Common methods for naming teapots

Teapot has always been loved by antique collectors. In some traditional classic teapots, the previous names will be used. If it is a self-made model, we should give it a name that is loud and accords with the meaning of purple sand. This is a very hard thing. In the face of an upcoming work, craftsmen will always think hard about the name of the teapot, but it may not be satisfactory. It can be seen that naming teapot is also a profound knowledge, which has been discussed by antique appraisers. Through the traditional naming rules of purple sand in the past, several naming methods of purple sand pot are summarized.

1, extended nomenclature. From the image of the shape object, its naming has a little abstract extension. This kind of pot name is often more philosophical and literal, so it makes people think more. Such as Siyuan pot. Originally, it was a kind of well-field pot shaped like an ancient well, so it was called "Siyuan" pot because people who were obsessed with digging wells when drinking water were thinking about the source; Bamboo-themed pot life, called "strong wind" pot or "high wind and bright festival pot", makes you feel different; Zhu Kexin's plum blossom pot, called "Spring", is reminiscent of Chairman Mao's poem "Don't do it" and "Joe doesn't fight for spring, but only reports it"; Zodiac commemorative pots are called "auspicious" pots (Year of the Rooster), "prosperous" pots (Year of the Dog), and "Three Sheep Open Thailand" pots (Year of the Sheep). For example, the pot of "Bamboo for Harmony" (a pot with bamboo as the theme), the pot of "Moonlight in Liutang" (a pot with lotus as the theme) and the pot of the sky (decorated with mud in the Tang Dynasty, meaning "I only see the lotus in the sky in the Yangtze River") are all derived from hieroglyphics, which are either philosophical or elegant, or create a situation, or pave the way for poetry and painting, which can better meet the needs of literati.

2. Pictographic nomenclature. This method is named after the shape of the pot. This naming method is easy to understand and intuitive, and the pot can be known from its name. This is the most commonly used method. For example, the "push ball" pot of traditional round musical instruments is named after it looks like two balls; "Square", "Eight Directions", "Brick Square" and "Ascending Square" pots directly describe the shape of a square pot. Pictographic nomenclature is especially suitable for flowers and bags. Such as sangha, ebony, pumpkin, a bunch of gossip bibcock bamboo, ichthyosaur, six-petal magnolia, eight-petal chrysanthemum and so on; You can even add height and body shape to distinguish, such as monk hat, big beauty and so on; As for Qin Quan pot, Minefield pot, Zhu Chu pot, Bamboo Slip tea set, Braun cone pot, etc. , are directly named after the imitation of the teapot. The advantage of pictographic naming is that you can think of the name of the pot by looking at it, which is easy to understand.

3. Use the classic naming method. That is, it is named after some historical allusions, such as the traditional work Dongpo Diaolianghu (or Suti), which is said to be designed by Su Dongpo, a great scholar. Dongpo once lived an enviable life and liked drinking tea. There is a widely circulated story that "the bamboo stove relaxes and the kettle shouts". Later generations attached it, so the girder lifting pot was named "Dongpo girder lifting pot" to make it thick. The "stone" pot in "Man Sheng Pot" is said to have been given to Dongpo in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty. Mansheng continued to use this name, saying that the "Stone" teapot was made of stone and made by himself, not from the Zhou Dynasty, which means that this "Stone" teapot is not the aforementioned "Qin Quan" pot, and the "Braun Cone" pot is named after an imitation, but it is reminiscent of historical allusions and gives people a sense of vicissitudes.

4. anthropomorphic nomenclature. Name the casserole a living person. The most typical example of using this method is Japanese Orantian, who named 32 teapots in his Ming Lu, such as Old Man in Liangyuan, Hiding Xiao Shancheng, Lonely Paradise Ding, Mr. Wolong, Ling Boxian, Princess after Bath, Iron Stone Husband and so on. Not only that, these pots also have surnames, names and characters, such as Fangshan with the surname of "District", Duan with the name of "Duan" and "Zi"; The names of Youmei are Yin, Yan and Qian, but Fangshan is actually a brick square pot. "Mr. Wolong" is Manson's "bamboo hat pot", "Ling Boxian" is the "six-petal narcissus" and "maiden" is the "Zhu clay pot" ... This naming method has a unique interest. There are anthropomorphic named "Shouxing Pot", "Laughing Baby Pot", "Sanyou Pot" and "Xi Shi Pot" in traditional works.

5. Decorative naming method: that is, the method of naming a certain decoration of pot art, such as the names of historical works such as "Eight Diagrams Painting Pot", "Opening a Square Pot Painted with Purple Sand" and "Square Painting Pot", not only include pot shapes (big pot, square pot, square pot, etc. ) pointed out that there are also decorative features-painting; For example, the tin-colored square-bottomed pot and tin-covered pot indicate the tin-covered decoration technology in the pot names, while the pot names such as "mahogany inlaid royal-covered pot", "applique square open pot", "mud painted waist round pot" and "mud twisted pot" indicate mahogany inlaid, "applique", "mud painted" and "mud twisted" respectively.

However, there are many naming methods for teapot, among which pictograph and extension are the most commonly used, but no matter what method is used, it is always based on the principle of appealing to both refined and popular tastes. But the public image, name. Such as "A Bucket Covered with Cattle" and "Little Bamboo Festival", they are simple and kind, but they cannot be vulgar and kitsch. If someone calls his own pot "magic pot", "magic pot" and "strange pot", it will inevitably make people laugh and make people sick. With the improvement of people's cultural literacy and appreciation level, the appellation of sand pot is required to be more elegant and exquisite, so extension method and personification method will be used more, such as the aforementioned "Siyuan pot" and "Spring-preserving pot". Another example is "Queyue", "Hengyun", "Albizia Albizia" and "Drinking Rainbow" in a full-grown pot, which not only have elegant and noble names, but also have inscriptions for cutting pots and tea, completely integrating the pot name, pot shape and pot inscription.