The ZiSha 紫砂 Teapot Channel.
The ZiSha 紫砂 Teapot Channel.
www.realzisha.com 🌿🌿🌿
Dear Buddies & Friends in the love and support of Fully-Handmade, YiXing ZiSha Art. This is your reference guide to authentic, ZiSha Art fraternity information. You and us, everyone, are the guardians of this art form, and we need to protect and support its honest artists and craftsmen. Their art and hardwork, since about 2015 especially, have been under threat from the deluge of dishonest jigger-jolly machined teapots churned out from numerous factor owners, who sell such non-authentic pots masquerading them as "half-handmade" and even unashamedly "fully-handmade" teapots.
I have started this channel in early 2021 to help all of us Appreciate, Recognize and Understand the inner workings of the ZiSha teapot's honest fraternity. YIxing ZiSha top artists and i have been serving international customers for the past 9 years, and are delighted to also be serving customers via our www.realzisha.com 🎋🎋🎋
Let us serve you too!!!
~ dr ian 🌿🌿🌿
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Thank you for teaching us. I live in Hong Kong and want to learn to spot fake teapots!
I watched and enjoyed your excellent tutorial. I would greatly appreciate a good website for an authentic pot. 🙏🍵🐲
Dear Friend🌞, our website is realzisha.com 🍵🍵🍵
very good 🙂
Dear Friend in Tea 🌿🍵🌻, may you be well and happy. Hope you enjoy many years of Oolong, White tea, Green tea, Black Tea, Red Tea, Sheng Pu and Shu Pu Er🥰🍵🍵🍵
Hello from Turkey. I have a Zhuni "Fish becomes dragon" teapot. It has very beautiful shape and hand carved well. But when I read its certification document, shows "Yuankuang Zhuni". Original ore of red clay. What is "Yuankuang" means? Is it means "Huanglongshan Zhuni"? I think it cannot be make shapy pots with Xiaomeiyo Zhuni or Zhozhang Zhuni because of high shrinkage...
dear Friend from Turkiye, technically, YuanKuang means Original Ore, it infers that the clay used to make the pot, is of ZhuNi ZiSha clay which has not been mixed or combined with any other ZiSha clay type 🌞. You are very wise, from your concluding sentence. 🌿🎋🍵May you be well and happy our friend in Tea Culture🤝🤝🤝
Is there audio?
this made me sad😂… I can only afford the cheap fake ones hahah
Thank you for this special instructional video. I can see the effort you put into this project, and wish you great success in your passion.
🌿🍵🎋 Dear Sir/Madam, I feel heartened that you appreciate the efforts behind the scenes. I sincerely also wish to emphasise also, that all the absence or presence of each indicator/parameter/signs, is not entire proof of whether a pot is authentic Fully-Handmade vs the ubiquitous jigger-machined pot. 🌻🌻🌻 As written on our website realzisha.com, I also mentioned (which you can scroll and read on our first page), that, Xing Ti 形体 is usually the giveaway. With experienced people, one does not even need to hold and feel the pot, and not even need to open the lid and look within the lid. We can see just by looking at a pot 1 meter away: we can tell by observing the coherency, curves, form, proportions. Yes: just by observing. In fact, in YiXing shops where many, many shops sell counterfeits and non-zisha pots, these counterfeits shop owners will secretly laugh within, if a walk-in customer comes into the shop -> approach a pot->and then touch and lift up the pot and open the lid to inspect within: this sign is the sure sign for the shop owner that he can go up to this walk-in customer and dupe him by various stories into believing that the pot is an "authentic Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot". A Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot has the 形体 Xing Tin, form, shape, that will be the clue as to whether a ZiSha Work is truly Fully-Handmade or not. 🌿🌿🍵🍵🍵🍵 Most of the so-called "Fully-Handmade" indicators can be faked on. This fake industry is huge. There are multiple factories and operations making such fake pots which are jigger-machined and not made from ZiSha at all. There are streets and streets, and buildings and buildings of shops selling such counterfeits. I will also come up with a video soon when we went undercover to unravel such fake operations. The video was done at great danger. 🎋🎋🎋 We only wish to preserve this precious Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art. Gratefully yours, ~ ian🌞
Thanks from Chicago for all that you do. I collect and sell Asian antiques, and wish that others would show the careful details that you do for the other Chinese arts.
