The art of big guest pot enjoyed a high reputation in the Ming Dynasty, which was more common in literati's accounts. Tea Shu in the Ming Dynasty: "The teapot used in the spring of that year was recently made by the guests, and today people cherish it." After offering sacrifices to the spring, Shi Dabin created many special tools for making pots, created many pot shapes, and trained a number of disciples such as Li Zhongfang and Xu Youquan. Connecting the preceding with the following, it developed the art of purple sand. Shi Dabin's early works are simple and elegant. A good imitation of the spring pot. Since I arrived in Loudong, Suzhou and handed over several generations of Chen Meigong, the style of making pots has changed. Change the pot from big to small. It is said that Shi Dabin's creative attitude is extremely serious, and every time he encounters dissatisfied works, he will be destroyed. Nine times out of ten, I will not hesitate to break it. At that time, tea was popular, and the requirements for pot art were very high.
Shi Dabin was about eighty years old all his life, and produced thousands of products, which spread widely. There is a poem to prove it: "Gong Zhongyan said it was a big pot of rice, and it won a distant dish overseas." Chen Zhenhui, one of the four sons of Yixing in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote in "Miscellaneous Matching in Autumn Garden": "The name of the pot is far away, that is, it is still known from a distance. Its system began with offering sacrifices to spring, the pot style is simple and elegant, and tea has the interest of secluded fields. Later, such as Chen Hu (Chen Mingyuan) and Xu Hu, I didn't think that Dabin was just in case. " Although there are many works by Shi Dabin, few have been handed down. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Shi Dabin's works were regarded as rare treasures. Shi Dabin selected purple sand mud and blended it into various mud colors for products, forming a simple and rich style. Most of his early works imitated the big pot for spring, and later changed it into a small pot according to the literati's tea drinking habits, and signed the date to make it. It is known as the authentic pot art, and there are not many works handed down from generation to generation, but it is collected by museums in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Taiwan Province Province.
He mixed sand into mud and created a pot made of mixed sand, which the ancients called "ancient coarse sand with uniform texture" and was unique. In the aspect of molding technology, the method of "taking wood as the mold" for the spring was improved, and the cylinder-beating molding method was combined with the cylinder-inlaying molding method, thus the basic method of clay-inlaying molding of teapot was determined, which was a great leap in the manufacturing method of teapot. It also pioneered square and round pot shapes and became a typical pot shape of teapot. Shi Dabin listened to the advice of Chen Jiru and other literati, changed the teapot into a small size, which made it more suitable for the literati's tea drinking habits, introduced the literati's interest into the pot art, and combined the pot art with the tea ceremony, pushing the pot art to a new height.