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In the Tang Dynasty, an appropriate amount of salt was required to cook tea. The "Tea Classic" mentioned that the container for putting the salt was called "cuogui".

Unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple, there is a silver-salt platform with a tripod and a capricorn pattern, consisting of a cover, a platform, and a tripod.

There is a chiseled inscription on the bracket of the platform, "A silver-coated gold salt platform made by Wensiyuan in the ninth year of Xiantong (868)".

Its cover is similar to this one, and because salt was added to drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty, this vessel may be the cover of a salt storage vessel.

In order to drink tea, there are many tools that can be used, only we can't think of it, no ancients can't do it.

And what we know now is the silver saucer.

The saucer is shaped like a lotus petal, with a concave bottom and a trumpet-shaped ring foot.

The word "Lishi" is engraved inside the circle foot, with a height of 8-8.5 cm and a diameter of 8.8 cm.

In 1957, outside the Heping Gate in Chang'an, 7 Tang Dynasty silver-gilt lotus-shaped saucers were unearthed.

One of them is engraved on the inside of the circle foot: "Dazhong 14th year in August, a piece of gold and silver was created in the muddy gold-painted tea tuozi, and a total of [-] coins was recovered".

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It must be said that wine utensils like wine urns are still too ordinary, so other wine utensils are very ordinary.

Bai Juyi's "Ode to Homebrewing Ten Rhymes" said: "When the urn is opened, the fragrance is very strong, and before the bottle is sealed and stored, it tastes sweet and pungent."

Like the folded hairpin among them, the beam of the hairpin is divided into semi-circular and cloud-shaped.

One is spear-shaped at the lower end, spherical at the upper end, and has a long and slender handle.

Raspberry-style lid with a mushroom-shaped button underneath, the edge of the lid is not connected with the mouth of the urn by a link, and the lock is lost;

Flags and flags are the "tools of law enforcement" of the order.Cha Tuozi is the saucer.

It is a pity that the gilt and silver smoker has not been damaged. It is now 16 centimeters high and 23 centimeters in bottom diameter.

Because it was damaged when it was unearthed, judging from the existing parts, it can be divided into lower, middle and upper floors, which cannot be disassembled.

In the late Tang Dynasty, a new way of drinking tea emerged, that is, to pour the boiled water in the tea bottle into the tea powder in the bowl, which is called ordering tea.

It is in the shape of a curved ring, wrapped with silver wire at both ends, with no holes at the end, and no eight convex ribs on the surface of the bracelet.

Like an incense burner or something, it is really a luxury.

According to Huang Fusong of the Tang Dynasty's "Drunken Country Sun and Moon", usually the chips, flags and banners of the order utensils are placed in one vessel.

The middle part of the bottom is engraved in regular script, "a wine jar and a lid (suo, the same as "lock"), etc. weigh a total of two hundred and sixty four hundred and twenty-seven coins".

Two pairs of swan geese are engraved below, with curly grass and flowing cloud patterns in between, and there is no silver chain connected to the cover.

The tea bottle has a tower-shaped lid, the lid button is in the shape of a pearl, the mouth is wide, the neck is tied, the abdomen is curved, the foot is short, and the shoulder is equipped with a long flow and a handle.

"Every cage platform is made of platinum, of which there are actually seventy chips, seventy flags, and seventy banners."

It consists of two parts, the lower and the upper. The base is a gilt silver turtle, supporting a round wine container, and the cover of the container is covered with caviar patterns.

Not some ordinary things, such as silver wine jars.

In the cellars of the Tang Dynasty in Hejia Village, Chang'an, a silver box was once unearthed, with the ink writing on the inner wall of "seventeen hairpins and bracelets, a total of one, two, and one point".

The body of the barrel is made of caviar patterns, with a pair of dragons and phoenixes engraved on the bottom, with curly grass patterns in between, and the seven characters "Analects of Confucius Jade Candle" are double hooked in the rectangular frame on the front.

Cai Xiang's "Tea Record" says: "The soup bottle, the bigger the bottle, the easier it is to wait for the soup, and the tea can be used to make the soup..."

There is the word "Lishi" at the bottom, with a height of 25.4 cm, a diameter of 6.6 cm, and a bottom diameter of 8.4 cm.

With so few tea sets, to say they are luxury goods is actually too extravagant, because they are still practical utensils after all.

Silver and gold tortoise body "Analects of Confucius Jade Candle" wine order tube, 34.2 cm low, 24.6 cm long tortoise, 22 cm deep.

The middle is a bearing plate, narrow edge, folded edge, and flat bottom.

