The writing method of ink is as follows: vertical, horizontal fold, dot, left, horizontal, vertical, horizontal, horizontal, dot, dot, dot, dot, horizontal, vertical, horizontal,
Ink, one of the traditional Chinese study utensils and one of the four treasures of the study, is a black pigment used for writing and painting, and later also includes red ink and various colored inks.
The main raw materials of ink are soot, pine smoke, glue, etc., which are carbon elements in amorphous form. Ink used for writing with a brush can be produced by grinding an inkstone with water, and exists as a colloidal solution in water. The main factions of ancient ink are Hui ink and Sichuan ink.
The moisture content of the ink and the composition of the glue are different, which will affect the viscosity of the ink. The viscosity of ink used in different situations is different. In addition, the newly made ink also contains more moisture. There are also inks that have been stored for a long time, which have a higher density and have been dried for many years, making the ink color more three-dimensional. This kind of ink is called "ancient ink".
Before the invention of artificial ink, natural or semi-natural ink was generally used as writing materials. Ink was invented probably later than the pen. Prehistoric painted pottery patterns, oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, bamboo and wood slips, silk calligraphy and painting, etc., leave traces of the original use of ink everywhere.
Documentary records indicate that ink was also used in ancient ink punishment (tattooing), ink rope (used in carpentry), and ink turtle (divination). Chinese archaeological excavations have found ink marks on bone and stone tools from the 14th century BC, and ink blocks from the Warring States Period have also been unearthed from Yunmeng County, Hubei. There is a sentence "licking the brush and ink" in "Zhuangzi", which shows that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, brushes and ink had already been used.
"Shu Ancient Calligraphy Compilation" records: In the Western Zhou Dynasty, "Xing Yi began to make ink, and the characters were made from black soil, soot, earth and the like." In ancient writing, bamboo was used to dot the paint, and then ground with charcoal Writing for juice is called graphite. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, pine smoke and tung coal were mostly used to make ink. The earliest known smoke ink was found in the Qin tomb in Shuihudi, Yunmeng, Hubei and the Han tomb in Fenghuangshan, Jiangling. The inks at that time were small round blocks and were not molded into ingots.