Handmade Bamboo Joint Gongchun Yixing Zisha Tea Pitcher

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In Chinese Zisha culture, Gongchun is a pioneer craftsman known for creating Zisha teapots. According to legend, he was an official’s shutong, a boy serving beneath a scholar; he met an old monk who knew how to make Zisha teapots while accompanying his master to the Yixing Jinsha Temple, and there Gongchun began to secretly learn the craft. Later he took inspiration from the bark and knots of the ginkgo tree beside the temple and began making a pot with its appearance, carving all of the little deformities and characteristics. The pot came out beautiful and lovely after firing, and became its own established style: when a pot follows and draws from the natural forms of nature, it is referred to as a Gongchun pot.