Ten Rare Mud Materials of Zisha Pot

The order of clay in teapot is azure mud, red mud, dark green mud, purple mud, Benshan green mud and black gold sand/black star sand. Every kind of mud has its own quality.

1, azurol mud

During the Ming and Zhou Dynasties, Gao Qi said in Yang Xian's Famous Pots that azure mud "emerged, and pottery turned dark liver color". Some people thought that the color of the teapot was azure, that is, the color of azure mud. According to the miners, azure mud is a variety of purple mud, which is an interlayer on the keel, but it is tender. When it is mined, it really looks like the color of the sky, and the burned color is really dark red, which is "deep liver color". It is said to be the best variety of purple mud in past dynasties.

2. Purple mud

Mud is the highest yield of three kinds of purple sand mud (purple mud, cinnabar mud and Benshan green mud). Purple mud is the interlayer in the nail mud seam, and its content is 3%-4%. The ore body is thin and lenticular, and the thickness of the ore bed is generally about tens of centimeters to one meter. The appearance color of raw materials is purple and purplish red, with light green spots, and the appearance color after firing is purple, purplish brown and purplish black. The main component of purple mud is hydromica, which contains different amounts of kaolin, quartz, mica and iron. Comprehensive analysis shows that purple mud belongs to granular soil.

Black tea, Pu 'er tea and black tea are not suitable for pots made of mud, mountain green and light mud, especially after the black tea is soaked, the pot wall absorbs the dirt of black tea, resulting in artificial black spitting.

Pots made of cinnabar, dahongpao and red mud will do. The effect of soaking oolong tea such as Tieguanyin is better, and the effect of raising pots is particularly good.

Purple clay pot, clear bottom groove and clear cement: put any tea in moderation!