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A boy who loved playing with clay since childhood began, at sixteen, as an apprentice in a ceramics factory. Starting with flowerpots, vases, tableware, and tea sets, his works are now widely collected and exhibited by public and private cultural and art centers. He has even won the Golden Ceramics Award, Folk Art Award, Traditional Craft Award, National Craft Award, and many other major honors. For forty years, a silent man has met wordless clay, creating a world full of feeling. Pai Mu-chuan—his name matches the man: few words, an unadorned nature. Only in his work does one suddenly discover the playful, tender, sensitive soul within. Hand-built tube pottery as a starting point, matte glazes as the surface, the humble essence of clay conveying the richest artistic meaning; behind rounded lines and exaggerated proportions lies an invitation to glimpse the creator’s own “pottery” paradise. If you still ask what the Peach Blossom Spring is, perhaps you will see a boy whose child-heart never aged, smiling and winking at you. “A man in a boat, the boat on water, water upon the limitless, the limitless upon the fleeting sorrow and joy of my every instant.”