The origin of teapot
Yixing Zisha pottery is a comprehensive art integrating ceramic technology with vessel modeling, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, literature and epigraphy. It began in the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. From clay texture to technological process, from purple sand research to genre innovation, there have been new developments. Famous artists include Huang Yulin, Pei Shimin, Zhu Kexin, Gu Jingzhou, Jiang Rong and Wang Yinxian.
Among them, Gu Jingzhou's teapot works are smooth, docile and magnificent, which can be called a master of teapot art. Celebrities of Zisha in past dynasties used Yixing's unique purple clay to endow them with art and inspiration, and created purple pottery treasures with national cultural characteristics and artistic life.
In recent years, Liu Haisu, Li Keran, Tang Yun, Cheng Shifa, Han Meilin and other famous painting and calligraphy artists have also written inscriptions, poems and paintings for Zisha works, creating their own new styles, which have raised the artistic realm and cultural level of Zisha. Elegant and gentle, it contains the demeanor of a hermit, or the overall style is ancient, elegant and pure, intoxicating, as deep and majestic as the ancients.