Duanxi inkstone tea tray production process

DuanYan produced in Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, the eastern suburbs of the Antelope Gorge axe KeShan and Beiling Mountain area, also known as the DuanXiYan for the first of China's four famous inkstone, began in the early Tang Dynasty, in the development of more than 1,300 years of history, the DuanYan artists in the production of DuanYan in the process of making, according to the conditions of the place, according to the material ShiYi, and constantly summarize the experience, the formation of a complete set of production techniques. So, DuanYan tea plate production process is what a set of processes? Here to take a look at it.

The production process of inkstone is very complex, *** dozens of procedures, mainly stone quarrying, selection of materials to make Pu, design, carving, box, polishing, waxing and so on. From these processes can be seen in the local inkstone artists to the understanding of nature, reflecting the relationship between man and nature, man and the social environment and history and culture. The following is a brief introduction to the production process of inkstone tea plate.

1, quarrying: quarrying is the first step in the production of inkstone. DuanYan stone mainly distributed in zhaoqing duanzhou district, dinghu district, gao yao city west river on both sides of the axe ke mountain range, antelope mountain range and the north ridge mountain range, ink stone deposits location in the encroachment of the datum (xijiang river level) above the 400 meters to the following 100 meters of the range, since ancient times are mining by hand, labor intensity, quarrying technology is high, so there is "duanshi a catty, the value of a thousand gold! Therefore, it is said that "one catty of Duanshi is worth a thousand pieces of gold". In the mining ink stone, the grasp of the stone vein is very important. Quarry workers must master the law of growth of the ink stone, clear "stone meat" and "top plate stone" "bottom plate stone". In the mining should be based on the law of growth of the inkstone, let nature take its course, the depth of just chiseled to the stone grid (stone layer), and then chiseled on all sides of the hammer, the inkstone material shock, try to keep the integrity of the inkstone material.

2, Wei material: Wei material, also known as the selection of material to make Pu, is to make the inkstone Pu. Mining out of the ink stone is not all can make ink stone, after screening, will have defects, cracks, or rotten stone, stone skin, top plate stone, bottom plate stone removed, the remaining "stone meat". This process requires knowledge of the stone. Insiders of the dimensional material stone workers can "see through the stone", you can predict the surface can not see the pattern of the stone products. Inkstone workers will also be based on the natural shape of the inkstone with a hammer or chisel to make the required inkstone inkstone Pu, the best place to stay as an inkstone inkstone hall.

3, the design: this is the stone will be made into an inkstone is very important in the process of a link, the purpose of the design is to design the inkstone into an inkstone, stone defects into flawless, in order to achieve the purpose of the icing on the cake, increase its artistic value. DuanYan design requirements "because of the stone composition, according to the material of the art".

4, carving: carving is the inkstone artists will carve into the process of inkstone, inkstone sublimation to the important process of art. An ink stone is mainly composed of ink stone hall (ink hall), ink stone pool (ink pool), ink stone post (pool head), ink stone edge, ink stone forehead (ink stone head), bottom edge, ink stone wall, ink stone corner, ink stone lip, ink stone face, ink stone bottom (ink stone back), ink stone side, overhand, ink stone wall and other parts. Carving artists should be based on the requirements of the design using different carving techniques and carving tools will be a stone carved into an ink stone.

5, polishing: is to carve the inkstone on the knife chisel marks polished and smoothed. Before the Republic of China with varying thickness of natural talc polishing, modern oil stone, sandpaper polishing. Polishing should be wet inkstone, first coarse grinding, the purpose of grinding away chisel, knife road, and then talc, young sandpaper, preferably a thousand water grinding sandpaper repeatedly smooth, so that the inkstone feel smooth until the last is the "dip ink wet stone", after a day or two after the fading of the ink treatment.

6, wax: to the finished inkstone smeared with a layer of wax, in order to protect the inkstone and ornamental use. Grinding good inkstone with hot water or slow fire heating, temperature can dissolve wax on it, and then coated with beeswax or white wax, with a cloth or brush to wipe the wax, to be cooled after the inkstone will be the wax of the inkstone hall with wood carbon powder to wipe away, a side of precious inkstone is completed. Ancient inkstones are not waxed.