What is the cloud bat inkstone? What are its characteristics?

Origin and legend Duan inkstone has been produced since the early Tang Dynasty. However, the Duan inkstone of that year was purely a practical tool for literati and ink writers, and there was no pattern decoration on the stone surface, which appeared crude and simple"Neiqiu porcelain ou, Duanzhou purple stone inkstone, the world has no noble and cheap universal one"。

Later, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, one day when an old inkstone worker passed by Duanxi, he saw two cranes flying down into the stream, and he couldn't afford it for a long time, so he was suspicious, and opened a net to catch it, but what he picked up was a stone! However, this stone is very strange, there are cracks, from time to time there is a crane sound, the old inkstone worker pries open the strange stone along the crack, the strange stone is divided into two, turned into two inkstones, there is a crane standing on the pine side of the inkstone. When the news spread, the inkstone workers imitated it one after another, or showed their own skills, carving various patterns and patterns on the inkstone.

This is probably the beginning of Duan Yan from practical products to practical crafts. In the early Tang Dynasty, in the Duanxi area of Lanke Mountain, Antelope Gorge in the eastern suburbs of Zhaoqing (formerly known as Duanzhou), Guangdong, there were laborers who relied on quarrying inkstones and producing inkstones for a living. Here, the water of the Xijiang River, which flows eastward, passes through the gorge and goes straight to the South China Sea.

The banks are surrounded by mountains and mountains, magnificent, and the heavy rocks are stacked and green. The water rock (old pit), pit rock, Mazi pit, Chaotian rock, ancient tower rock and Xuande rock in the Duanyan famous pit are scattered in this picturesque environment. The production of Duan inkstone has slowly become a unique arts and crafts in Zhaoqing; It was deeply loved by literati and writers, and was appreciated by dignitaries and emperors and generals.

The Song Dynasty began to list Duan Yan as a "tribute", which was well-known at home and abroad.

Cloud bat end inkstone clear length cm width 18 cm thick cm in Bo Bao Bao Zhen **. This inkstone is delicate and warm, and there is a banana white fire. The inkstone body is irregular with the shape.

The upper part of the inkstone is carved in bas-relief to outline the pattern of cloud bats and sea water, and the ink is flat and smooth, surrounded by rolling clouds. The back of the inkstone is finely carved, with the theme of Danfeng Chaoyang, and the branches of the trees are carved out by skillfully using the change of stone color, and the shape of flowers and birds is vivid. Judging from the carving technique and subject matter, this inkstone is the style of the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

There are many pits in the end inkstone, and this question is too general. Each has its own characteristics ... Of course, there are many pits, and the quality also varies greatly.

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 inkstone produced in Guduanzhou (now Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province) is called Duanyan.

Produced in Zhaoqing, Guangdong is Duanyan.

We have the same hobby, and I am also obsessed with Duanyan. The pit mouth of the end inkstone is different, so the ** is also different, the best is the puddle, that is, the upper three rocks: the old pit, the pit, and the pockmark.

**From a few hundred yuan to tens of thousands, ordinary ones such as Song Pit and Plum Blossom Pit are available. A few hundred dollars can also buy a good one. If you are interested, you can communicate, 84795553,

It also depends on whether it is a new pit or an old pit, how the workmanship is, how big the shape is, whether it is made by a famous teacher, and whether there are celebrities who have used ......

At present, there are thousands of yuan, hundreds of thousands of yuan, and celebrities can ask for 300,000 yuan.

In the past, the price of inkstone varied. In the Later Han Dynasty, there was a saying that there were two thousand straightenings, but there was no exact mention of Duan Yan; Between the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, one side is good, and the inkstone is about two to five buckets of rice, to see the actual workmanship; When the Song Dynasty "Inkstone" talked about the value of inkstone, it was pointed out that the inkstone made of different rocks was a hundred times different; At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, an inkstone can be a few taels of silver, or an equal weight of **, depending on whether it is good or not, anyway, it is happy to buy and sell.

Duan Yan is quite knowledgeable, and there are no advertisements.

I go to see it every day, and the information updates are quite timely, and it is rare to be so timely in terms of Duan Yan.

Recently, the price increase momentum is very fierce, doesn't it mean that someone brought a pit boy to Ruizhexuan and was charged at three times the price? Ruizhexuan also has the famous old pit rough stone, I don't know how much money was collected at the earliest, and now it has risen to more than 10 million. If you want to invest, it is recommended to go to a regular large-scale collection museum, and a larger and more professional exhibition hall like Ruizhexuan is still more reliable.