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The purple clay teapots sent into royal court during the middle and late- Qing Dynasty. Because of the Emperor Kangxi focus on enamel colored porcelain with great passions, to make...

Hui Mengchen is a very important potter in history of Yixing Zisha teapots. Especially in southern Fujian, people drunk tea with Mengchen pot mostly, and Chaozhou people drunk the Kongfu...

Jingxi, sit at south of Yixing, called for it is next to the Jiangnan Mountain, this one is the name of place, A famous scholar named Zhang Dai visited tea...

As the old Chinese idiom goes, "it is necessary to have effective tools to do good work." It refers to ordinary labor and creations. As a material activity, tea art...

From Shunzhi Period to the early-Kangxi Period, the development of Yixing Zisha was at a low ebb. The potters at this time were no any records on the historical documents....

The methods of drinking tea has changed several times since the Han and Tang dynasties. The general methods are described below. 1. Brewing tea: The tea dust is brewed directly...

The three periods of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong in early-Qing Dynasty were the golden age of developments of Qing Dynasty. Regions south of the Yangtze River at this time, economic was...

People who have watched a performance of the Japanese tea ceremony often ask: Why is it called tea ceremony in Japan and tea art in China? Is it because China...

The inscriptions of purple clay teapots, as same as the modelling of purple clay teapots, later generation always imitate the predecessors. We could not tell the style characters apart of...

Each nation has its own unique cultural system and individual characteristics. Great differences exist in the orientation of culture and values between the East and West. The West advocates fire...

According to the archaeological finds, the purple clay teapot with loop handle which is unearthed from Nanjing Wujing's Tomb is the earliest discovered purple clay teapot with exact date, but...