Wenwan•Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Collection
The so-called Wenwan refers to the Four Treasures of the Study and its derivatives.
These stationery are of different shapes, exquisitely carved, and can be appreciated, making them the arts and crafts displayed in the study and on the book case.
Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, that is, after the traditional painting and calligraphy art became mature and perfect and the formation of literati and bureaucratic groups, they could truly find and realize their due status and value, becoming an indispensable tool for the desks of literati scholars and even emperors.
Wenwan in the modern sense can be generally understood as a play piece or handle piece with a traditional cultural atmosphere.
A good literary play must be a kind of spiritual "materialization" carrying, large or small, or clever or clumsy. Through the years of washing and washing, it can be closely connected with the owner, and while conserving the physical nature, it also demonstrates the owner's culture. grade.
The other is miscellaneous. The antique industry often classifies it as miscellaneous and miscellaneous.
The first is the miscellaneous types of vessels. Even from the perspective of each independent literary game, the various types of vessels can be described as ever-changing. The typical ones are like water injections (inkstone drops), and the variety is as many as thousands.
The second is the miscellaneous purposes, the division of labor is often very trivial, each is independent of each other, and each of them is different, and it is rarely repeated.
The third is the miscellaneous materials, including porcelain, jade, bamboo , wood, teeth, copper, stone, lacquer, material, agate, purple sand, crystal, etc., which are all used, and the most representative ones are those that are convenient for the scholars to personally use the sword. Bamboo, wood, teeth, stone, etc., and its prolonged caressing will produce a moisturizing and thick patina, which will become more and more lovely as time goes by.
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