Sui Xia

In Lin Tao's words, Zisha teapots are diligent in practice, and all the techniques are practiced day after day, and practice makes perfect.

After reading some books on purple sand, Lin Suixia decided in her heart that she must promote the purple sand culture, no matter how difficult it is.

But Lin Suixia hasn't figured out how to make their account become a blockbuster like when they promoted Huangtao, so today Lin Suishia's task for herself is to think while making pots.

Two days ago, I learned how to make a half-moon pot, and today Lin Suixia plans to try making a pot.

This is the maximum freedom given by Lin Tao.

Lin Tao has already handed over the basic skills to them, and they have to rely on themselves for the rest. Apart from hard work, this line of work also depends on talent.And how talent is manifested can only be revealed in the process of making pots.

The prototype of the tuozhi pot is a large-mouthed container for storing oil and salt in the countryside of Yixing, called a duozi.Tiao has the meaning of stacking and stacking.This information is what Lin Suixia saw in the book yesterday.

Lin Tao has also made a lot of teapots.

Today Lin Suixia imitated this teapot made by Lin Tao.

Duozhi is also one of the traditional types of utensils, and is one of the favorite styles of countless artists and teapot lovers.A good pot has the reputation of "a pot of gold is rare".The pot of thousands of gold can be said to be priceless, and it can be called the king of the pot.

Lin Suixia looked at the teapot made by Lin Tao, and the more she knew about the purple clay teapot, the more she understood that Lin Tao made it so exquisitely made that it even reached the value of collection.

The teapot made by Lin Tao has a round body, a semicircular lid, and a round button. The lines are smooth and the proportions are appropriate. The pavilion is even, concise and generous, and the production is quite skillful.The curved spout protrudes, and the end is pressed down, showing a soft and beautiful posture. The handle of the pot is lifted up slightly and then slides down gracefully, forming a round and full arc, simple and elegant.

After confirming the shape of the pot, Lin Suixia started the routine steps again from cutting mud cubes to making mud sticks.

Today Zhou Qi also chose the same pot as Lin Suixia, and he also planned to imitate Lin Tao's pot.

It takes a lot of time to make mud strips, the main purpose is to control the pot piece to be even and flat between 0.5-1 cm.After the mud strips are flattened, it is relatively simple to make the bottom sheet and the bodice.Cutting requires precision and patience, but the hardest thing is the barrel.

How to shoot the desired body of the pot requires hard work day after day, so that the clay strips can be photographed according to the desired shape in the hands.Obviously, both Lin Suixia and Zhou Qi need to practice more on this aspect.

It was also when Lin Suixia kept patting his body, Lin Suixia lost his mind.In her mind, she kept reviewing the success of Xu Youyou's Huangtao account, hoping to learn some experience from it.

At the beginning, Lin Suixia set up a character for Xu Youyou in the image of an ancient little fairy, and cooperated with her tossing and turning in the peach forest, which felt like being in a flat peach forest.Of course, the most successful thing is that Jiang Mo's disguise as a woman caused some topics and attracted a lot of traffic.

How does the purple clay teapot attract traffic?
Dress Lin Tao in ancient costumes and let him pretend to be ancient and make pots seriously?

However, Zisha teapots have existed from ancient times to the present, and it is obviously impossible to create a contrasting image with this image.

In this regard, it would be effective to replace her as a young man.

Both the culture of purple clay pots and the production of purple clay pots are based on tranquility.Contemporary young people are under a lot of pressure, and it is a way to see this slow culture that heals the wind.

This can be proved by the success of Li Ziqi in the past few years.

But if it was in the past few years, this style might have attracted some traffic, but now there are a lot of people who have followed suit, and there is no hot spot at all.

"Oops." Lin Suixia screamed, and slapped his hand directly with the hook.The mud sheet was also directly smashed by her.

Zhou Qi hadn't had time to say a word of concern when he saw Lin Tao, who had just arrived today, walking into the studio to see him.