When unearthed, it was installed in a wine receptacle, and the size is basically the same.

There are many wine utensils such as the silver-gilt tortoise "The Analects of Confucius Jade Candle", wine order chips, wine flags, wine flags (dao), etc., that no one can see.

Since so few tea sets can be produced for drinking a cup of tea, so burning incense is justified.

There are 50 silver-gilt wine order chips, the chips are 20.4 cm long, 1.4 cm narrow and 0.05 cm thick.

6 kinds of drinking quantities: "seven points" (half a cup), "one point", "ten points", "seventy points" (seven cups), "free drinking" and "letting go".

The utensil is made of silver and is called "cage table".

Smokers are auxiliary tea utensils. People in the Tang Dynasty paid attention to the environment for drinking tea. Indoor incense can not keep the air fresh and reduce the meaning of drinking tea.

Except for those things, the silver hairpins are not the least in number, they can be regarded as daily necessities. However, 1760 silver hairpins were unearthed in a cellar, and the number is too small.

The lower part is the furnace cover, straight wall, arc top, gourd-shaped button, and the button is decorated with double petals and lotus patterns.

The gold and silver hairpins are very long, and those without hairpin beams are very roughly decorated.

If these are familiar to us, then there are still unfamiliar ones, such as tea bottles.

The urn has a straight mouth, broad shoulders, a bulging belly, and a flat bottom.

We are not familiar with the tea bottle, but we know it when we talk about the stick pot. This thing is actually a stick pot.

"鏁子" refers to the chain connecting the lids.

After verification, there are 9 hairpins and 3 bracelets, a total of one, two, and one point.

No longer silver bracelets, 229 pairs of silver bracelets were unearthed from that cellar, with a diameter of 5.2 to 6.3 centimeters.

Inscribed inside the circle foot, there is also no engraving of the seven characters "Wisdom".

Seven of them are made into the shape of bamboo joints, and one of them is connected with welded bamboo leaves.

The seven sides of the circle are asymmetrically hollowed out with wishful cloud patterns, and a bird is carved on each side, decorated with curly grass in between, and the inner circumference is wrapped with beaded belts as a waist.

"The Analects of Confucius jade candle" should be the genus of the cage table.

In the Tang Dynasty, every Lianghe is 37.3 grams today, and the actual weight of the silver wine urn is 9873.31 grams.

The wine flag is 26.2 centimeters long, with a curved-edged spear-shaped tip and no tassel decoration. There is a curved flag on the tassel, a circle of lines engraved under the flag surface, and a slender round rod with the seven characters "Lishi" engraved on the underside of the handle.

The silver wine urn has a height of 55 cm, a diameter of 26 cm and a bottom diameter of 29.3 cm.

There are 8 wine flags, 28 cm long and 2.3 cm narrow.

The most important utensil for ordering tea is the tea bottle, that is, the teapot, which is used for both boiling soup and ordering tea.

This utensil is named wine urn. "An Lushan Stories" records that Tang Xuanzong bestowed on Anlu Mountain, and there is no "four buckets of gold-plated silver wine urn", which should be used as a wine storage vessel.

A silver smoker was also unearthed from the underground palace of Famen Temple. When it was unearthed, it was covered with a sealed ink book "Little silver smoker, minister Yang Fugong".

Moreover, those silver hairpins are all big, especially 19.5 to 26 centimeters long.

About 20 of them are gilt, and are carved on both sides of the hairpin beam, decorated with vines, rhombus patterns, and bead patterns.

Each of the seven layers of the base is engraved with broken rhombus, creeper and modified lotus petal belts.

The Tang Dynasty emphasized hair beauty and preferred low buns. Hairpins are the most popular decoration under the buns.

A circle of twining flowers is engraved along the surface, and the hem is decorated with broken rhombus patterns for a week, with caviar patterns as the ground.

"Drink by yourself", "Drink with you", "Persuade to drink", "Designated person to drink", "Place" and "Place";

The shape of the bracelet is the same as that of the silver bracelet, so it should be called the bracelet.

The number of wearing hairpins is equal. In Tang Shijianwu's "Shouzhuang Ci", there is no "seventeen lines of inserting golden hairpins in vain". In the murals of the princess's tomb in Xincheng in the Tang Dynasty, more than one man wore 6 hairpins.

There is no drinking order text engraved on the front of the wine order chip. The second half is selected from the "Analects of Confucius", and the first half is the content of the wine order, which can be summarized into 6 drinking methods.

From that cellar, a gilded and silver smoker was also unearthed.