Purple clay teapots have always been loved by antique collectors. Some traditional and classic purple clay pots will continue to use their previous names. If it is a self-created shape, you need to give it a name that is loud and consistent with the meaning of purple clay. This is a very troublesome thing, facing a thing that is about to come out. The craftsmen of the works always have to think hard and deliberate over the name of the pot, but they are not necessarily satisfied. It can be seen that naming the purple clay pot is also a profound knowledge, and it is also something that antique appraisal experts have been discussing. Through the traditional naming rules of purple clay in the past, we summarized several points on the naming methods of purple clay teapots
1. Extended nomenclature. From the image of the shape object, it is named with a slight abstract extension. This kind of pot name is often more philosophical and literal, so it can make people think deeply. Such as Siyuan pot. It was originally a well-railed pot shaped like an ancient well. It was called a "siyuan" pot because the man who dug the well always remembered the source of the drinking water. I suddenly feel that the momentum is extraordinary; the plum blossom pot created by Zhu Kexin, and named "Announcement of Spring" pot, reminds people of Chairman Mao's poem "Bu Suanzi·Yong Mei", "The beauty does not compete for spring, but only repays spring"; Zodiac commemoration The pots are called "auspicious" pots (Year of the Rooster), "prosperous" pots (Year of the Dog), "Sanyang Kaitai" pots (Year of the Sheep)... also have this meaning, such as the "Bamboo Peace" pot (with bamboo as the symbol). Pots with themes), "Moonlight over the Flowing Pond" pots (pots with lotus as the theme), and Tianji Pots (taken from the Tang Dynasty poem "Only lotuses can be seen on the skyline of the Yangtze River" because the clay decoration is like river water) are derived from pictograms. It can be philosophical, elegant, create a situation, or pave the way for poetry and painting, which can better meet the needs of literati. It is also a common method used by literati to name sand pots.
2. This method is pictographic naming. Named according to the shape of the pot, this naming method is easy to understand and intuitive, and the pot can be known by reading its name. This is the most commonly used method, such as the traditional round pot "ball-pushing" pot, which is named after the shape of the pot resembles two balls. The "Sifang", "Bafang", "Zhuanfang" and "Shengfang" pots directly describe the shape of the square pots, and are especially suitable for flower pots and rib pots. Plums, pumpkins, Bagua dragon heads, a bundle of bamboo, fish transformed into dragons, magnolia with six petals, chrysanthemums with eight petals, etc.; height and size can even be added to distinguish them, such as eminent monks' hats, large plum blossoms, etc.; as for Qin Quan teapots , well railing pots, pillar base pots, bamboo slip tea sets, Bolang cone pots, etc. are all directly named after the imitations of the purple clay pots. The advantage of the pictographic nomenclature is that the pot can be thought of by its name or seen by the pot. It has a popular image and is popular with the public. Welcome.
3. Allusion nomenclature. That is, it is named after some historical allusions, such as the traditional work "Dongpo Tibetan Teapot" (or "Su Ti"), which is said to have been designed by the great scholar Su Dongpo. Dongpo once lived in Yangxian and was fond of drinking tea. There is a legend about "pine breeze and bamboo stove, and teapots shouting at each other". Later generations added to it and named the Tibetan teapot "Dongpo Tibetan teapot" to make it more substantial. . The "stone-choked" pot among Mansheng's pots is said to have been given to Dongpo by Zhou Zhou in the Northern Song Dynasty. Mansheng continued to use this name and said, "The craftsmanship of the hammer is made by oneself." , non-Zhou", which means that this "Shicho" purple clay pot is not of Zhou style, but made of purple clay designed by me, using such an allusion. The "Qin Quan" pot mentioned earlier, Although the "Bolang Cone" pot is named after an imitation of an artifact, it reminds people of historical allusions and evokes a sense of vicissitudes of life.
4. Anthropomorphic nomenclature treats the clay pot as a living person. The most typical example of using this method is the Japanese Olanda (Xuanbao). In his "Illustrated Teapot", he gave each of the 32 teapots a personal name, such as "Liang Yuan" "The old man left behind", "The hidden man in Xiaoshan City", "The Ding of Duyuan", "Mr. Wolong", "Fairy Lingbo", "Concubine after the bath", "Husband of iron and stone", "Famous Prime Minister"... There are also a pair of pots. They are called "Yu Tong" and "Qiao Qing". Not only that, these pots also have surnames, given names, and characters. For example, the surname of "Fangshan Yishi" is "Qu", the first name is "Duan", and the courtesy name is "Yuanzheng"; "Xi" and so on, in fact, "Fangshan Yishi" is the "brick square pot"; "Mr. Wolong" is Mansheng's "Ruo Li Pot", and "Lingbo Fairy" is the muscular "Narcissus with Six Petals" and "Beautiful Boy" It's "Zhu Ni Pot"... This naming method is very interesting. Among traditional works, those named with anthropomorphic methods include: "Shouxing Pot", "Xiaoying Pot", "Sanyou Pot", "Xishi Pot" and so on.
5. Decorative nomenclature: a method of naming pot art after a certain decoration.
For example, in the names of historical works such as "Large Bagua Painted Pot", "Kaicai Painted Purple Clay Square Pot", "Sifang Painted Pot", etc., they not only point out the shape of the pot (big pot, square pot, square pot, etc.), but also point out the decorative characteristics - -Colored painting; and for example, "tin-colored square base kettle" and "tin-covered kettle" point out the tin-wrapped decoration technology in the names of the pots: such as "mahogany inlaid imperial kettle", "appliqué four-way consecrated kettle", "clay painted kettle" The waisted round pot" and the "wound mud pot" respectively point out the decorative techniques such as "mahogany inlay", "appliqué", "clay painting" and "wound mud" in the names of the pots.
However, there are many ways to name purple clay teapots, and pictograms and extensions are the most commonly used. However, no matter what method is used, the naming method must be based on the principle of elegance and popular taste. You can use popular images and call them by their first names. Such as "cow-topped foreign barrels", "small bamboo joints", etc., which appear simple and friendly but should not be vulgar or kitsch. If someone calls his or her pot "the divine pot", "the magic pot" or "the strange pot", it will inevitably make people laugh and make people sick. With the improvement of people's cultural literacy and appreciation level, the names of clay pots are required to be more elegant and refined, so extension methods and personification methods will be used more often, such as the "Siyuan Pot" and "Spring Pot" mentioned above. Another example is the "Queyue", "Hengyun", "Hehuan", "Yinhong", etc. in the Mansheng pot. Not only are the names of the pots elegant and noble, but also the inscriptions of cutting the pot and cutting the tea combine the name, shape and inscription of the pot. Completely integrated into one whole.