Lin Tao frowned slightly: "What are you thinking? Are you distracted?"

Lin Tao has rich experience, and he can see what went wrong at a glance.Lin Suixia didn't intend to lie either, she nodded and said apologetically, "I'm sorry Dad, I've been thinking about how to promote our purple clay teapot."

"If your heart is not on making pots, what if the promotion is successful? Will more people waste things like you?" Lin Tao has already stood in front of her clay board, looking at her hands, " Are your hands okay?"

"It's okay." Lin Suishia shook her head.

"Let's take a rest first, your state is not suitable for making pots." Lin Tao finished speaking and sat on his own mud.

Lin Suixia didn't say anything, got up and went to the bathroom to wash her face.

"Are you okay." When Lin Suishia came out, Zhou Qi gave her a band-aid and said to her with concern.

Lin Suixia showed him his fingers, he didn't really need a Band-Aid.But they still walked from the studio to the small courtyard together.

Lin Suixia squatted down and looked through the purple sand mines that were drying on the side.

"I know you are eager to promote Master Lin's purple clay teapot, but there is really no rush for this matter." Zhou Qi also squatted next to her and comforted her while flipping through it.

"By the way, I never asked you." Lin Suixia said suddenly, "What do you plan to do after you learn how to make pots? Or do you have other plans when you return to the United States?"

Zhou Qi thought for a while, and said seriously: "This... I haven't thought about it yet. But learning how to make pots won't be finished in a while. My skills are still too early for me to be a teacher, so I haven't thought about it carefully. But, in fact, it’s not bad to stay here all the time. If Jiang Zhu is willing to marry me, I will open a purple sand pot workshop in Chunguang Town after I learn it, and make pots by myself while selling pots.”

Zhou Qi laughed out loud as he said that. Obviously, he began to fantasize about a happy life with Jiang Zhu in the future.

"If everyone likes purple sand teapots as much as you do, I don't have to worry about how to promote them. I just shoot a video and stream them. But after all, there are not many young people who love purple sand teapots like you." Thinking of this question, Lin Sui Xia was still a little troubled.

"It's useless to think about it. I suggest you make the pot with peace of mind first, and the promotion...let it go."

"Let nature take its course?" Lin Suixia shook her head, she couldn't do anything by letting nature take its course.But she didn't say that.

Back in the studio, Lin Suixia kneaded the broken piece of clay into a ball again, readjusted it with a hook to make it into a ball of mud, and started all over again.It's just that she really didn't want to promote it any more, and she was going to make this pot first and have a look.

After all, the effect of concentrating would be better. She didn't get distracted when she patted the body again, and the mud piece in her hand quickly turned into an oval ampulla according to her idea.In the end, it took two days to complete a set of procedures.

Seeing the moment when the pot was formed, the corners of Lin Suixia's mouth couldn't help but rise.

The oval-shaped ampulla is full and round, and the abdomen bulges outward from the shoulder of the pot, and then gradually closes to the bottom of the pot.

The flat round bead button is just like a miniature version of the pot body, which is practical and easy to handle.

In the design of the gland, Lin Suixia arched the surface of the lid, showing strength, but unfortunately, the fit with the spout is still not very tight, and it does not turn freely. Even if she repaired it several times, the effect is not ideal.

Fortunately, the short neck is quite straight and looks full of energy.

The shoulder line is bulging, but the turning point is somewhat unnatural, and the neck and abdomen do not seem to connect with each other.

On the contrary, the ear-shaped handles grow naturally from the body of the pot, lift up slightly and slide down gracefully, forming a graceful arc.

Lin Tao also gave 70 points this time, and Lin Suixia was very satisfied with this pot.

"Dad, when the pot is finished firing, I will place it in the most prominent position in the studio. I quite like this pot."

Lin Tao didn't speak, but when he turned his head, there was a slight smile in the corner of his eyes.