Tin ranks as the fourth rarest metal after platinum, gold, and silver. Being harmless to the human body, it is known as a green metal.

China boasts a long history of tinware applications. As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, people were already mining and smelting tin ore. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, nobles and aristocrats often crafted tin funerary objects such as oxen, horses, and sheep. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the crafting of tin tea sets, wine vessels and other utensils gained popularity among the populace. By the Yongle era of the Ming dynasty, the tinware industry flourished, becoming a nationwide guild of artisans that persisted until the late Qing and early Republican periods. Tinware's enduring appeal stems from its celebrated properties: ‘water held in it becomes sweet and clear, wine gains fragrance and richness, tea stored within retains its colour, and flowers arranged in it last longer.’

Keeps oxygen, moisture and light out, so tea, coffee or spices stay fresh longer

Attractive, malleable surface allows deep embossing and fine artwork, giving a premium, collectible look

No metallic taste or reaction with food

Keep the inside temperature stable, aiding gentle “aging” of certain teas.

Companies helped

Push open the copper-ringed wooden door of "Yunxitang", and you will first smell a wisp of pine wood mixed with the smell of Pu'er - it was a life-saving bonfire lit by Wang Shouyi, a young man from the Horse Gang, when he picked up the first silver-white tin ingots in the slag pile after an old forest fire in Yunnan in 1903. Wang Jiazushang was originally a Shu craftsman who made "Zhu Ti Yin", and fled to Yunnan and found that tin was more obedient than silver: it could flow like water in the moonlight, but it could form a moon that would never rust before dawn. So he melted the copper bell of the Ma Gang, cast the first "Yunnan Moon" tea can, and quietly stuffed it into the camel bag of the Pu'er merchant - three years later, the more the tea became more and more fragrant, and the jar did not have a trace of rust, and the Ma Gang turned around and knelt down to beg for "another moon", and Yunxitang was born.

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For three generations we have done nothing but pure-tin cans. Twenty craftsmen, one hammer, one hand-powered press, turn Yunnan 99.9 % ingots into 0.2 mm skins you can almost hear breathe.

We light the furnace at sunrise and let the flames rest at sunset; fewer than two thousand pieces leave the bench each day, yet every seam is hand-annealed, every surface hand-polished, so each can keeps the warm ripple of a human palm.

The raised lychee on the body is the foreman’s thirty years of blade-craft; the mirror-bright inside, a young apprentice’s three thousand slow circles with a wool wheel.

We do not chase speed, only slowness; not volume, but legacy.

What you hold is not packaging—it is an heirloom, fit to store tea, to cradle time, to keep the lingering heat of the craftsman’s hand.

We are very fortunate to have the support of many business partners. These partners work with us.

These supports enable us to better develop and grow our business, and also enable us to face future challenges and opportunities with more confidence and confidence.

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