1, spring together
Gong Chun is recognized as the originator of teapot. Gong Chun is a boy from Wu Yishan. When he was studying with his master at Jinsha Temple, he "stole the master of the old monk" and embarked on the road of creating teapot. His teacher is naturally a "long-lost" monk in Jinsha Temple.
According to records, Wu Yishan studied at Jinsha Temple in Yixing (now Hujiao Town, Yixing) before entering Jinshi Academy. Buddhist nun worshiped spring as "free time" and found that monks in Jinsha Temple would make fine clay from clay pots and urns, refine them, knead them into fetuses, make them round, make them hollow, and make them pot-like.
Then, he "stole the old monk's craftsman, and also scoured the fine soil, put it in the hole of a blank teaspoon and pointed it inside and outside", and made a teapot that was "as dark as ancient gold", which was famous for its purple sand teapot in later generations. Because the pot is made for spring, it is commonly called "spring pot". He made the tree gall pot in the Chinese History Museum now. The shape is simple, the implication line is looming, and the handle and the pot body have the word "for spring".
2. Shi Dabin
He was born in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty to Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty, and he was the son of Shi Peng, one of the famous "Four Masters" of Zisha. 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.
He studied the mud-making, modeling technology, modeling design and inscription of purple sand pottery, and established a difficult technical system of clay board and inlay that is still used by purple sand circles. Born in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, he died in the early years of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty. Shi Dabin's pot-making skills are comprehensive, and he has made outstanding achievements in mud-making, molding techniques, vessel design and calligraphy.
Shi Dabin was an epoch-making master in Ming Dynasty, with many disciples, such as Xu Youquan, Ou, Shao, Shen Junyong, etc.