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Weihaiwei, is located at southeast of Shangtung Peninsula,south to Yellow Sea,it was a fishing village in ancient times. It was named as "Shi Luo" in Han Dynasty, named "Qingquan Chuan"...

Chen Hongshou(1768 - 1822), surname is Zigong, called as Mansheng or Mangong, Gongshou, Plant Elm Old Holy Man, Taoist priest, he was born in Qiantang. To be an official magistrate...

Because the favor of tea-drinking for Emperor QianLong, lots of places made purple clay teapots as articles of tribute, lots of them are requisite and rich changes in decorations. In...

The purple clay teapots sent into royal court during the middle and late- Qing Dynasty. Because of the Emperor Kangxi focus on enamel colored porcelain with great passions, to make...

Hui Mengchen is a very important potter in history of Yixing Zisha teapots. Especially in southern Fujian, people drunk tea with Mengchen pot mostly, and Chaozhou people drunk the Kongfu...

Jingxi, sit at south of Yixing, called for it is next to the Jiangnan Mountain, this one is the name of place, A famous scholar named Zhang Dai visited tea...

As the old Chinese idiom goes, "it is necessary to have effective tools to do good work." It refers to ordinary labor and creations. As a material activity, tea art...

From Shunzhi Period to the early-Kangxi Period, the development of Yixing Zisha was at a low ebb. The potters at this time were no any records on the historical documents....

The methods of drinking tea has changed several times since the Han and Tang dynasties. The general methods are described below. 1. Brewing tea: The tea dust is brewed directly...