Introduction of ink stone

Inkstone also known as research, one of the traditional handicrafts of the Han people, inkstone and pen, ink, paper, known as China's traditional four treasures of the study, is a necessary tool for Chinese calligraphy. Han Dynasty Liu Xi wrote the "interpretation of the name" in the explanation: "inkstone research also, can research ink and moisten also". It is evolved from the primitive society grinder. The early inkstone, the form of primitive, is a small research stone on one side of the flat stone grinding ink pills into ink. By the time of the Han Dynasty, carvings appeared on the inkstone, with a stone lid and a foot underneath. 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, Song Dynasty, the ink stone is more diversified. The use of ink stone material is also extremely wide, with the Guangdong Zhaoqing ink stone, Anhui Shexian Sheyan, Gansu Zhoni Taohe ink stone, Shanxi Jiangxian chennian ink stone is the most prominent, called the "four famous ink stone". Inkstone through the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin, to the Tang Dynasty, found around the stone suitable for the production of inkstone, began to stone-based inkstone production. Among them, the use of Guangdong Duanzhou Duan stone, Anhui Shezhou She stone and Gansu Lintao Taohe stone production of the ink stone, were respectively called Duan Yan, She Yan, Taohe Yan. History books will be the end, she, Lintao inkstone called the three famous inkstone. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi's mud inkstone and end, She, Lintao, and listed as one of China's four great inkstones. Some people also advocate that the natural inkstone carving system in the Lu inkstone Xu Gong stone inkstone instead of mud inkstone, collectively known as the four famous inkstones.