Ming Lu 明炉, 128.8ml, Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni 小煤窑朱泥, by our Collaborative Craftsman Wang Xing 王兴 ~ Congratulations to Mr L.U., 1240hrs 20th June 2025, Pender Island, Canada 🇨🇦.

Ming Lu 明炉, 128.8ml, Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni 小煤窑朱泥, by our Collaborative Craftsman Wang Xing 王兴 ~ Congratulations to Mr L.U., 1240hrs 20th June 2025, Pender Island, Canada 🇨🇦.

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Heroes do not wear capes. We regards Wang Xing as one. Humble, hardworking and single-mindedly continuing his pursuit to help us all with affordable, high quality true Fully-Handmade ZiSha pots.
Here is Wang Xing!! A great salute to him and his hard work, as he had served many of you friends previously with efforts earlier this year!

Here is his Ming Lu created for you friends!

Ming Lu 明炉 is the Austere shape and model which all ZiSha collectors love for its extreme practicality!

Ming Lu 1)exudes the Aura of Chinese Orientalism, 2)has a wide opening for extreme EASE of introducing tea leaves and washing after steeping, 3)has a sharp-ish spout for decisive cutting of flow, and 4)has a slightly raised lid that stores a column of air above the tea water level when the lid is closed, so that during the initial first moment of pour with that few degrees of tilt, tea water flows out decisively and easily right from the start. 5) It also has a raised circular base with the protruding circular foot so as to enable the pot seem larger than its volume suggests, giving a bigger presence on your 禅意十足 tea table.

Crafted at ~130ml to cater for our tea friends who requiring a small 130ml ZhuNi pot for Gung Fu tea steepings. Suitable for one to two persons.

Wang Xing's skills are brilliant.
His mastery of the overall shape is here for us to savour.
The Xing Ti 形体 of his works are superb! From the photographs, we admire and easily appreciate his amazing Craftsmanship.
This is ZiSha Art, working with XiaoMeiYao ZhuNi, one with even higher shrinkage than ZiNi and DuanNi, and thus a lot more deformities that CAN arise easily during firing. Success rates between 50-70%. We bear witness to dear Wang Xing's skills as he PAINSTAKINGLY and PROUDLY presents his labor of love for all of you friends.

TRULY FULLY-HANDMADE AND DELICATELY MADE.

NOT those thick-/irregular-thickness-walled ones which are actually fake "Fully-handmade ZhuNi pots" utilising the cheating new technology: "车一刀 Che Yi Dao": Such ZhuNi pots utilizing Che Yi Dao process, have been sprouting up in the market since early 2022. Che Yi Dao involves a swivelling-rotational cutter that goes around a roughly-finished ZhuNi pot to cut the outer surface into a perfect shape. This cutter obliviates the need of accomplished skill of a true Fully-Handmaking Craftsman. Obviously, Che Yi Dao also absolves the need of a skilled FHM Craftsman to 1)pound the slab into a careful thin-slab, 2)paddle-pat the slab into a uniform shape purely manually.

In the utilisation of Che Yi Dao cutter, the worker will just need to 1) roughly pound the slab into a slightly thicker slab. After that the worker rounds up this slab as part of the main body, and will just 2)need to ROUGHLY paddle-pat it into shape. After which he sets up the Che Yi Dao cutter to revolve and cut the body into a perfect shape.

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Presented by Craftsman Wang Xing 王兴。

And he thanks you for your kindest support of his Art!
Steep tea with his Craft, Friends!
Savour his superb skills, dearest Friends!

BRING ONE HOME, USE IT and you will know all about Fully-Handmade ZiSha, the feel of real and quality YiXing ZiSha, the nurturing of Patina, how the true Patina feels and looks like, the Aura exuded from a Fully-Handmade Pot which others simply can't bring forth, and, Craftsman Gu Xiao Ming's skills, savour the pour. You will know everything then.

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Here with us in our happy family of true ZiSha connoisseurs, you witness 90-120 photos taken of EACH Fully-Handmade ZiSha work here.

Compare this to elsewhere: factory bosses of jigger-machining non-zisha pots contribute downstream to their retailers: 5-10 stock photos for each non-zisha pot model, used to sell a stock of 10, 20, 30 jigger-machined non-zisha pots per model. I.e. 5-10 photos to sell hundreds of one model.

We at RealZiSha, take 90-120 photos, fresh, of EACH, ONE, Fully-Handmade ZiSha work. Together with our sacrificial and hardworking Craftsmen and Artists committed to honest true Fully-Handmade ZiSha Art and Craft, we at RealZiSha go the eons' distance.

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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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So Amazingly beautiful !

This Zisha Ming Lu is so amazingly beautiful. The finish , balance , attention to detail and craftsmanship is outstanding. I have looked at the many pots from Craftsman Wang Xing and have noticed how all his pieces seem to standout exhibiting exceptional balance and refinement. A joy to use and behold . Thankyou Wang Xing ...

So Amazingly beautiful !

Fantastic!

Amazing craftmanship

What an original pot! I was very lucky to come back from my vacation and find a beautifully crafted box with the ZhuNi inside waiting for me! The craftmanship is great and the seller was so kind as to include a 5 Chinese Yuan Banknote which made me cry. The paper certificate was also included. Thank you!

Magic little teapot

This pot is amazing in the experience it gives. The sounds, reveberations of perfection, the sensations, bright and alert. The vital qualities of my brews are much empowered by this magic little pot.

It is a nice pot and perfect size for two persons. After few times of use, pot’s colour already darken to beautiful brown reg color.

Ming Lu 明炉, 128.8ml, Xiao Mei Yao Zhu Ni 小煤窑朱泥, by our Collaborative Craftsman Wang Xing 王兴 ~ Congratulations to Mr L.U., 1240hrs 20th June 2025, Pender Island, Canada 🇨🇦.

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