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The story of the Yixing Purple tea pot:
Yixing,a picturesque city,is located on the Taihu Lake on Jiangsu province, China.The city is famous for its plentiful products,fertile land.rich resources and outstanding talents,Of the products,the most charming is ceramics.Based on the textual and archaeological researches in neolithic Age as far 5000 years ago,the forefathers of Yixing were engaged in the farming and the pottery marking.Recent years have often found some ruins of ancient pottery workshops and kilns in its territory,in Yixing Ding Shu Town,There are 5 neolithic site(5000 years ago),3 Han Dynasty Kiln site(Before206-A.D.220), 3 Six Dynasty Kilns(A.D.420-A.D581),9 Sui Dynasty,Tang Dynasty kilns(A.D.581-A.D.907),20 Song Dynasty,Yuan Dynasty kilns(A.D.960-A.D.1368).60 Ming Dynasty,Qing Dynasty kilns(A.D.1368-A.D.1911).One of the Tang Dynasty's Dragon kiln,lie east of Ding Shu Town,there are 700 square meter ,80 stere ,have quite fire ware ability,so Yixing purple tea pots was produced base long pottery tradition in Yixing.
Another important diathesis ,Yixing is a famous tea area in China ancient,one kind of Yixing tea (call:Yun Wu Tea)was as palace tea on Tang Dynasty early,The quantity is over 5000 kgs,On Tang Dynasty,There are ten thousands tea workers for pick tea every year, there are 30 tea factories,China' famousest tea master Mr Lu Yu come to Yixing for drink tea time after time on Tang Dynasty.
The most important diathesis is that rare purple clay was found in the mountain of Ding Shu Town in Yixing,The purple clay have very unique characteristic ,it is the best material for tea pot on this world,in 1976,One Song Dynasty Dragon Kiln was found on Yiang Jiao Mountain of Ding Shu Town,many purple clay fragmentary purple tea pot pieces were unearthed.It is also affirmed by Song Dynasty poem,some Song Dynasty’s poem mentioned purple clay tea pot,so it is accepted that Yixing purple clay tea pot was produced on Song Dynasty midterm time.but some specialists thinked it was produced on Ming Dynasty.Mr Zhou Gao Qi,one writer live on Ming Dynasty,who has writed ,(PS:Yixing was call"Yang Xian" in ancient>>,this the earlies book that special describe the originate and technology feature of yixing purple clay tea pot,with purple clay material.To the origins of purple tea pot,he told us:”one white foot monk who live in Jing Sha temple in Ding Shu,he like study pottery with potters,slowly original create simple and unique tea pot with purple clay for own enjoy it,(PS,there are many temples in China ancient,many monks enjoy tea use bowl on there,but it is very regret that people can not find his tea pot on this world)Mr Wu Yu Shan,a Jing Si(college student)in Zhen De Year Ming Dynasty(1514),Come to Jing Sha temple for his study, Gong Cun who his servant come to there also,in carefree time,Gong Cun study make purple tea pot under the monk,he imitated one old tree side the temple and made unique Gong Cun pot,(PS:This pot is collected in China History Museum now,the cover have losed,the cover was added by Qing Dynasty Master Wang Yu Ling, so people think Gong Cun is founder of yixing purple tea pot usual.
About the origin of the Yixing Purple tea pot:
Clay teapots from the town in Yixing, near Wuxi, are an indispensable accessory for tea drinkers throughout China. Usually small, squat, and brown, fine craftsmanship and special materials make them an ideal vessel for making tea. The fired clay is uniquely able to bring out the flavors of tea leaves during brewing. Since the clay is absorbent, unlike porcelain or metal, some of the flavor is absorbed into the pot during each brewing. This gives the tea a richer and more mellow flavor - after using a pot many times, the pot itself can flavor boiling water without adding any fresh tea leaves!
Much of the unique quality of Yixing teapots comes from the special dark brown clay they are fashioned from. The clay is not simply dug from the ground, but is actually made from rocks unique to the area, ground into powder and mixed with water. Craftsmen use choose several different types of rock and combine them in different proportions in light of what they are planning to make. The different colors of the best Yixing pottery come from different colored clays, not from paint or glazes, so pieces with several colors actually use several different clays. As a result, Yixing pottery is less brightly colored than Chinese porcelain, and uses more muted earth tones.
Yixing pottery is not made on a potter's wheel or with thin coils of clay. Instead, artisans use a complex array of hand tools to shape the parts of a teapot, then put them together before firing. All the parts of a single teapot must come from the same lump of clay and must be worked at the same time - otherwise differences in the consistency of the clay or changes in air temperature or humidity of the environment where it is worked could cause cracks and breaks when the pot is fired. Each pot is made of five parts - base, lid, walls, spout, and handle. After "tenderizing" a suitable lump of clay with a heavy wooden mallet, the artisan slices it up and rolls out a thin sheet to use as a base, making it a perfect circle with a small compass. He then rolls out and pounds clay for the walls and shapes them around the base to form the curved sides of the pot. He then forms the handle and spout, attaches them, and then creates the lid, perhaps the most challenging part of the pot. The pot then dries in the air for two days before being fired in a kiln. Since the clay can crack easily, it is slowly moved deeper and deeper into the oven to prevent it from heating too fast. After being fired for 18-24 hours, depending on the clay and the item, the pot is finished and ready for some tea leaves!
The workbench of a Yixing artisan is crowded with a bewildering array of tools, whose specialized uses have evolved over the centuries. There are separate compasses for measuring lid, bases, and walls of the pots, different mallets for pots with different shapes of walls, a plethora of knives and tiny awls, and tools uses to create the countors of everything from aged wood to the wrinkly skin of a gourd. A good set of tools and a thorough familiarity with their use is perhaps the key to the teapot craftsman's art.
This seemingly simple process is actually quite demanding, especially for the simplest and least decorated pots. For while small imperfections can be hidden underneath decorations or carving, even the smallest flaws or imbalances in the shape of an undecorated pot are obvious even to an untrained eye. While round, unadorned teapots, differing in shape and curve, are a classic favorite, Yixing teapots are also decorated in all sorts of beautiful designs. At one extreme are pots shaped to look like fruits and vegetables, or pieces of wood or bamboo, with amazingly lifelike textures and artful imperfections. Others are decorated with Chinese calligraphy or poems. One of the most traditional and beautiful styles combines the simplicity of plain teapots with touches drawn from nature - such as crafting the handle to look like a plum branch, with a small spray of flowers spreading over a section of the pot.
Since the clay absorbs flavor, you should keep the pot clean by washing it with warm water once you've finished drinking. But never clean it with soap - the soap can seep into the clay and give a soapy aftertaste to the next pots of tea! If you forget to clean it and the old leaves turn foul, adding boiling water, immediately pouring it out, and placing the pot in cold water will freshen the flavor again.
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