Purple jade gold sand - the charm and beauty of the purple clay pot.
Purple sand art is one of the
outstanding traditional Chinese culture, and also one of wuxi's famous
intangible cultural heritage. As part of the wuxi local culture, purple sand,
was born at the local unique cultural soil, regardless of their production raw
material, and its modelling, molding process, with distinctive local features,
has the incomparable original. In the late Ming dynasty, the production
technology of yixing purple sand has become mature. At the same time, with the
development of tea culture, the purple sand pot came into being. Although costly
than gold and silver purple sand tea set theory, theory of qiao as porcelain,
jade MeiZhi connotation, but it can stimulate the true flavor of tea, austere
appearance, color like a real gentleman, spontaneously with long dark dumb
light, as for four for, thus has always been very popular with the literati.
Warm praise highly of literati and direct participation, promote the purple and
the calligraphy and painting, poetry, carving, sculpture and other art
categories of synthesize, laid the cultural taste of deep purple sand art,
coruscate gives full-bodied humanities charm.
Are recommended as TaoLin most of
China's rising star, in the beginning of birth is only used by people as a daily
ordinary tea sets, but after hundreds of years past artisans artists and writers
of imitating the nature is more mature. It with the color of the shape of
concise and easy, simple and elegant, serene quiet of tai, set the essence of
poetry, books, paintings, seal, including shape, spirit, qi, state of rhyme,
both aesthetic and practical double value, and among the country folk culture
and art, unique in the history of ceramics in China, it is "not a type, round
mixed phase" of praise. Are recommended, as it were, pottery culture, a product
of highly combined pot culture, tea culture, is also the history of Chinese
ceramics product summary, the emergence of purple marks the arrival of the era
of Chinese ceramics industry peak.
The most ideal tea set for the tea
pot is the high quality and special quality. Violet sand earthenware clay
material is purple mud, chlorite, three kinds of red mud, collectively known as
the violet arenaceous mud, only unique to yixing, characterized by a high iron
content, high firing temperature than other pottery, combined pug plasticity is
good, high green strength, drying shrinkage and firing shrinkage of small, and
therefore burn out the finished product has certain mechanical strength, and has
certain porosity, sheng tea without leakage, and has good air permeability, and
thus be dining favorite celebrities. And after forming are recommended shape
diversity, various, without witness, it is hard to will be those Ling Huang
Longshan Zheng ore and colourful, bright and pleasant are recommended after
firing, and this kind of system of Midas touch pot technique, mainly for the
"tube", "with a body tube" two kinds of production methods. The "punching
barrel" is suitable for the shape of the circular vessel. It is to place the
clay bar and the clay piece on the turntable to make the pot by the molding
method of the body. The "insert barrel" applies to the square, is the first to
hit the mud, then cut and then cut, and then use the slurry to process the
molding. Wherever "cone" or "tube", is in the process of lapping on the surface
of the billet surface coarse particle to wall extrusion, smooth surface
finishing to sleek, made its appearance form is delicate skin layer. After the
fine processing of the purple clay pot, the surface is not glaze, the mouth is
tight, meticulous, burnt into a layer of subgloss, which is not comparable to
other ceramic POTS.