Zhou Xiaozhong's purple dragon stone ladle clay pot is valuable for collection. Zhou Xiaozhong, male, was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province in 1972. National level arts and crafts artist. In 1989, he entered Junjun Pottery Factory and engaged in the research and creation of flower stacking art. The works produced at that time included the Nine Dragon Stick Container, the Dragon and Phoenix Stick Container, the Five Dragon Playing Pearl Basin, the Floating Dragon Hanging Plate, the Flower and Bird Series, etc. The techniques used were integrated with stacking, painting, shaping and carving. He was oblivious to what was going on outside the window and focused solely on the work at hand. With his humility and hard work, he became the technical backbone of the Jun Pottery Factory in just a few years. Zhou Xiaozhong and his wife founded Zhou Xiaozhong Duihua Art Studio in 2000. Zhou Xiaozhong is a perfectionist, which is not only reflected in his pursuit of excellence in craftsmanship, but also in his personality of daring to execute what he sets his sights on and doing it well. After the establishment of Zhou Xiaozhong's Duhua Art Studio, he continued to explore the fields of pottery molding, flower stacking and firing. He also visited dozens of pot-making masters, devoted himself to exploring the molding and creation of purple clay pots, and decorated the pot embryos he made with piles of flowers. It is not difficult to make a teapot, the difficulty lies in making the composition and taste. It is not difficult to pile flowers on a teapot, but it is difficult to vividly display the art of piled flowers on only a few inches of purple clay teapot embryo. Hard work paid off, and after more than four years of exploration, Zhou Xiaozhong's unique purple clay teapot style was finally formed. Zhou Xiaozhong’s handmade flower-studded teapot inherits his skillful technique of piling dragons and phoenixes on uniform pottery. The dragons and phoenixes are lifelike, and the details involved are in place step by step.