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Inkstone, also known as inkstone, is one of the traditional Chinese handicrafts. Inkstone, together with pen, ink and paper, is also called the traditional Four Treasures of the Study in China, and it is an essential tool for China's calligraphy. Inkstone materials are also widely used, among which Hongsi inkstone in Qingzhou, Shandong Province, Duanyan in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, She Yan in Guzhou (now Huangshan Mountain) in Anhui Province and Taohe inkstone in Zhuoni, Gansu Province are the most prominent, and they are called "four famous inkstones".
production process
The manufacturing process of inkstone platform is complex, with many processes and high technical requirements. Mainly include quarrying, maintaining materials, making pu, carving, matching boxes and polishing. Quarrying is an extremely important link in making inkstones. Since ancient times, excavation and quarrying have been mainly manual, not mechanized, because most inkstones are not earthquake-resistant. If you can't see the stone wall clearly and can't keep up with the stone vein, you will turn the good inkstone into waste stone.
Therefore, the technical requirements for quarrying are higher. The maintenance of materials is the choice of materials. After the inkstone is mined, it must be carefully selected to remove the "stone skin" and keep the "stone meat". Then according to the quality classification, according to the different shapes of processing into inkstone. Carving is an extremely important and key process in inkstone production. First of all, carving needs to be performed on the inkstone blank according to the material, and the theme should be determined.
The main idea of carving is to "sketch" after the concept is determined, and then shovel and carve carefully. "Roughly" means removing the inkstone blank and leaving the one that should be left. Shovel refers to leveling the chisel. The ups and downs are obvious and the lines are clear. Exquisite carving is a work of "exquisite craftsmanship"
After the inkstone carving is completed, it should be sent to the wooden box workshop together with the precious red wooden box and inkstone box for dust protection. After the inkstone is boxed, the inkstone and inkstone box enter the polishing process. First, polish the "knife path" and "chisel mouth" to make the inkstone smooth, then soak it in ink and return it to ink.
utility function
Ink grinding, in which the ink amount and ink amount are one of the important indexes to measure the quality of ink stone materials. Simply put, inking is the speed of ink from ink block to "inkstone" through grinding in water. Inking refers to the speed and fineness of the fusion of carbon molecules and water molecules in ink.
Good ink, like oil, shines brightly in the inkstone, and the article rotates smoothly, so the inkstone for painting is more demanding than that for calligraphy. Ink printing pays attention to speed, ink printing pays attention to thickness, but it is often fast and thick, and good ink printing is slow. Therefore, the inkstone with good ink is extremely precious.