Ancient ink making method is the kind of block ink, what kind of process was used in ancient times

History, China's Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties period of ink, graphite, oil ink, pine ink. Among them, graphite is the ink made by burning oil; soot ink system of fuel oil soot made of ink; pine ink is burning pine ink made of ink. At that time the ink production method, in short, is a flammable candle, placed in a pot full of oil burning, the pot covered with a good iron lid or funnel-shaped iron cover; wait until the iron lid or funnel covered with soot, you can scrape it down, focused on the mortar, add gum, mixing and stirring, so that it becomes a thick paste; will become a thick paste of ink, kneaded by hand to make a certain shape, or put into a mold, molding made of a certain shape of the ingot, this is the method of production of soot ink. This is the method of making soot ink. Pine ink is obtained by burning pine wood to obtain pine smoke powder, and then processed with cloves, musk, dry lacquer and glue made.

Legend has it that when Emperor Ming of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms, Wei Tan, the governor of Wudu, was a calligrapher. As he often came into contact with ink and thus realized the method and experience of making ink, he made his own ink for his own use. According to the fifth-century book "The Essentials of Qi Min" written by Jia Si Fo, Wei Tan's method of making ink was to use fine and pure soot, which was pounded with a pestle and mortar and sifted to remove all the attached impurities, and then blended into ink.

Song Yingxing in the Ming Dynasty in the "Tiangongkaiwu" recounted the pine smoke ink production method is: first the pine tree flow to remove the gum incense, and then cut the wood. Where the pine incense has a hair is not netted out, the smoke of the ink will always have dregs knot not solve the disease. Where the pine tree flow away from the incense, wood root chisel a small hole, burn lamps slowly burn, then the body of the cream on the warm pouring out.