Ancient used to grind ink plate called what

Inkstone is also known as research, commonly known as inkstone, one of China's traditional handicrafts, inkstone and pen, ink, paper, known as China's traditional four treasures of the study, is the necessary appliances of Chinese calligraphy.

It is the evolution of the primitive society from the grinder. The initial inkstone, primitive form, is a small research stone on one side of the ground flat stoneware pressure ink pill grinding into ink. To the Han Dynasty, the inkstone appeared on the carving, with a stone cover, under the foot. Wei Jin to Sui appeared round porcelain inkstone, from three feet and more feet. Min-shaped ink stone is a common ink stone in the Tang Dynasty, the same shape as a dustpan, the bottom of the ink stone end to the ground, one end of the foot support. Tang and Song, the shape of the ink stone is more diversified.

The earliest inkstones were stone inkstones. Han Dynasty, due to the invention of artificial ink, ink can be directly in the inkstone grinding, so the inkstone began to develop, the emergence of copper inkstone, pottery inkstone, silver inkstone, Xu Gong inkstone, wooden tire lacquer sand inkstone, etc., the six dynasties to the Sui Dynasty is the most prominent is the emergence of porcelain inkstone. Tang Dynasty is an important period of development of the ink stone, the emergence of the two major ink stone and Shekou stone material, the Ming and Qing Dynasties ink stone material is richer, the emergence of tile ink stone, iron ink stone, tin ink stone, jade ink stone, ivory ink stone, bamboo ink stone, and so on.