About half a century ago, the Yixing pottery industry experienced a period of decline and faced severe challenges. I have been engaged in the art of Yixing pottery for fifty or sixty years, and can truly say that I have risen and fallen with the tides of this industry's development. As early as the beginning of the 1940s, I had associations with friends from Shanghai's calligraphy and painting circles, including Wu Hufan, Jiang Hanting, Zhang Dazhuang, and Tang Yun. We exchanged calligraphy and painting works on teapots, which I personally crafted and carved myself. Among friends who shared these refined pursuits, we mutually appreciated each other's work. In recent years, I also collaborated with Han Meilin on design work, which I personally crafted and carved. From the mid-1970s onward, the Shanghai Art Museum and Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy worked closely with the Yixing Pottery Factory. At that time, contemporary masters of calligraphy and painting such as Wang Geyi, Zhu Qizhan, Tang Yun, Xie Zhiliu, Cheng Shifa, Zhang Leping, and Ying Yeping decorated a batch of Yixing teapots that were then released to the market. Meanwhile, in *The Treasury of Teapot Art* published by Zhifeng Pottery Art and Sheng He Tang, there is a photocopy of an authentication certificate handwritten by Gu Jingzhou for a teapot belonging to Wu Hufan: > "Stone Gourd Teapot, made in 1948, presented to Mr. Wu Hufan. Brother Jiang Hanting painted the flowers and birds, Tang Yun inscribed the calligraphy, and the maker carved it. More than forty years have passed since then. Summer of 1993, signed by Gu Jingzhou at Taotao Studio." From these two passages, we can see that Mr. Gu Jingzhou clearly stated that he personally executed these carvings. So what attitude should we adopt? First, Dai Zuomin was the son of Dai Xiangming. In *Tiehua Xuan*[1][2] --- [1] Gu Jingzhou: "Tracing the Source and Discussing Art—On the Integration of Literati and Calligraphy-Painting Circles with Yixing Pottery Art," in Ye Yezhi, ed., *Purple Clay Teapots and Ink—A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Yixing Calligraphy and Painting Teapot Art* (Hong Kong: The Commercial Press [Hong Kong] Limited, June 1991), p. 13. [2] Sheng He Tang and Zhifeng Pottery Art, eds., *The Treasury of Teapot Art* (Taipei: Siji Tangren Craft Publishing House, October 1993), p. 15.