Huangshan Travelogue - Visiting Huimo

? Huangshan Mountain is very beautiful, unrivaled in the world, known throughout the world, there are countless people have written travelogues and poems in praise of Huangshan Mountain, which is very emotional.

I have been to Mount Huangshan more than twenty years ago, and I y share the same feeling, Mount Huangshan is worthy of the world's first strange mountain, the world's fairyland. Mount Huangshan to the unique peaks and forest landforms constitute a strange, great, dangerous, illusion of the world's great wonders. More to "strange pines, strange stones, sea of clouds, hot springs, winter snow" of the five best, and famous at home and abroad. Make people unforgettable, would like to come to the depth of the four seasons in a year to revisit. What impressed me most was that in Huangshan City (ancient Huizhou), we were lucky enough to visit one of the four treasures of the Chinese nation, "Huizhou ink". The "ink edge" love around, pen and ink love, such as branding the heart, teeth unforgettable, "ink man" really do not vomit ah!

? Time to trace to 1999, that year, the Huzhou City Bureau of Education in order to promote traditional Chinese culture, inheritance of the Chinese national art, to encourage the city's calligraphy and painting characteristics of good schools, praise the advanced, incentives for the latter, deliberately issued an important notice. Where the city of Huzhou rated "provincial calligraphy education experimental base" of the school, each school can recommend a calligraphy backbone teachers to go to the provinces to study. I was honored to be promoted by the organization, to participate in the field trip activities. This activity is undertaken by the Huzhou Municipal Teaching and Research Office of the group, led by the director of the Municipal Teaching and Research Office personally, the city **** have more than a dozen teachers honored to participate.

? This outside there are investigation activities due to the number of small, we are to Huzhou bus station to focus on taking the bus shuttle to Huangshan. The first stop of our investigation went to Shexian County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, to visit the Hu Kaiwen ink factory located in Tunxi.

? Shexian County is the seat of the ancient Huizhou Prefecture. Into the residential area of the county east of the city, a compound is located in the Qianlong era of the old Hu Kaiwen ink Zhuang's remaining veins - the old Hu Kaiwen ink factory.

After entering the factory, the leader of the team went directly to the office of the factory, to the ink factory leaders showed the Huzhou City Bureau of Education's out of the field study letter of introduction, and presented us with a valuable gift of Huzhou - Lake Pen. Factory leaders are very happy, very enthusiastic, immediately sent a deputy factory director, personally give us as a guide, free of charge to let visit Hui ink factory.

? Into the factory, we found that the ink workshop house is much larger than the general plant, a workshop is about a basketball court so big. Workshop ink fragrance burst, all kinds of ink smell especially strong, this smell I like, really familiar, especially good smell.

The leaders of the factory are particularly cheerful and frank, and introduced us to the production process of Anhui ink one by one as we walked. I was curious to look closer, listen carefully, and silently take notes, and the teacher with the camera also took photos from time to time to record this precious scene.

? Hui ink production technology is complex, the ink is mainly used in the pine branch kiln smoke, tung oil smoke, lacquer smoke, glue and other materials with a unique recipe secret system. Hui ink with our Huzhou lake pen are known as one of the "four treasures", are the traditional Chinese writing calligraphy, painting and painting of the necessary stationery. Good top grade ink "rich muscle greasy, glossy as lacquer", not fade over time, dismissing pen not fallacy, into the paper not fainting, is writing and painting and other essential arts and crafts cultural supplies.

? There are many varieties of Huizhou ink, mainly including lacquer smoke, oil smoke, pine smoke, full smoke, net smoke, glue reduction, fragrance and so on. The senior lacquer ink is made of more than 10 kinds of valuable materials such as tung oil smoke, musk, ice tablet, gold foil, pearl powder and so on.

? Tunxi Huizhou Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory now has more than ten ancient legal ink processes such as pointing smoke, refining smoke, and material, stirring blanks, mortar and pestle pounding, making ink, pressing molds, turning cool, drying ink, polishing, painting gold, and so on, which are all very delicate. Each tiny ink bloom of Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory is made by the most traditional craftsmanship, hammer by hammer, and is the crystallization of the sweat of the ink masters. In Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory, every ink craftsman is a Chinese craftsman who quietly inherits the Chinese culture, with ink as a companion, hard and tired and dirty, very hard, people are in awe. Because of their generations of masters and apprentices, passing on the flame, so that the treasure of China, "Huimo", can continue its beautiful life and value to the world!

? Hui ink is a set of painting, calligraphy, carving, modeling and other artists in one, so that the ink itself has become a comprehensive art treasures. A good ink, to do "smell to the warm, firm as jade, research no sound"! A good ink is precious in terms of craftsmanship, hard work and time. Now to Hui ink factory to visit the Chinese and foreign tourists in particular, this has become an important window of Huangshan City open to the outside world. It is said that the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Zhao Puchu, personally inscribed a plaque for "Hu Kaiwen", which added a unique color to the old Huizhou Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory. Party and state leaders such as Wan Li and Chen Muhua have personally visited the ink factory to guide the work. Let more literati, students love this one of the best Chinese ink treasure.

