THE PROFESSORS OF UNIVERSITIES ARE THE LAST BASTION OF HOPE TO SAVE OLD ZISHA HUS AND GONG FU TEA…………………………

A Word of Caution:

Tony Ren’s style of writing or narrative are mostly based on hard truths or true facts that came out from lots and lots of graves and tombs. Being from London, Tony Ren is occasionally playful in his writings to make them more exciting and less boring and yet at the same time intellectually austere and truthful which underpinned his strength. Tony Ren’s writing style combines traditional Chinese and a British sense of satire, irreverence and subversion similar to the Americans but all mellowed down to suit world taste. Finally, to avoid censorship in China online platforms, we do not use the name of the President of China but we just use the general phrase ‘President of China’. And for your information, you online followers of our postings are a very fortunate lot because we give you first-hand knowledge of what are contained in Ren Fu Collection’s huge archaeological trove even before the professors or PHD researchers of universities do. However a lot of classified archaeological information will only be disclosed to university professors and PHD researchers but will not be disclosed to the public. Some people told us that learning from Ren Fu Collection is like taking an advance course in the subject of Old Zisha Hus and some said that Ren Fu Collection’s huge archaeological trove made a lot of books on Old Zisha Hus and even Gong Fu Tea in the market obsolete because they contained many wrong information or worse fake facts.

道歉：

3周内不会发帖，因为任汤尼正在为一位大富豪准备私人展览，他想看看任富收藏的最后一批道光以前的工夫茶具精品。 出于隐私原因，我们只能说这位客人是马来西亚著名的亿万富翁。

注意事项：

任汤尼的写作风格或叙事风格主要基于从大量坟墓中得出的严酷事实或真实事实。 来自伦敦的任汤尼偶尔会在他的作品中加入一些俏皮的元素，使它们更精彩，更不乏味，同时在思想上朴素和真实，这也是他力量的基础。 任汤尼的写作风格结合了中国传统和英国式的讽刺、不敬和颠覆感，与美国人相似，但都变得柔和以适应世界口味。 最后，为了避免在中国在线平台上的审查，我们不使用中国主席的名字，而是使用笼统的短语“中国国家主席”。 请注意，我们帖子的在线关注者非常幸运，因为我们甚至比大学的教授或博士研究人员更早地为您提供关于任富收藏的巨大考古宝藏中所含内容的第一手知识。 但很多考古机密资料只会对大学教授和博士研究人员公开，不会对外公开。 有人告诉我们，学习任富收藏就像进了紫砂壶的进阶班，也有人说任富藏品庞大的考古宝库让市面上出现了很多关于紫砂壶甚至功夫茶的书籍。 过时是因为它们包含许多错误信息或更糟糕的虚假事实。

THE PROFESSORS OF UNIVERSITIES ARE THE LAST BASTION OF HOPE TO SAVE OLD ZISHA HUS AND GONG FU TEA……………………………

How can you study and research Old Zisha Hus when there are so many, many Fake Zisha Hus and how can you study and research Gong Fu Tea when different chajins are practicing their own conflicting version of Gong Fu Teas? Take one example: how do you study and research Chen Ming Yuan or his works when there are hundreds of Fake Chen Ming Yuan Zisha Pots around especially in auctions, big collections, books and even museums? Or how do you study or learn about Old Zisha Hus or Old Master Potters works when there are so many “Conversion Books” written by unscrupulous, fraudulent scholars?( Conversion Books are books containing Fake Zisha Pots mixed with Old Pots and written by fraudulent scholars to convert the Fake Pots into genuine Old Pots)

We all know Tony Ren have written about the three waves of forgeries: the first wave of forgeries was in Mingguo when a few unscrupulous Shanghai dealers got some contemporary Master Potters to make copies of Old Master Potters’ works and marketed them as genuine Old Masters Potters’.The second wave of forgeries was when droves of Taiwanese fraudsters descended on Yixing in the 1980s to make Fake Zisha Hus for sale as genuine Old Zisha Pots. The third and most devastating wave, which is still happening now and which we have written a lot about, is the most frightful, the most out of control and the most destructive which is threatening the very existence of Old Zisha Hus in which some experts say the market is now 99% Fake Zisha Pots. The very fact that all auctions in mainland China now have Fake Zisha Pots or many famous Zisha Hu historians cannot differentiate between what is and what is not a Fake Zisha Pot or the fact that organized fraudsters have infiltrated museums, auction houses, learning institutions online or brick and mortars, indicated a very frightening catastrophic future. And that is not to mention the chaotic professors and scholars with their conflicting theories like for example the well-known Taiwanese scholar Huang Qian Liang claiming Hui Meng Chen was Early Qing and the Hong Kong’s world famous Professor Lai Suk Yee claiming Hui Meng Chen was definitely Late Ming.( when Tony Ren last spoke to her, Professor Lai was still adamant that Hui Meng Chen was Late Ming)

And we will tell you what the rest of the world especially the West, think when the Chinese claim they have created a great tea art called Gong Fu Tea in Early Kangxi or the Chinese claim they have invented a very super superior teapot called Yixing teapot in Late Ming: they, the West, do not believe the Chinese-why?

