Traditional culture: the famous Huimo culture.

The impression of ink seems a little simplistic, but it is an indispensable article in ancient Chinese characters. With the help of this original material, the fantastic artistic conception of China's paintings and calligraphy can be realized. The world of ink is not boring, but rich in connotation. As a consumable, ink can be presented intact today, which is very precious. Before the invention of artificial ink making, natural ink or semi-natural ink was generally used as writing material.

Prehistoric painted pottery patterns, Shang and Zhou Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bamboo slips, silk paintings and so on have left traces of original ink everywhere. According to documents, ink was also used in ancient ink punishments (painting faces), ink ropes (carpenters) and ink turtles (examinations). After this long course, in the Han Dynasty, artificial ink finally began to appear.

This kind of ink raw material is taken from pine smoke, which is first kneaded by hand and then molded, and the ink quality is solid. According to Ying Shao's "Han" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Shang Shuling, Servant Shooting, Cheng Lang, give a large amount of ink and a small amount of ink every month." Bai Weiling is located in Qianyang County, Shaanxi Province, near Zhong Nanshan Mountain. There are many Gu Song Mountains in Bai Weiling, which are famous for the tobacco used to make ink.

When it comes to Hui ink, we can't avoid the well-known "Hu Kaiwen ink". As a century-old ink brand, Hu Kaiwen was founded in Qianlong for 30 years and has a history of more than 200 years.

Founder Hu Tianzhu was born in a poor family in Huizhou. Because of his poor family, he went to Wangqi Maomo Shop in Xiuning County as an apprentice since he was a child. Because of his intelligence, loyalty and honesty, the boss Wang thinks highly of him. Wang even gave his only daughter to Hu Tianzhu as his wife. Later, he took over the ink shop and named Wang's ink "Hu Kaiwen".

Ming people say that there is one or two gold and one or two ink. If you make good ink, you will definitely use good glue and good wood. In particular, the formula of Hui ink is very particular, and it is often blended with many precious materials such as pine smoke, tung oil fume, Niu Pijiao, musk, borneol, gold foil, pearl powder and so on 10. In this way, Huizhou ink can be light, clean, fragrant, jade and silent.

The gold with good ink is more expensive in technology, hard work and time. In order to ensure the quality of raw materials, Hu Tianzhu ordered his son to set up a smoking room in the fishing pavilion in Yixian County, and lit hundreds of oil lamps with rich high-quality pine trees to extract pine smoke. Oil smoke ink is bright in color, and pine smoke ink is black and moist. Only in this way can we produce good ink that "falls like paint and remains true for thousands of years".