Zisha teapot has many advantages for drinking tea, it can retain the tea aroma to the greatest extent, and it does not go rancid overnight and has good air permeability. It is the most suitable material for making tea in all tea utensils. However, with the great development of the market economy, there have also been some chaos and strange theories in the Zisha market. Shipotian Zisha summed up his ten years of pot-playing experience into eight sentences and shared my experience.
Zisha is only for tea drinkers,
Collection value is hard to say.
It's hard to see whether it is manual or not,
It's better to find the right teacher.
fancy chemical materials,
Purple sand was originally an earth color.
Listening to the sound and distinguishing the pot is unreliable,
Playing the potstand is biased.
Don't buy a pot below 100 yuan.
There are no flowers under 1,000 yuan.
The lid is tight and big flaws,
It is a big mistake to stay tea and raise a pot.
Ten purple sands are nine crooked,
There is one more black spot.
The grouting embryo market is chaotic,
Master Zisha does not take the pot.
These dozen or so sentences are my careful and original creations. Although individual words need to be considered, they are also from the bottom of my heart. I hope they can be of help to all novices who play pot.
1. Zisha is only for tea drinkers, and its collection value is hard to say.
The awareness is that most of the purple clay pots on the market have no collection value at all, so there is no need to consider the issue of future appreciation at all. Buying a purple clay teapot is for making tea. It is enough to make tea suitable for your own price and aesthetics. As for the issue of appreciation, it is an unrealistic idea. Generally speaking, the appreciation and collection of purple clay teapots only stay in high-end areas. It is not a matter of consideration for the consumer market. The most important thing is to use good materials.
Second, it is difficult to see whether it is manual or not, it is better to find the right master to do it.
Many people want to buy a fully handmade Zisha teapot, so they work hard to learn various techniques of Zisha teapot, but unfortunately it is difficult to distinguish the full handmade by technology, especially for beginners, it is difficult to grasp the subtleties. Instead of trying to learn technology, it is better to find a reliable teacher, trusting people is more important than technology.
Third, the bells and whistles of chemical materials, purple sand was originally the color of soil.
I don't know when it started, purple clay pots of messy colors, green, blue, garish, scary looking, and naked chemical raw materials became popular in the market. Although appearance is very important, what I want to say is that purple sand is actually dirty, not coquettish. Zisha teapot is restrained, not flamboyant. If you love beauty and color, you will definitely buy fakes. God is pitiful, a fancy pot is not a good pot.
Fourth, listening to the sound to distinguish the pot is unreliable, and playing the pot upside down is biased.
Some people prefer to pretend to be compulsive. They say that listening to the sound can tell the quality of a purple clay teapot. The sound of a purple clay teapot is brittle or not, which has a lot to do with the sintering temperature and the thickness of the mud. of. I saw some people who pretended to use a pot lid to grind the mouth of the pot and knocked it over and over. They looked very deep, but they actually used a hammer. There is also the question of the inversion of the purple clay teapot. A treasure market likes to brag about this, saying that the purple clay teapot that can play upside down is a good one. Whether the purple clay pot can be played upside down is only related to the shape of the pot. It has nothing to do with the pot material, and you can also play upside down with a grouting pot and pull the embryo pot, which is absolutely unreliable pseudo-knowledge.
5. Don't buy pots below 100 yuan, and no flowers below 1,000 yuan.
In the consumer market, you can't buy serious things for a purple clay pot within 100 yuan, and don't buy flowers within 1,000 yuan, it won't be anything good.
6. There is a big flaw in the tightness of the lid. It is a big mistake to keep the tea and raise the pot.
Many people who buy purple clay pots emphasize that the lids are tightly seamed and tight, which is regarded as a technological requirement, but in fact, purple clay pots are made for tea, and a lid that is too tight is inconvenient to use. The lid is inconvenient, and it is also inconvenient to hold the lid. When making tea, you often encounter the phenomenon of drifting tea from the mouth of the pot. The lid of the pot is tight and cannot be covered. Therefore, when the master makes the pot, he can leave some space for easy access. If you fully emphasize the tightness of the lid, you will be at a disadvantage.
It is a big mistake to stay tea and raise a pot. Many people like to keep tea in the pot overnight, commonly known as Chashan. What are the benefits, the so-called tea leaves fragrance, not deliberately.
Seven, ten purple sand, nine crooked, and one with more black spots.
Due to the firing temperature and the shrinkage of the clay, there will be a certain deviation phenomenon in the firing process of the Zisha teapot, resulting in nine out of ten Zisha teapots, and the phenomenon of crooked mouth and crooked handle is common. The raw embryo of purple sand is good, but it may be crooked when it is burned. Of course, it may also be the master's habit, which leads to the common phenomenon of crooked mouth of Zisha teapots. It is actually common to say that it is a big disadvantage, it depends on your acceptance. Not a crooked purple clay teapot depends on luck, there is no perfect teapot.
Perfectionist, obsessive-compulsive, Virgo, please don't play with the purple clay teapot, it will make you vomit blood, even if you get a purple clay teapot that doesn't look crooked, there may be black spots on the teapot that will make you vomit Can't stand it. Since the purple clay pot is made of ore, and the raw ore is rich in iron and other metal elements, black spots are commonplace, and you will die if you get tangled up. If you demand perfection in everything, you will definitely buy fakes again.
The purple clay teapot is not perfect, the pursuit of perfection is worse than playing with porcelain.
8. The market for grouting and pulling embryos is chaotic, and the master of purple sand does not take the blame.
Although there are many grouting pots on the market, there are many pulling embryo pots, but don't lose confidence in the purple sand market. There are still many masters who are serious about making pots. After all, grouting pots are still operated in batches, and the masters who rely on craftsmanship to eat are still honest.
Choosing the right master and buying a good pot is the only way to play Zisha teapot.