Covered bowls and purple clay pots are two different vessels on the surface, but they contain mysteries in the dark.
When do we use tureen?
In our general sense, the tureen is composed of a tray, a bowl and a cover, implying the three talents of heaven, earth and man, and it is also called “three talents bowl”.
In fact, in terms of birth, the purple clay teapot appeared earlier than the gaiwan. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, tea in a bowl was really popular. Until the Qianlong period, the shape of gaiwan reached its peak.
What is the tea brewed from the gaiwan like? Pure natural, without any modification, how the tea soup behaves is clear at a glance.
Therefore, when testing tea, we all choose to use tureen. Even the utensils used in the tea tasting session by the tea judges are also covered bowls.
Whether the tea is good or bad, you can tell it with a tureen. Because Gaiwan neither adds nor subtracts the essence of tea. The purple clay teapot is different.
Then when do we use purple clay pots? When brewing old tea.
Why do we use purple sand pots when brewing old tea? Zisha teapot has two points, one is breathable and heat-accumulating, and the other is beneficial to improve the aroma, mellow, slippery and thick of old Pu-erh tea.
After brewing and pouring water into the purple sand pot, the tea artist will pour hot water on the pot to ensure the temperature inside the pot and let the old tea release itself better.
The taste of the same tea is different when it is brewed in a tureen and in a teapot.
The tureen reflects the original taste, while the tea brewed from the purple sand pot is beautified. You will find that it is sweeter.
If you are not trying tea, but drinking a piece of old tea, many old tea lovers will choose purple clay teapots.
However, there is a disadvantage of brewing tea with purple clay pots, that is, to make a good pot of tea, the teapot must only brew a single type of tea. The teapot for raw tea and the teapot for cooked tea must be separate. It can also be more particular, that is, a purple sand pot can only brew one type of tea.