Because nobody will believe in the greatness of Yixing teapot when all they get or hear nowadays are Fake Yixing teapots everywhere or nobody will believe in the greatness of Gong Fu Tea when different chajins practice conflicting Gong Fu Teas not to mention some unscrupulous chajins using fake Yixing teapots which are toxic and producing bad inferior tea.The situation is so bad and alarming that the West just ignores or ridiculed or even lampooned the Chinese claims as exaggerated and wishful thinking without merit and so do not deserve any attention as witnessed in the research findings of Professor Jean DeBernardi of Alberta University, Canada recently in which she refuted and rubbished China’s claim that Gong Fu Tea ever existed in history let alone the greatest tea art in the world. In fact it’s not only that Professor but a lot of Western art historians who do not believe in the Chinese claims.Yes, we Chinese have brought it upon ourselves due to the greed and ill-intentions of our own bad Chinese forgers and organized fraudsters who churned out lots and lots of Fake Zisha Pots in the market and in the process threatening the very existence of Old Zisha Hus and also Gong Fu Tea.Therefore the good Chinese among us have to do something to save Old Zisha Hus and Gong Fu Tea or else these Old Potters or Gong Fu Tea creators will turn in their graves over what the bad Chinese have done and are still doing to their precious creations.

But Tony Ren or Ren Fu Collection alone is not enough to fight all those thousands of fraudsters selling Fake Pots and forgers creating Fake Pots.

Which means, short of going to the President of China for help, we need the help from the most uncorrupted, most untainted most academic of places: the university professors and PHD researchers which is the last bastion of hope to save Old Zisha Hus and Gong Fu Tea.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the world, as you know Ren Fu Collection has a huge archaeological trove of tea leaves, teapots and tea wares and the time has come to choose a few good, honest and uncorrupted professors in universities around the world to help us save Old Zisha Hus and Gong Fu Tea and we will give them the most powerful weapon to fight these Fake Zisha Hus and Fake Gong Fu Tea chajins.

Today we are very happy to discuss a Professor among others to be mentioned later, whom we think has great integrity and great investigative and research skills. Why does he have great investigative and research skills? Simple: we have spoken to a lot of professors but this one Professor stands out like a beacon in the huge ocean of professors. Because from the moment we read his mind and saw his works, we immediately know he is the one to help save Gong Fu Tea. We were watching him for a while and saw what he wrote and he wrote about Gong Fu Tea as if he was there in the Transition Period(1620-1683) studying and researching Gong Fu Tea or jokingly the amazing Professor must have X-Ray eyes to penetrate and access our huge archaeological trove of Gong Fu tea wares without us knowing it. In fact, truth be told, no professors have come this close to finding Gong Fu Tea( and in an indirect way to finding the most elusive Old Master Potter Hui Meng Chen and his legendary Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot). Yes, the Professor was ‘that close’ to finding Gong Fu Tea and we know it because we happened to have the world’s largest archaeological trove of Pre-Daoguang Gong Fu tea wares.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the world, we give you Professor Yan Li-Ren, formerly of Xiamen University, and Ladies and Gentlemen, we share with you too the Professor’s startling mental dexterity and his masterful articulation of his theory of Gong Fu Tea. Here are the Professor’s profound use of allegory or metaphors, which sums up, for all intent and purposes, what Gong Fu Tea was about.

The professor’s first allegory: Gong Fu Tea was like a baby born without a name and later had a name which became very famous.

And the professor’s second allegory: more than 400 years ago, Zisha teapot and oolong tea met unexpectedly in Southern Fujian, and they went hand in hand, giving birth to Gong Fu Tea.

But it will have to take more than allegorical brilliance for the Professor, however amazing or exceptional he is, to convince the rest of the world especially the West, who are suspicious and skeptical of Chinese claims, that he has found Gong Fu Tea.

Well, no problems!, Ren Fu Collection has the largest archaeological trove of Pre-Daoguang Gong Fu tea wares and we will help Professor Yan Li-Ren.

