Hui lived from the Apocalypse of Ming Dynasty to the Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, and was a famous pot-making artist in Jingxi. "Chen Meng" surnamed Hui was learned from the big white sand pot collected in Quanshan Pavilion. According to the bottom of this pot, there are eleven characters: "Chen Meng system of Jingxi meeting in the year of Ding Mao of the Apocalypse". There are clear conclusions about his surname, place of origin and age of life.
Hui's pot art is outstanding and unique. His works are characterized by many small pots, few medium pots and the rarest big pots. The big one is simple, and the small one is exquisite. Good at preparing all kinds of mixed sand mud, including white sand, purple sand, cinnabar, more cinnabar and less white sand. Pot types are flat, tall, flat shoulders, pear-shaped, bulging belly, round belly, fan-shaped and so on. Especially the pear-shaped pot has the greatest influence. /kloc-exported to all parts of Europe at the end of 0/7 century, which had a great influence on the early pot-making industry in Europe.
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Huizhou school not only pays attention to the simplicity and exquisiteness of the pot body, but also pays attention to seal cutting calligraphy. His seal cutting calligraphy is very beautiful, not far from the Tang Xian style, and his brushwork is definitely like that of Chu Suiliang, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. The main symbols of Chen Menghu are: Wenxingge system, Jingxihui system, Chen system and Chen system.
Some poems are marked with the year of production or quatrains in front of them, such as "Exposing Ding Mao's Chen Meng System" and "An inch of heart shows eternity". Generally speaking, Chen Meng system is composed of more than ten words or auspicious words engraved in poems. Most of the fonts are regular script and running script. The strokes are smart and have the charm of calligraphy. They carved with bamboo knives, and later works were printed with cymbals.