhou Gaoqi

Zhou Gaoqi

Zhou Gaoqi (1596-1645), a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, was named Bo Gao. Yi Zhu Sheng, well-known, industrial ancient words. When the Qing army arrived, he died unyielding. He is a professional critic of early Chinese tea studies, Buddhism and Zisha. I like collecting, calligraphy and tea.

brief introduction

According to Kangxi's Jiangyin county annals, Zhou Gaoqi said, "Yingmin is especially good at collecting books Work for the reason of the word, early fill all students, ranked first He compiled county annals and wrote books to read them. In June of the year of Yiyou (1654), the city became suddenly built, and the land of refuge was from Lishan. The value of the soldiers is heavy, and the only thing in the suitcase is books and calligraphy. Those who didn't have Yile were killed because they plundered and resisted the attack.

Main works

Yangxian teapot system

Yangxian Minghu series: this book was written around 1640, the 13th year of Chongzhen. Its main editions are: (1) Tanji books; (2) Jiangyin books; (3) cuilang books; (4) suxiangshi books; (5) Changzhou sages books; (6) art books; (7) taroyuan books.

In addition to the preface, the first volume of the book is divided into founder, Zhengshi, Dajia, Mingjia, Yaliu, Shenpin and biepai. It lists the makers of teapots and their styles, and discusses the suitability of clay teapots and tea teapots. There are two poems by Zhou BOGAO, one by Lin Maozhi and one by Yu Zhongmao. This book is an important work for the study of Yixing Zisha tea.

Dongshanyi tea

Dongshan, located at the junction of Yixing in Jiangsu Province and Changxing in Zhejiang Province, is a relatively flat place between the two peaks. This book, with a total of more than 1500 words, is devoted to the history, origin, category, picking and baking, counterfeit identification, cooking and drinking of Yi tea. Among them, the categories are divided into the first, second, third and inferior products. The discussion on the characteristics of Yi tea and second tea is particularly meticulous, delicate and practical.

This book is based on tanjicong, and proofread with suxiangshi series and Changzhou sages' posthumous books.

Character evaluation

When Zhou Gaoqi was commenting on tea people and purple sand masters, he must have lived under the shackles of pain. He certainly didn't have the idea that the critics were irresponsible. Therefore, we have today's dream book as an accurate positioning of the famous works of Zisha in Ming Dynasty. There are 31 monks in Jinsha temple and potters in Ming Dynasty, which are full and accurate, and become an indispensable important document to study the origin of purple sand in Ming Dynasty.

Reading "Yangxian teapot series" is like going back to the time when the masters gathered, but also realizing that those masterpieces are in front of us. Tasting any one of them is very kind, which is a scene where heroes do not ask where they come from.

Zhou Gaoqi left historical facts for the evaluation of Zisha people and tea people, and also provided evaluation methods for Zisha critics. He wrote at the beginning of his book reading annals: "every time you draw a book, you can have fun. The storm in the world, the heart block, open all disappear, no longer know the body is poor scholar also. Why do you leave all the cities in the south? In the past, people believed that they did not visit me. " We can see a modest and prudent scholar.