Lan Eucalyptus blinked, "Can you show me the process of making the inkstone?" ”

Shu Hanbo raised his head, "It's okay, you let Hanyan take you there, I want to see the store." ”

On the way to the workshop, Shu Hanyan told Lan Yu that the Yan Yan as a royal gift began at the end of the Tang Dynasty. According to the "Qing Yilu", in the second year of Kaiping (908), Zhu Wenci, the prime minister of Liang Dazu, Zhang Wenwei, Yang She, and Xue Yi 'Bao Xiangzhi' each had twenty and one dragon scale and one moon inkstone. 'Bao Xiangzhi' spotted bamboo pen tube also. …… The scale stone pattern is like, the image of the moon inkstone, and the production is also. ”

It is said that in the first year of Tang Kaiyuan, a hunter surnamed Ye in Shezhou came to Longwei Mountain in Wuyuan in the process of chasing wild beasts, and saw that in the mountain streams, the stacked stones were like a city, clean and lovely, so he quarried and returned, and then made into an inkstone, which is the earliest record of Sheyan inkstone.

Although the Orion surnamed Ye made an inkstone with a stone, not many people know about it, and what made it famous all over the world was that Liu Gongquan, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, vigorously praised it in "On the Inkstone" and recommended it as one of the four famous inkstones in China. Later, it became a local tribute and was offered to the court.

Later, Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who did not love the country and loved poetry, was even more fond of the dragon tail inkstone, and described it as the inkstone of "the crown of the world". For the first time, a "inkstone" inkstone worker was set up in Shezhou, and Li Xiaowei was the "inkstone officer" and sent a stoneworker to be thoughtful, specifically collecting good stones to make inkstones for the palace.

Due to the attention of the lord of the country, the inkstone industry in Shezhou has become more prosperous, and the value of Shezhou has skyrocketed since then. The emperor set up an inkstone official to supervise the mining of stones, which can be regarded as an unprecedented event. It can be said that this is the most glorious era of She inkstone, and it is also the most glorious page in the history of Chinese inkstone.

Lan Yu smiled and narrowed his eyes, "No wonder Su Dongpo once praised the quality of Longwei inkstone with 'astringency without leaving a pen, slippery without rejecting ink, melon skin and valley, golden sound and jade virtue'." Huang Tingjian has rumors that he went to Longwei Mountain on foot to find a treasure inkstone. And Cai Xiang even compared the Longwei inkstone to the priceless 'He's Bi'. ”

Shu Hanyan nodded and continued. In the Song Dynasty, the dragon tail inkstone in the calligraphy of the four masters of "Su Huang Mi Cai" under the admiration, gradually famous in China, and Mi Fu in the "Yan History" clearly recorded the origin of the inkstone, called "She, Wuyuan stone". Many friends only know that it is a famous specialty of Anhui, how many people know that Sheyan is actually produced in Wuyuan, Jiangxi?

Lan Eucalyptus stopped a little unexpectedly, "What did you say?" Sheyan is produced in Wuyuan, Jiangxi? ”

Shu Hanyan said, yes, but Wuyuan's Longwei inkstone mine has been mined for thousands of years, and the mineral deposits are getting smaller and smaller, almost exhausted, and the young technicians have no successors, and the craftsmanship is on the verge of being lost. Shu Hanyan shook his head, and his words were quite helpless.

Only then did Lan Eucalyptus realize that he had come to the workshop, and Wang Yang, the master of inkstone, came out. Although Wang Yang is not very old, he has been apprenticed to the inkstone for more than ten years since he was 16 years old, and is good at shallow carving and hollow carving, making inkstone with the shape, more than 200 square inkstones in the house, many landscape characters with patterns, fine and elegant knife work, ancient and clumsy literary atmosphere, and is the work of the middle and upper part of the inkstone.

Wang Yang had previously visited the production process of Duan inkstone in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, similar to the situation of She inkstone, because now the hard pen has replaced the brush, and the computer has replaced the handwriting, so people's demand for the inkstone has become less and less, so it is more as a collection of handicrafts, so the production of the inkstone has also changed from the practicality of the ancient times to the artistry now. Take a look at the latest chapters of "Dream Claw Book House in the Great Era" and read it for free for the first time.