1) YiXing ZiSha Comprehensive Tour of Fun and Discovery!
NO LIMIT TO NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS, :-D you can bring your whole town folks over!
Register, purchase the program tour ticket here and also email us your contacts and preferred email address for correspondence and coordination.
Enjoy YiXing ZiSha Art totally!with Museum Visits, Shake Hands with Grand Masters, savour sumptuous breakfasts, lunches, dinners and even suppers, chat with fellow friends over teas under the moonlight outside our studio, and much much more!
23rd May, Friday, to 26th May, Monday!
YOU WILL BE GETTING SO MUCH MORE IN RETURN for the money because we are Chinese and we love and want to pamper our guests!
Purchase your program tour by 28th February 2025!
Dearest Friends, coming to fruition, we will be with all of you friends very soon! The first ever YiXing ZiSha Art and Craft comprehensive tour, packed full of visits, fun, knowledge, hands on, meeting Grand Masters, experiencing YiXing local cuisines and of course visit to the newly opened (1st October 2024) Huang Long Shan walk-through! May 2025, Make A Date with us, see you in Shanghai first on the 23rd May!
We bring you around YiXing!
COMPLETE HOSPITALITY TOUR PROGRAM LINED UP, CATERED and all, at only $500! all expenses paid from Shanghai to YiXing, INCLUSIVE of High Speed Rail tickets both ways Shanghai <--> YiXing, and 3 days packed full of PROGRAMS and FOOD! YES VISITS, HOTEL AND ALL MEALS! Comfortable HOTEL STAY at the Purple Clay Hotel smack at the central Ding Shu area. Ding Shu, YiXing is known as Tao Du 陶都: in short for 陶瓷首都, proudly and reputably known as The Capital of Chinese Ceramics. Museum tickets all will be purchased by us for you as well. All specially catered for you and to pamper you! Get up close to our Grand Masters as well, besides our Craftsmen and Artists. Experience the ZiSha fraternity at the Capital of Chinese Ceramics! Return High Speed Rail from YiXing to ShangHai on the 26th! Yes 350km/h, our famous HSR.
DAILY ITINERARY:
23rd May 2024, FRIDAY:
1... 1:30pm, ShangHai Hong Qiao station,
We meet all of you friends at Hong Qiao HSR station at 1:30pm.
We help you friends purchase the High Speed Rail tickets (inclusive in your $500) so that we travel in a group to YiXing,
2... We bring you via High Speed Rail past Nanjing/Hangzhou and then onwards to YiXing,
3... Reach YiXing ETA: 4pm.
Our arranged transport by our family cars/DiDi cars for all of you friends to the comfortable YiXing Purple Clay Hotel stay for the next three nights!
4...Check in to YiXing (Ding Shu) Purple Clay Hotel by 4:45pm.
Quick Rest & Relax, wash up and ready for dinner!
Evening itinerary:
5... 5:30pm Early Dinner!
Let us treat you friends to a sumptuous dinner at any of the numerous local restaurants serving up cuisines from with our local YiXing Organic Farms.
Yixing folks have dinner early from 5pm onwards, let's eat!
6... 6pm onwards
Our studio/showcase "Jing Tang She 镜塘社" in central Ding Shu 丁蜀镇, where we all have tea together!
Having tea, chatting, understanding one another's tea journeys, between all of you on this common tea journey!
We will serve any teas you like, and definitely would pamper all of you with YiXing famous Hong Chas (Black Tea) together, and of course any Pu Er or Oolong, etc you desire. Zhang Ke and Cao Lan Fang steep for you! We do not sell tea, but we have gathered a great list of teas from tea merchants who supply us with complimentary teas throughout the years (and we choose from amongst them). These tea merchants have been ordering bespoke commissioned works from Cao Lan Fang for the past twenty to thirty years. Old friends. Familiar teas.
Thus 6pm onwards: Free & Easy at the Hotel, or spend time together at Jing Tang She showcase with everybody!
Extra program!: 1am we bring you all for Supper for anyone who is game enough/wants to come along! (on us of course)
24th May 2025, SATURDAY:
7:30am to 9:30am:
Buffet Breakfast at Purple Clay Hotel Level2 Restaurant.
10am-11am:
Visit to Huang Long Shan Mine area (structured walk through various mine entrances of the past, fully opened since 1st Oct 2024).
11:30am-1pm:
Visit to Grand Master Shao Shun Sheng’s Museum! Grand Master Shao is always full of vibrant energy and he is also a natural host for events. He is the 6th Generation Direct Descendant of the legendary figure: Shao Da Heng. We are all honoured to be in his presence.
1:30 - 2:30pm Lunch:
Local eateries, Crab Roe Dumplings, Noodles, the list is endless. We give you choices on the ground!
3pm - 4:30pm:
Visit to YiXing Ceramics Museum 宜兴陶瓷博物馆。
4:45pm - 6pm:
Visit to Historical Ding Shu Nan Jie 丁蜀南街 (“Ding Shu South Street”) and Historical Shu Shan 蜀山 (“Shu Hill”). We walk through the birthplace of ZiSha Crafting in the Ming Dynasty, where ZiSha Artists had lived and crafted pots. Ding Shu South Street still maintained the buildings which are the old abodes of legends Gu Jing Zhou, Mao Shun Xing, Gu Shao Pei, Xu Han Tang, Ren Gan Ting, Wu Yun Gen.
We also have a walk up and down Shu Shan hill (won’t be tiring, we promise!).
This is the exact location area where Ming, Qing ZiSha Artists had thrived.
Live the aura where Crafting of the most difficult Ceramic Art on Earth was born, and lived continuously to this day!
6:15 - 7:30pm:
Dinner at restaurant.
7:45 - 9pm:
Tea at our Studio by River Li and right opposite Nan Jie.
Experiencing the romanticism of ZiSha Clay Crafting, and chat with our Craftsman Yi Xiao Ran, Assoc Master Zhang Ke and Senior Master Cao Lan Fang. ZiSha crafting demonstration definitely by them for you!
25th May 2025, SUNDAY:
7:30am to 9:30am:
Buffet Breakfast at Purple Clay Hotel Level2 Restaurant.
10am - 12noon:
Visit to Various types of kiln, including: Gas-Fire Kiln, Electric Kiln, Wood-Fire Kiln, Dragon Kiln.
12:30 - 1:30pm:
Lunch.
2am to 3:30pm:
Visit to National Grand Master of The Arts, Cao Ya Lin, and his Museum. Browse through his entire collection and chat with him!
3:15-4:30pm:
Visit to World’s Premier Zi Sha Xiang Lu (Religious Forms) Master, Cao An Xiang and his Museum. Have tea with him and experience mega-sized Zi Sha forms and receptacles pioneered and made famous by him!
5 - 6pm:
Dinner.
Free and Easy
Tea and chat, at our Jing Tang She Showcase
Did we say, 1am Supper again? By this time, we don't think you will be shy not to come along. Let's spend precious time together. We will pamper you friends! What are friends for.
26th May 2025, MONDAY:
7:30am to 9:30am:
Buffet Breakfast at Purple Clay Hotel Level2 Restaurant.
10am to 12noon:
Tea at Jing Tang She, Photo-taking,
exchange notes and contacts if not done so!
and then catch the High Speed Rail trip to Shanghai/Hangzhou/Nanjing.
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