Riding the wind of rebirth

These are actually little tricks that are familiar to people who are involved in music, but they feel novel to outsiders. At least when they are enjoying the music, they don't feel that the two people are communicating through musical instruments during the singing process, and they think it is a natural tacit understanding.

“Of course, you still need to have basic knowledge of music theory.” Zhou Zhi smiled, “Otherwise, it will be troublesome if you don’t understand the hints. But it is definitely not as mysterious as everyone imagines. This is also the fun part of playing music.”

Soon there was a large fruit plate and a bottle of red wine on the table, saying that it was to thank Zhou Zhi for his wonderful performance. This made Zhou Zhi feel comfortable with Mars. This man did not come over in person to take advantage of the situation, and was quite conscious of not touching other people's boundaries.

When they came out of the bar, Mai Xiaomiao had a rattle in her hand, which was the one Zhou Zhi had just used for the performance. Mai Xiaomiao found it very interesting, so Zhang Silu asked for it for her.

"How about we take Xiao Miao to the China World Trade Center tonight?" Ikeda suggested, "Siluo and I are excellent fashion consultants."

"If you have time, then yes." Mai Xiaomiao didn't say anything, Zhou Zhi nodded first: "Xiao Miao, tomorrow I have to accompany Sister Wanqiu to visit the two old men, and they may ask me to stay overnight. How about you wait until you finish your lecture and let Chunjia take you over, and you two can go to the International Trade Center together?"

“Well then.” Mai Xiaomiao stuck out her tongue: “If the old man gives me another gift, I don’t know how to return it.”

“Hahaha…” Zhou Zhi laughed: “Don’t worry about how to pay it back. I can’t pay it back anyway.”

The next morning, Li Laoer and Li Laosan were dragged away to participate in negotiations. This time the negotiations were more business-oriented. Mai Xiaomiao continued to give lectures to the bosses. Zhou Zhi, on the other hand, had some free time, so he went to visit the two elders with Lin Wanqiu.

“Come on, come on,” Mr. Wang waved to Zhou Zhi and Lin Wanqiu when he saw them, “Tell me, what are these two?”

I saw Master Ma sitting opposite the Eight Immortals Table, while Master Wang was sitting on this side. On the table were two very exquisite pieces of porcelain, which were obviously Yongzheng official kiln alum red and gold-painted porcelains with the eight auspicious treasures in the pattern.

However, the shape of the thing is very special. The edges are slightly high and the middle is flat. The edges are too thick and too short to be called a plate. The shape is more like two capsules.

There were two of them. Zhou Zhi and Lin Wanqiu each picked one up to look at. Zhou Zhi gestured to Lin Wanqiu, who said, "This is a Yongzheng official kiln with alum red and gold enamel, and it also uses yellow, green and blue pastels. The auspicious eight treasures pattern is also a traditional theme used by the Qing court. As for the shape and function... I can't tell."

Ma Ye was amused: "Look, old man, I'm not the only one who can't tell what it is used for, right? Wanqiu has never seen this thing before."

Old Master Wang rolled his eyes at him and said, "Elbow, can you tell me?"

"This thing is called a lid." Zhou Zhi said, "The emperors of the Qing Dynasty often ate cheese. In order to keep the cheese warm, the porcelain containers used to hold the cheese often had lids. This porcelain container is used to put the lid on when eating cheese."

"If you are making tea, you need to place a small jade or porcelain object in the shape of a round or square column on the lid. When you place the lid, it looks like a person wearing an official hat. That small object also has a special name, called 'cover holder'. The two can be used together."

"Are these the two?" Master Ma took out two small round porcelain drums from his pocket. They were also painted in alum red with gold outlines. The porcelain drums were hollow, with a bottom on one side and no bottom on the other.

The two small round porcelain drums and two small plates can obviously be paired together. Ma Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I just think this thing is weird. It's a bird feeder, but the pattern is upside down and there's no jar tie. I thought it was a seal box without a lid, but I felt that the height of the round seal inside was not enough, and the seal proportions would be too ugly."

"So it turns out to be tea utensils!" Zhou Zhi placed two small porcelain drums in the center of the teacup, then took the lid of the purple clay teapot beside Master Ma and placed it on the small porcelain drums. The lid covered the top of the small porcelain drums, making it look like a little man wearing an official hat.

After filling the teapot with water, Zhou Zhi took back the lid and put it back on, then added tea to everyone and himself: "This is how it's used."

"The ancient emperors were really particular." Lin Wanqiu liked this tune very much and smiled happily.

When the tea ceremony became popular in later generations, all the big and small tea ceremony gadgets were dug out by merchants and hyped up. Gaicheng and Gaizhi were not new things, but now that people still use big cups to drink tea, and the more particular ones use purple clay teapots to play Guan Gong patrolling the city and Han Xin reviewing the troops, these two things are beyond the cognition of many people.

"So you're still not well-educated, right?" Old Master Wang raised his glass and said, "Logically, Elbow is still your junior. You don't know what he knows, and you still have the nerve to talk about it?"

"Grandpa, please stop trying to push me around and sow discord among us brothers." Ma Ye didn't care about the criticism at all. Instead, he was beaming with joy: "The buyer said it was a glue box, but it was missing a lid, so it could only be sold as a broken piece. I found that there was an eight-treasure pattern on the bottom, so it must not be a real bottom, so it definitely couldn't be a glue box. So I bought it as a broken piece, and I got a bargain!"

"Congratulations, Senior Brother," Zhou Zhi also smiled, "Now we have two complete pairs of alum red, green, blue and gold-painted official kiln wares. The price will go up again."

"You guys..." Old Master Wang asked Zhou Zhi, "Where's Xiao Miao? Didn't she come with you this time?"

"I'm here, but I'm detained in the Institute of Mathematics to explain the computing system designed by our group to the senior academicians. I can't come to visit you and Mr. Yuan."

"I heard from Wanqiu that you guys are not here to launch a satellite?"

"Satellite launches are a bit complicated. After discussing with experts and academicians, we found that the latest concept is much more advanced than our original idea, and the business contract needs to be re-drafted." Zhou Zhi patiently explained: "As for the computing power matrix, it is because many national projects actually require nonlinear calculations. Such calculations could only be simulated by linear calculations before, which was time-consuming and laborious, and the results were not satisfactory. Xiaomiao's research has filled the gap in this area in my country, no, even in the world."

"From the current application of the project, the experts of the Science and Technology Commission are very satisfied and have attracted their attention. Therefore, we asked Xiao Miao to give them a more systematic explanation."

"As for me, I won't hide it from you," Zhou Zhi said with a little pride, "I helped the Satellite Center develop a process quality control system, which also made a small contribution to the national aerospace science and technology. I will talk about it in a couple of days."

"Look at what you can do." The old man was actually very happy to see Zhou Zhi like this: "How is your master's thesis going? Can you graduate early?"

"It should be possible, right?" Zhou Zhi scratched his head and said, "I have been too busy recently and have not had time to inspect the final results."

"What's the name of your subject?"

"The big topic is the medieval sound system. However, it is a bit too big to do a master's thesis based on this, so Gu Lao split it into two parts. The first part is the basic preparatory work, which is done as a master's thesis. (End of this chapter)