Dearest Friends, Senior Craftsman Chen Yue Fei joins us!!
His skill is top notch and he is who we want to work with.
We wanted very much to work with him. Our scouting with Craftslady Yi Xiao Ran around in YiXing is relentless. And Chen Yue Fei likes what we are accomplishing here at RealZiSha, and we are also grateful that we are now in a team and the perfect fit for all: dearest patrons in you, and him. We want the best for all of you!
Craftsman Chen performs his Jun De for us! This is his first model for us, but one he is extremely adept at and has been performing for years. This stands at 140ml and just right for many tea drinkers. Here, is again an all-classic model that will stand the test of time on your tea table. Jun De in Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni is one we always love, being set it at ~135-140ml, for you dearest friends steeping for one or two people at a sitting.
Craftsman Chen Yue Fei's Jun De.
The sharpish spout with its curve exhibiting the force and visual vector of flow of the tea water, making a delightful watch in action. The Jie Gai 截盖 interface is wonderfully crafted in, creating an unobtrusive and comfortable silhouette unknowingly to the eye. The body has a visually slightly bulbous shape, just ever so slightly, thanks to the careful mastery of the curve to be introduced during patting. This Jun De model has a very sturdy wide base, very sumptuous!to look at below, and it provides a great stance on the tea table. Handsome, sturdy and svelte to delight your guests and you the tea master!!
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Many of us delight in a small Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni work to steep our Oolong Dancongs, Oolong Da Hong Paos, Wu Yi Yan Chas, Black Teas, with dense rich taste. A 100degC steep in of hot water, with a fast pour out. Especially your costliest Oolong, that $4,000 per 100g Oolong harvested around the Mu Shu Da Hong Pao trees meant for the leadership of China. We want to get the Rich TASTE OUT from the leaves OPTIMALLY, and not burning nor scalding the leaves, with a fast pour out. A classic fast move. Elegant and the Oolong that results, especially if that is your costliest Oolong, your costliest Yan Cha in your collection. Nothing else replaces this prerequisite for the BEST resultant tea taste. For one or two pax most astounding results. We want the maximum amount of tea leaves within the pot, that 100degC hot water in that fills up fast and conveniently, decisive pick of the lid knob and covering it, quick and most effective steep, that dense tea water out. The most treasured steep of 85ml (125ml - 40ml of space taken up by the expanded tea leaves) of tea water out for one to two persons per steep. When every steep matters. The most unique and transcendental tasting, that teaches us the matter of impermanence, and we treasure every steep, every drop that passes through down our palate.
An upper end Oolong costs $5 per gram, and 100 grams would cost $500. Each steep with 7-8grams of tea leaves, this 100grams would last 12 sessions.
We do not waste it, and we want to treasure every drop of tea steeped from it.
Senior Craftsman Chen Yue Fei ASTUTELY crafts this Jun De ZiSha work for all of us for this purpose,
1) A 125ml right-sized pot for one to two pax,
2) This Jun De model with a wide girthed opening for that much more convenience in introducing tea leaves in, and rinsing off after.
3) Jun De, like Craftsman Shi Yun's Yi Gong Hu and her previous De Zhong are unlike the Jing Zhou Shi Piao form, for the Jing Zhou Shi Piao gives the maximum volume for its PERCEIVED size. Yi Gong and De Zhong instead give the lowest volume per perceived size. What it means is that, a small volume Jun De model here and her previous Ai De Zhong of 100-135ml like this, occupy bigger real estate space on your tea table, than its actual tea volume suggests. This is because this Jun De model, just like De Zhong, Li Xing, has an acutely narrowed neck above its shoulder line, and a dome that extends upwards.
What this means is that we have a pot, though satisfying the Gong Fu style steeping sessions with the smallish 100-140ml, but which does NOT appear small and petite, but rather: occupying more visual estate in our eyes. Handsome and Stately on our tea table.
Also notice how he crafted the spout's circumferential clay wall as thin as possible. You want a quick pour out, you want a small volume pot for that gungfu steeping for your costliest Oolong and Yan Cha, you want a wide lumen and opening for the spout: hence the spout's wall cannot be thick, or else the spout would look unbecomingly stubby, unsightly and oversized to match the pot's body. The only way to achieve this is to have the Craftsman diligently and crafting a thin yet sturdy wall. Yes, so as to achieve the widest spout lumen and opening for that fast pour out. If the clay wall is thicker, you can't have a wide spout opening or else the whole spout would appear too thick and unsightly.
We are thrilled to have Senior Craftsman Chen gift this to all of us. Though small, it packs astonishing substance in shape, form and execution. Here presented proudly by Senior Craftsman Chen to all of you dearest friends!
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This is Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni, as we all know, with the highest shrinkage together with Zhao Zhuang Zhu Ni compared to all other ZiSha types. Failure rates are high. Unpredictability of the clay edges and joints, due to this high shrinkage is scary to say the least.
This is a precious piece of ZiSha Art, and we give kudos to Senior Craftsmen Chen Yue Fei, Shi Yun and Wang Hui, and their diligence and hard work all these years. Although three out of five crafted are successful coming off from the kiln devoid of deformations/cracks, again, ONLY two of these three are worthy in final form, beauty and cohesion. As with all Art pieces from RealZiSha here presented to all of you dearest Friends, guardians of Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art, they are premium pieces availed at the most astounding lowest prices. We want you each of you friends to get the best. You deserve it.
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TRULY FULLY-HANDMADE AND DELICATELY MADE ZHU NI WORK:
Note on our TRUE Fully-Handmade Zhu Ni pots from RealZiSha: NOT those thick-/irregular-thickness-walled ones which are actually fake "Fully-handmade ZhuNi pots" utilising the cheating new technology: "车一刀 Che Yi Dao": Such ZhuNi pots utilizing Che Yi Dao process, have been sprouting up in the market since early 2022. Che Yi Dao involves a swivelling-rotational cutter that goes around a roughly-finished ZhuNi pot to cut the outer surface into a perfect shape. This cutter obliviates the need of accomplished skill of a true Fully-Handmaking Craftsman. Obviously, Che Yi Dao also absolves the need of a skilled FHM Craftsman to 1)pound the slab into a careful thin-slab, 2)paddle-pat the slab into a uniform shape purely manually.
In the utilisation of Che Yi Dao cutter, the worker will just need to 1) roughly pound the slab into a slightly thicker slab. After that the worker rounds up this slab as part of the main body, and will just 2)need to ROUGHLY paddle-pat it into shape. After which he sets up the Che Yi Dao cutter to revolve and cut the body into a perfect shape.
Of course, rest assured here, and avoid the ubiquitous fake jigger-machined fake "Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni", "Zhao Zhuang Zhu Ni", "Zhu Ni Da Hong Pao", etc pots all around sold in a multitude of places, sites, apps and platforms.
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