Five-Sense Life -Guqin (Part 2)

Music should be chosen carefully!

Noisy and impatient music can indulge one’s desires!

No good to listen!

As a noisy sound will stay in one’s ears, disrupt his state of mind.

To maintain a healthy body and mind,

You should let your ears, eyes, mouth, mind and all organs,
playing their regular roles in a more harmony, and solemn state.

Your body and mind will then become more refreshing, optimistic and healthy!

That’s why Guqin is the representative of elegant and pure music!

The promotion of Guqin can enable to correct moral attribution and touch people's kindness; while protecting them from being contaminated by their own evil ideas.

Purifying the hearts and souls, really obtain the health and benefit from the bodies and mind.

That is why ancient Chinese people treated learning “Qin”, “Chess”, “Reading”, and “Painting” as the necessary skills to cultivate a scholar, which also shown the important position of “Qin” in cultivating people in the past!

Music is borderless.

It is the treasure of all human being.

Through the rhythm by pure musical instruments,

All of us can cultivate ourselves and achieve pure hearted!

Back to the pure knowledge.

Five-Sense Life -Guqin (part 1)

Many people may ask why we have chosen the music of Guqin as part our products.

Can people from different countries accept this Chinese Guqin?

Well! Let’s discuss today about this Guqin.

Guqin is the in oldest plucked type musical instrument in Chinese history.

In the mind of ancient people in China, Guqin was the king of all musical instruments.

It was said that Guqin came from the idea of ancient King according to the theory of Heaven & Earth, Yin & Yang and Five-Element.

Indus wood was used to make the body of Guqin and silk for the strings.

Playing out a melodious and soul-stirring rhythm.

So far, Guqin was treated as the most elegant & sage music.

The requirement of the player included:
Sit straightly, with peaceful eyes, respectful attitude, and solemn looking.

While the listener, through the lingering holy, soft and elegant music, to experience the grace from the world creator!

Calm the heart! Inspire the wisdom!

This is of course no any national boundaries and ethnic difference!

Everyone can generate the same spiritual resonance!

Music can create the most intuitive feeling from one's heart!

Different music can drive one to different psychological changes!

The rise of a natural soothing and relaxing rhythmic sound can make people feeling calm and peaceful; While a solemn and sincere sound can make people perform respectfully and seriously.

And the rise of a warm and harmonious sound can bring people a kindness heart.

And for those orderless, noisy, impatient and hysterical music,

It will make people confuse and loss of interest.

That’s why in the Chinese character, the word “樂” (music) and“藥” (medicine) are in the same meaning, being the idea that music is just like medicine.

Good medicine can treat an illness; whereas music can educate people to make moral regression and goodness.

 

The birth of SHA series (Part 2)

People usually named clay pottery as “Artistic crystal from fire and clay”. Purple clay is especially the flashing point of this crystallization.

After heating with an extremely high temperature of 1170^o C

for 24 hours,

SHA undertook his most important hammer testing in his life.

From a piece of soft and loosen clay,

eventually turned into a piece of hard purple clay.

But in this processing,

not more than half can finally lead us into happiness.

It is because, to all the craftsman who producing pottery,

firing, is the most critical step in the whole production.

Success or Failure – entirely depends on this.

However, in the traditional kiln firing methods,

the outcome is not possible to be fully determined by the human factors.

It is also depends on the climate, seasons, the atmospheric pressure and the kiln’s temperature changes.

Therefore, we may be understand

why ancient craftsmen would like to take a bath, change new clothes and pray to God first before the firing.

In their mind,

all these natural factors are determined by the gift from God.

After the birth of each exquisite SHA,

we will all memorize those craftsmen who have contributed silently.

Just because of their persistent pursuit of arts and crafts

can create the perfect of SHA!

The birth of SHA series (Part 1)

They are a group of beautiful genies, quietly staying besides you, with their unique languages, whispering in your heart…

Because of the preference on purple clay material and respect to its traditional culture, Puzhen Life put purple clay as a major element into her product development.

