The production of Huimo began in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The founder is Chao Heting. From the middle of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of population and economic centers moved south due to the chaos in the buffer regions. The Xi family moved south from Yishui (now Yixian) in Hebei Province and settled in Cangzhou, attracted by the wonders of Huangshan Baiyue, Lianxi and Xin 'an. Xi's father and son are ink makers. At this time, Gu Song in southern Anhui was used as raw material, and the tamping and gluing processes were improved. Finally, a good ink "rich in muscle and greasy, shiny as paint" was created, which lasted for a long time and was full of fragrance. Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, loved calligraphy and painting, and made Xi Ting an ink official, giving him a "national surname" as a reward. As a result, the family changed to the Li family. Li Ting became a master of Mohism in ancient and modern times. During Song Xuanhe's reign, there was a situation that "gold is easy to get, but Li Mo is hard to find".
In the Song Dynasty, with the prosperity of the Confucian system, the grand occasion of "Hui people's learning" and "Xin 'an people set an example to create ink" was formed. Changyu in yi county, Shen Gui in Huangshan, Pangu in Zhou She, Woods in Xin 'an, etc. They are all famous figures in the ink industry of 10, 1 1 century. Zhang Yu is the founder of youyan ink, famous for making "imperial ink", and his "dragon fragrance" is a treasure sought after by collectors in past dynasties; When burning loose coal with grease and lacquer, the smoke is extremely black, which is called lacquer smoke. People call its ink "ten years as stone, a little as paint"; The beauty of Wu Ci's ink painting lies in "I don't leave an inkstone", and he was once awarded 20,000 yuan by Song Xiaozong. Pangu, the master of ink making in past dynasties, was praised by the world as "Mo Xian". His ink products such as "Matsumaru" and "Sister-in-law" have the advantages of "fragrant bones, fragrant without losing" and are called "magic products in ink". In his later years, Su Dongpo wrote poems to mourn after he fell into the water and drowned.