Yixing Purple Clay Teapot. [Photo provided to chinadaily.fcom.cn] Tools for Yixing Purple Clay Teapot. [Photo provided to chinadaily.fcom.cn] The city of Yixing has a pottery-making history of ...

Art master Bao Yumei works on a purple clay teapot. [Photo provided to Chinaculture.org] The Yixing zisha, or the purple clay teapot, originated during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is world ...

Yixing is a small city in east China renowned for a unique type of clay, used for creating fine pottery. The diameter at the teapot's widest point is 1.6 meters.(Photo: CCTV.com) The clay is ...

But the purple clay reserves have been nearly depleted by the teapot making. Therefore, the Yixing government prohibited further clay quarrying in 2005. As a result, some local factories began ...

The clay is reputedly free of toxic minerals such ... if a drinker continuously makes a particular type of tea in a Yixing teapot, pouring hot water into it alone would be enough to get a strong ...

wrote that the clay was “perfect for enhancing the colour, aroma and flavour of tea”, preferable even to the traditional metal teapot. The city of Yixing, in the south of Jiangsu, may be ...

The UCCA Clay Museum, designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates, is a new cultural landmark in Yixing, a city renowned for its pottery, especially purple clay pottery. Known as the “pottery city ...