Came across this news about yixings today.
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I pasted the Chinese news into Babel Fish translation tool and selected the “Chinese-simp to English” option from the drop-down list. Below is exactly what I got:
The Yixing sand-fired pot pretends harms the big
2007-03-02 09:10:33 source: Beijing television station
Yixing is the our country famous ceramic all, purple sand Tao Yinqi the unique material quality, the terse manual craft and contains the rich cultural connotation causes the artistry and the usability achieves the perfect unification. In order to protect Yixing the purple placer resources, the country already forbade mining, but, reporter through the investigation discovery, the sign had the Yixing purple sand the household utensils it may be said was blots out the sky, price low several dollars, high also several hundred Yuan. Do these household utensils come actually from where? Reporter in the horse company said the tea city saw, management purple sand cup, sand-fired pot merchant everywhere, mostly is flaunting Yixing’s banner. Merchant: The purple placer in Yixing is only, in the world also is only. Reporter casually inquired the price, the discovery common purple sand cup price is extremely cheap, low several dollars, high several dozens dollars, sand-fired pot price slightly high somewhat, low 1,200 Yuan, high several hundred Yuan. Merchant: This sand-fired pot 180 Yuan, have author’s signature, but also has the certificate. Why in can the market sand-fired pot be such cheap? Some merchant roads left secret facts. Merchant: All is the putty does, then mixes colors. Now the raw material are few, mixes into the raw material for industry, has the harm to the human body, because is not the pure ore, must join some things, carries on the reinforcement. In the interview, some professionals also reflect said that, after at present Yixing purple placer prohibition mining, as a result of the benefit actuation, in the market condition many sand-fired pots, the purple sand cup mostly is with 醴陵 the earth, the Tangshan putty adds on the chemical element to mix again becomes, confuses falsehood with the truth. Professional: In order to increase brightness, but also interpolates the glass water. In order to make in the style of antiquity color, inside hits the shoe polish on the pot. Chinese handicraft master Mr. Li Changhong said that, at present in the market also has one kind pretends seriously is the manufacture craft pretends, Mr. Li Changhong pointed at once is obtaining international Jin Jiang set of named ** the handicraft to say, a his year only then manufactured 5-6 sets, all was the manual craft, however pretended actually is makes the raw material with Tao Ni, used the mold volume production, has lost the original purple sand language. Li Changhong master: The purple sand handicraft needed materials extremely are fastidious, the creativity is thought-provoking, for the person by the esthetic sense, can think of Chinese with the sand-fired pot the culture and the history. The professional also reminds the consumer, the purchase collection purple sand class thing certainly must be prudent, simultaneously also may perform through some simple methods to distinguish. The orthodox school purple sand thing surface is the Asian light color, feel is smooth, in the use process ventilates water-proof, if the tea lays aside already the long time in the pot, cannot have the unusual smell. (It is reported, the country only forbids the mining partial mining areas, to possesses the Yixing purple placer to carry on by no means completely forbids. But although so, the purple sand mineral resource still was extremely precious.)
I know the English is very funny, but it conveys enough key messages so you can make sense of what the original news says. I had thought of translating a part of the news, but I think the direct software-translated content is more impartial.
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