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Hundreds of teapot shops line the edges of the town's crowded streets and it is a popular tourist destination for many Chinese. While Dīngshān is home to dozens of ceramics factories, Yíxīng Zǐshā Factory Number 1 , which opened in 1958, [ citation needed ] processes a large part of the clay used in the region, produces fine pottery ware ...
Ren Ganting (1889–1968), an ambidextrous artist who created natural forms, participated in the National Labour Heroes Convention. Pei Shimin (1892–1979) started making teapots at age 14. Zhu Kexin (1904–1986) began making teapots before the war and worked in the Jiangsu factory as a youth. He has since received many honours. [1]
Teapots made from pottery materials such as clay have been hand-fired for tens of thousands of years, originally in China. Clay is a popular material for teapots, as they tend to retain heat very well. [7] Many traditional Chinese teaware are Yixing ware. Yixing and other regional clays are left unglazed.
Five Yixing clay teapots showing a variety of styles from formal to whimsical. Yixing clay (simplified Chinese: 宜兴泥; traditional Chinese: 宜興泥; pinyin: Yíxīng ní; Wade–Giles: I-Hsing ni) is a type of clay from the region near the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, China, used in Chinese pottery since the Song dynasty (960–1279) when Yixing clay was first mined around China's ...
Large Chinese teapot with large cups in a Nanning theater, Guangxi. Another method for making tea is to use a small lidded cup called a gaiwan or a small ceramic teapot (100 to 150 ml) for brewing. This is one of the most common types of teaware used in the modern gongfu cha style ("making tea with skill") in which the tea (brewed with a large ...
Yixing teapots, called Zi Sha Hu in China and Purple Sand teapots in the U.S., are perhaps the most famous teapots. They are named for a tiny city located in Jiangsu Province, where a specific compound of iron ore results in the unique coloration of these teapots. They were fired without a glaze and were used to steep specific types of oolong teas.
A bizarre viral TikTok video about a Chinese teapot trying to escape from the British Museum has revitalised a row between the two countries about the return of historical artefacts.
On Yixing Teapots [a] (Chinese: 陽羨 茗壺 系; pinyin: Yángxiàn Mínghú Xì; Wade–Giles: Yang 2-hsien 4 Ming 2-hu 2 Hsi 4; with Yangxian being a Qin Dynasty name for Yixing [2]) is a treatise on Yixing clay teapots [2] written by Ming Dynasty author Zhou Gaoqi [2] (Chou Kao-chi; 周高起; d. 1644–45 [2]) in the Chongzhen era [2] ca ...