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Nice info, thanks! I find that Zini and all it’s varieties and shades is quite the confusing kind of clay. So many different ones! Add to that the older clays which seem to often have been blends of various sources and it’s a real mess! Fascinating as well, as one can never be quite sure how it wil...

Hi Fellow Tea Lovers! After a long time, I got myself together, to create a blog and start writing down, the Yixing knowledge I gathered from various Books, Chinese Online sources, and discussions with my Friends from Yixing. As a first post I tried to put together an easy to read overview of the Ma...

Interesting. So if I read this right, what makes this clay legendary and sought after is the mere fact that it is extinct, not any especially good clay properties or a beautiful colour (like pig liver Hongni or Zhuni in general)? When I saw the pictures of the clay in close-up, I realised that I mi...

Youzi of course they are not the same as in the same material composition. What the original statement of Hojo was, is that it has a similar effect on the tea as Zhuni, just as you mentioned. All said and done it wouldn’t be impossible to imagine that identical clays could be found in different geo...

Raw Zhuni ore is yellow in color, and it is the only Yixing clay which can be dissolved in water. Raw zhuni is chalk like and easy to break apart, unlike other kinds of Zisha, which are more solid, similar to rocks. I'm not sure how old Shudei raw clay looked like, but the Shudei I found online, loo...

The popular IG vendor Yinchen has a website now, and has posted some detailed info about each of the clay they use, including mine, pic of original ore, firing temperature range, shrinkage rate, and photos of test tiles fired at different temperatures. http://yinchenteapot.com/Blog.html I'm not in ...

How long have you been drinking tea? 5 Years What kind of tea do you drink? Pu'er (Sheng(Young&Old)/Shu), Red Tea, White Tea (Yunnan||Aged), Wulong(Darker, Roasted) How do you prepare your tea? Gong Fu style, with Yixing Teapots. I choose a teapot I want to drink tea together with, then choose a te...

One of my Favorite Yixing teapots. I wanted to use it for Shu, but it made Chocolatey Red tea so much better, that I didn't have another choice :D I bought it as a set of 1 Pot 2 Cups, and kept one cup unused to compare the patina and clay development of the teapot. What do you guys think? (picture ...