In 1987, relevant departments of Jiangsu Province convened a seminar at the Yixing Purple Clay Craft Factory's exhibition hall to discuss employee education materials for purple clay. Gu Jingzhou discussed purple clay teaching materials with Shi Xianfang and Pan Chiping. The young generation of the purple clay industry grew up together with New China. In his second phase, Gu Jingzhou not only created numerous outstanding and remarkable works using the skills and accumulated experience from his first phase, but also transformed his exquisite craftsmanship into the students' profound understanding of purple clay art through oral instruction and personal demonstration. Gu Jingzhou's teaching by word and example influenced a large group of people around him. They took Gu Jingzhou as their role model, learning from his character and his teapot-making techniques. Gu Jingzhou was not only a "strict teacher" to his students, but also became their "good friend." This excellent teacher-student relationship enabled these numerous students who had received Gu Jingzhou's authentic teachings to become the future and hope of New China's purple clay artistic creation. At the same time, it laid a solid foundation of transmission for Gu Jingzhou to "open a school and establish a lineage" in the third phase of his artistic life. ## Opening a School and Establishing a Lineage: Teacher for a Hundred Generations On November 1, 1979, during the early period of Reform and Opening Up, Hong Kong businessman Mr. Lo Kwee-seong visited Yixing and expressed his intention to order high-end products from the Purple Clay Craft Factory. "On the spot, an order was signed for high-end purple clay craft teapots..."