{"id":91,"date":"2026-07-25T20:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zithorn.com\/yi-xian-shou-huo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:20:24","slug":"yi-xian-shou-huo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zithorn.com\/en\/yi-xian-shou-huo\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Sourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zt-lead\">Several times a year we travel to the origins and workshops \u2014 to see the lines, the copper, the incense, and the people who make them. Frontline sourcing is the first and most important step of Zhitang curation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zt-sec\">\n<h2>How We Source at the Frontline<\/h2>\n<p>We visit workshop by workshop and verify with our own eyes: materials and process are confirmed, and only pieces that pass hand inspection come back with us. 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