(As an aside we think the Professor’s two allegorical depictions of Gong Fu Tea should be one of the best Chinese tea culture research findings catch phrases of the 21st century and Ren Fu Collection’s archaeological trove should be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 21st century)

Notwithstanding Professor Yan Li-Ren’s contributions, the other aim of Ren Fu Collection is to involve as many professors and PHD researchers of universities around the world as possible in order to break the monopoly of, if not put pressure to bear on undesirable elements linked to organized frauds who have infiltrated auction houses and even museums, some of whom are prolific scholars who wrote a lot of “conversion books” to convert the Fake Zisha Pots in their books to genuine ‘Old Zisha Pots’ so that the Fake Zisha Pots can be sold in all auction houses as genuine ‘Old Zisha Pots’ and importantly too, to stop the influence of corrupted, fraudulent scholars in mainstream educational discourse on Old Zisha Hus. In other words, when more and more professors and PHD researchers learn from our huge collection of exact-dated Pots, they will acquire the knowledge of being able to differentiate between old Pots and Fake Pots just like one Taiwanese old-hand used to say, “It is very easy to learn with Ren Zhuni Collection’s huge archaeological trove: any Pot in the market that is different from Ren Fu Collection’s Pots must be a fake”.

大学教授是拯救老紫砂壶和工夫茶的最后希望堡垒………………………………

假的老紫砂那么多，你怎么去研究老紫砂壶？不同的茶人练的功夫茶，你怎么去研究？ 举个例子：在拍卖会、大藏品、书籍甚至博物馆里，假冒陈鸣远紫砂壶成百上千，你如何学习和研究陈鸣远或他的作品？ 或者当有那么多由不道德的、欺诈的学者写的“转换书”时，你如何研究或了解老紫砂壶或老陶艺家的作品？（转换书是包含假老紫砂壶和老壶的书籍，由欺诈性学者编写， 将假老紫砂壶变成真正的老紫砂壶）。

我们都知道任汤尼写过三波赝品：

第一波赝品是在民国，当时一些不法的上海商贩找来当代陶艺大师仿制古典陶艺家的作品，并冒充古典陶艺家的真品进行销售；

第二波造假浪潮是80年代，大批台湾骗子涌入宜兴，将假老紫砂壶冒充真品老紫砂壶出售；

第三次也是最具破坏性的浪潮，现在仍在发生，我们已经写了很多，是最可怕、最失控和最具破坏性的，威胁着老紫砂壶的生存，一些专家说现在市场上99%是假老紫砂壶。 现在中国大陆所有拍卖会都有假紫砂壶，或者很多紫砂壶历史学家都分不清真假紫砂壶，或者有组织的骗子已经渗透到博物馆、拍卖行、在线学习机构或实体建筑，预示着一个非常可怕的灾难性未来。 更何况教授学者乱七八糟，理论自相矛盾，如台湾著名学者黄健亮称惠孟臣猜测为清初人，香港世界名人赖淑仪教授猜测称惠孟臣绝对为清初或晚明（任汤尼最后一次跟她说话的时候，赖教授还坚持认为惠孟臣就是晚明）。

我们将告诉你，当中国人宣称他们在康熙初年创造了一种伟大的茶艺——功夫茶，或者中国人声称他们在明末发明了一种非常高级的茶壶——宜兴茶壶时，世界其他地区，尤其是西方国家，会怎么想：在他们西方国家，不相信中国人为什么？

因为没有人会相信宜兴茶壶的伟大，当他们现在所得到或听到的都是假冒的宜兴茶壶时，或者当不同的茶人练习冲突的功夫茶时，没有人会认为功夫茶的伟大，更不用说一些肆无忌惮的茶人使用有毒的假冒宜兴茶壶，生产劣质的劣质茶西方只是无视、嘲笑甚至讽刺中国的说法，认为中国的说法是夸大其词、一厢情愿，毫无道理，因此不值得任何关注，阿尔伯塔大学的让·德贝尔纳迪教授的研究结果证明了这一点，加拿大最近反驳并驳斥了中国关于功夫茶在历史上曾经存在的说法，更不用说是世界上最伟大的茶艺了。事实上，不仅是这位教授，还有很多西方艺术史学家都不相信中国的说法，我们中国人是因为自己的不良中国伪造者和有组织的欺诈者的贪婪和恶意，他们在市场上制造了大量的假紫砂壶，并在这个过程中威胁到了老紫砂壶和功夫茶的存在。因此，我们中的好中国人必须采取措施来挽救老紫砂壶和功夫茶，否则老陶艺家或功夫茶创作者们将为中国人对他们宝贵的作品仍然在做冤屈和亢奋的事情。

