Da Bin Ru Yi《大彬如意》, 188.1ml, Qing Hui Duan 青灰段泥, by our Craftsman Zhang Huan 张欢 ~!Congratulations to Ms K.F.! 1522hrs 13th Dec 2025, Wethersfield! CT!

Da Bin Ru Yi《大彬如意》, 188.1ml, Qing Hui Duan 青灰段泥, by our Craftsman Zhang Huan 张欢 ~!Congratulations to Ms K.F.! 1522hrs 13th Dec 2025, Wethersfield! CT!

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《大彬如意》Da Bin Ru Yi!
Zhang Huan is now back with his Da Bin Ru Yi, this time, with our Cao Family's delectable Qing Hui Duan clay!used by Premier Master Cao An Xiang in his religious pieces! Here totally entrusted to Zhang Huan. Dearest Friends, relish our Cao Family's Qing Hui Duan, and here in one of the best Classic Shapes by legendary Shi Da Bin!
A Da Bin Ru Yi is instantly recognisable by its supremely Oriental aura, delightful feet, and graceful yet stately stance.
Always a strong jet pour, decisive cuts, excellent, elegant Oriental poise.
Enjoy your Da Bin Ru Yi, this time in our Cao Family's Qing Hui Duan!!

Zhang Huan aces all aspects of this Da Bin Ru Yi, and we entrusted him with this model. He had previously crafted it in Di Cao Qing, and here, in our Cao Family's Qing Hui Duan to enliven your Da Bin Ru Yi collection!

The spout, a delightful Swan neck, confident, a quick kink upwards, and then confidently rising upwards and forwards with a handsome forward end! All tastefully crafted by Zhang Huan:

The lid knob is surrounded by, yes the quintessential Auspicious sign for us Chinese: the Ru Yi Wen 如意纹。

Zhang Huan bends the handle to perfection, and BLENDS it in to join the body with extreme finesse:
- bottom part, with an ever so slightly flaring outwards, to meet the body,
- top part, with the carefully sculpted motif, all neat and smart.

One of the most difficult part, is here, around the base, where Zhang Huan needs to pat and blend both the side wall slab, to meld naturally with a CONTINUOUS smooth, rounded silhouette, with the concaved base slab.

Your new tea drinking friends will immediately take note of Shi Da Bin's ingenuity: the baby's feet, all so distinct and rcognisable. Great relief Art as one picks up the pot and tilts it sideways. Never an easy work to craft each foot to perfection (as close as possible), site each on the base, and do the refining work on the surface to make each of these organically curved feet looking smooth and detailed.
Amazing work by Zhang Huan again!

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Senior Masters Lu Xu Feng and Cao Lan Fang, chose for Zhang Huan this time:
This《大彬如意》Da Bin Ru Yi,
to be matched with our Cao Family's Qing Hui Duan 青灰段 clay!!!
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This is the EXACT SAME Qing Hui Duan clay 青灰段 that our uncle:
ZiSha Religious Art PRIME MASTER CAO AN XIANG 曹安祥, uses in many, many of his works for the temples!

Qing Hui Duan is a type of Duan Ni, and is excellent for Sheng Pu Er 生普洱 and Shu Pu Er 熟普洱。
Qing Hui Duan is carefully chosen within our team for all of you, accounting for 1) the ZiSha model chosen, 2) the set volume for the top overall aura to be achieved.
We hope dearest friends in you, will love it and use them in your daily lives.

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Craftsman Zhang Huan 张欢, since young, has embarked on his journey of crafting Austere ZiSha works of HIGH QUALITY. He had been noticed and hand-picked by Senior Cao Lan Fang and Senior Master Lu Xue Feng over observation of the past decade, and they have taken him in as their very hardworking disciple and CORE COLLEAGUE.

After three years of perfecting further his already polished skills, his works have consistently been given more than a nod by our Artists, be it Senior Master Lu Xue Feng, Senior Master Cao Lan Fang, Assoc Master Yang Quan Sheng, Assoc Master Li Yan Ru, Assoc Master Du Cheng Yao. Craftsman Zhang is NOW proudly one of us and he will be featuring consistently, and he also works closely with Yi Xiao Ran (featured in our home page video) and also Chen Fa Chu (together both being the longest serving Craftsmen with us). Craftsman Zhang Huan is naturally gifted, and extremely dedicated to perfecting his Art. His works have been noticed and appraised highly. The lines and detailing of his pots are unmatched for their prices. His lines and detailing speak of his EXTREME CARE AND TIME taken to craft each part, each pot. The lines and detailing speak of his fighting through his years from very challenging family conditions since young.

Only a very well-trained, experienced and skilful Craftsman will be able to understand the curves and proportions perfectly, and here beautifully captured and crafted by Craftsman Zhang Huan.