Be extremely careful when considering any of these pots. I have been to the shops in Ding He and can tell you MOST of the pots for sale are fakes. The Chinese have classes in how to make fake pots for the tourist industry. The fake shops are right next door to the shops where actual masters produce works of art. This guy is worried that someone will sell a fake pot for a real price. Remember that China actually had an Apple store that Apple knew nothing about. They had a fake bank that took all the deposits and left town. Just buy a pot that you like and assume that it is fake. If you can afford to spend $1000 on a fake pot, then go ahead. Be happy. I've been collecting and making pottery since 1970. I've studied in Japan and China for 11 years. Be careful, be very very careful. I have more fake stories than I care to tell. As the Chinese say, "Xiao shin di ar!" That's Mandarin for "be careful."
That is true, always research before buying anything online, like video resources like this, and knowledgeable write-ups on forums and Reddit
oh wow you make zisha reviews too? i loved your audio equipment videos from a couple years ago :)
Dear Buddy, thank you very much for your friendship. ZiSha is my first love 🌿🍵🌞🙏🏼🙏🏼🎋🎋🎋
@thezishateapotchannel.1675 are there any reviews of other famous clays from China? Guangxi Nixing has been gaining popularity recently for its relatively less expensive price point,would love to see an analysis into its making process (:
@Electron101 Dear Buddy🌿🌞🙇♂️ it is better for me to reply you via your email, and explain to you in that way. Drop me an email at, [email protected] 🍵🍵🍵
Thank you for the great content over many years. From Vinyl to Tea. Been holding off from getting a tea pot for a long time because I knew very little. Hope with these series I can make the right purchase.
You are welcomed dear friend. Please enjoy the journey. Thank you for being together on this tea journey and preserving the tea culture: Tea + Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art. May you be well, prosperous and happy 🙏🏼😁🫶🌿🌿🌿🍵🍵🍵🙌🙌🎋🎋🎋
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Dear Friend, enjoy your tea journey🌿🍵🎋🌻
Great pots! 👍
Dear Buddy Zach, here at RealZiSha, Yi-Lei and I want to thank you for your patronage and support always for our Grand Masters and various Artists 🙇♂️ although we can't always meet due to our intercontinental flights, we always have tea when we do meet up. Thank you for the friendship and always looking out for us. Gratefully yours, ~ Yi-Lei and ian.
A wonderful video! thank you for posting this.
Dear Prof, thank you, always🌿🌞🎋
So interesting. Thank you.
Dear Ms Linda, thank you too for catching up🙏🏼🫶🍵🍵🍵🍵🌞🎋
What's the main difference between a handmade pot and a factory made one at this level? Will it severely affect the taste? I have a cheap factory made 60ml teapot and it leaks around the lid. That's my main issue with it. Other than that I think it's quite fine for what it's meant for. I want to own a hand made tea pot, I really do, but they are seriously expensive.
I think you answered your own question. As per my understanding counterfeits come in 2 varieties- decently functional genuine yixing clay pots that work fine for the tea brewing but which are marked up and sold as more expensive handmade art pieces by masters thus causing economic loss to the buyer, and outright fakes make with non-yixing clay or worse, paint-mixed clays which can be downright harmful to the users. So if a factory-made pot is sold at fair prices, then you get value for money. Similarly if a pot is sold as an art piece "in the style of yixing pot" but with clear warning not to drink from it, fine. It's when those ethical lines are crossed that there is a problem
If you plan on drinking tea for a long time its wont be expensive in the end
Save some spare change and you’ll get one in months time, in the meanwhile research on good sources and info (I like essence of tea and realzisha). Get a cheap porcelain or chaozhou 60ml pot (not a good idea to drink from a random factory 60ml pot) for your needs.
thank you
Dear Friend in Tea+ZiSha🌿🍵🌞thank you too for your time and earnestness 🎋🎋🎋
Hi Ian do you guys hold yixing zisha appreciation meetings?