但仅凭借任富收藏的力量还不足以打击成千上万的销售假壶的骗子和制造假壶的伪造者。

这意味着，除了向中国国家主席寻求帮助，我们还需要最廉洁、最纯洁、最学术的地方的帮助：大学教授和博士研究人员，这是拯救紫砂壶和功夫茶的最后希望堡垒。

世界上的女士们、先生们，正如你们所知，任富收藏有大量的茶叶、茶壶和茶具，现在是时候在世界各地的大学里挑选一些优秀、诚实、廉洁的教授来帮助我们拯救老紫砂壶和功夫茶了，我们将为他们提供最有力的武器来打击这些假紫砂壶、假功夫茶茶。

今天，我们非常高兴地讨论一位教授以及其他将在后面提到的教授，我们认为这位教授非常正直，具有出色的调查和研究技能。为什么他有出色的调查和研究技能？很简单：我们已经和很多教授谈过了，但这位教授在教授的汪洋中脱颖而出。因为从我们读到他的思想和看到他的作品的那一刻起，我们就立刻知道他是帮助拯救功夫茶的人。我们观察了他一段时间，看到了他写的东西，他写了关于工夫茶的东西，就像他在过渡时期（1620-1683）在那里学习和研究工夫茶，或者开玩笑地说，这位了不起的教授必须有X光眼睛，才能在我们不知情的情况下穿透和访问我们庞大的工夫茶考古宝藏，没有一位教授能找到功夫茶（并间接找到最难以捉摸的老波特大师惠孟臣和他的传奇小孟臣朱泥壶）。是的，这位教授“非常接近”找到功夫茶，我们知道这一点，因为我们恰好拥有世界上最大的道光前工夫茶文物考古宝库。

全世界的女士们、先生们，我们给你们介绍前厦门大学的严利人教授，女士们、先生们我们也和你们分享这位教授惊人的思维敏捷，以及他对功夫茶理论的娴熟表达。以下是教授对寓言或隐喻的深刻运用，从所有意图和目的上总结了功夫茶的意义。

教授的第一个寓言：工夫茶就像一个出生时没有名字的婴儿，后来有了一个非常有名的名字。

还有这位教授的第二个寓言：400多年前，紫砂茶壶和乌龙茶在闽南意外相遇，他们携手并进，诞生了功夫茶。

但是，这位教授要想说服世界其他国家，尤其是对中国的说法持怀疑和怀疑态度的西方国家，相信他找到了功夫茶，需要的不仅仅是寓言般的精彩，无论他是多么惊人或非凡。

好吧，没问题！“任富收藏”拥有道光前功夫茶具的最大考古宝藏，我们将帮助严利人教授。

（顺便说一句，我们认为教授对工夫茶的两个寓言描述应该是21世纪最好的中国茶文化研究流行语之一，而任富收藏的考古宝藏应该是21世纪最重要的考古发现之一世纪）。

尽管颜利人教授做出了贡献，但任富收藏的另一个目标是让世界各地大学的教授和博士研究人员尽可能多地参与进来，以打破垄断，如果不打击与不良分子相关的不良分子施加压力的话， 有组织的骗子潜入拍卖行甚至博物馆，其中一些是多产的学者，他们写了大量的“转换书”，将他们书中的假紫砂壶转换为真正的“老紫砂壶”，以便假紫砂壶可以被出售。 在所有拍卖行中作为真正的“老紫砂壶”出售，重要的是，为了阻止腐败、欺诈的学者在主流教育话语中对老紫砂壶的影响。 换句话说，当越来越多的教授和博士研究人员从我们收集的大量准确年代的老壶中学习时，他们将获得能够区分老紫砂壶和假老紫砂壶的知识，就像一位台湾老手曾经说过的那样： “从任富收藏的庞大考古宝库中可以很容易地了解到：市场上任何与任富收藏的老紫砂壶不同的老壶都是假的”。

SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA ???………………………………………………………..

Western Arts historians, even tea culture historians, have acknowledged the height of European Chinoiserie craze was during Emperor Qian Long’s reign and in China, according to Ren Fu Collection’s huge archaeological trove, Emperor Qian Long’s reign also saw the height of Zhuni Hus and Gong Fu Tea, otherwise called the Golden Age of Zisha Hus and the Golden Age of Gong Fu Tea respectively, where the Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot was at the center.

