"Mingyuan" is not his real name, but the name of Chen Mingyuan. According to "Yixing County Records", "Chen Mingyuan is famous for its deep source, Hefeng, Shixia Mountain, and stable." Yuan Cun, a native of Shipport, Yixing, was the most influential master of pot-making during the reign of Kangxi. He was born in a purple sand family and is said to be the son of Chen Ziqi. His talent can be said to be the most outstanding among purple sand ceramists, and he is also a mysterious pot artist.

"The skills of pots, cups, bottles and boxes are between Xu (You Quan) and Shen (Junyong), and his calligraphy is elegant and vigorous, which is better than Xu and Shen". "Yang Xianming and Lu Tao" said that "the skill of Ming and Yuan Dynasties is unparalleled in the world. Since more than a hundred years ago, there have been fewer and fewer communicators, so its name is particularly noisy. " Especially welcomed by scholars, it is often "the footprints are everywhere, and scholars compete for each other." At that time, many celebrities in Zhejiang invited him to make tea sets and play with elegance. The pianos, chess, books, paintings and antiques in these literati's homes greatly influenced Chen Ming's pot making. Tongxiang painter Wang Keting, Haining celebrity Yang Zhongyun, scholar Cao Qianrang, collector Ma Sizan and other celebrities have invited him to be a guest. Among them, he has a close friendship with Yang Zhongyun, and he has made the most and most exquisite pots for Yang. Yang also cooperated in making teapots, combining superb pot-making skills with elegant literati calligraphy, which made his works refined and valuable. Chen Mingyuan is skilled in the field of purple sand, develops in an all-round way, and is brave in pioneering and innovating. The antiques he read, such as Jue, Zhang, Ding and Yi, are exquisite in craftsmanship, high in taste and full of ancient meanings. He is very good at all kinds of pots, especially natural pots, and his style inherits the essence of Ming Dynasty and the pattern of Qing Dynasty. He is a skilled potter who has made dozens of famous teapots and Wan Wen, which is rare in the history of purple sand. Chen Mingyuan's works are very natural and interesting. On the basis of Ming dynasty, he pushed the natural pot to the height of art. He is versatile. Many desk furniture is also made for elegant play, such as decorations in the study, such as raw fruits. All of them are exquisite and elegant, showing the natural critical state of fruits and vegetables incisively and vividly, and the muddy color matching the texture of fruits gives people a beautiful feeling, which is amazing!

Chen Mingyuan also created a pot body engraved with poems and inscriptions for decoration, such as the inscription on the pot belly: "Take a cold spring, pour a fragrant tea and enjoy a ladle of drink", which is helpful for people to taste tea and benefit people's temperament. Simple and clear inscriptions often give people wisdom and enlightenment. This department combines seal cutting with seal cutting, and introduces the decorative art of China traditional painting and calligraphy into the production process of purple sand teapot, which adds a lot of meaningful decorative interest to the original plain pot body, thus integrating pot art, tea tasting and literati elegance, greatly improving the artistic value and cultural value of purple sand teapot, which is an outstanding achievement made by Chen Mingyuan in the history of pot art development.

Starting from Chen Mingyuan, the method of printing on the lid of the teapot was created, which is also one of the reference bases for identifying purple sand teapot works around Ming and Qing Dynasties. Generally speaking, Chen Mingyuan will engrave on the bottom of the pot. In his later works, inscriptions and seals are combined into one, and sometimes seals are used alone. The common seal is "Chen Mingyuan". "Ming Yuan" is a seal. The word "Chen" is printed circularly, and only the word "Yuan" is printed. There are also square seals and oval seals of "Hetun".

Chen Mingyuan's handed down works are collected at home and abroad. The most famous masterpiece handed down from generation to generation is "Tianji Pot", which is purple in color, dignified and shiny. There is an inscription on the ampulla: "The cypress leaves come with the inscription, and the pepper flowers come one by one." The handwriting is Cao Qian, followed by Chen Mingyuan's seal. Now it is in Tianjin Art Museum. There is also the "Dongling melon pot", which is orange in color and sandy in temperature. The ampulla was originally collected by Wu Dazhi, a collector in Qing Dynasty, and now it is collected in Nanjing. Chen Mingyuan's famous teapots include prune pot, purple sand three-friend pot and sunflower eight-petal pot. Today, the Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum and Yixing ceramics museum all have authentic Ming Yuan pots.

Due to the great influence of Chen Mingyuan's achievements and reputation, his works have been copied and copied the most times, and his forgery time is long and there are many fakes, second only to Chen Meng pot. In the 1930s, Shanghai antique dealers hired Yixing pot makers to copy them, and asked those who were good at copying seals to copy the marks such as "Mingyuan" in order to reap huge profits. However, some imitators are so skilled that the fakes are so exquisite that they are confusing, which makes it difficult for many teapot collectors to distinguish the authenticity, so the price is amazing. This is really an extraordinary story in the history of pottery making.