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The book of Records of Famous Teapots in Yangxian said, "Dong Han,started to make the Ling-flower pattern ware, and they were exquisite already". What is Ling-flower? It is a kind...

Many categories of bamboo in Yixing such as moso bamboo, pale bamboo, hard bamboo, orange bamboo,etc. People always thought plant bamboo was better than plant some flowers in the old...

It is not common of eight-sides square wares in the purple clay square teapots. Most of them are inequilateral eight-sides ware. * Low eight-sides tea sets, modem times, Shen Xiaolu...

The rectangle teapots take much more proportions of the purple clay square teapot, the common style included the rectangle fighting teapot, high rectangle teapot, compressed rectangle teapot,etc. Changes still exist...

* Six-sides Dabin teapot, Wanli Period in Ming Dynasty, Shi Dabin made. It unearthed with an inscription noted it belonging to the tomb of Wanli next 44 years Period in...

According to the Taoist School, human and nature are unified. A person is a small world, and a cup of tea reflects the sea. Tea ceremony has assimilated this thought....

The cylinder vessels appeared in the traditional ceramics was early, but it was unfrequent. The cylinder shape in round shape of purple clay teapots became fashion in the mid-Qing Dynasty....

It had appeared in the Neolithic Age, most were pottery alms bowls with convergent mouth, semisphere belly and round bottom. The Hongzhou kilns in Northern Dynasty appeared the green glaze...

The shape of Zisha teapot can be divided into sphere, square, natural, rib pattern, new shape wares. The round also can be divided into sphere, hemisphere, cylindrical, sphere variation, etc....

Preface History is a mirror. So-called "mirror" means the historian want to know about the "active action", it is also means what we had been doing in the past, just...

In the south of China in Late-Ming Dynasty, the agriculture, handicraft industry were flourishing day by day. The developments of productive forces formed an active commodity circulation so that the...