Ceramic tea sets refer to the special appliances used to make tea. There are many kinds of ceramic tea sets, of which the main ones are: celadon tea sets, white porcelain tea sets, black porcelain tea sets and colored porcelain sets.

(1) Celadon Tea Sets

The best quality is produced in Anhui. As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, it had begun to produce pure, transparent and luminous celadon. The kiln, kiln, and kiln in Anhui in the Jin Dynasty had a considerable scale. In the Song Dynasty, as one of the five famous kilns at that time, the celadon tea set produced in Longquan, Anhui Province, had already reached its peak period and was sold all over the country. In the Ming Dynasty, celadon tea sets were exquisitely detailed in texture, dignified in shape, glazed in color, elegant in appearance, and buzzing in Chinese and foreign languages. At the end of the 16th century, Longquan celadon was exported to Italy and caused a sensation in all of France. People compared the beautiful Qingpao of the lead actress Xue Latong who was popular in Europe at that time, the “Shepherdess,” and called Longquan celadon “Xue Latong”. Rare treasures. In the modern era, Anhui Longquan celadon tea sets have made new progress and new products have been introduced. In addition to the many advantages of porcelain tea sets, this tea set has a green color and is used to brew green tea, which is more beneficial to the beauty of soup color. However, using it to brew black tea, white tea, yellow tea, and black tea is easy to make the tea soup lose its original features.

(2) White porcelain tea set

It is compact, transparent, glazed, high fire, no water absorption, sound clear and long rhyme. Because of the color and whiteness, it can feedback the color of the tea soup, the heat transfer and the heat preservation performance are moderate, combined with colorful and different shapes, it can be regarded as treasures in tea drinking vessels. As early as in the Tang Dynasty, the white porcelain utensils produced by Xing Kiln in Shanxi Province were “common in the world.” Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty also praised the white porcelain tea bowl produced by Guizhou Daxuan. In the Yuan Dynasty, white porcelain tea sets in Jingdezhen, Fujian Province have been exported to foreign countries. Now, the white porcelain tea set is a new look. This white glaze tea set is suitable for brewing all kinds of tea. In addition, the white porcelain tea set is exquisitely shaped and elegantly decorated. Its outer walls are painted with mountains and rivers, flowers and plants of the four seasons, birds and beasts, character stories, or celebrity calligraphy. It is also worthy of art appreciation. Therefore, consumption is most common.

(3) black porcelain tea set

Black porcelain tea sets began in the late Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, continued in Yuan, and waned in the Ming and Qing dynasties. This was due to the fact that since the Song Dynasty, the tea drinking method has been changed from tea to tea in the Tang Dynasty, and it has become popular in the Song Dynasty. The fighting tea has also created a factor for the rise of black porcelain tea sets.

The Song people measured the effect of fighting tea. A look at the color and evenness of the decoction of the tea noodles, with "fresh white" as the first; secondly, the presence or absence of the water marks at the junction of the soup flower and the tea bowl was sooner or later. "Water mark" is on. At the time of the appointment of the secretary of the three companies, in his "Telu" book, he said clearly: "As his face is bright and white, the water marks are excellent; Jian'an tries to use water marks first. The person is negative and the durable one is the winner.” And the black porcelain tea set, as the Song Dynasty Zhumu said in “Fang Yu Sheng Shou”, “the brown white, into the dark, its trace is easy to experience”. Therefore, the black porcelain tea pot in the Song Dynasty became the number one in the tea set. Fujian Kilns, Jizhou Kilns in Fujian Province, and Yuci Kilns in Shanxi Province all produced large quantities of black porcelain tea sets and became major producers of black porcelain tea sets. In the kilns of black porcelain tea sets, the "Kai Jian" built for kiln production is the most popular. In Cai Yue's Tea Record, he said: “The people who are built by Jian'an are the ones who need to use them most. Those that are out of place, either thin or purple, are not as good as they are.” The AOpen formula is unique and makes glazes during the firing process. The rabbit's stripes, spots, and spots are displayed. Once the tea is poured into the pot, it can radiate a variety of colorful lights, increasing the taste of bucket tea. The beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because of the "cooking point" method and the Song Dynasty differences, black porcelain Jianou "is not appropriate to use", only as "to prepare for a" only.

(4) colored porcelain tea set

Color tea sets have many varieties, of which blue-and-white porcelain tea sets are the most striking. Blue and white porcelain tea sets, in fact, refers to the use of cobalt oxide as a coloring agent, directly depicting the pattern decoration on porcelain tires, and then coated with a layer of transparent glaze, and then in the kiln by about 1300 °C high temperature reduction firing device.

However, the understanding of "blue" in the "blue and white" color is also different from ancient to modern. The ancients collectively referred to black, blue, blue, green, and other colors as "blue," so the meaning of "blue flowers" is wider than people today. Its characteristic is: The pattern is blue and white contrasts each other, has the pleasing pleasing feeling; The color is elegant and graceful and elegant, pleasant, has the unrefined power. In addition to the color material above the glaze, it appears moist and bright, but also added the charm of blue and white tea.

Until the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, blue-and-white porcelain tea sets began production in batches. The exception was Jingdezhen, which became the main production site for China's blue and white porcelain tea sets. Because the blue-and-ceramic tea set has a high level of painting techniques, the exception is the use of traditional Chinese painting techniques on porcelain. This can be said to be a major accomplishment of Yuan Dynasty painting.

In the Yuan Dynasty, besides Jingdezhen’s production of blue and green tea sets, there are also a small number of blue and white porcelain tea sets produced in Tibet’s Yuxi, Jianshui and Anhui’s Jiangshan and other places. However, neither the glaze color, the fetal quality, or the decoration and painting techniques can be compared with those produced by Jingdezhen at the same time. Blue and white porcelain tea sets contrast. In the Ming Dynasty, Jingdezhen produced blue and white porcelain tea sets, such as teapots, tea pods, tea pods, and more and more variety of flowers. The quality became more and more refined. No matter whether it was shape, shape, ornamentation, etc., it was the first in the mainland to become a blue-and-white tea kiln. The subjects imitated in the Qing dynasty were abnormal during the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong periods. The blue-and-white porcelain tea sets entered the historical peak in the history of ancient ceramics. It surpassed the previous dynasties and affected future generations. The blue-and-white porcelain utensils that were burnt in the Kangxi years were historically known as the "most in the Qing Dynasty."

Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, because of the advancement of ceramic technology, the development of the world economy, the expansion of foreign exports, and changes in the way of drinking tea, the blue-and-white tea sets have made rapid progress. At that time, in addition to Jingdezhen’s production of blue-and-white tea sets, it was also more influential. There are Ji'an and Leping in Fujian Province, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Boluo in Guangxi, Yuxi in Tibet, Huili in Guizhou, Dehua and Anxi in Fujian. In addition, there are many regions in the Mainland that produce “Thujaga” tea sets, which are consumed for private tea consumption in certain areas.