Uncover the amazing inside story behind the Chinese purple sand teapot?

Purple sand culture has a long history and has a history of more than 2000 years. With its exquisite craftsmanship, simple and exquisite artistic modeling, and profound cultural heritage, purple sand teapot has become a hot collection with great artistic value and appreciation potential in today's collection circles.

Chinese literati of all ages love purple sand, and purple sand teapot is known as "the first tea set" in China. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the purple sand teapot became a tribute as an imperial vessel. Today, the purple sand teapot has long broken the royal exclusive restrictions and boarded the tea table of ordinary people's homes-purple sand as a pot, becoming the most elegant and noble flavor in the tea ceremony culture.

Emperor Qianlong was so addicted to tea that he even opened such a golden mouth: "you can't do without a king for a day, and you can't have a day without tea." As the saying goes, "A good horse with a saddle and a good tea with a pot." In China, which is rich in good tea, it is only natural for Chinese people who love to drink good tea to have a good teapot.

People who like to taste tea like to buy tea sets, and now the tea set industry is more and more developed, occupying a part of the competitiveness of the market. A good tea set can make a bowl of good tea, especially Yixing purple sand teapot, and the tea brewed by it is very fragrant, refreshing and memorable.

Hello, everyone. I'm the shopkeeper.

56 years old, a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, has been a veteran artist of purple sand pot for most of his life.

He is not in good health when he is old, so he has been in the workshop in recent years, and now he is mainly engaged in the business of authentic purple sand. I have signed several good purple sand pot craftsmen in Yixing, and the ore is processed by authentic purple sand from the local mine. I don't know how to surf the Internet. My daughter and son-in-law supply goods to some brick-and-mortar stores in Shanghai and help me sell them on my moments with Wechat.

I have always believed that to help pot friends buy authentic purple sand teapots is to cultivate their self-cultivation and cultivate their minds. In addition, I also hope to help you understand purple sand and fall in love with purple sand.

Purple sand in ancient times, is by no means an ordinary technological raw material, it carries the blindly culture of Chinese traditional Zen tea, making purple sand teapot is not only a simple skill, but also a blessing and piety. To be honest, I hope you choose my purple sand works, not only because of business, but also because you can't get used to the mixed purple sand market.

I hope you can add my Wechat to learn more about purple sand teapot. Don't buy fake purple sand.

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Purple sand teapot production

First of all, the mud must be dug out of the purple mud from the ore layer, so that the finest part needs to be extracted to remove the mixed impurities; then a sharp knife is needed to carve the texture; and there are moment carts, which are used to make round pieces of clay, and barrel, thread stalks, famous needles, and so on.

The second step is to make the model with Yixing purple sand pot in mind. After designing the model, we really enter the process of making it. We need to pinch it by hand, put the sediment together, and squeeze out the model we have in mind, and pay special attention to the interface. For the round shape of the pot, you can use the "extraction barrel" method, for the square teapot, you can use the "body-inlaying method" method. You need to be careful in making spouts, handles and lids. Finally, you can add some carvings and decals to enhance the beauty of the kettle.

In the third step, the teapot dried in the shade and fired in a tunnel kiln.

Step 4 check the follow-up work! After it is done, the pot should be checked repeatedly for cracks and breakages. After the inspection, it can be waxed and polished to make it smoother and brighter.

The forming of purple sand teapot

First, the forming methods of purple sand teapot, there are manual (hit barrel), semi-manual (mold), grouting, spinning blank and printing blank, and so on. Among them, manual molding is the traditional production method. The key to the production technology is the void forming and the finishing of the blank surface. The so-called finishing refers to the use of bamboo slices, needles, knives and other special tools made of these materials to finely cover, trim and pull oars on the spout, body, cover, and inside of the pots, which have been connected to the neck, foot, mouth, handle, and inside the kettle. this is one of the keys to purple sand teapot becoming a handicraft.

Second, its function lies in: purple sand cooked mud particles are of different sizes, and the green body surface is uneven during molding. In the finishing process, the green body is leveled with the above-mentioned tools and the raised particles are extruded downward to make the green surface smooth and smooth. At this time, the appearance of the green body forms a more detailed layer of epidermis, this layer of epidermis is a layer of delicate mud (crystal after firing), and although the inner wall is also slapped when taking mud films, it is often slightly processed, the mud particles are relatively loose, and the surface of the fired products is pear-shaped, while the loose interior shows a certain porosity.

Third, the purple sand teapot has a unique and diverse shape. In order not to reduce it to general glazed pottery, as well as historical reasons, its surface is not glazed. In order to make the purple sand achieve the technological effect of "getting rid of it, the light can shine on the surface, and the ratio of capital to copper", the green body must be treated to have a rigorous shape and structure, a clear outline, a clear texture and a clear texture, so as to meet the production requirements of beads, jade and jade as a whole. all need to be obtained through molding and finishing. At the same time, finishing is also an important means to improve the viscosity of green body.

