There is a handmade tin pot on the Bogu cupboard of the blue eucalyptus family.

Chinese pewter began in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty (1403~1424), mainly produced in Yunnan, Guangdong, Shandong, Fujian and other places. Among them, the old products of Yunnan are the most famous. In the 50s of the 20th century, a professional pewter factory was established in the old city, and the pewter has developed greatly, and some products are sold abroad.

Pewter is an ancient articraft that dates back to 2700 BC and has been associated with pewter all over the world.

The tin bracelets and pewter "pilgrimage bottles" found in the pyramids of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (1580–1350 BC) are the oldest known tin artifacts in the world.

In the Japanese court, the elaborate sake was served in tin vessels.

The British and German royal families also liked to use tin vessels to serve beer.

The Roman Empire was the first civilization to use pewter utensils on a large scale for household utensils.

In ancient China, people knew how to put tin plates at the bottom of wells to purify the water, and tin utensils were often used in the imperial palace to hold imperial wine.

The texture of tin is relatively soft, so it must be alloyed with other metal elements before it can be used to make pewter.

In the seventies of the eighteenth century, the British invented a new alloy composed of tin, copper, and antimony, called "Britannia metal", which was widely used to make pewter.

After the Middle Ages, pewter products continued to gain popularity, and soon replaced other utensils and entered the homes of ordinary people.

Traditional pewter ware was made by hand, but with the advent of the industrial age and the rise of aluminum and stainless steel products, traditional pewter making has become more and more marginalized, and it has gradually become a "swan song".

However, the traditional handmade pewter production, because of its strong human touch and long-term humanistic memory, has a beauty that cannot be replaced by machines.

Strictly speaking, the making of a piece of handmade pewter needs to go through more than a dozen processes such as batching, melting, sheeting, cutting, modeling, hammering, scraping, welding, polishing, chiseling, carving, and copper inlay. The pewter made in this way is delicate and translucent, smooth and delicate, like a breathing white jade.

Nowadays, in the past, it was common to see people in the country alleys carrying flat shoulders with bellows and small stoves at both ends, shouting "Tin kettle!" as they walked! Tin kettle! The scene has gradually faded away; How much do you remember the old pewterware that shared with our fathers and grandparents, and the trivial details of the swaying and colorful life of the old times they showed?

Pewter is an ancient articraft that dates back to 2700 BC and has been associated with pewter all over the world.

Pewter can be widely used and loved by people because of some excellent characteristics of tin itself.

First of all, tin is harmless to the human body, tinplate is widely used in food packaging, and high-grade chocolate is packaged in tin foil, which is the best proof.

Second, there are many unique features of tin living utensils, tin tea cans have good sealing, which can maintain the color and aroma of tea for a long time; Tin beer mugs are widely used because of the rapid heat transfer, which doubles the taste of cold beer.

Therefore, the tin ware enjoys the reputation of "holding water and sweet water, holding wine and mellow wine, storing tea flavor unchanged, and arranging flowers for a long time".

Third, in addition to the beautiful metal color, tin also has good ductility and processing properties, with a variety of tin made of utensils and art jewelry can realistically reflect the creativity of every detail, so as to make the tin handicrafts lifelike, elegant and moving, these characteristics are any other metal handicrafts are unattainable.

The flat and silky characteristics of pewter, noble and elegant shape, and long-lasting new luster have always been favored by people from all walks of life.

Malaysian pewterware, on the other hand, places great emphasis on unique design and practicality, from traditional wine glasses to noble tea sets, to exquisite photo frames and table decorations.

Each piece of tin products must be carefully used according to strict standards, and then go through many processes such as film-making, carving, grinding, polishing, etc., and each process is handmade by the masters, and the process cost is very high.

A beautifully crafted pewter is not only perfectly patterned and coloured, but it also embodies the charm of Malaysian national culture and art, and today Malaysian pewter is recognised as a high-end gift and a very valuable collector's item.

At the same time, other countries' pewter, such as Thai tinware, has also begun to gradually enter people's field of vision, southern Thailand contains high-quality tin ore resources, following the traditional handmade pewter, its shape and pattern vividly show Thailand's customs and folk culture.

For a long time, high-grade tea was packaged in tin. Tin cans store tea, and have been recognized as the best utensils for long-term preservation of tea from ancient times to the present.

Paper tea cans and tin tea cans are usually used to store tea, and the tea is kept fresh for a short time due to the poor sealing effect. Especially in high humidity, high temperature or dry climate, tea deteriorates faster.

Tea leaves that are exposed to humid air for an hour will absorb enough moisture and become soft and spoiled. Therefore, it is impossible to use paper or tin tea cans to store tea leaves, and it is impossible to keep the quality of the tea unchanged.

But tin tea canisters can solve this problem very well. It can be used to store tea for a long time, effectively avoiding nutrient loss and taste changes. Tin does not have a metallic odor, whereas ordinary metal tea cans have an odor.

Paper cans also have odors and even harmful gases due to the use of adhesives in the production process, and tea has a strong odor absorption characteristics, so it is not guaranteed that the tea is not polluted, and it is impossible to keep the tea fresh.

