People who love to drink tea cannot do without a purple sand pot in their hands. The purple sand pot carries not only a pot of tea, but also a pot of quality of life.
Founded in 1913, Liyong Purple Sand has been committed to inheriting the spirit and heritage of the century-old, transforming the highest aesthetic crystallization in history into modern works to the market, meeting the aesthetic needs of the public, interpreting the aesthetics of public life, and creating purple sand works with collection value and cultural heritage for purple sand lovers around the world.
Inherit aesthetics and precipitate imprints
Liyong Purple Sand Museum is a large-scale and rich collection of purple sand art museum, collecting nearly 2,000 pieces of purple sand treasures from past generations, most of which are the works of Ming and Qing, Republic of China, contemporary purple sand artists and young and middle-aged potters, of which there are more than 70 pieces of treasures handed down by Gu Jingzhou, a pot art master, with a total value of more than 1 billion yuan. The museum has a total of 7 visiting areas, where you can learn about the past and present life of Zisha and the moving stories of Zisha masters, and get up close to the heavyweight collections of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Republic of China, the Seven Old Artists and Gu Jingzhou.
Modern technology, replica classics
Inheritance should not be just a visit, but should be a zero-distance possession.
In order to better inherit the spirit of purple sand pottery craftsmanship, LiYong Purple Sand combines the understanding of purple sand aesthetics, and uses modern technology to restore and reproduce the fine purple sand pottery crafts of previous generations. Under the premise of ensuring raw materials, craftsmanship and quality, the aesthetics of purple sand are extended, and the excellent craftsmanship and full of emotion are poured into each product.
In order to reproduce the "Mengchen Pot", LiYong Purple Sand hired a 30-year experienced craftsman to use the ancient method and hand refine the precious clay. Under the premise of retaining the essence, spirit and rhyme of the original work, the original work is reproduced one-to-one.
In order to reproduce the "Spring Pot", the craftsmen of LiYong Purple Sand, with the help of holograms and 3D printing technology, went through the processes of specimens, specimens, stereotyping, kiln temperature measurement, experimental firing, etc., which lasted for several years and finally reproduced perfectly. The successful spring pot is very light, whether it is the line or the shape, it is rounded and powerful, showing the natural beauty.
In order to reproduce the "Wenyuan vermilion clay sketch pot", Liyong Purple Sand has been painstakingly searching for many years, buying the fragments with heavy money, and asking famous workers to restore, Liyong 3D printing technology, repeated adjustments, test firing, after several twists and turns, finally see the real face. Li Yong Purple Sand will be reproduced this pot named "red face", red face pot is beautiful, ruddy color, like a beautiful person, deeply loved by the majority of tea people.
Traditional craftsmanship + technology allows everyone to move the museum's collection home, popularize the purple sand aesthetics, and continuously promote the development of traditional Chinese culture.
Ancient method of refining clay, ingenuity and craftsmanship
Liyong factory has set up kilns so far, employed a large number of purple sand craftsmen, many famous artists such as Cheng Shouzhen, Fan Dasheng, Yu Guoliang, Li Baozhen, Feng Guilin, Wang Baogen, etc., have made pots for Liyong Company.
In terms of raw materials, As a century-old brand, In line with the business philosophy of benefiting the country and the people and people-oriented, Liyong has opened an exclusive purple sand mud refinery farm for Liyong, focusing on ancient hand-made mud refining. The mined purple sand raw ore should be weathered in the open air of The Liyong Mud Refinery, stone grinding and crushing, stale, drying and other more than 10 processes, more than 500 days and nights.
In terms of technology, Liyong purple sand traces back to the source, strict requirements on mud and technology, and the production of purple sand pots is excellent, regardless of shape or charm, there is a trace of deviation, there is a trace of flaws, and it is immediately scrapped.
After selecting excellent purple sand craftsmen, Li Yong completed a series of cumbersome manual processes starting from the clay strips and body tubes, and after professional evaluation and review, the works could be fired in the kiln and completed the transformation at a high temperature of more than 1,000 degrees, ensuring that each one was a sophisticated work.
These purple sand artifacts with a sense of history, with the imprint of a specific era, take us back to the passionate era of mud and fire.