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Brush, ink, paper, inkstone is China's traditional writing instruments, but also the Chinese national art in the splendor of the treasure. For thousands of years, it is a unique charm and elegance, exquisite and profound artistic modeling, for the brilliant Chinese culture has written a tired chapter, known as the "four treasures". Now, I will introduce you to the "four treasures" in the inkstone.

Inkstone, also known as "inkstone", was known to the ancients as "the first of the four treasures". Because the ink must be added to the water hair grinding can call, so the ink stone is ink stone. Among them are pottery, mud, brick, metal, lacquer, porcelain, stone, etc., the most common or stone inkstone. Can make ink stone is very much, China's vast territory, everywhere is the famous mountains and rivers, naturally there are a variety of stones, so the production of ink stone places all over the country. One of the most famous are the Guangdong Zhaoqing inkstone, Anhui Sheyan, Shandong Lu inkstone, Jiangxi Longwei inkstone, Shanxi Chengni inkstone.

Below I'll introduce you to the famous "tortoise-shaped inkstone". "Turtle-shaped inkstone" 22.3 cm long, 16.3 cm wide, 9.6 cm high, now collected in the Palace Museum. "Tortoise-shaped inkstone" as a whole for the tortoise-shaped, tortoise back for the cover, engraved with exquisite tortoise shell pattern, the abdomen is a slope inkstone, the bottom of the word "yin". Turtle four feet to support the ground, high back and low front, the turtle's head stretched out slightly angled, for crawling, the image is clearly carved, lifelike. Clay is fine, gray, is a fine turtle-shaped inkstone in the Tang Dynasty.

Pen, ink, paper, inkstone, each with its own purpose, each with its own instructions, the so-called "famous inkstone water, ancient ink and new hair, used to pen, old paper", together is the whole set, and then write our words, synthesized into our unique traditional art of calligraphy.