According to the storage characteristics of different teas, the tin cans can be changed to retain the characteristics of different teas, while not losing some high-quality characteristics of tin.

For example, the storage of Pu'er tea (raw tea) in Yunnan requires ventilation and natural fermentation, so the tin cans containing Pu'er tea do not use its tightness, but retain the freshness, environmental protection, exquisite and noble characteristics of tin.

In 1745, after the ship Gothenburg of the Swedish East India Company ran into a reef and sank, it was salvaged more than 230 years later in 1984, and 370 tons of tea on board were submerged on the seabed, and more than 1,000 kilograms of tea were not deteriorated by water immersion due to the tight sealing of tin cans.

Tin is a "green metal". According to the analysis of metal theory, tin is cool and has excellent heat dissipation effect. Therefore, it is superior to other instruments. The tin wine utensils are poured, which is refreshing and refreshing in summer, and the warm wine conducts heat quickly in winter, which is pleasant and deeply loved by drinkers.

"Warm wine" has always been a traditional drinking custom in China, and warm wine is easy to spread in the human body, making people not easy to get drunk.

Due to the high thermal conductivity of tin and easy heating, it has an excellent effect of warming wine with tin, and because of the good ionic effect of tin, it can also increase the original flavor of the wine and make the wine more sweet and refreshing.

Modern people drink beer or wine and often add ice cubes to get a refreshing cool feeling. Due to its cool nature and good heat dissipation effect, the tin ware can immediately reduce the temperature of the wine, and it is refreshing when drinking.

There are more than 200 kinds of tableware (bowls, plates, saucers, etc.), wine utensils (wine pots, wine glasses, wine warmers, etc.), tea utensils (teapots, teacups, tea cans, etc.), sacrificial utensils (candlesticks, incense burners, incense sticks, etc.), stationery (pen holders, pen washers, etc.), smoking utensils (ashtrays, hookahs, cigarette cans, etc.), coffee sets, beer sets, vases, trophies, decorations, etc. The shape of the pewter is very beautiful, the processing is exquisite, the decoration is beautiful, the chisel carving knife method is exquisite, the knife is like a pen, and the product is bright.

The production process of pewter mainly includes melting, casting, modeling, cutting, scraping, welding, polishing, decoration, engraving and other processes, most of which are manual operations.

The skin shell is an important basis for distinguishing ancient and modern pewter. The so-called "leather shell" is a summary of the color, luster and texture of the skin of antiques in the antique industry or the collecting world.

Since tin is not affected in the air at room temperature, if an old tin is in a dry environment for a long time, the appearance will not change much except that the luster is not as strong as that of new tin.

But decades or centuries old pewter is almost impossible to completely insulate from moisture, and the damp surface of the tin creates an extremely thin oxide film.

This layer of oxide film will show different colors such as yellow-brown, purple gray, purple black, silver gray, black brown and so on due to the different contents of other metals in different tin, and mix with the texture and luster of metal tin to form different leather shells, which becomes an important basis for the identification of tin.

In addition, because tin and lead are similar in some characteristics, ancient people often used the two together, and the content of lead is too high, which can cause damage to the human body.

The pure tin has good ductility and is called "ringing tin" because of the twisting sound. Crafts are distorted and deformed, so you can't buy them with this method, but you can "smell them" in an easier way.

Gently sweep the pewter with your fingernail from the palm of your hand outward, and 97% of the alloy pewter has a clear metallic sound and a brief echo; 99.9% of the tin sound is not brittle, bright and has no echo, which is a high-quality tin ware.

Tin craftsmen are craftsmen who make pewter for a living, and they usually carry picks and float to operate, but there are also some old tinsmiths who will have their own shops.

Tin has been an important metal in human history, and as early as around 2000 B.C., people began to use bronze wares with tin as the main component.

During the Ming Dynasty, utensils made of tin as materials gradually appeared in Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, that is, tin ware.

Due to its advantages of convenience and practicality, good preservation performance, strong plasticity and recyclability, pewter has gradually become one of the most commonly used daily utensils for ordinary people.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were pewter utensils in almost every household, such as tin kettles, tea pots, wine cups, wine jugs, incense burners, lampstands, etc., and in some places, a complete set of tin products even became a necessary ritual vessel for local marriages.

The production process of pewter is very complex, mainly including melting, casting, modeling, cutting, grinding, welding, polishing, decoration, engraving and other processes, which are completed by hand by tinsmiths.

In making pewter, the tinsmith first melts the tin and then pours the blank into different molds. There are two types of molds used to make blanks, one is a flat tin plate, and the other is a tin plate with dragon wind or other decorative patterns.

Depending on the pewter being made, the tinsmith will choose different molds to make the blank. After the blank is made, it is necessary to start cutting, and the flat tin plate or the tin plate with the pattern is cut into a variety of shapes according to the production needs.

The tinsmith then hammers and polishes the cut tin, which is the most time-consuming and laborious step in the tinsmith making process, using a specific tool, such as a small hammer, to hammer the tin piece into a part of the tin.

