What is ink made of?

A, the main raw materials of ink for charcoal smoke, rubber, additives and solutions, generally through mechanical processing. Charcoal smoke of many kinds, including a variety of mineral plants and animal raw materials by combustion or thermal decomposition. Gum is in addition to animal glue, most of the vegetable gum (gum arabic) or a variety of synthetic gum such as acrylic, polyalcohol resins and so on. Additives are various stabilizers, penetrating agents, wetting agents, preservatives, aromatics and so on.

Two, the introduction of ink

Commonly referred to as ink, are referred to the black liquid or solid, the Chinese people seem to have a preference for black, two thousand years of painting and calligraphy, not to mention the pottery as far back as more than 4,000 years ago, in addition to adding ink color on the colored pottery, there are unique to the Orient of the all-black pottery was used. Yin and Shang divination, in the oracle bone first book after engraving the symbols with ink, Zhou and Qin instruments, written with a pen on bamboo slips, wooden documents, and thick silk is also ink, however, these on the ink used in the Middle Ages, with the Eastern Han Dynasty after the use of different, some of the graphite for the natural ores, and some may be charcoal charcoal burned into carbon black ink.

Three, the origin of the ink legend

Legend in the Zhou Dynasty, there is a person who is good at poetry and painting, called the criminal Yi. One day, when he was washing his hands in the river, he saw something black floating on the surface of the river, and with curiosity he fished it up and saw that it was a piece of unburnt pine charcoal, and then he threw it into the river with his hands. The criminal Yi suddenly found that his pair of freshly washed hands stained with a dark black color." Pine charcoal can be colored, can it be used to write?" Xing Yi couldn't help but ponder. He hurriedly chased downstream and re-fished the piece of pine charcoal.

Indey took the pine charcoal home and used a brick to pound it into powder.

"What are you doing? Hurry up and eat!" His wife, Wang, said, bringing a bowl of wheat porridge to Xingyi.

His wife, Wang, brought the bowl of congee to him.

His wife, Wang, glanced at the bowl of congee and, with a flash of inspiration, picked up the black powder and sprinkled it in the bowl of congee.

"Aaah, you're crazy!" Wang said in surprise.

Index smiled and didn't answer as he picked up his chopsticks, dipped them into the bowl a few times, and scratched them towards the wall, where a black mark appeared.

"Haha, I've found the material to write poems and paintings!" Xingyi shouted happily. From then on, he wrote poems and made paintings with a liquid made of powdered pine charcoal, which was the most primitive ink in China.

Four, the production method of ink

1, the traditional ink method

"Commonly used ink, the pine tree will first flow away from the gum incense, and then cut the wood. Where the pine incense has a hair is not netted out, the smoke of the ink has a dregs knot not solve the disease. Where the pine tree flow to incense, wood root chiseled a small hole, burn lamp slowly burned, then through the body of the cream on the warmth, pouring out also".

Where burning pine smoke, cutting pine chopped into size. Bow contempt for round objects, such as boats in the canopy type, connected to more than a thousand feet, inside and outside with the interface, all to paper and mat paste solid completion, a few sections apart, small holes out of the smoke. Under the cover of the brick, first for the smoke road.

Burning payroll for several days, rest cold, into the sweeping bracket. All burning pine smoke, fire smoke, from the head to the tail. By the end of one, two sections for the clear smoke, take into the good ink for the material. In the section of the mixed smoke, take for the time ink material. If near the head of one, two sections, only scraped for the smoke, goods sold for printing, book writers still take the research fine with. The rest is for the lacquer, chalk work of the coating Xuan (black).

2, modern ink production method

Modern ink production method and the traditional ink production method since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, much the same, but the use of smoke and medicinal materials, are not as sophisticated as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so the quality of the ink, not as good as the ancient ink, in order to cater to the purchasing power of the public, more than take the original medicinal materials that are readily available on the market, with mechanical mixing and pounding.

Commonly used smoke, to refine petroleum after the burning of heavy oil into industrial oil smoke is the most, lamp smoke with vegetable oil, and according to the class level discretionary mixed with mineral oil smoke. Glue is mostly used with glue, fish glue, gum arabic, or chemically synthesized plastic, acrylic glue. Additives are generally added camphor, ice chips, preservatives, mold inhibitors, chemical aromatics, synthetic flavors and so on. Another so-called "green ink", the ink color shows green light, is added to the blue pigment, the so-called "tea ink", the ink shows brown luster, for the addition of brown stone pigment.

3, medicine ink

Anciently, there is the production of medicine ink, for all far away from the use of local emergency, but its effectiveness, today's people do not understand, is now recorded in the following, only for common sense to watch.

Medicine ink raw materials: rhinoceros horn, antelope horn, oxalis, musk, ice pearls, gold foil, toad, bear bile and other precious Chinese herbs.

Use: anti-inflammatory and detoxification, blood circulation and pain relief, cool blood and stop bleeding, reduce swelling and soften the hardness, open up the mind, sedative, anti-cancer and so on.

It can be used to treat: vomiting blood, blood in stool, blood in urine, high blood pressure, vesicular eruption, breast pain, oral inflammation, anonymous swollen toxin.

Note: Pregnant women should not take.

4, colorful ink

Colorful ink has red, yellow, blue, white, green five colors, but also white, ochre, reddish-red, green and other colors, actually more than five colors. This kind of ink is sticky and suitable for writing and painting. The most used is Zhu ink, which is used for changing or approving documents. Five-color ink is the mineral powder grinding very fine, instead of black smoke, plus gum more than making black ink, manufacturing method is the same as the black ink.

5, the production of ink

The main raw materials used in ink are roughly divided into black smoke, gum, spices, preservatives, by mechanical dispersion, homogeneity, mixing and become.