The key to advancement. Sculptural art: to reflect formal beauty in a work is to harmonize the structural combination of the vessel's contour lines, with rhythmic buffering, transitioning, and extending. The so-called progression from point to line to surface—if one can understand the principles in this regard, one's mind will naturally produce inspiration through comprehension, thereby elevating one's aesthetic cultivation. The second is the "means" of creation, that is, "technique." "Technique" requires a thousand refinements and a hundred temperings. If something can be seen but cannot be executed, in essence one has still not truly grasped or understood it—one cannot get to the heart of the matter. The mind is the commander that directs the hands in their work; the eyes are the camera that reflects images to the mind, and the mind in turn directs the hands on what means to employ to correct deficiencies, in order to achieve the envisioned aesthetic requirements. Through constant revision, constant adjustment, and constant summarization, one gains insights and consolidates improvements. The artistic journey is endless—climbing one peak after another. Success belongs to those who dare to climb. What I have written today can also be considered another small summary of teaching through learning! This was Gu Jingzhou's way: seizing every opportunity to patiently guide his students, inspiring them to truly understand the authentic essence of zisha pottery. Gu Jingzhou was not only uncompromising in technical matters with his disciples and the students around him, but equally strict in his demands regarding personal cultural cultivation. He had a phrase that was constantly on his lips: "Those who follow me..."