Sir, is there a legit website where you can purchase real Zisha? Thank you
Dear Friend, our Cao Family are working intensely with Artists and Craftsmen at realzisha.com, please come by and be engaged. Read all the articles🍵🌿🌞🎋 thank you friend in tea🤗🤗🤗
Thank you Sir 🙏🏽
This is truly fascinating,and your wisdom is so very admirable. I appreciate this information,as I am passionate about my teapots. I own a beautiful little Master Wu,I cherish it
Also,I would like to say,you are a hero,waging war against counterfeit makers. I salute you!
@charlesperez9976 dear Charles, thank you🙇♂️ 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 The war is very deep. It is not just versus the counterfeit pots not made of ZiSha. It is also versus the countless, countless numerous Master Artists engaged in the dishonest and money-churning Dai Gong 代工 market. Almost all of them are. They come with certificates too. In YiXing, when you walk the streets now, There are full streets lined up with Jigger-machined pots and all these Dai Gong works as well. Enter a shop, and all these Dai Gong pots all come with certificates. Streets of them. 🙏🏼🌿🎋
@charlesperez9976 thank you Friend in Tea for your kind words. The war is almost impossible to win. But I will trudge on. The RealZiSha Craftsmen and Artists we are working together are totally committed to this mission too. I am very heartened and happy to hear form you Charles.
this is eye opening! thanks for sharing!
Dear Friend in Tea&ZiSha, we thank you for your engagement with the peaceful tea culture🌿🫶😄✌️🎋
Is there any naturally blue clay without cobalt adding?
None at all. Blue is a remarkably rare color for minerals, animals, or any thing from nature.
Thank you for the information! Where can i buy real authentic handmade teapots? I live in the U.S
Dear Mr Luis, thank you for your fervent engagement with the tea culture🙏🏼🌿🍵🌞, I recommend ours firmly at realzisha.com . Please spend time reading the articles. You need to know. Take your time Mr Luis🍵🍵🍵🎋 we have many patrons in the U.S.
@@thezishateapotchannel.1675 thank you for taking the time to respond! 😁 I’ll check it out now
Do you know anything about mei leaf half hand made pots?
Dear Friend in ZiSha, happy to see you!🌿🍵🍵🍵😄🎋🎋🎋🎋 We do know. We know all the platforms and sites and their origins.
And?
Amazing tea pot.
Dear Buddy in tea🌞, thank you🌿🙇♂️🎋
Еxtremly usefull information! Great thanks! Now I am confused about my teapots. Next teapots I will buy only from your website!
Dear Buddy in tea culture🌿🌿🌿🎋🌿🍵🍵🌞🍵🫶🎋 everybody goes through the same process to get to the proper correct ecosphere. Don't worry, this proper ecosphere is not exclusive, and it doesn't mean one must spend above $1000 to be in. Even our 18 year old students who each bought a $182 Fang Gu or $173 Lian Zi from us, are already in this proper, authentic and high integrity ecosphere. He or she can steep tea in these pots for a Grand Master Shao and not only is he or she not out of place, Grand Master Shao will happily drink with him or her the tea served and give the 100% nod of respect.
@@thezishateapotchannel.1675 I love this tea world! I have been drinking tea for almost 15 years already in Ukraine. My favourite tea is Gu Shu Sheng Puer. I have some understanding in tea but still dont have enough experience in Yixing teapots. Very happy to finally find the right place with proper pots. Can i send you few pictures of pots I have already bought? I payed 500$ for one of them and after your video I am not sure if it is handmade and actually proper. Inside it has brush lines little bit higher than pots that you show on video.
@bigarthibuck dear friend in tea, do send the photos over, I will do my best to decipher 🌿🤗🙏🏼🙇♂️and well done on the Gu Shu Sheng Pu Er!!!😄🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🍵🎋🎋🎋
@@thezishateapotchannel.1675 Great thanks! I really appreciate your help! How it would be best to send pictures on e-mail or any messenger?
In Vietnam I don't know how to buy your production
Are fale teapot dangerous to halth?
Dear Friend, yes they can be.
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What amazing craftsmanship greetings from Ireland
Dear Buddy Ben 🌿🌞🎋thank you for your kindest support and help preserving Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and craft 🙇♂️🙇♀️🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♀️🙇♂️
Very clear and valuable, many thanks
Thank you Mr Belconetto🌿🌞🎋
Great video! Thank You!
