The biggest difficulty for new people to buy a purple clay pot is how to buy a real purple clay pot, the rest of the problems are secondary, such as what type of pot is suitable for what tea, what is the water effect of the purple clay pot, and how many people...... There are standard answers to these questions, or you can try them yourself.
Only how to buy a real purple clay pot, even if the corresponding pot tutorial is given online, beginners follow the tutorial, with this way of identification by gourd painting, the accuracy rate is not very high, some businesses will increase the manual processing traces.
Therefore, standing in the technical point of view to the pot, it is not suitable for novice pot friends, the identification of purple clay pot is a gradual process
First, about the forming process the forming process of the purple clay pot can be divided into grout pot, hand-pulled embryo pot, locomotive pot, honing pot, semi-manual pot, all manual pot, these six kinds. Among them, the authentic Yixing purple clay pot has only two molding methods: half hand and full hand. As a novice to buy a purple clay pot, Zhuo teacher's suggestion here is to buy a locomotive or half a hand. The locomotive pot is not a purple clay pot, but as a novice entry pot, it is a good choice, in the identification of purple clay pot learning, there is also a basis for judgment, of course, the premise of purchase is that this pot is not from an unknown small workshop, there is no guarantee that what is added, what mud is used.
Regarding the purple clay pot, I have always wanted to summarize the experience of a comment pot in a short space, and try to have rules to follow. Directly use good or bad to evaluate a pot, are too extreme; There are many purple clay POTS neither good nor bad, it is more appropriate to say that mediocre existence. If you cut from the three aspects of the traditional material type, each aspect has to talk a lot, and no matter how much you talk, there is a suspicion of leaking. Like mud expert Mr. Li Hongyuan published not long ago, "Yixing purple sand mineral Source Atlas" is the best work in the mud field, but even such a thick monograph can not guarantee that the purple sand mud is completely and thoroughly explained. For example, there is a very famous copying the ancient master, a pot to five-figure price, but often by the pot friends ridicule as "only a thousand pieces of workmanship level", like this situation can not only use the meticulous degree of workmanship to measure the price of the pot. Finally, I decided to start with the seven levels of the purple clay pot, as clear as the ranks of employees in an Internet company. These seven levels are the original summary that I have been immersed in for many years, and they are hierarchical for the purple clay pot works themselves, and have nothing to do with the author's fame and title, the price level of the pot and the merchants who sell the pot, that is to say, the master pot may also be classified as a low level, and the pot made by an unknown boy may also be classified as a high level. The barriers between each level are relatively clear, and there may be POTS between two adjacent levels, such as between the third and fourth levels, but there is absolutely no pot belonging to both the third and fifth levels. The attributes and information engraved in the bones of the pot itself, although it may not be able to make everyone see clearly, but these information will no longer change once formed, and the third-level pot will not evolve into the fifth level after 100 years.