By the way, it is not an easy matter.

There will be a great challenges - How to meet the standardization requirement by the traditional craftsmanship?

If it is just talking about making a piece of boutique, traditional craftsmanship is competent undoubtedly.

However, if it comes to mass production with strict tolerances, this will be entirely other story and actually the real challenges facing by every developer.

After many times of crafting trials, they can make it! This is such a big revolution for the traditional craftsmanship, under the trend of modern industrialization, finding its existing value.

Every single piece of tools,  

Every subtle motion,

And every crafting trials,

All these together lead the birth of the SHA series, inputting with expectation!

Purple Clay - the wonderful gift from God!

Purple clay is a kind of very special clay. It is exclusively produced in Jiangnan, a place in China.

It is said that very long time ago, one day there was a monk came to Jiangnan. He wandered around the town and shouted loudly. “Offering clay that can make one rich!” The villagers were so curious and followed the monk. They walked and walked and came to the end of the village. The monk was then suddenly disappeared and couldn’t be found anymore.

The villagers found some five-colors-clay at the place where the monk disappeared. After beating and burning of this special clay, it was so amazing that the villagers could shape them into different colors and very unique potteries.

They were indeed the purple clay potteries nowadays.

Purple clay mine was formed 3.5 hundred millions years ago, in the geological age of Paleozoic Devonian. In China, purple clay has been developed and used for more than one thousand year. Purple clay is different from other normal clay. It is the combination of symbiotic mineral raw materials including clay, quartz and mica which are in high quality, natural and active.

Purple clay is known as “Five-colors-clay”, with colors purple, white, yellow, black and green. The colors are bright, simple but tasteful.

The purple clay utensils are having a smooth bright surface carrying some small particles, making them a sandy effect. That’s why the purple clay is also named as Zisha clay (sha is meaning of sand in Chinese).

The purple clay utensils are smooth with natural glossiness, thus no glazing is needed. Nevertheless, after a long time usage, the texture of the surface will become more warm and moisturized like “Jade”.

Since purple clay cannot be mixed by water directly, for pottery making, the traditional methods of grouting or wheel forming are not appropriated to be used. It can only be fabricated by hand-made!  Such craftsmanship has been developed and accumulated by experience in China over thousand years. That’s why we can see today all these purple clay crafts are really the crafts of art, or wonderful workmanship excelling the nature.

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“Five Senses Treatment” - the tension defusing treatment (Part I)

Due to the rapid pace of life and excessive stress, many modern people lives under great pressure encountering problems of depression, fatigue, lazy, insomnia, headache, and losing attention.

Researches have shown that the "Five Senses Treatment" can deal with these symptoms with very good results.

Five sense treatments

Five sense treatments originate from the ancient eastern traditional theory of Yin and Yang.  Using the five-sense treatments that involve “sound”, “colour”, “smell” and so on make adjustments to the body and soul for keeping health.  As far as “sound” is concerned, the five notes of ancient Chinese music, “gong”, “shang”, “jiao”, “zhi” and “yu”, are used to regulate the human body’s mechanisms and to balance the emotions.  With reference to “colour”, the use of variations of the five colours of “green”, “red”, “yellow”, “white” and “black” can tune the psychological and physiological mechanisms of the human body.  When “smell” is involved into respiration, the inhalation of different fragrances will improve blood circulation to refresh our brain.

Upholding the ancient way of preserving health, Five sense treatments enable us to achieve heaven-man harmony and to maintain a healthy state by keeping balance of the body and soul.

Sense of Auditory - music treatment:

During listening to music, your mind & soul can be released to a relaxed state with all fatigue disappeared. Whenever you are in physical exhaustion, listening to a track of beautiful music can make you feel much better. Besides, music with fast rhythm can bring people to high spirit; music with happy pace disperses the depressed feelings; lively music makes appetite; lyric songs make people calm.