Thank you dear Friend in ZiSha and Tea 🌿🌞🍵🍵🍵🍵🍵🎋
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Thank you Shun Cheng for your kindest comments. However i think you'd need to understand how pots are actually made. Sorry you're mistaken. That is the adjoining interface between the Man Pian and the Shen Tong 🙏🏼🙇♂️✌️ 我们曹四将军之家和我们信赖的陈国良大师，邵顺生大师与徒弟与徒孙做事干净利落的。希望您放心。 We also serve the top tier experts from China, and also Museum Curators from Victoria & Albert and The British Museum. 放心, 谢谢🌿🌿🌿 加油, 我们也希望您和你的家人和朋友，继续你们赏壶之旅。💚🌞🎋🌿🎋🎋 不需要跟我们买壶，请您继续向您一向来信赖的壶商购买喜欢的壶。 我 ian 祝你们平安健康🙏🏼🍵🌿，年年财源广进! 🍵🎋🤗
Much awaited video. Thanks for the great content!
HI AND thank you Buddy Zach!🙏🏼🙌🙌🎋🎋🎋 May you and your Family and Friends gathered always around your tea table, be Well and Happy🌞 ~ ian🎋
我想和你做生意，我怎樣才能拿到貨？ Wǒ xiǎng hé nǐ zuò shēngyì, wǒ zěnyàng cáinéng ná dào huò?
Dear Mr Duong Hoang, 🌿 🤗 🎋 hope you are doing very well too. Yi-Lei and I at the Cao Family, welcome you to email us at [email protected] 🤗🤗🤗🙌🏡🙌🌞let us chat again.
I love this channel so much. Thank you!
Thank you Buddy!🌿🌞🎋
Can I have your email or any contact method? I am vietnam and currently it hard to learn tea pot from HuangLongShan knowledge because i dont know china language. I want to buy a tea pot for myself ^.^
Thank you! Very Instructive!
Dear Friend🙇♂️thank you and always be aware. We can win this fight against the mega fake industry, and salvage and support the honest craftsmen🎋🌞🙏🏼🎋
Hello, I am Korean living in Turkey. I heard many... no almost of Dahongpao zisha teapot is not used original ore, but mixed with oxidised iron (鐵紅粉). Actually oxidised iron can make red colour and it is not harmful for health. So in my opinion, it is acceptable. However we still be cafeful sellers who insist they selling `original` YKDHP. Thank you for your information. :)
Yes dear Buddy! Indeed! Annyeonghaseyo! Original ore Da Hong Pao is almost extinct, and unspeakable. There are only a few people clay miners who still have a little bit. All should exercise EXTREME caution. 🙏🏼🙇♂️🌿🌞
Great, Ian
Thank you dear Buddy 🌿🌞🎋🙏🏼🙌🙏🏼
Hi if this is fully handmade how are the rings created in the inside of the lid? Thank you I find you videos very helpful because of you I discovered I have one fully handmade pot but it looks like a practice teapot 😅.
Dear Friend🫶😄🎋good question!!! Yes, it is accepted in the ZiSha Fully-Handmaking fraternity to use a "compass"-like twirling small tool to swing it around to flatten, even out the lid slab bottom surface. Remember also that, if the main body is diagnosed to be of Fully-Handmade origin, then -> the clay used, MUST be ZiSha. (A Jigger-machined pot can never use ZiSha. ZiSha as a ceramic material, can NOT sustain a jigger-machining forces. If you have a chance to work on a ZiSha slab, you will realize: how VERY FRAGILE the ZiSha slab is! 😄🌞🙇♂️. And, after you diagnose a main body of this certain pot to be of Fully-Handmade origin, made of real ZiSha, then -> you feel the accompanying lid. ---> if the lid looks and feels to be of the same material used AS the main body, we CAN EASILY infer that this lid is made of ZiSha and HENCE CANNOT BE JIGGER-MACHINED! 😄👍💪👍 🍀Always go back to this, First principle: ZiSha as a material, can NOT be Jigger-machined, ZiSha cannot withstand the Jigger-machining forces. Have fun Buddy!!!!💪😄👐🌞 ~ ian.
