Tea taster, using a real Yixing teapot to make tea and taste tea, can be described as an artistic feast. Since the Ming dynasty, after brewing, silver, tin, copper porcelain and other pot species, public opinion believes that teapot is the best. Li Yu commented in the Ming Dynasty: "The teapot is topped with sand, which can't cover the fragrance or taste of cooking soup, so it is used to make tea without losing its original flavor, and it is rich in color, fragrance and taste. The teapot is produced and distributed in Yixing, Jiangsu. Its color is purplish brown, vermilion and mud Huang San, it is not out of glaze, it is quite elegant and simple, natural and naive. After firing at a high temperature of 1200℃, the tire body still has certain porosity and air permeability, good cold and hot mutation performance, and the tea is not easy to taste. Long-term use, the surface produces slurry luster, as beautiful as ancient jade. The teapot is hand-refined, expressing the beauty of the author's image, including abstract light elements and vivid flower plastic devices, and there are many varieties. If you want to choose a good pot, such as choosing a friend, you must not only have the opportunity, but also be willing to spend. If you love a pot deeply, you will be cherished. It's really not easy. Sometimes you get a pot, but it's just a passing sight, and it can't be appreciated carefully. Or it's a pity that it doesn't work. What's even more embarrassing is to find a good product, but I'm afraid it will be accidentally used and turned into pieces. To sum up, you must know the treasure with your eyes and cherish it when you use it. The author only discusses the identification of Yixing teapot from one point of view, and summarizes the methods of selecting teapot from making teapot as follows:

(1) First, formal beauty has both form and spirit. It is the main body of the teapot, and its beautiful shape can impress users. The collector's heart includes the balance of modeling, the moderate change of modeling and the expression of the image by the author.

(II) Practicality of Retry Function It is advisable to choose a large pot with a flat mouth to make green tea, which dissipates heat quickly and is not easy to change color. To make black tea, you should choose a pot with a high mouth and a small mouth. After being brewed with boiling water, the tea soup will be very fragrant. The capacity should be moderate, the end handle should be easy to hold, the spout should be smooth, the lid should be tight and suitable, interchangeable and rotatable, and the knob should be comfortable to hold. The pot body is smooth and smooth.

(3) Listen to the sound quality of the pot according to its color and luster. Purple sand pottery clay produces rich color texture after firing. The firing range of purple sand is wide, and the color depth is determined by the firing temperature. Purple is darker and the temperature is generally higher. Preferably, there are no surface defects and spots. A dark red surface means that the sintering temperature has not been selected. The teapot produced in other areas (Guangxi, Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui, northern Shaanxi and other places) only meets the standard of purple Tao Wei, with a fine and shiny surface and a lack of crystal particles. The molding method is mainly grouting, with obvious model traces. Yixing teapot, the knocking sound is simple and pure. If there is a crisp sound, it can be judged as a cracking phenomenon. For example, there are obvious cracks in the pot body, spout handle, etc., such as the bottom, mouth, cover, etc., which are manufacturing or firing defects and are judged as defective products. The sound of teapot produced in other places is generally crisp, because the raw material contains high aluminum (kaolin), which produces a sound similar to porcelain after firing.

(4) Observe the exquisite degree of production and study the rationality of the structure of each part of the teapot. Yixing teapot is generally made by hand, and gypsum mold is only used as an auxiliary tool for unified modeling. Processing and finishing, to achieve quality recognition, only by a series of procedures to complete, generally speaking, the surface is bright and clean without bumps, the lines are smooth and shiny, the bottom is flat and all parts are symmetrical, the details are handled with few glue marks, and the details are described in place, giving people a noble taste.

(5) Review the sealing of the pot to make it worthy of the name. Yixing teapot has left the author's seal on it, which has historical origin. It is the author's recognition of his work that can be handed down. The last pot-making process is completed. The fame of famous artists is the level of the author's artistic accomplishment and production skills, and it is a reputation recognized by the society. Judging from the author's style, identity and even experience. High-end famous pots, usually from franchise stores. The famous pot maker affixed a set of seals of appropriate size to the bottom, handle and lid of the pot. Beware of counterfeiting, sometimes with a certificate signature, or hidden label, each author has his own anti-counterfeiting methods. You'd better be familiar with the author if you buy special arts. Businessmen take risks in planting Sichuan. First, the seal is an imitation, and the authenticity can be identified by comparing its details.

Secondly, genuine stamps are copied by rubbing and plastic materials, and it is only necessary to compare the sizes of genuine and counterfeit stamps. Due to the larger size of the genuine product, the imprint of the counterfeit product is reduced by more than 10% after firing. Some businessmen used various methods to forge old pots in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Generally, experienced people can tell by verifying the clay of the teapot. In the past, clay materials were all practiced by hand and the quality was very good. Now it is mechanical crushing processing, with fine quality. What's more, purple clay is only produced in Dingshan, and the old pot clay is taken from the surface. Now it belongs to the deep layer of manhole, and the silt is very different. To deceive people, to fill in the old, and so on. In a word, the level and method of making real old pots are not as high as those of today's producers, because of the lack of historical evidence and genes. A good pot comes from the hands of famous artists, and the author's spirit of a good work is presented, just like China's famous paintings, only when heaven and earth are created can a good product be produced. All good products need to be savored by themselves. Zisha pot can not only make tea, but also taste it in use, so it can be really delicious. Different people have different opinions. Taste itself reflects a person's own hobbies and self-cultivation. It is difficult to establish a real identification standard. The beauty of a good pot is that it likes it. If you love it, use it and taste it, it will please you and be cherished.