Xingjiao Temple Village next to Xingjiao Temple in Chang'an District, Xi'an, there is a pottery xun workshop under the high loess ridge in Shaolingyuan. A couple born in the 1980s have been doing pottery xun here for 11 years. The Taoxun workshop has built a small garden. There are pavilions, rockeries, and various flowers and fruit trees in the small garden. When they are tired from work, they will blow the xun in the pavilion. The beautiful xun sounds echo in the Taoxun workshop. The couple immersed themselves in the old tones and enjoyed the fruits of their labor.

The male owner of the Tao Xun workshop is named Tian Yi, 37 years old this year, and the female owner is Niu Guoqing, 33 years old this year. Getting taller and taller, I often go to performances. They say that when you put down your work and play a song, you are in a very beautiful mood.

Tian Yi and Niu Guoqing started working in Xun the year they got married. The girl and the guy went to work outside each other when they were married. After they got married, they felt that they couldn't live by working and had to think of doing something in front of the house. They chose to work as an unpopular Xun. Business. In the first kiln in 2009, they fired craft xun, but the price of craft xun was low and they couldn't make money at all, so they decided to make performance xun. Now a playing xun can be sold for as low as 160 yuan, and high-end ones can be sold for thousands of yuan.

The production process of pottery xun is complex. It has to go through many processes such as soil extraction, crushing, filtering and sedimentation, placing, drawing, drying, punching, tuning, and firing. Among these processes, drawing is difficult to master. skill. On the blank drawing machine, Tian Yi repeated experiments, researches, and pondering over and over.

Watching Tian Yi pull the blank, you will feel amazing, like watching a magic show, a solid cylindrical mud, under his dexterous hands, first turned into a pen barrel, and then the top was slowly closed and sealed, and it took 2 minutes to make a blank. 

No one was hired in their pottery workshop. When Tian Yi was pulling the embryos, his 69-year-old father would help out, bring the clay balls, and put the drawn Xun blanks on the pallet. When the kiln is fired and out of the kiln, my father and mother will come to help.

The pottery xun workshop of Tian Yi's family is close to the loess slope of Shaolingyuan. There are several loess belts with a darker color than other loess and red loess on the high loess slope. This is the best raw material for making pottery xun.

The loess deposited over thousands of years on the Shaoling Plain is a good raw material for mud embryos. This hard and sticky loess can be used to pull embryos and make xun after being crushed, filtered and stacked.

In front of the earthen kiln are neatly placed pottery xuns waiting to be fired in the kiln. In the past year, there were 15,000 Tao Xuns to be made, and the couple worked very hard. In recent years, they have only made 5,000 Tao Xuns. They have worked hard on the quality and made high-quality performances. The number has decreased, but the money earned has not decreased, but has increased.

It has become Tian Yi and his wife's greatest wish to do a good job with Xun, which has a history of six or seven thousand years. They have become attached to Xun, and the ancient musical instruments have radiated new vitality in their hands.