Yixing Zisha tea set, which enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad, rose as early as the early Northern Song Dynasty and became a unique and excellent tea set, which was very popular in the Ming Dynasty.
Zisha tea set is unique in that it is made of local unique purple mud, red mud and Tuanshan mud by baking. The fire temperature of the finished pottery is high, the sintering is dense, the tire quality is fine, and it is not easy to leak. According to research, it has pores, draws tea juice and contains tea flavor. And the heat transfer is not fast, so that it is not hot; If tea is served in hot weather, it is not easy to sour; Even if the heat and cold change dramatically, it will not break; If necessary, even ask to simmer directly on the stove. Purple sand tea sets also have the characteristics of complex and changeable shapes and simple and quaint colors, and their shapes are like bamboo joints, lotus roots, loose sections and imitation of ancient bronze wares of Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The creator of the teapot is said to be an unknown monk in Jinsha Temple in Yixing, Ming Dynasty. He chose fine purple clay to knead it into a round blank, added a mouth, a handle and a lid, and put it in a kiln for firing. There is a tree gall pot with a broken cover, which is brilliantly shaped. It exists in Beijing History Museum, which is the only pass-on product for Chunchun, but some people suspect it is a fake. Since Gong Chun became famous for imitating the old ginkgo tree gall to make a pot for spring in Ming Dynasty, there have been four famous pot-making masters in Ming Wanli, namely Dong Han, Zhao Liang, Wen Chang and Shi Peng, followed by Shi Dabin, Li Zhongfang and Xu Youquan, and Chen Mingyuan, Yang Pengnian and Yang Fengnian, Shao Daheng and Huang Feng in Qing Dynasty. In modern times, there were Gu Jingzhou, Zhu Kexin, Jiang Rong, etc. Gu Jingzhou recently made Tibi Pot and Hanyun Pot, which were gifts for going abroad. Young artists are also talented people.
there are many styles of purple sand tea sets, so-called "square is not the same, round is not the same". Carving flowers, birds, landscapes and calligraphy in various styles on purple sand pots began in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished after Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, and gradually became a unique artistic decoration in purple sand craft. Many famous poets and artists once wrote poems and lettering on the teapot. "A Textual Research on the Sand Pot" once recorded that Zheng Banqiao made a pot by himself, and he wrote a poem in his own hand: "You are proud only when you are sharp-tongued and big-bellied, and your ears are high. The amount is too small to accommodate big things, and two or three inches of water make waves. " The shapes of teapot are: antique, plain goods (no flowers and no words), flower goods (natural images of pine, bamboo and plum) and rib bags (geometric patterns).
teapot is the favorite in the ceramic family. It is said that Su Dongpo's uncalculated tree-carrying pot, with natural ancient green branches as the handle of the pot, matched with an ochre melon-shaped pot body, carved with quaint tiles and exquisite calligraphy, is elegant and quaint, and the color contrast also brings out the best in each other. It is regarded as a treasure with practical value by scholars of all ages.
The small teapot made by Shi Dabin, a master of teapot in Ming Dynasty, is elegant and exquisite. As a work of art, it adds elegance to tea tasting. The big pot made by him for adjusting sand and lifting beams is purple-black, with mixed sand and white stars, just like stars in the night sky. The pot is small and big, and its center of gravity is stable, which is enough to evaluate a set of purple sand tea sets. First of all, its practical value should be considered. Only when a set of purple sand tea set has a proper proportion of volume and weight, the handle of the pot is convenient to lift, the periphery of the pot cover is seamed, the water from the spout is smooth, the color and pattern are refined and harmonious, and the beauty and practicality of the whole set of tea set are harmoniously combined.
Purple sand tea sets are not only loved by our people, but also cherished by people in some overseas countries. As early as the 15th century, ceramic workers in Japan, Putaoya, Holland, Germany and Britain successively copied China's purple sand pots as specimens. At the beginning of the 18th century, tegel, a German, not only made purple sand pottery, but also wrote a paper entitled "Cinnabar Porcelain" in 198. At the beginning of this century, Zisha pottery was exhibited in Panama, London and Paris expositions, and won the prize in Chicago Exposition in 1932, which added luster to the history of Chinese ceramics.