China under the scholarly Emperor Qian Long witnessed the height of Gong Fu Tea as evident in Ren Fu Collection’s huge archaeological trove of fine, exquisite Qian Long period Gong Fu tea wares; and the height of Zhuni Hus, a Golden Age made possible by the invention of the small Zhuni Pot by Hui Meng Chen in Shunzhi, as evident in the ubiquitous fine and exquisite Qian Long period excavated Zhuni Pots, most of which were Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pots. Some experts who have seen Ren Fu Collection’s huge archaeological trove of Meng Chen Zhuni Pots say Hui Meng Chen possibly discovered the practical use of Zhuni clays and the advantage of using the small Zhuni Pot in Shunzhi or even late Chongzhen). And Hui Meng Chen’s invention of the legendary Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pots did not go unnoticed because a lot of unearthed and archaeologically excavated Zhuni Pots indicated a posthumous recognition of Hui Meng Chen’s invention of the small Zhuni Pot. Firm and clear archaeological proofs in Ren Fu Collection’s many excavated small Qian Long 8th Year reign-mark Meng Chen Zhuni Pots and even a 13rd Year Qian Long reign-mark Meng Chen Zhuni Pot found in the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong testify to the truth of our claim. Besides these Emperor Qian Long reign-mark Zhuni Pots are never seen in any other Old Potters Zisha Hus, be they Old Potters, Old Famous Potter’s or Old Master Potters’- except only in the Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pots( and not even the great Shi Da Bin or Chen Ming Yuan Zisha Pots have Emperor’s reign-mark), and what is interesting about these Qian Long 8th Year reign-mark Meng Chen Zhuni Pots was the fact that they were all excavated from the tombs or graves of GuangRen or their wives. Yes, in Emperor Qian Long’s reign, there appears to be a colossal and awesome trend which took place in Zisha Hu collecting and Gong Fu Tea drinking where the shape, size and form of teapots were dictated or if not, at least influenced by the Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot that Hui Meng Chen invented in Shunzhi.( as proven by the fact that almost all of our excavated Qian Long period cultural relics were Gong Fu tea wares with a small or downsized Zhuni Pot and 80% of the excavated Gong Fu tea wares have a Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot). And of course we know now, thanks to Ren Fu Collection’s huge archaeological trove, the invention of the Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot sparked off a domino-effect of tea wares downsizing especially tea wares pertaining to Gong Fu Tea whereby big teapot, like the characteristic Late Ming Zisha Pots, were made small using Zhuni clays and big chawan became small teacups( even big Gaiwan(big lidded tea bowls) became small Gaiwan( small lidded tea bowls); and including the addition of a small dish(tea boat), small water boiler(kettle) and small burner(stove) which were collectively called Gong Fu tea wares comprising five tea utensils.

But sadly Gong Fu Tea disappeared from the radar screen of history as suddenly and as quietly as it appeared in Early Kangxi leaving only ‘shadows’ of its greatness in everyday Chinese tea drinking life. Despite attempts to find Gong Fu Tea or the legendary Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot or the most elusive Old Master Potter Hui Meng Chen, their identities are still shrouded in great mystery until today prior to Ren Fu Collection’s archaeological discoveries: why?

One reason was the Transition Period(1620-1683), which started after the death of Ming Emperor Wanli and ended when Qing Emperor Kangxi recaptured Taiwan- a period where Jingdezhen was officially closed for business(including other famous kilns) and even when there were clandestine ceramic/porcelain production, nothing was written about or documented making any study and research impossible. The second reason was the catastrophic NanMing wars(1644-1683) where not only there was civil wars and famous kilns were officially closed for business but there was an exodus of mainland Chinese notably the Fujians and Guangdong people to Nanyang to escape the wars.The third but lesser reason was the Opium wars.which, even though they were not the direct cause, did put the final nails on the coffin of Gong Fu Tea history and making any study and research difficult because of foreign invasions and opium addiction was everywhere in China. However despite all that, there were several attempts made in the recent and early past to try to discover Gong Fu Tea, the legendary Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot and the most elusive Old Master Potter Hui Meng Chen which together we called “ The Mysterious Trinity”.

