What kinds of tea are there, and what is the emphasis on the placement of tea sets?

The quality produced in Zhejiang is the best among porcelain tea sets. As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, celadon with pure color and light transmission was produced. Yue Kiln, Wu Kiln and Ou Kiln in the Jin Dynasty in Zhejiang Province all had considerable scale. By the Song Dynasty, the porcelain tea set produced by Zhejiang Longquan Ge Kiln, one of the five famous kilns at that time, had reached its peak and sold well all over the country.

2. White porcelain tea set

White porcelain tea set has the characteristics of dense and transparent body, high firing degree of glaze and pottery, no water absorption and long sound and rhyme. Because of its white color, it can reflect the color of tea soup, moderate heat transfer and insulation performance, bright color and different shapes, and it can be called a treasure in tea drinking utensils. As early as the Tang Dynasty, white porcelain produced in Yao Xing, Hebei Province had been widely used.

3. Black porcelain tea set

Black porcelain tea set began in the late Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, continued in the Yuan Dynasty and declined in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is because from the Song Dynasty, the method of drinking tea gradually changed from the method of frying tea in the Tang Dynasty to the method of ordering tea, and the popular fighting tea in the Song Dynasty created conditions for the rise of black porcelain tea sets.

4. Colored porcelain tea set

There are many kinds of colored tea sets, among which blue and white porcelain tea sets are the most eye-catching. Blue-and-white porcelain tea set, in fact, refers to a kind of apparatus which uses cobalt oxide as colorant, directly paints patterns and ornamentation on the porcelain body, then coats a layer of transparent glaze, and then reduces and fires it in a kiln at a high temperature of about 1300℃.

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The development of tea set:

"Good food is not as good as a gourmet" has always been the way people in China use it. From drinking a lot of soup to slowly drinking tea, human beings have gone through a certain historical stage. Different drinking methods naturally produce corresponding tea sets. Tea set is the most important carrier in the long history of tea culture development, which provides an important physical basis for us to interpret the tea drinking life of the ancients.

Tea originated in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou in the southwest of China. Sichuan's economy was quite prosperous in Han Dynasty, and drinking tea became increasingly prominent in the life of scholars at that time. In Tongyue, Wang Bao recorded that "the tea has been cooked and the hole has been covered" and explicitly mentioned the tea set used for making tea.

"Guangya" by Zhang Yi of the Three Kingdoms records: "Tea is collected between Beijing and Pakistan, made into cakes, and made of rice paste. If you drink it, you will bake it first, then put it in porcelain, cover the soup and serve it with ginger onions ... ",which shows that the way of drinking tea at that time was to bake the tea cake first, pound it into tea powder, then put it in a porcelain bowl and pour it into boiling water.

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