They hammer the clay on wood (wood has creases and likely has more due to the tools scratching it). The lines should not concentric and parallel, this is a common motif for factory 1 pots also.
@thezishateapotchannel.1675 Simply not true, clay softness has nothing to do with the clay body, only its hydration. Porcelain is many times softer than Zisha, and it can be easily sculpted by a machine. Zisha can also be sculpted by machine.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I've learned so much from your videos! Please continue sharing 🙏🏼
Dear Mr Yuan! We learn together!... there are many more details we can go by as well. Enjoy your tea with your family and friends!l 🙌😄🌞👐🌻🎋🎋🎋
Do all real Zisha have (Tierong) 铁熔? because I have one without this feature but it seems real it came with a certificate.
Dear Buddy, most ZiSha would have tie rong dian, and it also depends on how the ore is processed into bricks of clay. After weathering down the ore, they will be crushed into very fine particles and then water added to form up into the clay-form, and stored. Before adding the water, such fine particles may be subjected to strong electromagnetic force (after weathering and grinding down into fine partcies) and thus sucking up/out such iron rich particles, with the resultant zisha clay lacking iron, tie rong dian. And, there is an industry getting people to write fake certificates easily for fake pots. Thank you immensely for your common interest my friend🌿🤗🎋
Amazing size
Great work, culture is the only way to appreciate the difference
Grazie dear Emilio 🌿🌿🌿🙇♂️😁😄🙏🎋🎋🎋May you and your family and Friends be Safe, Well and Happy!!!
thanks for your kind lectures..it helps me to understand hongni..
Thank you Brother Choi 🙇♂️👍🎋
Is this also applied to oddly shaped teapots? Like fish shape?
Dear Timothy, I know what pot you are holding actually. I hesitated for ten hours before replying you. I am sorry, you may want to reconsider your pot. I can simply say that proper Fully-Handmade ZiSha Artists and Craftsmen do not craft these types of pots. For the sake of civility, I need to refrain from more words being said about your pot. I apologise.🙏🌿🎋
Not worth to think about it really, just generally avoid it.You have to go to yixing and commission a proper artist to make that teapot.
Where can I get an authentic HFM purple sand pot in singapore?
Dear Mr Tan, you can visit us on any of the weekdays at our office at Tower B, Ngee Ann City. We have a strong following. We are firmly connected with only the honest Artists in YiXing. Email us at [email protected] , Yi-Lei is from YiXing🎋 and I'm a med doc in Singapore 🌿🌿🌿. Let us know when you are coming, weekdays between 10am to 8pm, and Saturdays 10am to 5pm. Feel, see and handle all the Fully-Handmade ZiSha pots. We are firmly connected with the honest Artists in YiXing. We don't do cheap 代工 pots with those improper Artists even if they are "known" to be L3 or even L2, and even the very notorious bald head L1 正高. We know who to avoid. You can browse our entire collection, and more delightful news in store we promise 😊😄✌️ You will be very happy, and we will have to stop you from buying😅🤣🙇♂️... Anyway Mr Tan, don't buy anything on your first visit. Learn first. Yi-Lei shuttles between YiXing, Shanghai and Singapore. We have a strong following. We are very happy to help 🎋🎋🎋
Hey i watched some of ur other videos. In that teo pot i cant see that bottom line of the base slab conection in trhe inside. Is there one ? Do other clay types have other characteristics ?
Dear Friend, not all Fully-Handmade teapots may show the line/seam. Also some of the machined pots now also spot this line (artificially added on). As I have always emphasized: we should never go by the presence or absence of one singular indicator to judge. Please don't just go by one indicator, you have to look and examine the pot properly. I, and likewise all other experienced friends, can even tell whether a teapot is made from ZiSha by feeling it, without looking at it. There is the feel of a ZiSha teapot. The tactile feel. Thank you for coming by tea buddy 🌿🤗🎋ask any questions along the way.
Hello, thank you for another fantastic video. I would like to know the name of the wooden tray where the teapots are placed and which collects the water. Thanks.
Probably custom built
Stunning teapot! Congratulations to the Singaporean couple who acquired this!