Originated from the tea bowls produced by Jian Kilns in northern Fujian Province, China, they are called Jian Zhans. In the Song Dynasty, the trend of drinking tea was quite prosperous. Song Huizong Zhao Ji said in the "Daguan Tea Theory": "The color of the lamp is expensive, green and black, and the one with the best jade hair is the best." Boiled in the spring.” The writer Su Dongpo also recited in his poem “Send Nanping Qian Shi”: “The Taoist came out of Nanping Mountain to try the tea samadhi. Suddenly, he was shocked by the rabbit’s fur spots at noon and made it into a spring urn and goose wine.” From the precise description of tea bowls in these poems,

It can be seen how much the literati at that time loved Jianzhan. During the Southern Song Dynasty, when some Japanese monks studied Buddhism with Chinese monks in the temple of Tianmu Mountain in Zhejiang, they also learned the way of tasting tea. The tea bowls brought back are called "Tenmu Tea Bowls" and developed the Japanese tea ceremony culture. These tea bowls, which were passed down to Japan, were mostly held by nobles at that time. There is one of the most beautiful Yaobian Tenmu tea bowls in the world, which was handed down to the Inaba family of the Tokugawa shogun's family. The Inaba family once sold it for 168,000 yen in the seventh year of Taisho (1918 AD), when a tael of gold was about 50 yen, which was equivalent to 3,360 taels of gold in total! This tea bowl has now been passed down to the Seikado Bunko Art Museum of the Iwasaki family of the Mitsubishi Group, and Japan has even designated the four extant Tenmu tea bowls as national treasures.