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.

ChengShouZhen is one hard-working and prolific masters of ZiSha pot,who was inherited from his nursing father and good at making physical concise system of pot-type. Medium rough works have charm, skilled artistry. The “ Duo Ball teapot” is the most famous one, which contain three ball named large, medium and small ball overlaped together, then name “Duo Ball teapot”. Its shape mainly constitutes of beautiful arc with smoothly line, comfortable visual sense, which put the whole pot stand balancly and great nice.