Yixing Zisha Museum is located on Dingshan Street, Dingshu Town, Yixing City, with a construction area of ??1,500 square meters and an exhibition area of ??900 square meters. It has a collection of more than 100 masters from ancient and modern Yixing, China, and thousands of exquisite classic works.

Chinese purple clay is a unique artistic treasure in the world with a long history. In the Song Dynasty, people discovered a special kind of clay. It is different from ordinary clay. Its sand grains are particularly fine, its texture is particularly firm, and its color is purple-red, which is extraordinary.

Clay can be compared and is the best among clays - this is purple sand, which is only produced deep in a mountain range in Dingshu Town, Yixing.

The appearance of the purple clay teapot has an important connection with the Qin tea custom in the Yixing area. In the early Ming Dynasty, under the praise of the literati in the south of the Yangtze River, the art of purple clay teapots gradually emerged. The purple clay tea set that integrates poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal cutting has become a Chinese

An important part of tea culture.

The exhibition hall of Yixing Zisha Museum is divided into two floors. The ground floor is the comprehensive hall of ancient and modern famous teapots. It displays famous purple sandpots from the unknown teapots in the early Ming Dynasty to the early liberation and even the Cultural Revolution.

During the Ming Dynasty, Da Bin was once known as a great master of "good pottery".

The Dabin Tibetan teapot in the museum's collection and the Dabin style purple clay lacquer teapot now in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the Dabin purple clay teapot worth 60,000 yuan now in the Yangzhou Museum are among the most valuable vessels of the same country.

"Mansheng Eighteen-Style Pot" is a famous historical pot made by Chen Mansheng, one of the eight Ling masters from the Qianlong to Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty, and made by Yang Pengnian, a master of purple sand in the Qing Dynasty. It is famous at home and abroad.

There are also rare purple clay treasures such as the "Garden Lamp Pot" by Chen Ziqi, a purple clay master from the Ming Dynasty.

The Modern Celebrity Boutique Hall on the second floor displays more than 600 exquisite works by my country's modern or contemporary craft masters.

Among them is the purple clay teapot of the late world arts and crafts master Gu Jingzhou, who is hailed as a "grand master" and a "leading figure in pot art" at home and abroad.

Purple clay teapots made by national arts and crafts masters Jiang Rong, He Daohong, Wang Yinxian, Tan Yonghai, etc.

They are also national treasures and have extremely high collection value.

In addition, a variety of handicrafts made from purple clay pots are also on display in the museum, such as lobsters, cicadas, praying mantises, etc. Each one is lifelike and lifelike, making it a masterpiece.

Dingshu Town: Dingshu Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the Yangtze River Delta Economic Development Zone, bordering Taihu Lake in the east and Tianmu Mountain in the west. It covers an area of ??73 square kilometers and has a population of 140,000. It belongs to the urban area of ??Yixing City.

In 2000, Jiangsu Province planned and positioned Yixing City as "my country's famous pottery capital, an important industrial tourism city in Jiangsu Province, and a comprehensive business and trade service city in the border areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui."

Dingshu Town is an important part of the famous Yangxian Scenic Area and one of the tourist attractions in the south of the Yangtze River.