The method of choosing and purchasing purple sand teapot

Mud: first of all, from a technological point of view, purple sand teapot as one of the daily use of tea sets, the technology is very exquisite. The red mud used in the production of a good purple clay pot has the characteristics of dark red color and coarse texture, which is the meaning of the jargon "color is not bright, quality is not greasy". Here we can often see the bright color of the kettle body, this kind of purple sand is generally artificial imitation, mostly fake pots, using artificial floating technology.

Touch the pot: when you choose and buy the purple sand pot, in addition to the above method to look at the mud, you can also touch it. The touch pot here refers to gently stroking the body of the purple sand pot. Generally good purple sand pot, the pot body is very rough, touch carefully, you can even touch the feeling of sand.

Look at the pot: after identifying the mud and touching the pot body, you can also identify the purple sand pot with the help of tools, so how to identify it? you can carefully observe the pot body with a magnifying glass, because the clay used to burn the purple sand pot contains quartz stone. When you look at the purple sand pot with a magnifying glass, facing the light, you can see the golden light inside.

Listen: everyone looks at the purple sand pot in a different way. Some friends like to listen to the rubbing sound of the purple sand pot, that is, gently rubbing or tapping the body with the lid. If the sound is dull, then the firing process of this pot must not be good. The really good purple sand pot makes a metallic choking sound when knocking and rubbing.

See secret: what does it mean to see secret? the simple way is to test the tightness of the lid and body of the purple sand teapot. Generally good purple sand teapot is very close to each other. In a simple way, you can press the vent on the lid of the purple sand pot with your index finger, and then pour the purple sand pot to see if the water will flow down where the lid is. If the water is not dripping, it is a good pot. Another way is to seal the spout of the purple sand pot with your fingers, and then reverse the purple sand pot. If the lid does not fall off, it proves that the tightness of the pot is very high.

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Why drink tea in a purple sand pot?

1. The spout of the purple sand teapot is small, the cover is strict, and the inner wall of the pot is rough, which can prevent the loss of fragrance. The longer the purple sand pot is used, the more tea leaves accumulate on the inner wall, so the tea becomes more mellow after brewing tea. Long-term use of purple sand teapot, even if do not put tea, just pour into the beginning, still tea fragrance attractive, this is the general tea set can not do.

2. It is not easy to hold and hold the tea in a purple sand pot. The coefficient of linear expansion of the purple clay pot is slightly higher than that of the porcelain pot, and without glaze, there is no problem of bad glaze stress; the purple sand pot has excellent ability to adapt to the rapid change of cold and heat, even if it is cooked at a high temperature of hundreds of degrees and quickly put into the ice and snow below zero, it will not burst.

3. The purple sand teapot does not apply glaze inside and outside, and eats small pores, which has good air permeability, but it is impervious to water, and has strong adsorption capacity, which can not be compared with the general teapot. It can keep the aromatic oil in tea volatilized to form a fragrant aroma, improve the late acidity of tea, and play a role of convergence and sterilization. This is where the truth lies in the so-called "the more summer, the more the night is not bad".

Worker

"Gong" is the process, which is divided into "molding technology" and "production technology". The forming process is divided into the most primitive "whole hand", that is, completely handmade. And the "half-hand" set with the help of the mold.

Among the various molding processes, the whole hand is the best, followed by the half hand, because the physical property of the double stomatal structure of purple sand mud is formed in the process of slapping the mud sheet, and all hand-made pots are patted and beaten before they are finalized. This process is the reorganization of the purple sand stomata.

The master of arts and crafts made it himself.

Form

When it comes to shape, we have to say: the square is not the same form, and the circle has no phase. A stone ladle made by 1000 people actually has 1000 shapes. The reason is: first, the purple sand teapot is handmade, so it is difficult to make the same thing. Second, each craftsman, or the same craftsman, has a different understanding of the same pot shape at different stages of creation.

It doesn't matter whether it's light or flower. Can read on the purple sand, square with round, round with square charm, such a pot must be top grade!

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As the so-called

Three cups of wine and a pot of tea

The old shopkeeper assures you

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Insist on selling only real purple sand

The gentleman is avaricious, takes it to be correct. From the day I learned art, I followed my master's instructions and insisted on selling only real purple sand, never selling fake products, and seeking violence. Craftsmen should cherish their reputation as much as they cherish life.

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Insist on telling the truth

As for the price of the product. The old man does not approve of the saying that "good goods are not cheap". Especially in the purple sand industry, the price of many purple sand teapots doubled after adding the title of "high engineer" and "pure handwork". But in fact, many friends have been deceived as a result. I am not a master, but the old man has been making pots for 30 years, and his skill is better than many "masters". My original purpose of doing this shop is to restore the price of purple sand.

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Insist on selling good goods

A good purple sand mainly depends on two aspects, one is good materials, the other is good craftsmanship, and the quality of craftsmanship depends entirely on the mentality of craftsmen. "slow workers can do fine work", slow is also an attitude, in order to pursue the perfection of the process, we have to pay more time cost, I believe that those who really like purple sand teapot will understand this mentality.

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