1. Yixing purple clay pottery - Yixing ceramics have a history of four to five thousand years, among which purple clay pottery is the most distinctive. Its unique shape, exquisite craftsmanship, simple color and excellent practical functions enjoy a high reputation at home and abroad. There are thousands of varieties of purple clay pottery such as pots, cups, bottles, and basins. Among them, purple clay teapots not only have high artistic value, but also have unique advantages such as no odor when brewing tea, no discoloration when storing tea, and no rancidity in midsummer.
2. Nixing Pottery - Qinzhou Nixing Pottery, Nixing Pottery has a history of more than 1,300 years. Nixing pottery has been transformed in the kiln and is known as the "kiln treasure". After polishing, the surface will show a variety of gorgeous natural colors, with many colors, mainly bronze, dark green, purple, tiger stripe, sky blue, sky spots, golden, maroon, iron blue, etc., which are faintly visible and highly appreciated and appreciated. Collection value.
3. Yunnan Jianshui Purple Pottery - Yunnan Jianshui Purple Pottery has a long history, starting from the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and has a history of more than 900 years. Jianshui purple pottery is made from red, yellow, purple, green and white soil which is unique and abundant in the local area. Jianshui purple pottery uses a special process of unglazed polishing. The pottery produced has a sonorous and powerful knocking sound. It is praised as "body like iron, color like copper, sound like a rock, bright like a mirror, and light that illuminates people". This Craftsmanship is what makes Jianshui purple pottery unique from other pottery, and it is truly "a show on the pottery altar".
4. Chongqing Rongchang Pottery - Rongchang Pottery is produced in Chongqing and has a history of more than 800 years. There are many types of pottery in Rongchang, mainly producing daily-use pottery, packaging pottery, arts and crafts pottery, and garden and architectural pottery. The clay used in Rongchang pottery is fine, has strong viscosity and plasticity, and has good firing performance. Therefore, the pottery made not only has a smooth glaze, but also has the characteristics of no leakage and good preservation, and enjoys the reputation of "mud essence". Extended information
Purple clay pottery - a harder ceramic product made of purple clay, red clay or green clay. Zisha is a clay native to Yixing, China.
There are places all over the world that produce clay, but there is no purple clay, because this pottery is not that pottery. It can be said that purple clay is a type of clay that is only available in Yixing. Why is the clay here called "purple sand"? That's because the purple clay pottery made of purple clay, no matter it is yellow, red, brown, black or green, has a faint purple light on its surface, giving it a simple and elegant texture, so it is called "Purple sand".
The reason why purple sand is called "sand" is because the finished product has a special grainy feel. Even if the soil is very fine, you can still see beautiful three-dimensional particles under the delicate appearance. Purple sand is firm and fine in texture, calm in color and beautifully made. According to the mixing method and changes in the firing temperature and atmosphere, the products are azure, maroon, dark liver, pear skin, beige, cinnabar purple, crabapple red, green gray, dark green and other colors.
The craftsmanship of making purple clay pottery is unparalleled in the world. It is based on a kind of purple clay material with special aggregate structure and double pore structure that is produced in Yixing (specifically, there are purple clay, vermilion clay, Benshan green clay, etc.) As raw materials, more than a hundred homemade tools are used, and the processes are followed by making mud sheets, beating the barrel (round ware), inlaying the barrel (square ware) or combining inlay and sculpture (flower ware), surface polishing, pottery carving decoration, etc. The steps culminate in the finished ceramic product.
Reference: Purple Clay Pottery-Baidu Encyclopedia