In the late Qing Dynasty, China's purple clay pot making process reached its peak and became a must-have in the social circles of the time. Many well-known scholars rushed to Yixing to customize purple clay pots to meet their social needs. In the process of customizing the purple clay pot, there is a name that has been recorded in history, and that is the Pan family.
According to the record of "Yangxian Sand Pot Diagram", the owner of the Pan pot is named Pan Shicheng, the word Deshe, is a native of Panyu, Guangdong during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. The ancestors of the Pan family made a fortune on salt, and then gradually promoted to the position of Liangguang salt transportation envoy. Since the Pan family has been fond of tea culture for generations, they came to Yixing to order exclusive purple clay pots, on the one hand, for their own use, and on the other hand, for gifts to relatives and friends.
The shape of the Pan pot was relatively fixed when the Pan family ordered it, and they were Xi to place the seal on the edge of the lid, while the bottom of the pot and other places were not stamped, and the seal was usually engraved with the Yangwen seal character "Pan". In the social context of that time, scholars pursued a refined life, and tea culture became an important carrier for them to show their taste and style. As one of the representatives of Chinese tea culture, the purple clay pot has naturally become the object of pursuit by scholars. As a famous family in Guangdong at that time, the Pan family had a special fondness for the inheritance and promotion of tea culture.
They not only customized their own purple clay pots in Yixing, but also passed on this culture to future generations. With the passage of time, the "Pan Pot" has gradually become a classic in Chinese tea culture. Its unique shape and exquisite craftsmanship not only demonstrate the exquisite skills of Chinese purple clay pot making, but also represent the pursuit of quality life by the scholars at that time. At the same time, the "Pan Pot" also contains profound cultural heritage and historical value, and has become an important carrier for future generations to study and understand the cultural, social and humanistic features of the late Qing Dynasty.
Nowadays, the "Pan Pot" has become the object of collectors' pursuit, and its value lies not only in the exquisite craftsmanship, but also in the historical and cultural connotations it contains. Every time "Pan Pot" is mentioned, people will think of the late Qing Dynasty, the deep relationship between the Pan family and Yixing, and the glorious history of Chinese tea culture.