First, look at the color.
What color is Yixing purple sand? It's called five-color soil. Remember, the raw ore mud is dull, not particularly bright, and will not have a particularly strange color. For new pot friends, it is recommended to add common mud such as purple mud, cinnabar mud and segment mud.
Second, touch the pot
The teapot must have sand. After firing, the surface of the teapot will not be so smooth. Maybe the pot body looks rough, but it won't prick your hand, because the pot is treated with needles before firing, and the feel is both grainy and moist. That kind of smooth mud is more than 200 meshes, and there is no sand.
Third, look at the sense of sand
It's harder to touch the sand. Pure sand is evenly distributed, and those uneven and abrupt particles may be sprayed or washed. You need to accumulate experience to distinguish.
Fourth, the smell.
You can open the lid and smell it. The teapot in the raw ore has no taste, only the taste of kiln soil. You can take it out after boiling, and there will be no pungent smell.
Matters needing attention
The teapot pays attention to the purple sand material and sandy effect. Purple sand ore is weathered into particles, then ground into powder with particles by stone mill, and boiled with water to make teapot. This original mud treatment method can keep the permeability of the teapot well and make it play a good role in daily use. Excellent material particle effect makes the sound quality of teapot deep, thick and hoarse.
The fine particles of sand are 32 mesh to 60 mesh. The original processing method can make the casserole feel smooth and comfortable. Whether the surface of the teapot is purple, reddish, pink, bean purple, etc. The pan should feel oiled soon, and it should not be dry, tired and lifeless like the skin of the elderly.
Purple mud should be purple with blue, red mud should be red but not bright, and the green mud of this mountain should be yellow with blue. In the past, the color of the teapot was related to the atmosphere of the Dragon Kiln. The color of the teapot fired by Longyao is related to the atmosphere of Longyao. The teapot fired by Longyao is generally black in cross section.
Pure purple sand material is the premise of modeling design of purple sand pot. Make full use of the characteristics and colors of materials to express the beauty of purple sand materials, plastic arts and daily functions. With the improvement of modern people's living standards, people will pay attention to health and longevity, and pure purple sand tea sets that are nontoxic and harmless will be favored by people.
Whether traditional or modern, the shape of teapot pays attention to the beauty of its point, line and surface. Pay attention to the overall design and novelty of the pot body, and require the producer to be people-oriented and humanized. The pot body pays attention to tolerance, and pays attention to the reasonable functional coordination of the spout, handle and buckle.
For pot lovers, first of all, it is necessary to distinguish whether the pot is handmade or handmade, and observe whether the shape of the pot body is beautiful and whether the work has personality. Whether the structure of the kettle body is coordinated is the key. If the surface of light goods is smooth, the handle is natural, the workmanship is fine and clean.
Secondly, observe whether the water is clear and clean, whether the handle is labor-saving and whether the cover is tight.
In the traditional concept of light goods modeling, the outer contour curve of the same modeling is a tiny difference, a thousand miles away. The shape of bare goods is plump, delicate, rough or resolute, giving people the feeling of "round, stable, even and straight".