在收藏家们青睐的大量古文物中,宜兴紫砂,是颇为奇妙的一类。说它奇妙,有纵向和横向的原因。从纵向看,紫砂的历史不过400余年,这在中华五千年文明史中实属短暂。然而,它受到世人重视的时间却很早,可以说,紫砂的收藏史,几乎不短于它的发展史。从横向说,在紫砂产生、发展的同时,是陶瓷史上彩瓷兴盛的时代,各类颜色釉相继迭出,多种彩绘争奇斗妍,工艺的高度发展,把陶瓷器打扮得锦上添花。在全社会的审美意识越来越趋向精巧艳丽的时代,紫砂器却凭着它朴实无华的泥土本色,从江南太湖西岸的小镇,一步跃上了工艺美术的高雅殿堂。 Among the collectors’ favorite ancient relics, Yixing Zisha is quite a fantastic category. Say it wonderful, there are vertical and horizontal reasons. From a longitudinal perspective, the history of Zisha has no more than 400 years. This is a temporary phenomenon in China’s 5,000-year history of civilization. However, it has been valued by the world for a long time. It can be said that the collection history of purple sand is almost no shorter than its history. From a horizontal perspective, in the generation and development of purple sand, it is an era in which porcelain flourished in the history of ceramics. Various kinds of color glazes have been successively added. In the era when the aesthetic consciousness of the whole society is becoming more and more delicate and exquisite, the purple sandals leapt into the elegant palace of arts and crafts with its unadorned natural character from the small town in the west coast of Taihu Lake in the south of the Yangtze River.