Chen Mingyuan, whose name is Ming Yuan and whose name is Hefeng, also known as Shixiashan, was a famous Yixing purple sand artist during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. He is a famous hand who has made great achievements in pot art and fine products for hundreds of years. Chen Mingyuan is another generation of teapot masters after Shi Dabin in the early Qing Dynasty. He was born in a teapot family, and his ancestral home is Yixing, Jiangsu. His works are of great cultural and artistic value and are regarded as classics by teapot circles.
Chen Mingyuan was born in a purple sand family. He made dozens of tea sets and played with Ya, all of which were exquisite. He also pioneered the style of carving poems and inscriptions on pots. His style is elegant and generous, and his works are well-known at home and abroad. At that time, there was a saying that "overseas compete for a dish of distant dishes", and he made outstanding contributions to the development of purple sand pottery. (For details, see Zisha books "Soul of the Pot" and "On the Pot").
His pot-making skills are exquisite and comprehensive, and he is brave in pioneering and innovating. The ancient Yi wares he copied, such as Jue, Zhang and Ding, are exquisite in craftsmanship, high in taste and full of ancient meaning. The teapot made has various shapes and is especially good at making natural sand pots. The works include melon-shaped pot, lotus seed pot, firewood gathering pot, scattered pot, prune pot, sericulture pot, etc., which are very natural and interesting. On the basis of the Ming dynasty, the natural pot was further promoted to the artistic level. These pot shapes are not only his outstanding creations, but also the historical modeling of sand pot technology, which is widely used by pot makers in later generations.
He is versatile, and he has made many elegant desks for playing and stationery, such as raw water chestnut, lentils, peanuts, corn, mushrooms, chestnuts, lotus root slices, water chestnut, walnuts and ginkgo. They are all exquisite, showing the natural ecology of fruits and vegetables incisively and vividly, and then matching them.
He also created a pot body engraved with poems and inscriptions for decoration, and introduced the decorative art of China traditional painting and calligraphy and the way of book payment into the making process of the sand pot with the engraved name and seal, which added many meaningful decorative interests to the original plain pot body and made the sand pot more bookish. In addition, poetry inscriptions and calligraphy are elegant and beautiful, which has made pot art, tea tasting and literati.
Chen Guojun, a descendant of Chen Mingyuan, is a master of folk purple sand craft. 1954 10 was born in Zisha Village, Dingshu Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province. Born into a purple sand family, he is a descendant of Chen Mingyuan, a purple sand master in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty. He was born in Zisha home since childhood and has a natural attachment and hobby to Zisha. Influenced by ceramic art since childhood, his works are simple, delicate and exquisite, full of vivid interest and humanistic atmosphere of nature.
Chen Guojun grew up in a purple sand family, located in the birthplace of purple sand mud, purple sand culture, purple sand production technology and creation. In this context, Chen Guojun became interested in purple sand when he was a teenager. In addition, Chen Mingyuan, a famous purple sand master in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, was among the ancestors. In his young mind, he has the ambition to inherit the legacy of his ancestors and carry forward the skills and culture of purple sand.
Chen's craft of making teapot was passed down from generation to generation to Chen Mingyuan by Chen Ziwa. There has always been a tradition of inheriting the father's business, and the genealogy has not been verified for various historical reasons. In Grandpa Chen Guojun's generation, Chen Fusheng (the third in the family and the third in the trumpet) was also engaged in making purple sand. His father Chen Xinzhou and his uncle Chen Yongzhou are both famous local purple sand producers. Among them, father Chen Xinzhou is mainly responsible for the production of teapot, and uncle Chen Yongzhou is responsible for the sales of teapot, with clear division of labor. And before and after liberation, Shanghai also had branches for sale. Formed the experience mode of purple sand production and sales.
Chen's teapot making skills, the whole teapot making has strict technology and division of labor, especially in antique, hexagonal, stone ladle and so on. Moreover, he has a high attainments. He has always adhered to the principle of only making pots by hand and only making real teapots. He has always been familiar with the ideological principles of these pots, including operating business and setting an example. Every time he saw his father making a pot, he was full of interest and kept asking his father about the principle and method of making a pot. Cooked mud treatment, temperature control, pot making tools, using skills, pot body making skills, pot bottom, pot handle, spout, carving, lettering, inlaying, whole pot bonding, firing and other skills have been well trained and learned. Chen Guojun listened carefully and summarized constantly. This laid the foundation for his future achievements in making teapot. Its technique is ingenious and unique. It not only inherits the ancient style, but also innovates. His works are widely loved by purple sand lovers!
Chen Guojun has been engaged in purple sand art for more than 40 years since 1970. He created more than 100 works, including round vessels, square vessels, plastic vessels and ribbed vessels. Are all works of art with high artistic appreciation value. He is a comprehensive purple sand ceramist. He inherited the legacy of his ancestors, was brave in pioneering and innovating, was familiar with various sand pot making techniques, the characteristics of clay and the knowledge of color matching, and had rich practical experience and aesthetic theoretical foundation in pot making. His works have a unique personal style. The designed casserole is steady and generous, precise and meticulous, with strong shape, full of movement and far-reaching charm. The light elements are round and heavy, and the charm is deep and long. The ribbed vessels are exquisite and delicate, and the flowers are exquisite and elegant. Over the years, he has been exploring and innovating, and his pottery has become more and more exquisite. He devoted all his efforts and sweat to Zisha, and his works were collected by more and more Zisha lovers.
Chen Guojun's wife, Shao Hongjuan, was born in Yixing Zisha family on August 6th, 1954. She is a descendant of Shao Daheng, a master of purple sand in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. She has been engaged in making purple sand for generations. She/kloc-started making purple sand at the age of 0/5, and she is skilled. She learned to make purple sand with her parents since she was a child. Over the past 40 years, he has created dozens of works, combined with Chen Guojun the essence of Shao Chen's purple sand production, and jointly created some new rivers made of purple sand, many of which have high technical attainments.