Puzhen Life put this idea into her aroma diffuser series. She collects the sounds of ancient musical instruments such as the seven-stringed zither, xun and chime, and sounds of nature such as those of flowing water and birds, & then integrating them into her aroma diffusers series. When one closes one’s eyes and listens to these sounds, one can hear the sounds of life. The inspiration of Puzhen Life’s Yun series was actually came from “xun” (ocarina made of baked clay), an ancient musical instrument of thick and penetrating sounds that can be visualized as a boundless desert or a meadow of densely grown grasses. Click here to listen to Puzhen Life’s music: http://www.puzhen.com/category/music-2681-d572/1

Sense of Olfaction - Aromatherapy:

      The natural fragrance from plants reaches your nervous system via your nose can comfort your mind and body. The inhalation of different fragrances enhances blood circulation to keep us sober and joyful. For example, the aroma of Osmanthus fragrans makes people relax; Lavender’s aroma actives people mind; Roses and lavender help people to sleep; Chrysanthemum has a certain effect on relieving headache, dizziness and blurred vision; Jasmine and Cloves makes people quiet and feeling comfortable.

Puzhen Life aroma diffusers adopt the efficient real time ultrasonic atomization technology to diffuse essential oil. The oil is atomized into minute ions and active oxide anions which are easier absorbed by human bodies than the emission from the conventional thermal diffusers is.

Sense of Vision - Color treatment:

Looking at a variety of colors can resulted in mental stimulation. The use of variations of the five colors of green, red, yellow, white and black can tune the psychological and phys mechanisms of the human body. Besides, warm colors (like orange, yellow, and pink) can make people feel warm, lively, and energetic. Cool colors (like black & white) make people peaceful and quiet. Blue color eliminates the tension, make one react faster. Intermediate colors more likely create gentle mood.

In the visionary clouds and fog in the Puzhen Life’s aroma diffuser, one can find the gentleness of blue, or the calmness of light purple, or the purity of white.

Next issue we will talk about the Sense of Touch – Massage treatment & Sense of Perception - Relaxation treatment.

Heavenly music from China



In China, a blowing musical instrument named YUN in the shape of egg had been very popular since Shang Dynasty, more than 3 thousands years ago. YUN is one of the oldest globular & flute-like Chinese instruments, which was made of clay or ceramic, similar to an ocarina but without a fipple mouthpiece. The thick and penetrating sound by YUN can be visualized as a boundless desert or a meadow of densely grown grasses.

It has a blowing hole on top and generally eight smaller finger holes (three each for the index, middle, and ring fingers of each hand, and one for each thumb). It is popular also because of its compact size, easy-to-carry, graceful sound and beautiful shape. The pitch is controlled by the different arrangement of the air windows, air chambers and holes on it.

Listening to the heavenly music, one can be relieved from the secular world, identifying the true self, and returning to the spiritual realm of purity…..

Nowadays, PUZHEN Life combines the cultural tradition of China with the ordinary life.

PUZHEN Life integrating the heavenly music of Xun and Qin, the sounds of classical chime, the treatment of fragrance, as well as the natural material, into her design of aroma diffuser products – The YUN series.

Concept of YUN



The form of YUN series is derived from the Chinese ocarina – YUN, an ancient musical instrument. YUN series collects the sound of ancient musical instruments such as the seven-stringed zither, xun and chime, and sounds of nature such as those of flowing water and birds. It upholds the ancient eastern theory of Yin and Yang and the five elements, which makes adjustment to body and soul in order for one to nurture oneself. YUN series upholds the ancient way of preserving health. It enables us to achieve heaven-man harmony and a healthy state of balance between body and soul.

Puzhen Life aims as inspiring the simplicity and purity of the body and mind, and promoting a harmonious and natural way of living in the hustle and bustle of modern life.