At Tongxinshe Teahouse, a "Youhuang Tea Caddy" that integrates traditional craftsmanship and tea storage wisdom is now presented with elegance. It is not only a tea storage tool, but also an exquisite carrier of Oriental craft aesthetics. Now you can purchase it at www.txs-tea.com.
The Youhuang Tea Caddy adopts a "square with rounded edges" design. The square outline is upright and grand, while the rounded edges and corners add a touch of agility. With a height of 155mm, a width of 92mm, and an inner diameter of 85mm, it is the golden ratio for a "medium-sized tea caddy" — neither too small to lose its grandeur nor too large to be difficult to display. The nail-foot design at the bottom is particularly ingenious, making the caddy visually more upright and avoiding wear and tear caused by direct contact with the tabletop, showing ingenuity in details.
In terms of materials, it takes pure tin as the skeleton and lacquer as the coating. "Tin is suitable for all kinds of tea." Pure tin naturally has excellent fresh-keeping properties: it can isolate moisture, avoid light and sun, and maintain the original aroma and ingredients of tea for a long time. Whether it is Tieguanyin (about 290g), or rock tea, Dan Cong, Longjing, Silver Needle, and White Peony (about 145g), they can all be properly stored in the Youhuang Tea Caddy. One lid and one caddy achieve the ultimate tea storage requirements of moisture-proof, light-proof, aroma-concentrating, and flavor-preserving. The caddy body adopts natural lacquer craftsmanship, using natural raw materials from lacquer trees, which are healthy and non-toxic. The lacquer surface is smooth and delicate, with a温润 and comfortable touch, making it a "living craft" that becomes more charming over time. What's even more amazing is the "lacquer inlay with gold" technique: by controlling the temperature to make the lacquer shrink rapidly, an irregular texture similar to ice cracks is formed, and then gold powder is incorporated into it — the golden lines spread like a spider web on the dark brown background, as if there is light flowing in the cracks, creating a delicate and luxurious visual effect. Each texture is a unique artistic mark.
The birth of the Youhuang Tea Caddy is a journey of craftsmanship. The forging of tinware goes through more than 50 processes from design, tin melting, sheet making, to forming, welding, and fine polishing... Every curve and every weld is polished by craftsmen by hand, finally presenting the delicate luster and solid texture of pure tin. The lacquering process follows the repeated procedures of "applying primer - applying lacquer - drying in the shade - polishing - cleaning - polishing", and the entire process takes up to 3 months. Not to mention the rarity of lacquer itself — "a pound of lacquer requires a hundred miles and a thousand knives" — hundreds of lacquer trees can only produce a few kilograms of raw lacquer a year, and every inch of the lacquer surface is a dual gift of nature and human effort. The tea caddy created by such a complicated process has long surpassed the attribute of a "tea storage container" and has become a handcrafted tinware artwork that can be appreciated, collected, and inherited.
On the tea table of Tongxinshe Teahouse, the Youhuang Tea Caddy is undoubtedly an "elegant utensil": when storing tea, it is a "time-preserving box" for tea, allowing you to smell the original tea aroma every time you open the caddy; when displayed, it is an "aesthetic highlight" for the space, with the lacquer inlay with gold texture flowing in the light and shadow, adding an ancient and elegant charm to the tea room; when collected, it is a "carrier of inheritance" for craftsmanship, and the combination of handcrafted tinware and lacquer inlay with gold makes it more温润 over the years, and its value also precipitates accordingly.
The Youhuang Tea Caddy, which integrates practical, ornamental, and collection value, is now officially launched on www.txs-tea.com. If you are also moved by the craftsmanship of "tin and lacquer", you may wish to visit the website to purchase it and let it become an elegant touch in your tea life.