Why is the purple sand pot so expensive in the physical store Yixing, and some people say that why is the purple sand pot so cheap on the live broadcast platform now? Many people say that the cost of mineral materials is high, some people say that the difficulty of hand molding is high, and some people say that the person who makes the pot has a high technical title, this is high, in fact, the real high price is the artistic level, leaving the artistic creation, purely to do practical tea brewers, the price will not be very high, the price and value of the purple sand pot are not the same thing, some pot prices are very high, but there is no high collection investment value, some collection value is very high, but the market price is not necessarily very high, the key is to analyze the material, craft, artistic creativity of the purple sand pot three elements, In addition, the author's cultural cultivation and personality and industry status are also very important, especially the amount of existence is also a very important factor.
The three elements of the purple sand pot, the material is the foundation. The process is a molding method, is a unique existence of a purple sand pot, although there are millions of stone pots on the market, tens of millions of antique pots, why can it be called a handful of artistic charm. Artistic creativity of these four words, sound very simple, in fact, many people exhaust the pursuit of a lifetime, Yixing purple sand pot in the plastic arts creativity can be said to be the most difficult of all art forms, there is no one, which is also doomed to only one in ten thousand successful success and family probability.
Next, let's talk about the importance of the advantages and disadvantages of purple sand ore to purple sand art works.
Purple sand mud is the title of Yixing Dingshan industry people, to be precise, purple sand is a mineral, when dug out in the deep well, like hard iron ore, after selection, a long time in the open air natural oxidation, gradually differentiated into small particles, and then after grinding into powder sieving to get the desired size of the eye, add water and train into mud, and then after a period of staleness, the organic matter in the mud is emptied, in order to hammer the mud strip mud pieces to form a pot, which is called "raw material process" in the mouth of Yixing people.
Raw material process, just a few lines of words, but for a purple sand artist, very complicated, each has its own heart, the raw material process is a thousand times more complex than the molding process, many people in order to make their own unique purple sand pot, in the raw material processing process must be secret, even if it is a very accidental effect, sometimes the second and third time with the same ore, the same ratio, the same kiln wet, the purple sand pot out of the face effect will not be the same, even a big difference, this is the charm of purple sand raw materials.
The quality of raw materials determines the life of a purple sand pot, and human genetic engineering can be used to describe the raw materials that determine the quality of a pot. Yixing purple sand ore has been mined for three thousand years, six hundred years ago was found to be the unique use of this mineral in the tea maker, six hundred years later, people really understand the true meaning of purple sand ore, when we explain the purple sand raw materials, often only say its scarcity, or its plasticity, color (five-color soil), but just ignore the characteristics of its raw ore material itself, these two years Yixing out of two books introducing Yixing original ore purple sand, as if selling very hot, but 99% of people are still confused after reading it, Even more confused, the reason is that the author's own professional cognition of purple sand ore is still stuck in the superficial layer, not from the perspective of the molding process to people to deeply analyze its importance and uniqueness, and can not be from the artistic expression to explain the raw material process itself is an art, here, I call it "raw material art".
Many people put the art of purple sand raw materials simply as the production process of raw materials, which is completely wrong, Yixing purple sand raw materials are hundreds of millions of years ago due to the composition of sedimentary rocks due to marine geological movement, from the physical explanation is the result of crustal movement, from a chemical point of view to analyze, the arrangement and combination of mineral elements and the specificity of the content of the achievement of the basic characteristics of purple sand ore. This is the fundamental reason why Yixing purple sand is different from other ceramic producing areas. Good ore materials have a unique personality, the effect is also unique, and the craftsman can grasp this uniqueness in order to have a unique sense of beauty.
I often compare the cross-section of the purple sand ore to a piece of pork belly, layer by layer, each layer has its own personality, blended together according to different personalities, especially to grasp Chinese medicine, the effect of different proportions is not the same, so, I emphasize the unique ratio of the purple sand raw material process, some people are tons of mud training, some people are just a few kilograms of training, sometimes a kilogram of training, constantly matching, constantly groping, constantly improving, there is a constant effect of unrecognizable, The pot of the same kind of mud that exists in the world is completely controlled within the single digits, which is the basic work of raw material art in the first step of purple sand art. Uniqueness is also an important factor in collecting.
Now, the market sells finished mud, generally specialized factory production, so, out of the same thing, there is no unique personality, the big red robe mud plus cooked granules plus iron red powder, the so-called golden section is white mud plus titanium dioxide, the Republic of China green mud is a section of mud plus chrome green, dark green mud is to add cobalt blue, the finished mud on the market basically uses modern chemical technology, of course, this does not mean that these raw materials made out of the purple sand pot is not good, will damage the health of the user, this statement is completely unscientific, Adding metal oxide coloring inorganic non-metallic materials has no problem at all, long-term use of the human body is not harmful, but in the ceramic raw materials can not add lead and cadmium, because these two substances at room temperature can be released from the carcass precipitate, this is absolutely not allowed. The country has strict standards, moreover, purple sand does not need these two substances, with these two substances will affect the yield of purple sand art and the beauty of the appearance.
Purple sand raw materials to add metal oxide coloring, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the people, trace the history, when the most used is iron red and cobalt blue, which is to meet the market people's love for purple sand color and added, at that time these two substances are also rare things, expensive, added in raw materials is not common, a large number of use is in the last two or thirty years, this is the result of market expansion, now the daily practical purple sand pot output of nearly 200,000, a large number of foreign raw materials, do not use metal oxide coloring , consumers do not buy the account, just like the vegetables we eat, do not use fertilizers and pesticides, the output is too small, how many people can enjoy it, and then, do not use fertilizers, pesticides of the dish is not good, you do not necessarily want, to say more popular, the little girl in love, which one do not paint some fat powder to decorate it. This is the market, it is human nature.
However, I want to pursue pure and natural minerals, is the most basic requirement of every purple sand art lover, as far as the collection investment is concerned, it is even more necessary to consider the advantages and disadvantages of raw materials, back to the topic, the raw materials in purple sand art can be compared with jadeite, natural purity for A goods, add metal oxides for B goods, in A goods is not a single mineral is the most excellent, but through the raw ore of different ore layers according to a certain proportion of the mix, to achieve the effect we want is the best, raw materials are the most basic elements of a purple sand pot, Often good raw materials are obtained by chance, through the thousand degrees of kiln temperature refining can be turned into your unexpected effect, the pursuit of beauty is the common spiritual force of mankind, the beauty of the material of the purple sand pot is a more important aspect, how to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the purple sand material is actually a long-term practice process, which seems to be a bit mysterious, even if the teacher fu who has been engaged in the molding process for decades, it may be more difficult to distinguish, but some businessmen who have been engaged in the industry for many years, they are exposed to more purple sand pots, In a large number of comparisons, only understandable, ineffable experience is obtained.
In my own words, the surface of the purple clay pot is natural, pure, the density is tight and smooth, avoiding too bright colors, that is, colors that grow naturally in the natural environment, not vulgar, not dull, not deliberate, not popular.