According to legend, a mason left a Yixing teapot on the roof while finishing the repairing of the house. A few years later, when he went back to the house to repair the roof again, he found that the teapot was still on the roof, and the color, flavor, and taste of the tea in it did not change at all.
The Yixing purple tea set is concise in size, simple in color, and quaint in structure. The longer it is used, the more elegant the color becomes, and the richer the flavor of the tea in it becomes. While pouring boiling water into the empty teapot, the light flavor of tea can be smelled from outside of the teapot.
The wonderfulness of the purple clay teapot is that it combines many artistic features in it such as pot mud, pot shape, pot style, pot stamp, inscription, painting, calligraphy, sculpture, carving, etc. Until today many painters and calligraphers still choose to paint and do calligraphy about teapots.
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