The same ink, why do calligraphy masters prefer oily smoke ink made by ancient methods?

Some time ago, Li, a popular blogger of Food Network, released a video that filmed the process of making ink, paper and inkstone with ancient methods.

Let many amateur calligraphy netizens find it difficult and novel.

In particular, the production of lampblack ink makes people feel that the traditional process is complicated and takes a long time.

Netizens have left messages under the video, but I didn't expect it to be so complicated to make oily smoke ink.

The main fuels of lampblack ink are vegetable oils such as tung oil, rapeseed oil and linseed oil, because the carbon black evaporated after the combustion of petroleum fuel contains lipid components.

Therefore, the ink is polished and shiny, which is more suitable for painting and calligraphy creation, and the strokes of running script are smooth. Song Yanmo mainly uses pine as fuel and uses its smoke to make ink.

Ancient oil fume has strong seasonality, high quality and small quantity, and it needs high temperature and humidity in the process of refining, mixing glue, mixing materials, pestle ramming, ashing, waking up ink and molding.

Especially in tobacco smelting, the ratio of oil and the time of taking tobacco should be adjusted with the change of season and temperature, which is only suitable for production in spring and autumn.

It can be seen that the manufacturing process of lampblack ink is far more complicated than ordinary ink.

If you have a high demand for ink, I recommend you to use the oil smoke ink made by the ancient method.