The history of making teapot.

It is the uniqueness of Jianshui Zitao to move literati paintings and calligraphy to Zitao. Tao Wei paper is used for decoration, which incorporates the painter's strong personal style, including rough and bold, large-scale calligraphy, freehand Chinese painting, national patterns and so on. After the literati's calligraphy and painting were inked, they were preserved by highly skilled sculptors by the method of engraving yin and filling yang. No matter birds and animals, flowers and plants, fish and insects, or Qionglou Yuyu, they are all lifelike, giving people a sense of antique and elegance.

To appreciate Jianshui purple pottery, we need to observe its color first. To see a purple pottery work, we should first look at whether its shape is accurate and whether its decoration is in place, and then look at its color. Generally speaking, the colors of purple pottery can be basically divided into five kinds: masculine color (traditional purple pottery color), design color (also called variegated color, usually black and red), brown color (also called chestnut color) and black color (.

There are many kinds of Jianshui purple pottery, including cooking utensils, tea sets, flower pots and desk display decorative supplies. Most of the shapes are simple and elegant, unique, and can be used as steaming utensils to steam chicken, pigeon and other meat foods, which are delicious. Jianshui purple pottery is made of red, yellow, purple, blue and white soil, which is a unique and rich local resource. The hue is white flowers with red background, white flowers with black background or red, yellow and blue flowers with white background. Decorations are carved and filled with bold, large and heavy calligraphy, freehand Chinese painting, national patterns and so on. The picture is natural and unrestrained with a pen, and the knife method is smooth. Whether describing birds and animals or flowers, birds, fish and insects, they are lifelike, giving people a feeling of antique and appealing to both refined and popular tastes. The production process adopts unglazed polishing, that is, the blank is not glazed, and the product can keep fresh and bright after grinding, polishing and firing. Once the percussion instrument is powerful, it can be said that "the body is like iron, the color is like copper, the sound is like stone, the light is like a mirror, and the light can know people", which forms a unique feature different from pottery, and it can be said that "the pottery altar is a show".

The long history of pottery-making has forged exquisite folk pottery-making skills, and also tempered and nurtured generations of folk pottery-making technicians. As early as 192 1, the pottery made by Jianshui artists won the art prize of Panama International Fair.