The Truth About the Zisha Market: A Yixing Girl Speaks Out for the First Time

A zisha teapot is a tea lover's closest friend. Quietly observing it, you feel its rustic elegance and warm beauty; then, on a deeper level, you sense the process through which it was refined by water, fire and earth. Appreciation of this kind holds a special charm, and at the same time lets you feel the teapot's long and profound history and culture.

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Master Qiao

A confession from a family of teapot makers

Dear teapot friends, hello!

I am Qiao Pingping. I was born into a Yixing teapot-making family, and by my generation we are already the fourth.

My family has a small shop in Dingshu Town.

Make teapots with conscience, conduct yourself with integrity - this is the sentence I heard most from my grandfather when he made teapots during my childhood! Grandpa has worshipped Buddha for many years and firmly believes: people act and heaven watches, and only a teapot maker with a bottom line can last long.

We sincerely welcome teapot friends to visit our small shop in Yixing, to taste tea and chat about zisha

The price range of zisha teapots is very wide, which inevitably confuses people; the price of an ordinary teapot and a top-grade one differs as much as heaven and earth. Among the zisha teapots on the market now, some prices are very chaotic. Especially

now zisha teapots are flooded by too many chemical teapots, mold teapots, slip-cast teapots, machine teapots and ghost-made teapots. This phenomenon has hit families like Pingping's, who make teapots purely by hand, very hard. So the reason for saying these things online here is, first, that I cannot stand the current zisha market, and Pingping

wants to let teapot friends buy purely handmade zisha teapots, cut out the middlemen, avoid being cheated, and let teapot friends get authentic zisha teapots at the lowest price.

Pingping will talk with teapot friends based on her own experience

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Chemical teapots: many chemical raw materials are artificially added to the clay, and long-term use is extremely harmful to the human body.

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Slip-cast teapots: slip casting is when a slurry containing paraffin is heated and poured into a plaster mold; after cooling, the plaster mold is opened and the teapot body is obtained; then the spout and handle are attached and

after dewaxing it is fired into a teapot.

About zisha teapots, what should teapot friends pay attention to

Authenticity

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Have you bought a chemical teapot or a slip-cast teapot?

Price

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Can you buy a zisha teapot with high cost performance?

Title

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Have you bought a ghost-made teapot?

After-sales

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If you are not satisfied after receiving it, or the pour is not smooth, can you return it?

Pingping can perfectly solve all these problems,

Regarding common knowledge about zisha, Pingping has compiled the "Zisha Appreciation Handbook". Through the handbook, we can bring zisha teapot lovers more knowledge about zisha teapots, as well as the inside story of Yixing zisha teapot making. Add my WeChat

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How can you buy a good teapot

1, The clay must be good

All the clay used in Master Qiao's zisha teapots comes from the original ore old clay stored by the family from Huanglong Mountain in Dingshu Town. Good clay makes tea taste good and is easy to maintain.

2, Fully handmade teapot making

Master Qiao adopts the "traditional handmade shaping method", that is, the beating and fitting shaping techniques handed down from the Ming dynasty, using more than 80 kinds of traditional tools such as the dabble, the distance wheel, the windlass and the slip-stick during production.

3, Fired with care

       Zisha is a rare mineral, and combined with the difficulty of making it, this makes teapots appear rare and not easily produced in batches. The final firing also involves great uncertainty; it can be said that the quality of the firing directly determines the quality of the teapot. From mixed firing with coarse pottery to boxed firing so that it does not stick to impurities, to fully mastering the level of temperature and grasping the kiln atmosphere, all determine whether a clay teapot can achieve its best presentation. So the birth of a good teapot is especially difficult.

     What is "kiln transformation"? It mainly refers to the uncertain natural change in the glaze color on the surface of porcelain during firing due to changes in the kiln temperature.

4, Appreciation of fine zisha teapots

       A zisha teapot is the confidant of tea, the soulmate of the tea person. Every zisha teapot has a true story; when you read one heart with another heart, a teapot gains life.

      For some special styles of zisha teapots, we do not make them often, so we cannot guarantee they are in stock at all times. In that case, dear friends need to consult us in advance by WeChat or phone to place an order.

But in general, every time we make new zisha teapots, we will announce them on WeChat as soon as possible, so please remember to follow us in time.

5, Certificate and quality guarantee

      Every teapot sold by Master Qiao comes with the master teapot maker's handwritten certificate, anti-counterfeiting code, a photo of the master holding the teapot, etc., preserving value and authenticity! Before shipping, every teapot undergoes strict testing of the pouring effect and strict inspection of the beautiful teapot's quality.

What Pingping truly wants to say to teapot friends

   I regard inheritance as my life, and insist on using the family's original ore clay and on purely handmade production. Although purely handmade production is troublesome and laborious, it can ensure that zisha teapots have more spirit. Master Qiao Zisha has no big-budget advertising and no expensive packaging; I only want the good teapots and good craftsmanship of my hometown to be loved by more teapot lovers. Add my WeChat:

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One tea, one world; one teapot, one universe,

Good tea paired with a good teapot is the only way not to let down tea's pleasant fragrance

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