Speaking of the past and present life of the stone pot, many senior purple sand pot friends have a clear understanding, this issue of the "Ki Gu Zhai" magazine again published an article to introduce the stone pot, the purpose is to let more purple sand pot lovers understand the original prototype of the stone pot, to the historical evolution of the final name of the stone pot, in the process of exploring and studying this process, let us deeper understand the influence of Chinese culture in the purple sand art circle, will find that the stone pot is a veritable product of the development of Chinese cultural progress! Stone pot pot type can be said to be basically the shape of the lower half of the cone, with the appropriate mouth, lid, handle, etc., presented to us the feeling that this utensil is stable, generous, durable, due to the low weight of this pot pot, with it tea operation handy, so the stone pot pot is deeply loved by the majority of purple sand pot friends! To talk about the history of this pot, we must start with the three masters of Chinese culture and purple sand culture!
Some people say that Su Dongpo is a figure of the ceiling level of Chinese literati, and indeed Su Dongpo has touched the ridge in many areas of Chinese culture. His poems "Ten years of life and death are two vast", "The old man talks about the madness of the youth", "May the people be long" and other famous sentences abound, in the Song Dynasty his poems and Xin Abandoned Disease Qi name "Su Xin", his prose and Ouyang Xiuqi name "Ou Su", his calligraphy "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" in the history of Chinese calligraphy ranked third after Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Sequence" and Yan Zhenqing's "Sacrifice Nephew Manuscript", his painting "Dead Wood and Stones" was auctioned for 400 million to 600 million yuan, setting a record for the highest auction of ancient Chinese paintings, in addition to his proficiency in traditional Chinese medicine, Proficient in water conservancy, he is also a foodie, and historical records have verified that he participated in the revision and recording of more than 60 recipes, such as Dongpo elbow. Here we want to say that he is still a person who has a lot of research on tea drinking, before the Song Dynasty, he used metal utensils and porcelain to make tea, metal utensils are a kind of chosper pot, similar in shape to the current purple sand stone scoop pot, but larger. Su Dongpo in Suzhou and Hangzhou as an official, after repeated attempts to find Yixing local purple sand mud roasted pot brewed tea taste, which has China's earliest purple sand pot, do not pursue style, do not pursue good looks, only the pursuit of practicality, in order to distinguish metal chole, Su Dongpo will call it "stone chole", this statement, we can find evidence in Su Dongpo's "trial courtyard boiling tea" poem, talk about here everyone recognizes the great writer Su Dongpo is the originator of the purple sand pot! It will also be recognized that the purple sand pot is a product of Chinese culture!
Manson Stone Scoop
The second is Chen Hongshou, the number Mansheng, during the Qing Dynasty, Yixing neighboring county Liyang County Ling, Chen Mansheng read through ancient Chinese books since childhood, proficient in Chinese culture, good at seal carving, was one of the "Eight People of Xi leng" during the Qing Dynasty. Historical records record that Chen Mansheng likes purple sand pots to the point of obsession, he has studied the shape, style and configuration of the spout, lid and handle very deeply, but he can not make pots, he found Yang Pengnian, a skilled craftsman of local pots in Yixing, to cooperate to create the purple sand pot "Mansheng Eighteen-style" style, which plays a pivotal role in the history of the development of purple sand culture, and the first style of the eighteen types is the "Stone Chomp" pot. Chen Mansheng has a deep Chinese cultural heritage, he directs the design and production of the pot style is novel and unique, the pot body is full of Chinese cultural elements, or poetry, or painting, or aphorisms, so that the purple sand adds countless brilliance. There is a good story: Chen Mansheng painted a branch of chrysanthemum on the pot, with the inscription "Tea is ripe, chrysanthemums are opening, enjoying autumn people, can not come", if it is the Mid-Autumn Festival night, about a few friends, in the Suzhou and Hangzhou garden pavilion full of chrysanthemums, use this pot to brew tea and enjoy the moon, how wonderful. It was Master Chen Mansheng who made the purple sand pot integrate more Chinese cultural elements.
Jingzhou stone scoop
The third is the contemporary pot maker Taidou Gu Jingzhou master. Gu Jingzhou also particularly loves stone pots, he has made a number of stone pots of different sizes and styles in his lifetime, one of which is the Tang Yun stone pot made by Gu Jingzhou and painted by Wu Hufan, which was sold for 42.56 million yuan at the 2015 Jiangsu Hexin Autumn Auction, setting a record for the highest stone pot auction. It is precisely because of the master's love for this pot type that the "stone scoop" was changed to the current "stone scoop", Master Gu Jingzhou said: "A beautiful good pot, use it to brew a pot of good tea, should give it a poetic name." "Cho" polysyllabic character, can be read yáo diào tiáo three sounds, when first looking at this word, many people are not sure of its pronunciation, so the name is not good. One day the master saw the ancient Chinese famous sentence "three thousand weak water, only drink one scoop" (can be interpreted as taking water to walk three thousand miles, just to drink a scoop of water), why not change this "stone scoop" to "stone scoop", his proposal, immediately received the response and support of the vast number of purple sand art circles, unanimously believe that "stone scoop" is catchy to read, profound meaning, but also fully reflects the Chinese cultural elements. Listening to the story of these three masters and the stone pot above, everyone agrees that we say that the stone pot is the product of the progress and development of Chinese culture!
Kiguzhai Collection Bao Shuyan Three-curved mouth stone scoop pot