When choosing ink, you can choose a better brand. Good ink is thicker and glossier. Baking the ink on the fire before writing can increase the gloss without wrinkling the paper.
There are two kinds of ink, one is oil smoke and the other is pine smoke. Oil fume is oily ink, which is mainly made by burning tung pomelo seeds or lard and collecting its smoke. ) The varieties are: Yuntou Smoke Ink, Blue Smoke Ink, Bright Ink, Children's Eye Ink, Big Single Twin Ink, Oil Smoke Ink and so on.
The varieties of pine smoke (pine smoke is ink made by burning pine oil and collecting its smoke) are: Ejiao pine smoke, five old pine smoke, Komatsu smoke and so on.
Oil fume ink has a certain luster, warm tone, rich color and very luster, which can be used for marking and rendering. Song Yanmo is dark in color, and is used for writing fine print and meticulous painting. The formula proportion is adjusted according to the seasonal climate to adapt to the climate change of the four seasons.
Generally speaking, writing regular script uses more ink, while writing cursive script uses less ink.