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Collection: Yixing famous purple clay teapot series

Yixing purple sand is a specialty of Yixing City, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, and a national geographical indication product of China.
Yixing belongs to a hilly area. The first element of purple clay pottery, purple clay, mainly includes purple clay, green clay (original green clay) and red clay. They are collectively called purple clay and are produced locally in Yixing.

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The raw material of the purple clay pot is purple clay, which is a kind of mineral soil. Due to the special nature of the purple clay, different temperatures will produce different colors during the firing process. The main colors are red (clear cement, vermilion clay), There are five colors of purple (purple mud), black (purple mud at high temperature), white (duan mud at high temperature), and yellow (duan mud at normal temperature). Purple clay has such magical changes that it is also called "five-color soil".

Features of Yixing purple sand:

Good plasticity. It can be arbitrarily processed into different shapes of different sizes, such as square utensils, flower utensils, round utensils, various ornaments, etc.

Purple clay does not need to be glazed after it is formed. It has a flat and smooth appearance. The longer it is used and rubbed, the darker it will become.

Purple clay itself can be made into pottery without adding other raw materials.

The drying shrinkage is small.

Famous pot

Yixing famous purple clay potters refer to those skilled potters who make a living by making purple clay pots in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China. With their unique skills and exquisite craftsmanship, they have elevated the purple clay teapot from a daily utensil to the height of art.

Process introduction

Yixing purple sand is mainly shaped by hand and is mainly round. Each molding technician is equipped with a clay bench. The prepared and moderately moist purple sand mud is placed on the clay bench, and the mud is beaten into thin mud strips with a wooden pitcher, and is drawn out with a rectangular car. Use a piece of clay of a length suitable for the body of the pot. Draw a circular lid and a piece of mud on the bottom of the pot. Roll the body into a cylindrical shape, then slowly beat it with a paddle to expand the pot belly and converge the upper or lower part into a cylindrical shape. Make the spout or bottom match the shape you designed. After drying for a while, install the handle, spout, and lid. Then use the "ming needle" to scrape, trim, and process over and over again. , carefully crafted into a perfect work of art that meets creativity.

Suitable for tea

Oolong tea

A purple clay teapot is ideal for brewing oolong tea because it retains the rich aroma of oolong tea to the maximum extent possible. Oolong tea has the highest aroma among the six major tea categories, and the material and structure of the purple clay teapot help absorb and retain this aroma, making the tea aroma last longer.

black tea

The purple clay teapot is ideal for brewing black tea because it perfectly retains the rich and mellow aroma of black tea. Black tea, such as "Qimen Black Tea" and "Dianhong", is fully fermented tea with long fragrance, sweet nature and rich red color. The purple clay teapot has a double pore structure, which can adapt to sudden changes in cold and heat, and has good heat preservation. This helps preserve the original taste and layered character of black tea.

black tea

A purple clay teapot is ideal for brewing black tea as it maximizes the activation of the black tea and its aroma. The purple clay teapot has a double pore structure with fine pores and high density, which allows black tea to better maintain its mellow taste when brewing. At the same time, the long-lasting high temperature of the purple clay pot can soak out the mellow taste of black tea, making the tea soup more round, refreshing, fragrant and rich. Therefore, using a purple clay pot to brew black tea can better experience the unique flavor of black tea.

old white tea

Purple clay teapots are particularly suitable for brewing aged white tea . After years of precipitation, the strong aroma of old white tea can be fully released in the purple clay teapot, giving the tea soup a sweet taste. Old white tea that has been stored for more than three years, under natural fermentation, has a mellow taste, long-lasting brewing resistance, soft and refreshing taste, and mellow taste.

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