When the special soil that has been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years is awakened, China's purple sand, which has a history of more than 600 years, stands out in the world with its simple and mysterious special technology. Because of its unique beauty, purple clay pots play an important role in the lives of Chinese. In the history of Zisha art, there have been five revolutionary leaps, and each leap responds to the background of that era.
The first leap in the history of purple sand: purple sand and tea
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang "scrapped the group and scattered the tea" to promote loose tea, and since then, the way of drinking tea has gradually changed from sencha to making tea. The purple clay pot for making tea was born. The outstanding potters of this period were the monks of Jinsha Temple and the spring offering during the Zhengde period. The pot is made of tea, and only then can it be offered to spring. For spring, the child of Wu Yishan in the Ming Dynasty, served the master to study in Jinsha Temple. The monks love to make pots, for the spring to steal the master to learn the arts, and secretly observe the monks making pots. For spring, it is the first purple sand with a name in the ancient records of the tea pot, and is respected as the originator of the purple sand pot. Now the earliest spring offering pot is in the collection of the National Museum and is known asThe Ancestor Pot King
The second leap in the history of purple sand: process molding
With the development of the times, the production process of the purple sand pot in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties has been innovated by Shi Dabin, he is a comprehensive purple sand master, he is one of the "four families" Shi Peng's son, on the basis of "chopping wood for the mold" for the spring, the "body tube" and "inlay tube" molding method are combined, and the purple sand pot "mud chip inlay molding" is established The basic method, this is a huge leap in the production skills of the purple clay pot, has been used to this day, when the Dabin purple sand pot, there are more than 20 pieces, of which 10 are unearthed from the tomb, and the rest are heirlooms.
The Palace Museum collection Shi Dabin's early Dazhi pot.
The third leap in the history of purple sand: calligraphy and painting into the pot
Time came to the Qing Dynasty Kangqian prosperous period, that period of national strength, purple sand also entered the court became a royal favored utensils, many literati ink and purple sand craftsmen cooperated, the poems, pictures engraved in the body of the literati pot was born literati pot, Chen Mingyuan opened the literati purple sand first, the first peak of the literati purple sand, the literati purple sand is more economic, aesthetic, cultural and historical than ordinary purple sand, sought after by the majority of purple sand lovers.
Chen Mingyuan Tianji pot.
The fourth leap in the history of Zisha: cooperation with famous experts
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the purple sand craft factory was established by the state, and the purple sand craftsmen represented by the "Seven Elders of Zisha" were convened to start the cooperation of craftsmen and make pots for the country. The "Seven Elders of Zisha" are the representative figures of the Zisha inheritance of New China, and their works have been presented to foreign leaders as national gifts by leaders and used in important national departments. Under the leadership of seven old Zisha artists, a large number of Zisha masters have been trained. The purple sand products they created are endless, so the purple sand craft factory is also nicknamed the "official kiln", creating the artistic peak of the purple sand pot. Their masterpiece has set a record of 92 million for purple sand transactions, which is calledThe King of the Seven Old Pots
Noble purple clay pot.
The wheel of history has entered the 21st century, and in the context of the internationalization of art and the diversification of creation, Zisha art has also ushered in the fifth leap in history, which will become an important part of the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.
The advent of Zisha Aristocrat] has created the era of artistic Zisha, and has become a model of multi-art integration from an international perspective, and is known as the King of Pots of the Five Generations.
As the result of the No. 1 art project of the Gongmei Center of the Chinese Academy of Management, [Zisha Aristocrats] is coordinated and implemented by the Damai National Art Innovation and Research Base of the Gongmei Center of the Central Academy of Management, designed by the international artist and the Anqi Gang of the Royal Academy of Arts, and produced by Gu Jingzhou's personal biography and Han Meilin's designated cooperation institutions Zhang Caiping and Zhang Caiying.
The body of the pot is like the earth vase in Western mythology, and the trident sculpture of the pot button symbolizes the majestic power of the ocean, and the clay on the body of the pot shines like the interstellar galaxy, this pot integrates the essence of Chinese and Western culture at the same time, and has become an important oriental collection of the British royal family. The atmospheric appearance of this set of pots not only represents a symbol of self-improvement and self-confidence of the Chinese people, but also writes the story of China's purple sand going international. Because it has elevated Chinese purple sand art to an international artistic height through design, it has opened the door to the internationalization of purple sand art. Baron Stephen Cohorn, a British royal baron, called the piece an "Oriental legend".
Purple sand mud is made of two or more different colors of purple sand mud, which is made by hand-kneading, pressing, stacking, inlay and other techniques, and then by patting the mud pieces, and cutting the mud pieces and inlaying the mud pieces as required, until the body is beaten, so that an irregular but very natural and harmonious ornamental pattern is formed on the body of the pot, such as the sky flowing clouds, like a rainbow after the rain, such as lakes and mountains, like desert fields, etc.
Let everyone use high-quality, high-cultural attributes of the purple clay pot, enjoy the aristocratic life accompanied by art, "art into life, everyone is a nobleman" is the artistic attitude that [Zisha Aristocrat] wants to express!