Craftsman Zhao's works are highly scrutinised by our Senior Masters, and deemed to be ready for you, delectable for your use and a long lasting permanent ZiSha work in your collection.

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Cherish it as they do not come easy, with the firing kiln enabling only a 70% success rate, i.e. fire 3, and two will be successful. This is SPECIALLY crafted for all of you friends at ~190ml to suit anything between a single to three persons' tea session!

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Again, another tremendous labor of love by our trusted and committed collaborative Craftsman Zhang Huan. It is a team effort and we thank you dearest Friends for your grandest support to the honest and the dedicated Craftsladies and Craftsmen here left to fend the Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art.

Zhang Huan works with Senior Master Cao Lan Fang in her studio and all works are AMAZING high performance and high value. Take one home fast and savour his formidable, archetypically ZiSha classic craft and let his work accompany you on your tea journey!

Craftsman Zhang thanks you for your kindest support of his Work and adopting his work on your tea table while you steep teas for yourself and your family and Friends! Thank you!

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Hold one, hold up one, swing his work around. Carefully examine his Fully-Handmade work. Look at it from afar, from near, and it will grow on you. The whole piece grow on you because 1) he takes reference from what the Senior Masters chose for him, 2) and he amazingly crafts them up EXACTLY as to what the Senior Masters want from him: extreme fine detailing with MUCH THOUGHT on each part, with MUCH TIME spent on every part, section. Because this is what Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art should be, and HOW FULLY-HANDMADE ZISHA ART is so different from and light years ahead of the ubiquitous jigger-machined pots and half-handmade pots masquerading under the sales tagline of "fully-handmade zisha" pots. These latter JM/HHM pots are made in what we call 流水线 a.k.a. 'Factory-Line operation' whereby the main pot body after being jigger-machined or coming off from the mould, is passed to the next worker who fits on the spout, and subsequently this second worker will pass the pot on to another worker who will in turn fit on the handle. Continuing so, the pressed lid is likewise passed to another worker who fit on the lid knob. EACH WORKER has NO IDEA what the other one is doing, and they are always working on fixed time lines stated by the boss. For example, the worker being "passed the baton" a pot with the spout just fixed onto the body by his colleague, will only focus on fixing on the handle, with nil to little regard to WHETHER THE HANDLE fixed on will be cohesive with the spout. Each worker has NO idea of HOW THE FINAL POT WILL LOOK LIKE. Beyond poor craftsmanship and clay, the result of such processes are ugly pots with poor cohesiveness which experienced Artists, Craftsmen and collectors will tell from a metre away. Experienced people in us, do not need to pick up a pot to check whether it is fully-handmade or made of zisha, we can tell from a metre away just by looking at the pot.

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The keywords are: Detailing and Cohesiveness.

A GOOD Fully-Handmade ZiSha Work combines great detailing and cohesiveness.

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Explained, https://www.realzisha.com/blogs/news/actual-zisha-landscape-at-yixing , the Craftsman by selling his hard-worked ZiSha craft at $190-$240, $45-$65 goes to the cost of the craft, inclusive of the fees for the firing for the kiln operator (three times per pot), the packaging boxes, and between $32 to $52 for the clay (Zi Ni Di Cao Qing, Duan Ni and upwards) used per pot. Craftsman takes 3 days (fastest 2.5days) to craft a pot.

If he works 30 days a month without a single day of rest (no family time), he will craft 10-12 pots.

If he crafts for 25 days (five days of rest a month), his output will be 8-10 pots.

The success rate for Zi Ni (e.g. Di Cao Qing, Lao Zi Ni, Da Shui Tan etc) and Duan Ni (e.g. Jiang Po Ni, Qing Hui Duan, etc) is 70% on average. Some times the whole batch of 10 may fail. We have seen our Craftsmen suffer like this very often.

The success rate for Zhu Ni (e.g. Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni) pots is 60%, or 70% with most optimism and at the very, very best. Unfortunately.

All of us at RealZiSha of course, hope for one another, professional colleagues and all, that all the pots will survive firing at the kiln successfully.

[For ZiSha models/designs that are very challenging and more complicated to craft, the time taken to craft will be longer, and the failure rate will be higher as well. Zi Sha by its virtue, have the highest shrinkage rate of all ceramic clay. Zi Ni and Duan Ni thus have that 70% success rate, while Zhu Ni has even higher shrinkage rate and thus even lower success rate (the lowest of all ceramic clay.)]

Our Craftsmen are wholeheartedly committed to the cause of Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and their strictness with their craft and dedication earn our respect. We give a big Thank You all of these Craftsmen, for they are saving what is our common precious tea culture: Tea + Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and Craft. Your support is critical to their livelihood and the existence of this craft for all of the tea fraternity.
Thank you Friends!

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Our Senior Masters have given Craftsman Zhang Huan the full blessings with all of us. He is fully-fledged at RealZiSha. Most important, after all the hard work,
We are very happy that he is now with all of you.

