Method for making Longquan inkpad

A: The traditional secret recipe is needed to make Longquan inkpad, which is made of cinnabar, moxa, rhinoceros yellow, pearl powder, musk and castor oil. After repeated grinding and beating into colloid, it can be finely made after more than 20 processes. Inks are bright and scarlet. No solidification in winter, no oil leakage in summer, full of fragrance, never fading, excellent three-dimensional coverage; Printed products are still red after three years in water.

Longquan inkpad was originally created by Changzhou scholar Liu, who is very familiar with medicinal materials. It took him two years to improve the production of inkpad and named it Longquan inkpad. Jingchang Printing Factory is the place where Liu and his descendants made Longquan inkpad, which is located in Biji Lane, Millennium Ancient Street, Changzhou, a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River. When Gan Longer went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he came to Jingchang Printing House, which was also called "Jingyutang" at that time. He is willing to try Longquan Yinni and is favored. Since then, Changzhou Longquan inkpad has been regarded as a royal product.