Start grinding ink, first drop clear water into the inkstone surface, push the ground ink into the inkstone pool and grind it repeatedly. If a large amount of ink is needed, the ground ink can be moved to another container to wash away the Su Mo corruption in the inkstone pool, and it is not allowed to add water to grind and waste. Clean water should be used for grinding ink, and appropriate amount of water should be poured, not too much. Good ink is finely ground, poor ink is coarsely ground.
When grinding ink, the ink body should be vertical, press it again and turn it gently, first slowly and then quickly, and don't worry. The ink is thick and uneven. If you hear rustling when grinding ink, it means that the ink is of poor quality and contains impurities or sand. Remove it in time, otherwise it will damage the ink and ink stone. Therefore, a good inkstone should use a good ink mill. Never grind with boiling water or tea. Boiling water makes the stone expand when heated, which easily damages the inkstone and affects the ink. Using tea leaves will change the color of ink and affect the effect of painting and calligraphy.
The difference between grinding ink and using ink
When writing small print or grass, the study of ink is definitely better than ink, and the developed ink has a good writing feeling and rich ink color. Ink and ink stick are definitely two different things. From the glue method, ink generally uses chemical glue, and ink blocks use animal glue. The viscosity of chemical glue is much larger than that of animal glue, so thick ink is easy to stick, and the developed ink will be much better.
Yan Mo represents a calligraphy lover's feelings and a China cultural inheritor's persistence in tradition. Naturally, owning an inkstone has become a status symbol of calligraphy inheritors. Learning ink is a kind of ceremony, which will constantly give you psychological hints, suggesting that you are sticking to an ancient and excellent traditional cultural activity, and let you establish a deeper spiritual connection with calligraphy, which you can't feel at all with ink, and the spiritual level is much worse.