Which inkstones are famous in China and where are they produced

The four famous pits of the traditional Duan inkstone: Laokeng (water rock), Kengzi rock, Mazikeng and Song pit, as well as Chaotian rock, Xuande rock, Yanluo banana, white line rock (with frozen rock), in addition to these purple ends, there are also green ends and white ends, all of which are precious inkstones.

Pictured: Green end Lanting inkstone.

The most famous are the three famous pits of Laokeng, Pengzi and Makeng. Guangzhou Ruizhexuan Art Museum is the largest collection of Duan Yan in Guangdong, the most complete art museum, the museum has a collection of three famous pit production of fine Duan Yan and other categories of almost all kinds of Duan Yan, Zhaoqing Duan Yan, China Duan Yan is interested in you can go to Rui Zhexuan.

Of the four treasures of the study, inkstone is one of them. Among the four famous inkstones produced in China, the Duan inkstone is the most famous. Zhang Jiucheng, a famous poet of the Song Dynasty, praised the poem:

Duanxi ancient inkstone is strange in the world, and purple flowers spit rainbow in the middle of the night. "Duan inkstone has a long history, excellent stone quality, and exquisite carving. There is an inkstone with the same name as the end inkstone.

Duan inkstone is produced in the east of Zhaoqing City, Langke Mountain, and the north of Qixingyan in Zhaoqing City (from Xiaoxiang Gorge in the west to Dinghu Mountain) in the Beiling Mountain area, especially in the Laokeng, Mazikeng and Kengziyan three places of inkstone is the best.

The main stone patterns are ice pattern, gold thread, silver thread, blue and white, rose purple, fire hammer, azure, banana leaf white, fish brain jelly, ice pattern jelly, azure jelly and precious stone eyes. The more common stone products are ice and gold and silver threads, followed by fire and silver. Fish brain jelly (including crushed jelly) and banana leaf white are rare and very rare.

The origin of Duan inkstone is Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province. Duan inkstone and Hui ink, lake pen, rice paper and called "four treasures of the study", in our country's four famous inkstones, the end inkstone is the most famous, its stone is solid and lubricated, the ink developed is smooth, the writing is smooth and does not damage, the handwriting color remains unchanged for a long time. Duan inkstone has a long history, excellent stone quality, and exquisite carving.

Duan inkstone, She inkstone and Tao inkstone, has always had the reputation of "three famous stone inkstones". The manufacture of end inkstone generally has to go through four processes: quarrying, material selection, carving, and box matching.

Characteristics of the inkstoneThe reason why Duan inkstone has been dominant in the world for more than 1,000 years and is famous all over the world is mainly because it has a rigid and soft excellent stone quality and a rich and colorful natural stone pattern, which has made countless people in the past generations intoxicated and obsessed. The original parent rock of Duanyan was formed in the middle Devonian period 400 million years ago. Duan inkstone is the first of the "four famous inkstones in China", which is dense, solid, delicate, warm and moist as jade, unique and colorful stone patterns and ingenious carving art is famous all over the world.

Duan inkstone is produced in the east of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, Langke Mountain, and the north of Qixingyan in Zhaoqing City, Zhaoqing City, (from Xiaoxiang Gorge in the west to Dinghu Mountain) in the Beiling Mountain area, especially in the Laokeng, Mazikeng and Kengziyan three places of inkstone is the best.

Duan inkstone is one of the four famous inkstones in China, and is as famous as Gansu Tao inkstone, Anhui She inkstone, and Shanxi Chengni inkstone. It was produced in Duanzhou in the early Tang Dynasty (now Lunsen Duanxi in the eastern suburbs of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong), so it is called Duanyan, and has a history of more than 1,300 years. The four treasures of the study in traditional Chinese culture, inkstone is one of them.

Among the four famous inkstones produced in China, the Guangdong Province inkstone is the most famous.

Duan inkstone is well-known for its stone solidity, lubrication, delicateness, delicateness, and is well-known in the world, with the end inkstone grinding ink is not sluggish, the ink is fast, the ink is smooth and smooth, the writing is smooth and does not damage, the handwriting color remains unchanged, the end inkstone is good, whether it is the scorching heat or the harsh winter, use the finger tong book to press its inkstone, the inkstone heart is blue and green, and the water vapor is not dry for a long time, so the ancients have the saying of "he's grinding ink".

The historical origin of Duan inkstone:

Duan inkstone began to be produced in the early Tang Dynasty, in the early Tang Dynasty, in the eastern suburbs of Zhaoqing (formerly known as Duanzhou) in Guangdong Province, in the area of Duanxi in the eastern suburbs of Antelope Gorge Lankeshan, there were laborers who relied on quarrying inkstone and producing Duan inkstone for a living.

At that time, the inkstone was purely a practical tool for literati and ink writers, and there was no Weihong any pattern decoration on the stone surface, which was crude and simple. <>

The four famous inkstones in China refer to the Taohe inkstone in Taozhou, Gansu, the Duanyan in Zhaoqing City, Guangdong, the She inkstone in She County, Anhui, and the Chengni inkstone in Xinjiang County, Shanxi.

The inkstone is an essential tool for Chinese calligraphy. The inkstone is not only a study utensil, but also a collection of treasures by literati of all ages because of its sturdy nature, which has been passed down through the ages. The materials of the inkstone are rich and diverse, in addition to the Yishui inkstone, jade daishi, Taohe stone, end stone, she stone, Cheng mud stone, red silk stone, stone stone, chrysanthemum stone, there are jade inkstone, jade miscellaneous stone inkstone, tile inkstone, lacquer sand inkstone, iron inkstone, porcelain inkstone, etc., a total of dozens of kinds.

Stone inkstones are produced in many places in China, such as red silk inkstone, purple gold stone inkstone and turtle stone inkstone in Qingzhou, Shandong, swallow stone inkstone in Dawenkou, Tianheng stone inkstone and Wenshi inkstone in Jimo, Dangji stone inkstone in Penglai, Xue Nanshan stone inkstone and Xu Gong stone inkstone in Linyi, Nishan stone inkstone in Qufu, Lu Zhecheng mud inkstone in Surabaya, and Temple of Heaven (Pangu) inkstone in Jiyuan, Henan.

Leshi inkstone in Suxian County, Anhui Province, ochre inkstone in Jiangxi Xiushui, Songhua stone inkstone in the lower reaches of Songhua River in Jilin, Jialingxia stone inkstone in Hechuan, Jiayu stone inkstone in Jiayuguan, Gansu, Helan stone inkstone in Ningxia and Qinghai, West inkstone in Jiangshan, Zhejiang, Shuichong inkstone in Xiangxi, Hunan and so on. However, since the Tang Dynasty, Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Tao inkstone, Chengni inkstone and red silk inkstone have been particularly famous. Chengni inkstone belongs to pottery, and the other three inkstones are stone inkstones.

The practical function of the inkstone is to grind the ink, in which the ink, the ink is one of the important indicators to measure the quality of the inkstone, simply put, the ink, is the speed of the ink from the ink block to the water "on the inkstone" through grinding. Ink refers to the speed and delicacy of the fusion of carbon and water molecules in ink. The ink with good ink is like oil, shining in the inkstone, and the pen rotates smoothly, so the inkstone used for painting is more demanding than the inkstone used for calligraphy.