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.