The first was a seemingly lukewarm attempt to find Gong Fu Tea and the Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot which is found in the “Min Suo Yi” written by Peng Guang Dou in 1766( Qian Long 31st Year reign), an ex-magistrate of Tong’an, Fujian and in it the author described seeing old men drinking Wuyi tea in small teapots everywhere in Longxi( present day Zhangzhou and the first mention of Laorencha or old man’s tea). Later in his datum- Famous Pottery of YangXian”- the author Wu Qian(1733-1813) said, “ I have studied Meng Chen and I have got a teapot with ‘Made by Meng Chen’ and several other Chinese characters on its bottom but I have no idea of Hui Meng Chen’s living age”. Then 30 years after Peng Guang Dou’s “Min Suo Yi” a challenge to Fujian’s original Gong Fu Tea invention was made by Yu Jiao in his book, “ A Miscellaneous of Chaoshan” in which he described the best way to make Congou tea was to obey Lu Yu’s tea ceremony but with more exquisite tea set.( a first clue that Gong Fu Tea was a tea ceremony too besides tea art and Cha Dao). Li Fang of the Qing Dynasty, who wrote a book called “ YangXian Potters” and in it was described during his childhood he was given a teapot with a Made by Meng Chen of Wenxing shop Chinese characters on the bottom and nothing else to suggest who was Hui Meng Chen except that it was a copy. Next comes the Japanese Ao Lantian who studied Yixing pottery in China who could only write in his book which was completed in 1878, “ Collections of Teapot Pictures-Origination”: It’s hard to trace the living time of Hui Meng Chen”. Or the near past where the Taiwanese historian Lian Heng(1878-1936) glorified the Meng Chen pot by saying Gong Fu Tea must have a Meng Chen Pot and Meng Chen Pot was the most highly priced. In 1934, Li Jing Kang and Zhang Hong compiled the “ A Pictorial Study of YangXian Pottery Teapots” which in it they described everything they know (or guessed) about Hui Meng Chen and his small Zhuni Pots but still did not know anything about Hui Meng Chen and his small Zhuni Pots. The list goes on and of course the contemporary Taiwanese scholar Huang Qian Liang tried his luck to find Hui Meng Chen and concluded Hui Meng Vhen must be Early Qing and the famous Professor Lai Suk Yee of Hong Kong and Teresa Tse Bartholomew of the US reasoned Hui Meng Chen must be Late Ming by the fact that there is a Hui Meng Chen Tianqi 7th year reign Zisha Pot in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Fortunately the mainland Chinese Professor Yan Li-Ren has it quite right when he claims Gong Fu Tea originated in Zhangzhou, Fujian which is where our huge archaeological trove proved Gong Fu Tea came from but if the Professor wants to know why and how Gong Fu Tea was born, and what was the original Early Qing Gong Fu Tea, he has only to search through and analyze Ren Fu Collection’s huge archaeological trove.

The search for Gong Fu Tea continues notwithstanding Professor Yan LiRen’ wonderful research works, and you will never, in a million years, guess the next high profile gentleman we will include in the list of highly acclaimed people who were or are searching for the Holy Grail of Chinese tea culture, namely the Gong Fu Tea so be ready for the surprise or even shock with what we are going to say next?

Ladies and Gentlemen of the world we give you the most sensational and highest profile of Gong Fu Tea seeker or hunter whichever you might prefer,: the President of China, His Excellency himself!( to avoid censorship we do not use the name of the President). Yes, yes the great present President of China.

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, roughly 287 years after the scholarly Emperor Qian Long otherwise called the Ruler of China, who must have loved Gong Fu Tea, glorified Hui Meng Chen and bestowing posthumous recognition upon Hui Meng Chen’s revolutionary work , the legendary Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot, as our many excavated Qian Long 8th Year reign-mark Meng Chen Zhuni Pots can attest to; there is now another Ruler of China who also loves Gong Fu Tea and wants the Chinese nation to search and find Gong Fu Tea and put it in UNESCO’s List of Intangible World Cultural Heritage which will help China’s peaceful rise to greatness. His Excellency was the ex-Governor of Fujian for 17 and a half years and during His Excellency’s tenure in Fujian, he always loved drinking Gong Fu Tea and still does now especially, we were told, when His Excellency is entertaining visiting Heads of State.(even we were told His Excellency’s only daughter makes Gong Fu Tea for her father to show filial piety).

This present President of China is very concern with the lost of Gong Fu Tea in history, the greatest of China’s soft power, that His Excellency wants to bring back the great glory days of China’s greatest tea culture the world have ever seen in the Early Qing period especially in Emperor Qian Long’s reign. And like the great Emperor Qian Long, His Excellency wants to restore Gong Fu Tea to its rightful place. And we, the world, must thank Heaven, that we have a great Chinese President now who wants to restore and bring back the greatest renaissance in tea culture history not only to China but to the whole world……which begs the next great question!

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen of the world, it now begs this audacious question:

SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA ABOUT REN FU COLLECTION’S ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY OF GONG FU TEA?

Stay tuned to our stories for new developments and the latest news!

On behalf of Ren Fu Collection we wish every Chinese in the world especially Professor Yan Li-Ren “ A Most Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year”.

P/s..Some experts say it is very difficult to find just one archaeological Holy Grail let alone three archaeological Holy Grails but Ren Fu Collection’s great feat of finding Gong Fu Tea, the legendary Small Meng Chen Zhuni Pot and the most elusive Old Master Potter Hui Meng Chen will be remembered as one of the all-time greatest archaeological discoveries of the 21st century. And a few experts said that a book, a documentary and a movie should be done about the three great archaeological discoveries. By the way, they have done a movie about Gu Zing Zhou but Hui Meng Chen after this archaeological discoveries will be classified as a giant of all Potters-whether old or contemporary.

