Peach - Purple Clay Teapot. 仙桃 -紫砂茶壶

Because the ancients believed that peaches are fairy fruits that Gods like to eat. In ancient times, peaches symbolized longevity, health, loyalty, happiness, etc.

The material for making purple clay pots is Yixing purple clay. The mud is a sedimentary rock. Each color of the mineral rock overlaps and is composed of scaly purple mud, Benshan green mud, white mud, yellow mud and red mud. It is collectively called purple clay. Because it is produced in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, it is also called Yixing purple sand.

Use a purple clay teapot to make tea, which is not easy to burn when you hold it. The linear expansion coefficient of purple clay pots is slightly higher than that of porcelain pots, and without glaze, there is no problem of glaze stress. After firing, purple clay pots have very little glass and are capable of overcoming sudden changes caused by hot and cold temperature differences, so they have Slow heat transfer. The purple sand teapot has excellent ability to adapt to sudden changes in cold and heat. Even after being steamed at hundreds of degrees high temperature and then quickly dropped into subzero ice and snow, it will not burst.

因为古人认为，桃子是神仙喜欢吃的仙果，古代的桃子象征着长寿，健康、忠义，幸福等，所以举办寿宴的时候，桃子可以说是必不可少的水果。

制作紫砂壶的材料采用的是宜兴紫砂矿土，泥矿属沉积岩，每色矿岩相叠，由鳞片状紫泥、本山绿泥、白泥、黄泥和红泥组成，统称紫砂泥。因产自江苏宜兴，又称宜兴紫砂。

用紫砂壶泡茶，提携抚握不易烫手。 紫砂壶线膨胀系数比瓷壶略高，而且没有釉，就不存在坯釉应力的问题; 烧成以后的紫砂壶，玻璃极少，有足以克服冷热温差所产生的急变能力，故具有缓慢的传热性。 紫砂茶壶适应温差急变的能力极佳，即使在上百度的高温中蒸煮后，迅速投到零下度数的冰雪中，也不会爆裂。