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Zisha pottery is a traditional folk pottery.

The craft of making pottery with purple sand is a special traditional craft of making pottery in China. It once spread in Ganyu, Guanyun County, Lianyungang City, with a long history. Its production technique is the skill of making handmade purple mud. It is made of purple mud (including purple mud, red soil, yellow mud, etc.). ) has a special aggregate structure and double-hole structure, produced in Guanyun, decorated and shaped by dozens of self-made tools, one of which is hand-painted.

The other is to complete the ceramic products through the steps of mudding, barrel beating, barrel inlaying or combination of inlaying and carving, surface polishing, ceramic carving decoration and so on. The finished products of Guanyun Zisha pottery are represented by daily utensils. Generally, purple sand pottery is not glazed inside and outside, and its natural texture and texture are beautiful.

Characteristics of different purple sand ceramics;

1, pot-shaped purple sand pottery

Because of the close relationship between pot and human life, pot-shaped pottery is still an enduring artistic expression in international ceramic works. Affected by this, pot-shaped purple sand pottery is still a major category of modern purple sand pottery. Some pot-shaped purple sand pottery still retains the basic structures such as pot body, pot mouth, pot handle, pot cover, pot button, pot foot, etc. The shape of the pot has been greatly deformed and novel, and it still has the function of use. However, more pot-shaped purple sand pottery broke through the limitation of use function.

2. Non-pot-shaped purple sand pottery:

There are many forms of expression, and any form that occupies space and expresses people's thoughts and feelings can be classified into this category. The shape of the container can be bottle, jar, dish, bowl, geometric shape or abstract shape. Although these works are simple in shape, they are not simple. On the contrary, they contain profound ideological and cultural connotations, and express the feelings of ceramists about society, nature and life, so that people can think and feel while enjoying them.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yixing Zisha Ceramic Art