About us

ZishaTeapot.co.uk is a leading online retailer of quality Zisha Teapots and tea accessories. We were established in 2006 in the city of Yixing China.

The people at ZishaTeapot.co.uk are dedicated to providing our customers with a complete Zisha Teapots experience. Along with our fine selections of Zisha Teapots, we also offer elegant tea sets and beautiful teacups. Not only will we offer a wonderful selection at a great value, but we also strive to educate on the many health benefits of tea and Chinese tea culture. We will present interesting facts about tea and also show the many interesting application of tea.

ZishaTeapot.co.uk stands for affordable Luxurious Enjoyment? This kind of art, sometimes called the tea ceremony, started in the Tang Dynasty.

Shouzhen Cheng (1865-1939) was also named Bingxin Daoren , from Shangan Village, Yixing. He is the well-known artist from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China.
  He is the first person to win the Zisha Teapot award at the International Exhibition. One of his work -- Drop-ball pot was once awarded the first prize of "Panama international exhibition" in 1915, and the Excellence Award by the Chicago Exposition in 1932. Shouzhen’s works are simple, but dignified and perfect.

Jianming Cheng, craft artist, potter, and the member of Chinese Arts Association, Jiangsu Ceramics Industry Association, Zisha Industry Association.
He was Born in 1962, from Zisha village, Dingshu,Yixing, the third direct generation of Shouzhen.
With good Zisha art background, Jianming learned making teapot with his parents after graduation from high school. He has been three decades of making teapot with the guide of a number of famous people.
Himself also did much research on making teapot with the traditional way, and also good at hand-made teapot. His work, drop-ball teapot won the gold medal of the First Shantou Tea Culture Expo. Lianzi teapot was permanently collected in Wuxi Museum.

About Cheng shouzhen

Chengshouzhen is one of the most famous artists of Sand-fired technology during the Republic of China. He was born in 1865, his name is Bingxindaoren,and his hometown was located at Chuanbushangan village,Yixing city( which is also called Zisha village now).  He learned from his Adoptive father called Shaoyouting who was also a famous Expert specialized in Zisha technology at that time when he was young. An excellent teacher will have famous apprentice. Depending on Chengshouzhen’s talent and his hard work , he does better than his adoptive, and become famous soon. Therefore successively employed in the "Yixing Yangyi Ceramic Company", "Yixing Liyong Ceramic Company", and "Jiangsu Province, Yixing pottery industry in the county vocational school office technician."

In the year 1910, in the first QuanYe meeting which was hold in NanYang town of NanJing city, ChengShouZhen of “Yixing Yangyi Ceramic Company” got the prize for ZiSha pot. On behalf of "Yixing Liyong Ceramic Company", ChengShouZhen participated in the international meeting in Panama and got the NO.1 in 1915. He was the first Zi Sha artist who got the international prize in the world. ChengShouZhen’s Zi Sha port was awarded the gloden prize in Chicago Expo in 1932.
ChengShouZhen was famous due to many times’ Award-winning in Europe and the United States International Fair. In the winter in 1934, Japanese businessmen who heard ChengShouZhen came to buy ChengShouZhen’s teapot. When he saw the  process of chengShouzhen making teapot, he repeatedly applauded and took a photo for him.  In the photo, chengshouzhen worn hemicycle hat , chinese traditional wadded jacket,  and a pair of glass, Concentrated on making an Archaize teapot.

In 1935, the magistrate of YiXing city gave the London Games certificates to ChengShouZhen by himself, at the same time he praised him for getting honor for China.