紫砂壶英文介绍

Zisha pot is a unique handmade clay handicraft in China. It was made in zhengde period of Ming dynasty. The raw material is zisha clay.

（紫砂壶是中国特有的手工制造陶土工艺品，其制作始于明朝正德年间，制作原料为紫砂泥，原产地在江苏宜兴丁蜀镇。）

Zisha teapot is a collection of value "antique", masters of the works are often difficult to find a pot.

（紫砂壶是具有收藏价值的“古董”，名家大师的作品往往一壶难求。）

The raw material is zisha clay, which originated in dingshu town of yixing, jiangsu province, also known as yixing zisha pot.

（制作原料为紫砂泥，原产地在江苏宜兴丁蜀镇又名宜兴紫砂壶。）

It is said that the founder of zisha teapot was spring offering in Ming dynasty.

（据说紫砂壶的创始人是中国明朝的供春。）

扩展资料

紫砂壶原料：紫砂壶烧制的原料为泥土，紫砂壶泥分为三种：紫泥、绿泥和红泥。可以烧制紫砂壶的泥一般深藏于岩石层下且，泥层厚度从几十厘米至一米不等。根据上海硅酸盐研究所有关岩相的分析表明，紫砂黄泥属高岭—石英—云母类型，含铁量很高，最高含铁量达8.83%。

紫砂壶在高氧高温状况下烧制而成，一般采用平焰火接触，烧制温度在1100-1200℃之间。紫砂壶成品的吸水率大于2%。紫砂壶的泥原料，为紫泥、绿泥和红泥三种，俗称“富贵土”。因其产自江苏宜兴，故称宜兴紫砂。

参考资料来源：百度百科-紫砂壶

Yixing Teapots
Clay teapots from the town in Yixing, near Wuxi, are an indispensable accessory for tea drinkers throughout China. Usually small, squat, and brown, fine craftsmanship and special materials make them an ideal vessel
for making tea. The fired clay is uniquely able to bring out the flavors of tea leaves during brewing. Since the clay is absorbent, unlike porcelain or metal, some of the flavor is absorbed into the pot during each brewing. This gives the tea a richer and more mellow flavor - after using a pot many times, the pot itself can flavor boiling water without adding any fresh tea leaves!

Much of the unique quality of Yixing teapots comes from the special dark brown clay they are fashioned from. The clay is not simply dug from the ground, but is actually made from rocks unique to the area, ground into powder and mixed with water. Craftsmen use choose several different types of rock and combine them in different proportions in light of what they are planning to make. The different colors of the best Yixing pottery come from different colored clays, not from paint or glazes, so pieces with several colors actually use several different clays. As a result, Yixing pottery is less brightly colored than Chinese porcelain, and uses more muted earth tones.

Yixing pottery is not made on a potter's wheel or with thin coils of clay. Instead, artisans use a complex array of hand tools to shape the parts of a teapot, then put them together before firing. All the parts of a single teapot must come from the same lump of clay and must be worked at the same time - otherwise differences in the consistency of the clay or changes in air temperature or humidity of the environment where it is worked could cause cracks and breaks when the pot is fired. Each pot is made of five parts - base, lid, walls, spout, and handle. After "tenderizing" a suitable lump of clay with a heavy wooden mallet, the artisan slices it up and rolls out a thin sheet to use as a base, making it a perfect circle with a small compass. He then rolls out and pounds clay for the walls and shapes them around the base to form the curved sides of the pot. He then forms the handle and spout, attaches them, and then creates the lid, perhaps the most challenging part of the pot. The pot then dries in the air for two days before being fired in a kiln. Since the clay can crack easily, it is slowly moved deeper and deeper into the oven to prevent it from heating too fast. After being fired for 18-24 hours, depending on the clay and the item, the pot is finished and ready for some tea leaves!

The workbench of a Yixing artisan is crowded with a bewildering array of tools, whose specialized uses have evolved over the centuries. There are separate compasses for measuring lid, bases, and walls of the pots, different mallets for pots with different shapes of walls, a plethora of knives and tiny awls, and tools uses to create the countors of everything from aged wood to the wrinkly skin of a gourd. A good set of tools and a thorough familiarity with their use is perhaps the key to the teapot craftsman's art.

This seemingly simple process is actually quite demanding, especially for the simplest and least decorated pots. For while small imperfections can be hidden underneath decorations or carving, even the smallest flaws or imbalances in the shape of an undecorated pot are obvious even to an untrained eye. While round, unadorned teapots, differing in shape and curve, are a classic favorite, Yixing teapots are also decorated in all sorts of beautiful designs. At one extreme are pots shaped to look like fruits and vegetables, or pieces of wood or bamboo, with amazingly lifelike textures and artful imperfections. Others are decorated with Chinese calligraphy or poems. One of the most traditional and beautiful styles combines the simplicity of plain teapots with touches drawn from nature - such as crafting the handle to look like a plum branch, with a small spray of flowers spreading over a section of the pot.

Since the clay absorbs flavor, you should keep the pot clean by washing it with warm water once you've finished drinking. But never clean it with soap - the soap can seep into the clay and give a soapy aftertaste to the next pots of tea! If you forget to clean it and the old leaves turn foul, adding boiling water, immediately pouring it out, and placing the pot in cold water will freshen the flavor again.

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