? Hu Kaiwen Hui Ink Factory is "the first old ink factory in China", and is the intangible cultural heritage of "my ink can be transformed into gold for a hundred years". Hu Kaiwen Hui ink is not only favored by domestic literati, but also often as a precious gift and national gift to international friends. The famous Japanese painter Mr. Higashiyama Kui Gui said: "Chinese ink is a popular art treasures, we see the ancient Chinese culture from the art of ink!"

? Hui ink production has a history of more than 1,000 years, and is the treasure of Chinese Han ink-making technology. In the workshop, we witnessed the general process of making ink by hand, which is very precious and rare. Huizhou ink production techniques are complex, different schools have their own unique production techniques, generally not secret. Ink masters are so hard, a lot of people work are standing on the side of the operating table, sweating, with a hammer constantly knocking ink blanks, black and black ink mud, through their repeated manual hammering, kneading, and then kneaded into long strips, into the black and black ink mold, after pressing the mold, ink ingots out of the mortar. Ink masters carefully put the ink ingots to the ink bar shelf, the size of the same, neat and tidy, such as machine-made like, is very beautiful. It is said that the ink production technicians will also be traced on the ink spindle gold, usually after drying, but also sanding, trimming, in addition to the flaws, before the finished product, the ink bar will be loaded with Hui ink gift box, factory sales.

? Huizhou ink, produced in the ancient Huizhou Province and named, because of its "firm as jade, research soundless, a little as lacquer, ten thousand years of survival of the real" and other characteristics of the literati and ink users loved. 2006, Huizhou ink production techniques were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

? Huzhou Hu Kaiwen since the Qing Dynasty Qianlong forty-seven years (A.D. 1782) by the Huizhou people Hu Tian note since the founding, has a history of more than 200 years. The ink of Hu Kaiwen was awarded the gold medal of Nanyang Persuasion in 1990, and the "Earth Ink" produced in 1955 was exhibited at the Panama World's Fair and was awarded the gold medal. Tunxi Huizhou Hu Kaiwen ink factory's predecessor that is "the first Hu Kaiwen old store" by Huizhou Hu Kaiwen ink Zhuang, shop and workshop public-private partnership.

Today's best-selling market Cao Sukong ink, is the inheritance of the traditional ink Hu Kaiwen ink ink production process, with Huizhou ink and water grinding out of high-grade calligraphy and painting smoked ink.

? From the Hui ink factory process workshop visit out, a group of us and walked into the side of the Hui ink craft store, the store not only displays a variety of different forms of Hui ink, but also display a variety of gorgeous four treasures gift box, what the pen holder, paperweight, ink stone, all kinds of rice paper, study supplies, everything. Also displayed the ancient Hu Kaiwen old ink.

? Our group of painting and calligraphy enthusiasts, each of them are here in the study of the four treasures fascinated, long unwilling to leave. We should stay here for more than an hour, almost everyone broke the bank and bought their favorite things. Some teachers bought inkstone stands, brush holders, paperweights, rice paper, Anhui ink, brush washes, and sealing clay. I also bought a pair of mahogany filler paper there, but also spent a few dozen dollars to buy a long-desired Hu Kaiwen old Hui ink of the Qing Dynasty, this ink is still treasured at home, can not use it!

? Hui ink factory out, we are not satisfied, continue our cultural journey. The leadership of the Office of Education and Research called a bus, took us to visit a famous local painter's study, the painter is about sixty years old, his studio is particularly large, the painter is very hospitable, the scene improvisation sketches to us all see. I was the first time so close to see the famous painter painting, ink and color, eye-opening, benefit a lot.

Subsequently, under the leadership of the painter's friend, we rode to the old street of Tunxi, strolling to visit the painting and calligraphy street. This ancient street is the essence of the four treasures of the Chinese literati gathered place, ink, paper, pen and inkstone all complete, crowded, tourists like tide. Hundreds of meters long on both sides of the antique street, open with the calligraphy and painting-related stores, some sell the four treasures, some sell celebrity paintings, some sell mahogany frames, some sell ancient and modern posters, celebrity albums, antique carvings, everywhere exciting. We are in an inkstone store, spent sixty-five dollars to buy a side of the stars of the old pit Sheyan, the shopkeeper is very polite, but also free to help me in the inkstone engraved name.

? Hui ink and Yellow Mountain will always be in my heart. Xu Xiake, an ancient ranger, said wonderfully: "Thin sea at home and abroad, not as bad as the Huangshan Mountain. Climbing Mount Huangshan, no mountain in the world, the view stops." Huangshan - I will come again!

Written at home in Shanghai on the evening of April 27, 2021