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Bronzes, jades and Buddhas gathered over a lifetime; silver kettles and Jizhou cups made for the table.一生所集的青铜、玉石与佛像；为茶席而制的银壶与吉州盏。
“I often set an old object on the table while I drink — a Southern Song Longquan piece, a Song censer with incense lit, a little animal I cannot even date. Old things are not for cabinets. They are for using slowly, while the tea goes around.”
The collection was gathered across thirty years in temples, markets and friendships. Pieces are photographed as found. Some remain with the house; some may be acquired by enquiry, with their story.
「我经常会拿一些老的器物，一边喝茶，一边摆在面前——南宋的龙泉窑，点着香的宋代香炉，一只断不出年代的小动物。老器物不是用来锁在柜子里的，是用来在茶汤之间慢慢使用的。」
三十年间自寺院、市集与友人处所集。影像如实。有的留于家中，有的可来信相让，并附其来历。
Around 2010, still abbot of the temple, Ernan read Lu Yu’s Classic of Tea on silver vessels — “pure, though verging on luxury” — and asked a lay disciple in the silver trade to make him a kettle. The mountain’s spring water was acid; the silver softened it. He has boiled his water in silver ever since.
Years of looking for the right form ended in the Yangxin kettle, “to nourish life with tea, to nourish the heart with tea”: a lifted handle that stays cool, hammered silver, a shape settled over a winter of discussion. The cups are Jizhou ware, tortoiseshell glaze over dark clay, each one different. Both are made in small numbers for the house and may be acquired.
二〇一〇年前后，尚在寺院任住持时，二南读《茶经》论银器——「至洁，但涉于侈丽」——便请一位做银饰的俗家弟子打了一把银壶。山上泉水偏酸，银壶使之柔和。此后煮水，便一直用银。
多年寻一把心仪的壶形，终成「养心壶」：以茶养生，以茶养心。提梁不烫手，锤纹银身，形制经一冬商定。茶盏为吉州窑，深胎玳瑁釉，只只不同。皆为家中少量所制，可以相让。
