Culture Value Study On Purple Clay Teapots

The purple clay teapot culture has deep connotation in Chinese food culture, but few has done systematic and thorough research. There are three primary reasons. The first, the starting process is long for the study of purple clay teapot, and investigators need to have personal usage and study practice of purple clay teapot. The second, both the headstream and main production place of purple clay teapot is in the Capital of Earthenware Yi Xing City. The purple clay teapots culture already becomes a world ceramics culture phenomenon, but few could systematically study purple clay kingdom of Yi Xing City combining with the documents. At present, most researcher often study purple clay teapot from appreciation, collection and design, and this late theory study delays rise and develop of the creative level of purple clay. The third, to master the development direction of purple clay teapot, researchers need to have professional knowledge background on culture of tea, earthenware culture of purple clay, industrial arts, arts design and model design as well. The Manufactural Technology of Purple Clay Earthenware in Yi Xing is the first batch of Immateriality Cultural Heritage of Country in China and purple clay teapot also catches attention in the world. At the intersection point of the tea culture and purple clay earthenware culture, this thesis explored the culture value of purple clay earthenware from multipoint of view. We expected such breakthroughs from five aspects as follows.1. In past change of tea sets, we explored the tea set culture connotation handed down as material culture mainly from food culture, industrial arts culture and society culture. In changes of many tea sets, the purple clay teapot had special charm. It incarnated the inevitable result of tea culture development from Ming and Qing dynasties that the purple clay earthenware was inartificial suitable to tea and Yi Xing had the favorable climate, geographical position, and support of people. Purple clay teapot culture reflected spirit of Chinese culture.2. We deeply expatiated the culture value of purple clay teapot by using documents, ancient books and records, photograph data and graphical representation. And we analyzed the aesthetics characteristics of purple clay teapot from merchandise and aesthetics study, and summarized the culture characteristic of purple clay teapot in each times. Combined with the spirit of Chinese Tea Tao Static, Beauty displayed by purple clay teapot expressed the relation between implement and person sufficiently, the beauty of function, the beauty of art design (expressed from the beauty of texture, model and decoration) and the beauty of technology, showing aesthetics characteristics of the east technical aesthetics.3. We brought forward the design polestar of purple clay teapot. The author summarized that the spirit of Cha Dao was the unification of harmonious, peace, accommodation and trueness. Restrained by implement functionality under the sprit of Cha Dao and the ideology of Technical Aesthetics, the design idea of the purple clay teapot with peaces, silence, appearance, reality and beauty helped the purple clay teapot in tea business to realize such purpose as the harmonious between human and ware, the harmonious between ware and tea, the harmonious between technique and art, and the harmonious between art and doctrine through the use of tea makers, which could sufficiently represented culture value of table ware of purple clay teapot.4. From the forklore, we summarized the fable and ballad characteristic of purple clay earthenware culture, and the relations among tea types, tea vulgar, tea skills and purple clay teapot. We excavated cultural sociology of purple clay teapot and cultural significance of diet anthropology, and analyzed the relation between purple clay teapot culture and users'mood culture, gaining such functions that the purple clay teapot culture could improve body, balance persons'psychology, reconcile interpersonal relationship and development trade economy. 5.We discussed the essential factors for industrial production development and innovation of purple clay teapot culture and studied the foreign influence of purple clay teapot culture through exchange with foreign culture. And we studied relations between purple clay earthenware culture and purple clay teapot culture, and discussed the present situation that the function beauty was ignored in current competitions of purple clay pot skills. We hoped that these designers could freely innovate present purple clay teapot to impel Chinese tea culture and ceramic culture development relying on craft esthetics thought and Chao Dao thought. Moreover, the paper also discussed many kinds of factors on healthy development of purple clay industry in order to pursue how this traditional handicraft industry could develop suitably under modern market economy.Tea is the most sympathizes drink with physiology adjustment and mind silence in China. Through exploring the connotation of purple clay teapot culture, we initiated that purple clay teapot could used as tea making ware, brought honor to the tradition law of tea making, and hoped that the tea makers could practice moral through tea, tasting the wish of real beauty of tea, friendly beauty of water, and static beauty of the pot, and that we could make tea together, understand the connotation of Chinese and reach the beautiful world finally.