yàn. Inkstone, a Chinese character in Chinese, means a stationery used for writing brush calligraphy and grinding ink. Most of them are made of stone. Inkstone, pen, ink, and paper are collectively known as the four treasures of the traditional Chinese study and are essential tools for Chinese calligraphy. Inkstones are also widely used, among which the red silk inkstones from Qingzhou, Shandong, Duan inkstones from Zhaoqing, Guangdong, She inkstones from ancient Shezhou (now Huangshan), Anhui, and Taohe inkstones from Zhuoni, Gansu are the most prominent, and are known as the "Four Famous Inkstones".
Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters, Chinese characters, and square characters, are morpheme-syllabic characters of ideographic characters. Chinese characters are the script used to write Chinese, and are also used to write Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other languages. It is a script widely used in the Chinese character cultural circle and is the only highly developed script that is still widely used in the world.
In the broad sense, Chinese characters refer to characters ranging from oracle bone inscriptions, large seal scripts, bronze inscriptions, Zhou scripts, small seal scripts, to official script, cursive script, regular script (and derived running script), etc. In the narrow sense, it refers to Chinese characters with block letters as the standard writing method. It is also a modern Chinese character commonly used today. Chinese characters were invented, created and improved by the Han ancestors in ancient times. The current precise history can be traced back to the oracle bone inscriptions, Zhou inscriptions and bronze inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty around 1300 BC. From the small seal script in the Qin Dynasty, it developed to the Libian Reform in the Han Dynasty, and then to the regular script in the Tang Dynasty, which became the standard handwriting font used today - block script.