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Zhao Songting is a generalist of Zisha. He can combine blank making, painting and calligraphy, seal cutting and selling all kinds of artworks. He is not only a famous ceramist with outstanding skills, but also a master of pottery carving with free and easy knife skills. Not only can it operate well, but it can also sell well. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Yixing purple sand art world was unparalleled.
Zhao Songting was born in Shangyuan Village, Chuanbu, Shushan, Yixing in the second year of Qing Xianfeng (1852), a well-educated person and a poor scholar family. When he was born, Zhao's family was in decline. Zhao's father used to be a private school teacher and made a living by teaching in private schools. Zhao's father is responsible for his education and training: he studied poetry, painting and calligraphy with his father since childhood. At least in, Zhao Songting taught the Four Books, Five Classics and China's view of ancient literature in Dongpo College of Shushan. Zhao Songting is smart and studious, and Yixing Magistrate examines students every month. Zhao Songting is always among the best. His father thinks that he is quite talented in painting and his calligraphy is not bad. He hopes that Zhao Songting will become a painter when he grows up and inherit his family business. Later, Shao Fu, a famous purple sand artist in Yuancun, moved to learn the skills of making purple sand pots. Zhao Songting is diligent and studious, and studies technology assiduously. He goes to bed at five o'clock all the year round and gets up at dawn to practice his external skills. Zhao Songting's basic skills, such as bamboo drum pot, Han Yun pot and meatball pot, have been very solid.
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In the seventh year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (188 1), the wind of antique boats prevailed, and Zhao Songting made his masterpiece "Bamboo Drum with Tibetan Horn" one by one. Wu Yueting was a famous ceramist at that time. He saw that Zhao Songting was smart and eager to learn, and he also knew that he had studied calligraphy and painting since he was a child, so he taught him the use of knife and the performance of techniques. Zhao Songting learned carving skills under the guidance of his father's calligraphy and painting since childhood. Because he often writes and draws sketches at home, he got his stage name: Dongxi, and everyone who engraves words on the pot uses the stage name "Dongxi".
In the 19th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1893), Zhao Songting, whose reputation was growing day by day, was hired by Wu Dacheng, a great Suzhou collector, and went to Five Blessingg to imitate ancient artifacts. In Five Blessingg, Zhao Songting visited's collection of Zhong Ding antiques and various ancient ceramics, imitated them first, and then created his own purple teapot. Because Wu Dacheng's collection seal "Lu Zhai" was to be printed on the bottom of the pot, he took the name of "Zhiquan" on the grounds that Hu Shaojia was a tribute to the orthodox Ming pot and put it on the lid of the Ming pot. During this period, the teapot made in Zhao Songting was simple and elegant in style, simple and lively, and carved with flowers and painted on it, leaving many traditional classics.
In the 31st year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1905), Zhao Songting personally taught his son Zhao Gantai, who was over 6 years old/kloc-0, the skill of making pots.
Zhao Gantai (1889- 1953) learned from his father's biography, and got a personal biography of Zhao Songting, who copied the ancient pot for a long time. In the thirty-second year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1906), Zhao Songting ordered a batch of export pots exported to Nanyang in Shanghai. After returning to Yuan Dynasty, he hired a group of purple sand artists to make imitation pots at home, among which Shao Buyun (also known as Yunfu? ), Chu Ming (also known as Lagen), Pan are all famous technicians. Since 1906, Zhao Songting has produced and exported "Du Niu Tong" to Thailand, which has been well received by Thai people. ?
In the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), Zhao Songting rebuilt Longyao with self-raised funds and named it Fuxing Kiln. He set up factories and workshops, fired Gong Hu series, supplied teahouses and wineries, and sold them to Britain, France and other countries and regions in 20 foreign concessions in Shanghai, becoming a famous industrialist in Yixing.
Zhao Songting's "Gongju" series pots are all customized in Shanghai Concession, and exported, which is in short supply. Zhao Songting personally supervised the production, and skillfully used people's antique psychology, either engraving or inscription, or printing or money, and asked the guest master of the workshop and his son Zhao Liantai to copy various sketches of Zhu mud and red mud, leaving behind handed down varieties, such as Shunzhi Gongju, Yongzheng Gongju, Ganlong Gongju, antique Gong Hu, Longfeng Seal and so on. A large part of it was produced and supervised by Zhao Songting. At that time, there were many famous artists in Shushan and Shangyuan Village who participated in the imitation of "Horizontal Gong Hu", and the pot surface was either not treated, or the mouth was covered with gold, and the pot foot was covered with gold.
In the early 1930s, Zhao Songting's business grew bigger and bigger, and its business scale grew bigger and bigger, and its reputation became louder and louder. Every store has a number, and manufacturers have followed suit. Zhao Songting continues to expand its production scale, with more than 40 factories and dozens of molding workers. He is a well-run Zisha family and a veritable industrialist. 1934, Zhao Songting died in Shangyuan Village, Yixing at the age of 8 1.
Zhao Songting's pot-making technology is unconventional and pioneering, so his pot-making technology plays a connecting role and has a great influence on later pot makers.
The unique purple sand in Zhao Songting has made great contributions to the prosperity and development of the purple sand industry. Under the historical conditions at that time, it was rare to form an industrial chain from production to sales. The inheritance and development of purple sand is the joint efforts of several generations, and it is also the responsibility and responsibility of artists today. Let's work together for the bright future of Zisha.