我们应该告诉中国主席吗？…………………

西方艺术史家，甚至茶文化史家，都承认乾隆年间是欧洲中国工艺品热潮的顶峰，而在中国，根据任富收藏的庞大考古资料，乾隆年间也见证了朱泥壶和工夫的鼎盛时期，又名紫砂壶黄金时代和工夫茶黄金时代，以小孟臣朱泥壶为中心。

中国在博学的乾隆皇帝统治下见证了工夫茶的鼎盛时期，这一点在任富收藏的庞大考古宝库中可见一斑，其中包括精美绝伦的乾隆时期工夫茶具； 以及朱泥壶的高度，一个黄金时代因清初顺治时期惠孟臣发明的小朱泥壶而成为可能，从无处不在的精致精美的乾隆时期出土的朱泥壶中可见一斑，其中大部分是小孟臣朱泥壶。 有看过任富收藏孟臣朱泥壶考古宝藏的专家认为，惠孟臣可能在清初顺治时期乃至明朝崇祯晚期发现了朱泥的实际用途和使用小型朱泥壶的优势。 而惠孟臣发明小朱泥壶的传说也并没有被忽视，因为大量出土和考古出土的朱泥壶表明了惠孟臣发明小朱泥壶的死后认可。 以任富收藏出土的多件乾隆八年款孟臣朱泥小壶，以及香港中文大学文物馆出土的一件乾隆十三年款孟臣竹泥壶为证，考古证据确凿。 到我们的要求的真相。 除了这些乾隆皇帝年款朱泥壶外，其他任何老陶紫砂壶都从未见过，无论是老陶器、老名陶还是老陶匠——只有小孟臣朱泥壶才有。（甚至连史大彬或陈鸣远紫砂壶都没有皇帝年号），而这些乾隆八年年号孟臣朱泥壶的有趣之处在于，它们都是出自达官贵人或他们妻子的坟墓中。 是的，在乾隆皇帝统治时期，紫砂壶的收藏和工夫茶似乎出现了一种巨大而令人敬畏的趋势，茶壶的形状、大小和形式是有规定的，即使没有，至少也受到了清初顺治时期惠孟臣发明的孟臣小朱泥壶。 器具有小孟臣朱泥壶）。 当然，现在我们知道，得益于任富收藏的庞大考古宝藏，小孟臣朱泥壶的发明引发了茶具小型化的多米诺骨牌效应，特别是工夫茶的茶具，大茶壶，如特色的晚明紫砂壶，用朱泥做小，大茶碗变成小茶碗（甚至大盖碗（大盖茶碗）变成小盖碗（小盖茶碗）；包括加了一个小盘子（茶船）， 小开水器（水壶）和小炉子（灶），统称为工夫茶具，由五种茶具组成。

但遗憾的是，功夫茶从历史的雷达屏幕上消失了，就像它在清康熙初期出现时一样突然而悄无声息，只留下了它在中国日常饮茶生活中的伟大“影子”。 尽管试图找到工夫茶或传说中的小孟臣朱泥壶或最难以捉摸的老陶艺大师惠孟臣，但直到今天任富收藏考古发现之前，他们的身份仍然笼罩在巨大的谜团中：为什么？

一个原因是过渡时期（1620-1683），从明万历皇帝去世到清康熙皇帝收复台湾结束——景德镇正式停业（包括其他名窑）的时期，甚至有秘密陶瓷/瓷器生产，没有任何文字记录,使任何学习和研究变得不可能。 第二个原因是灾难性的南明战争（1644-1683），不仅发生了内战，著名的窑炉正式停业，而且中国大陆人特别是福建和广东人外流到南洋逃避战争。 第三个但次要的原因是鸦片战争。尽管它们不是直接原因，但确实为工夫茶历史的棺材钉上了最后的钉子，并且由于外国入侵中国和鸦片成瘾无处不在，使得任何学习和研究都变得困难。 然而尽管如此，最近和早期还是进行了几次尝试，试图发现工夫茶、传说中的小孟臣朱泥壶和难以捉摸的老陶艺大师惠孟臣，我们一起称之为“神秘的三位一体”。