Presenting Zhang Huan and his hard-worked and fine-worked Pieces for you. One by one.

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Also to be cherished and witnessed in this ZiSha Work, you : besides the usual important, critical and beautiful hallmarks of a Fully-Handmade ZiSha pot, this pot has the discontinuous and roughly horizontal marks evident on the inner walls, and these are called the: 泥凳纹 Ni Deng Wen, which are the marks left on the clay slab, complementary to the marks on the workbench of the Craftsman Zhang Huan; During the making of FHM ZiSha pots, the Craftsladies and Craftsmen will be using tools to cut the clay slabs, etc, and these cutting strokes will leave marks on the studio workbench. Especially the first major forceful cut across the table to delineate the clay she/he wants to utilize to form the main body of the body. Thus when the craftsman subsequently pound the clay slab on the workbench, these marks will be etched onto the clay slab. Thus you are "enjoying" the additional natural hallmarks of a Fully-Handmade pot. Even a partially handmade pot will not show these marks. And those fake, those Jigger-machined pots may show CONCENTRIC continuous circular lines, usually all parallel to one another, and extremely uniform.

Take note that these Ni Deng Wen lines are CONVEX AND PROTRUDING OUTWARDS from the flat clay slab wall, not marked inwards. They protrude *out* due to them being complementary to the worn and cut *in* lines on the wooden bench the Craftsman is working on.

Therefore, do cherish and have fun admiring the discontinuous, roughly horizontal lines on your pot's inner walls, are called, the 泥凳纹 Ni Deng Wen "Workbench Lines/Marks".

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Incredible Customer Service and Product from Real ZiSha

The first part of this review details my customer service experience with Real ZiSha. Please read on for the review of the teapot.

TL;DR: The best customer service I have experienced from an online shop! Order with confidence!

This is my second time ordering from Real ZiSha to the United States. My first experience ordering from them was a smooth process with nothing of note happening during shipping. Unfortunately, my second order was not so lucky, and was flagged by customs.

I emailed Ian from Real ZiSha detailing my situation, and the support I received from him was absolutely incredible. He always replied to my many emails quickly and thoroughly, with great attention and care towards my situation, and even at times where I did not expect him to! He helped guide me through the steps to take to resolve the situation, and when my package was escalated further, he and Yi-Lei personally saw to it that my package was released, with no additional effort on my part.

Ian had informed me that this situation was extremely abnormal, and this had not happened in nearly two years, so do not worry about this happening to you, as it is extremely unlikely. However, I have the confidence that if anything went wrong, Real ZiSha would personally see it right! Please order from them with confidence, they WILL take care of you!

Thank you again Ian and Yi-Lei for your help! This was absolutely, by far, the best customer service I have ever experienced from an online store!

**ONTO THE TEAPOT**

I absolutely adore this pot. The thing that initially drew me to it was the perfectly round bottom, held up by the baby's feet. The combination of clay and ZiSha model gives the impression of a wrought-iron cauldron, brewing your potion on your tabletop. The lid sculpting is beautifully detailed and precise. Absolutely immaculate craftsmanship by Zhang Huan.

Regarding the functionality of the pot, I selected this size for brewing Hong Cha, as I wanted a slightly larger pot to account for the fewer quality steeps that Hong Cha gives you over something like Sheng Pu Er. I think that this pot works wonderfully for this function. I really appreciate the large lid opening, which makes it very easy to load and clean out tea leaves. The handle is perfectly balanced, comfortable to hold, and quite thin, with plenty of room for your fingers to not get burned by the side wall of the pot.

The pouring speed of this pot is a bit slow, as one would expect from a thin gooseneck spout, and empties in about 20 seconds. This pouring speed works great for Hong Cha, but if you are looking for a pot to flash steep tea, this would not be the best choice.

Regarding the clay, this is clearly an exquisite and special clay to be cherished. The feel in the hand is unlike anything I have experienced, with an incredibly smooth, silken texture. The color from afar is a dark, stormy grey, but up close the multicolored speckle becomes apparent, and in some light the pot can even appear yellow. It is also a very light clay, with this pot being the lightest of the three that I own. (This may be in part due to Craftsman Zhang Huan's deft skill and attention to crafting the walls of the pot so thin!). Any lover of YiXing clay simply must experience this Qing Hui Duan.

Once again, thank you Ian and Yi-Lei for all of your help! I would absolutely recommend Real ZiSha. The price you pay here is absolutely worth it for a quality, authentic, unique, handmade item, with top of the line, personalized customer service. The information Ian provides on this website and by email also gives me confidence that I have an authentic and genuine fully handmade ZiSha pot, crafted by hand by craftsman Zhang Huan, and not an imitation or fake.

I would NEVER buy a YiXing clay pot from ANYWHERE else!