If a tinsmith wants to make a tin kettle, he needs to polish the cut tin sheet into a three-dimensional body, spout and other parts, if the parts of the tin cannot be made fine and perfect during the polishing process, then the subsequent welding and splicing can not be carried out smoothly.

Once the grinding is complete, the tinsmith welds the individual parts together with a soldering iron. In order to ensure the quality of the soldering, the tinsmith will apply rosin to the joints to be soldered in advance, and then solder and splice them into pewter.

Finally, it's time to polish the decoration. The tinsmith uses polishing tools such as polishing paper to polish the soldered pewter, and if necessary, engraving and decorating it with certain patterns and patterns, after this series of processes, a complete and exquisite pewter is completed.

In addition to making pewter directly, another major job of the tinsmiths was to repair and remake pewter. Due to the relatively low hardness of tin metal, pewter ware is very easy to bump and damage, and pewter is not resistant to high and low temperatures, and often wears or cracks, so repairing pewter has become a common job of tinsmiths.

The main tools used by tinsmiths to repair pewter are a small furnace to melt tin, a small iron pot and a special blow-solder pipe for soldering tin.

When a tinsmith gets a broken tin, he first determines the location of the damage and the amount of tin that needs to be smelted, and then melts the tin in the furnace and iron pot that he carries with him.

The metal tin used to repair the pewter is sometimes provided by the owner, and if the owner does not have suitable old tin to repair, the tinsmith will use his own tin plate or the old tin he has collected to smelt the tin.

When the tin is melted, the tinsmith uses a process called blow soldering to weld the broken parts of the tin. The tinsmith holds a long, thin elbow brass blowpipe in his mouth and blows slowly into the flame of a kerosene lamp or candle.

With the gas blown out by the tinsmith, the flame drifts to the damaged part of the tin that needs to be welded, and under the burning of the flame, the temperature of the tin raiser rises rapidly, and after the temperature of the soldering place reaches the demand for high-temperature soldering, the tinsmith will use the molten tin to weld the place.

When all the broken parts of the pewter have been soldered, a pewter is repaired. If the pewter is too damaged to be repaired, the owner will ask the tinsmith to smelt the broken pewter directly and remake it into a new one.

After receiving the old broken pewter, the tinsmith carefully weighs it and builds a new one based on the weight of the old pewter. Then, the tinsmith will find a suitable place, set up his own small stove, put an iron pot for melting the pewter, and light the stove after putting the pewter in the middle.

Since the melting point of tin is low, it will not take long for the tin sent by the owner to slowly melt into molten tin.

At this point, the tinsmith opens a square brick, mounts a special core paper on the top of the brick, and places a cotton thread soaked in water on the square brick according to a certain shape.

In this step, the placement of the cotton thread is very important, because the shape of the re-made pewter is determined by the outline of the cotton thread, whether it is fan, round, square, long or other irregular shapes, it is up to the tinsmith's skillful hand to outline their shape and contours with the cotton thread.

Finally, the tinsmith closes another brick on top of this brick, and slowly pours the molten tin water into the gap between the bricks through the gap in the thread. This step requires great care on the part of the tinsmith, as the liquid tin will flow out of the bricks and cotton threads.

The hot tin liquid flowed in the cotton thread between the bricks, filling the gap enclosed by the entire cotton thread. In about a few minutes, the tin sheet is ready, and slowly open the square brick, and a tin sheet in the shape of cotton thread will appear in front of people's eyes.

After a simple cut and polishing, the tinsmith completes a part of the tinware. The tinsmith then makes other pewter shapes according to the owner's requirements, and they are spliced together to create a new pewter.

After re-grinding and polishing, the remade pewter will sparkle like new pewter, and it is precisely because of the reusable nature of pewter that it is deeply loved by the general public.

Nowadays, with the advent of plastic products and other new materials, pewter has gradually withdrawn from our lives, and the shouting of tinsmiths in the streets and the clanging sound of tinning chips have gradually disappeared, and the era of pewter has gradually come to an end unconsciously.

Rare metal - tin is the fourth rare metal after platinum, gold and silver, and is known as the "green metal" because it is harmless to the human body. So, what is the effect of tin tea sets and tea cans made of tin?

1. Tin tea sets can purify water quality. Tin is a valuable metal second only to gold and silver, and it has the effect of absorbing impure substances, and in the past, in places with poor water quality, people would put tin plates at the bottom of wells to purify the water. Pure tin products do not cause any harm to the human body.

2. Pewter tea sets have high value for use, ornamentation and collection. The pewter is as distinctive as the color of silver, as bright as a mirror, and as sound as a chime.

3. Due to the unique role of tin element and the tightness of tinware, the freshness of tea stored in tin is longer than that of any other tea cans, and it has the characteristics of no taste and no color.

From ancient times to the present, the tea ceremony has been emphasized, and people who like to drink tea and taste tea generally use tin cans to store tea. Tin tea canisters have been recognized as the best utensils for long-term preservation of tea leaves and to avoid nutrient loss and taste changes of tea.

4. Tin tea set, silver and white in color, elegant and noble, with a strong metal texture and unique visual effect. Brewing tea for a long time, the taste is stronger, it is the best choice for tea tasting and collection with relatives and friends.

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