Chapter 580: Making drinking utensils that last a lifetime
Doesn’t Chen Wenzhe want to make that kind of cloisonné enamel cloud-dragon-patterned large-lidded jar? You must know that there are too many techniques involved. The firing of large vessels is not simple in the first place. In addition, the filigree enamel process also involves treasure-firing technology.
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He hasn't studied these thoroughly yet, so naturally he won't waste materials and fire them easily.
"By the way, how much money do we have in our account now?"
"It must be more than 10 million." Li Jinli knew Chen Wenzhe very well, and he laughed when he heard this question.
"Then fulfill your promise. I said I would donate 10 million, so I will donate 10 million. You can contact Teacher Huang from Huangjia Village to see how to connect. Anyway, we won't suffer any loss with the donation, it can be tax deductible!"
"You have to think clearly, after donating money, we don't have much liquidity anymore," Li Jinli said.
"How much is not much?" Chen Wenzhe said with a smile.
Li Jinli laughed and said: "If you don't count the pharmacy, there are probably more than a million."
Chen Wenzhe was stunned: "There are so many?"
"Yes, there are so many. Your one month's hard work is worth more than 10 million!"
For this, Li Jinli admired him so much. He really earned 10 million by relying on hard power.
This month, he sold more than ten teapots every day, and sold more than 200 teapots in total. The average price per teapot was 56,000, which is 11.2 million.
In addition to the seven or eight hundred thousand originally on their account, even if they donate ten million now, they still have one or two million on their account.
This does not include the income from the drug store, which has also been working hard to make money for Chen Wenzhe in the past month.
Not to mention the money earned from medical treatment, just selling medicines, the sales revenue there has reached more than one million, an average of more than 30,000 a day.
This is because the Angong Niuhuang Pills were given away and not actually put on sale. Otherwise, the sales would have been even higher.
You should know that the price of ordinary Angong Niuhuang Pills is 860 yuan per pill. Even if 10,000 pills are sold in a month, the sales volume is 8.6 million yuan.
And selling 10,000 pills a month, is that much?
Looking at the current situation, I am afraid that 10,000 pills are being released every month, and ordinary people may have to grab them if they want to buy them.
In the past month, with the continuous delivery of Angong Niuhuang Pills, the impact has become more and more serious.
However, this impact was only limited to the community where Angong Niuhuang Pills were distributed, and did not spread to a large area. In other words, this drug trial did not go out of the circle.
I don’t know if it was blocked intentionally or if the patients blocked the news voluntarily.
Anyway, it is very strange. As soon as I think about Tang An Gong, it slowly spreads outward around the community where it is located.
The scope of this kind of diffusion is not large, but among a fixed group of people, the speed of diffusion is not slow.
Therefore, no one reported or publicized it, and it just circulated in Dahai City in obscurity.
This situation is obviously what Chen Wenzhe, or many others, want.
In this way, several parties reached a tacit understanding and slowly allowed Yi Niantang's Angong Niuhuang Pills to be circulated in some communities in Dahai City.
Although this trial of medicine is not too professional, judging from some of the data collected so far, regardless of the onset of illness or not, as long as you feel that your body is not well and there is a slight sign, the effect of taking one pill is still good.
At least the feedback from various elderly people after taking the medicine is good.
This is already very good, and so far, only more than 8,000 of the 10,000 pills have been given out, and there are still more than 1,000 that have not been given out. These pills may be able to earn back the cost of the medicinal materials.
Previously, according to Chen Wenzhe's wish, all these 10,000 pills were delivered within a month.
Unexpectedly, although the area where the news spread increased a lot, the number of people taking the medicine was not as high as expected.
Now that the one-month period has expired, I'm afraid Li Tianqiang should start officially selling Angong Niuhuang Pills.
Of course, a month has passed, and the Guilingji wine made by Chen Wenzhe before should be drinkable.
All this needs to be confirmed again by Chen Wenzhe after going to Yi Niantang Pharmacy.
Now Chen Wenzhe doesn't have the time to do those things.
He said that making wine vessels is really not just a whim. You know, this is a big category.
If he wanted to make it, he would certainly not just make one or two pieces, nor ten or eight pieces. If he wanted to, he could even make them for the rest of his life.
Wine utensils, or wine vessels, are so awesome!
China's wine culture has a long history. Relevant data show that as early as the Neolithic Age, pottery similar to later wine sets had appeared, and the development of wine sets also goes back a long way.
In ancient times, wine was unfiltered mash (láo).
This kind of sake mash is still very popular today. It is in a paste and semi-liquid form and is mostly eaten.
Therefore, the drinking utensils used should be ordinary tableware, such as bowls, bowls and other large-mouthed utensils.
The materials for making wine vessels in ancient times were mainly pottery, hornware, bamboo and wood products, etc.
In the late Neolithic period, especially represented by the Longshan Culture period, the types of wine vessels and wine glasses increased, their uses were clear, and they were very similar to the wine vessels of later generations.
In the Shang Dynasty, due to the development of the brewing industry and the improvement of bronze ware production technology, China's wine vessels reached unprecedented prosperity.
A wine utensil is a container used to hold wine and prepare it for drinking.
There are many types, mainly including: Zun, Hu, District, Zun, Pan, Jian, Dendrobium (hu), Gong (gong), Weng, Gou (bu), Yi, etc.
It can be said that all drinking utensils of later generations are inseparable from these types of utensils.
Since then, wine vessels have been produced in many styles, including ordinary ones and animal-shaped ones.
Taking statues as an example, there are elephant statues, rhinoceros statues, ox statues, sheep statues, tiger statues, etc.
The main types of drinking vessels include: gu (gu), 觯 (zhi), horn, jue, cup, and boat.
People of different status use different drinking utensils. For example, the "Book of Rites: Ritual Utensils" clearly stipulates: "For sacrifices in the ancestral temple, the venerable ones raise their gourds, and the humble ones raise their horns."
Zhou Dynasty wine vessels basically followed the style of Shang Dynasty.
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, lacquer drinking utensils became popular in southern China.
Lacquerware became the main type during the Han, Wei and Jin dynasties.
Its shape basically inherits the shape of bronze wine vessels, including wine-holding utensils and drinking utensils.
Among drinking utensils, lacquer ear cups are common.
Tables appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and some drinking utensils suitable for use on the tables also appeared.
For example, Zhuzi was called "Pianti" in the Tang Dynasty. Its shape is like today's wine pot, with a beak and a handle. It can hold wine and pour wine into a wine glass, thus replacing the previous bottles and spoons.
The Song Dynasty was the peak period of ceramic production, and there were many exquisite wine vessels.
People in the Song Dynasty liked to drink rice wine after warming it, so they invented the matching combination of Zhuzi and Zhuwan.
When using it, place the pouring container containing wine in a pouring bowl, and pour hot water into the pouring bowl to warm the wine.
Porcelain wine vessels are still in use today.
Among the porcelain wine vessels of the Ming Dynasty, blue and white, doucai and sacrificial red wine vessels are the most distinctive.