Purple sand pottery

Yixing Zisha pottery began in the Song Dynasty, and in the Yuan Dynasty, the firing technology of Zisha pottery gradually matured, and inscriptions were carved on utensils. In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Yixing Zisha pottery tea set was very popular and was regarded as the top grade of all kinds of tea sets. In the Qing Dynasty, Yixing purple sand pottery became more and more exquisite, creating a new style of decoration with seal cutting, calligraphy and painting. At the beginning of the 20th century, the production of Yixing purple sand pottery was also quite prosperous, with more than 10 dragon kilns producing all the year round, with an output of more than 2.2 million pieces in 1932. There are thousands of varieties such as teapot, teacup, vase, flowerpot, casserole and figure sculpture, which are generous in shape and quaint in color. Pickles in purple teapots do not change taste, do not change color when stored in tea, are not easy to turn sour in summer, and are not hot when held. The longer they are used, the smoother their color becomes. Yixing purple clay is a kind of natural five-color clay different from red clay-purple clay. The basic colors are vermilion, purple and beige. The mud contains minerals such as Shi Ying, kaolin, mica, hematite and various oxides. When fired at a high temperature of about 1200℃, the color of sand mud changes with the change of temperature, showing yellow as pear skin, brown as ink chrysanthemum, green as pine and cypress, red with red maple, purple as grape, and white sand, begonia red and vermilion purple. The masterpiece Zisha Pottery "Zisha Hundred-year-old Bottle" won the gold prize in the Leipzig International Expo in 1984.
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