Auspicious Phoenix Pattern Blue and White Bowl / Blue and White Dragon Pattern Begonia Bowl

"Drinking tea should be done under a tiled roof and paper windows, with clear spring water and green tea, using simple and elegant ceramic teaware, shared with two or three friends. Half a day of leisure can be worth ten years of worldly dreams. After drinking tea, one can continue with one's own pursuits, whether for fame or fortune, it is all acceptable, but such occasional moments of leisure are absolutely essential." This passage from Mr. Zhou Zuoren's essay "Drinking Tea" expresses a particularly profound and realistic expectation of tea drinking.

Scholars and literati generally appreciate the first half of the saying: "Half a day of leisure is worth ten years of worldly dreams; like this auspicious herb, it washes away worries and dispels sorrows." The ancients also said, "Tea is the elixir of cleansing worries, wine is the lord of forgetting sorrows." The simple phrase "cleans away worries" is clean, concise, and elegant, revealing people's respect and fascination with tea since ancient times. Drinking tea involves only two actions: picking it up and putting it down; all the troubling things gradually settle down. Even a moment of tranquility is enough to soothe worldly weariness.

Blue and white porcelain bowl with dragon and begonia design
Colors flow with fragrance, a sketch on a green porcelain zither slowly plucks the strings. Slowly plucking the strings, the fleeting years pass, a dream of a thousand years.
This blue and white porcelain carries the elegance of the Tang Dynasty and the ethereal beauty of the Song Dynasty; it transcends the prosperity of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and with the hands of craftsmen, it blends the microcosm of an era into this blue and white porcelain.