第一个是寻找功夫茶和小孟臣朱泥壶的看似不冷不热的尝试，该壶出自于 1766 年（乾隆三十一年）彭光斗所著的《闽所记》，曾任唐县知府 福建安，作者在其中描述了在龙溪（今漳州和第一次提到老人茶）到处看到老人用小茶壶喝武夷茶。 吴谦（1733-1813）后来在他的资料《阳县名陶》中说：“我研究孟臣，得到一个茶壶，壶底有‘孟臣造’等几个汉字，但我不知道惠孟臣的年龄。” 在彭光斗的《闽所记》30年后，余姣在他的《潮汕杂记》一书中对福建最初的工夫茶发明提出了挑战，他在书中描述了制作工夫茶的最佳方法是服从陆羽的茶道，但有更精美的茶具。（第一个线索，工夫茶除了茶艺和茶道之外，也是一种茶道）。 清代李芳，写了一本叫《阳羡陶器》的书，里面说他小时候得到一个茶壶，壶底有文兴店孟臣制汉字，除此之外别无他物。 惠孟臣除了是复制品。 其次是在中国研究宜兴陶器的日本人敖蓝田，只能在其1878年完成的著作《茶壶图片的起源》中写道：“惠孟臣生世难考”。 或前不久台湾历史学家连横(1878-1936)赞扬孟臣壶说工夫茶必有一孟臣壶，而孟臣壶价格最高。 1934年，李靖康、张宏编着《阳羡陶茶壶图鉴》，其中描述了他们所知道（或猜测）的关于惠孟臣和他的小朱泥壶的一切，但对惠孟臣仍然一无所知惠孟臣小朱泥壶。 不胜枚举，当然还有当代台湾学者黄健亮碰碰运气找到回孟惠臣，断定惠孟文一定是清初，香港著名教授黎淑仪和美国谢巴塞洛缪教授也推断惠孟车是英国伦敦维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆藏有惠孟臣天启七年制的紫砂壶，孟臣必为晚明。 幸运的是，中国严利人教授说功夫茶起源于福建漳州，这是我们巨大的考古宝库证明功夫茶来自的地方，但如果教授想知道功夫茶的原因和方式清初工夫茶的诞生，究竟是什么东西，他只需要在任富收藏的庞大考古宝库中翻查分析。

尽管颜利人教授的研究成果非常出色，但对功夫茶的探索仍在继续，在一百万年内，您永远猜不到下一位我们将列入曾经或正在寻找圣品的备受赞誉的人物名单中的下一位高调绅士， 中国茶文化的圣杯，即工夫茶，所以准备好迎接我们接下来要说的惊喜甚至震惊了吗？

世界上的女士们先生们，我们为您提供最轰动和最高知名度的功夫茶寻求者或猎人，无论您喜欢哪个：中国国家主席，阁下本人！（为了避免审查，我们不使用总统的名字 ). 是的，伟大的现任中国国家主席。

是的，女士们，先生们，大约 287 年后，博学多才的乾隆皇帝也被称为中国的统治者，他一定很喜欢工夫茶，赞美了惠孟臣，并追授了惠孟臣的革命工作，即传说中的小孟臣朱泥壶，我们出土的众多乾隆八年孟臣朱泥壶可以证明； 现在又有一位同样热爱功夫茶的中国统治者，希望中华民族寻找并找到功夫茶，并将其列入联合国教科文组织的世界非物质文化遗产名录，以帮助中国和平崛起。 阁下曾任建省省长17年半，阁下在福建任职期间，一直爱喝工夫茶，现在仍然如此，据我们所知，尤其是当阁下招待来访的国家元首时。 （甚至我们被告知，阁下的独生女为她的父亲制作功夫茶以示孝心）。

这位现任中国国家主席非常关注工夫茶在历史上的失落，这是中国最伟大的软实力，阁下希望重现清初中国最伟大茶文化的辉煌岁月 尤其是乾隆年间。 就像伟大的 Em乾隆皇帝大人要恢复工夫茶应有的地位。 我们，世界，必须感谢上天，我们现在有一位伟大的中国总统，他想要恢复和恢复茶文化史上最伟大的复兴，不仅是中国，也是整个世界……这就引出了下一个大问题！

是的，全世界的女士们先生们，现在提出了这个大胆的问题：

我们是否应该向中国国家主席介绍任富收藏考古发现的工夫茶？

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P/s..有专家说考古圣杯一件都难，更别说三件考古圣杯了，但任富收藏的功夫茶、传说中的小孟臣朱泥壶和最难寻的老祖师陶艺家惠孟臣， 将作为 21 世纪历史上最伟大的考古发现之一而被人们铭记。 还有一些专家说，应该把这三大考古发现写成书、拍成纪录片、拍成电影。 顺便说一句，他们拍了一部关于《顾景舟》的电影，但是在这次考古发现之后，《惠孟臣》列为所有陶艺家中的巨人，无论是古代还是当代。