Four Treasures of the Study:
Paper: It is a great invention of China. Although there are tens of millions of kinds of paper in the world, "Xuan paper" is still a unique handmade paper for brush painting and calligraphy. Xuan paper is flexible in texture, white and smooth in color, durable in color and strong in water absorption, and has the international reputation of "paper lives for thousands of years".
Brush: It is a unique writing and painting tool with different feather writing styles in ancient China and western countries. Although pencils, ballpoint pens, pens, etc. In today's world, the writing brush is irreplaceable.
Ink: It is the pigment for writing and painting. The fine ink made by Chao Heting, a famous Mohist in the Tang Dynasty, was appreciated by Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the whole family took "Li" as the national surname. From the world-famous "Li Mo". In the Song Dynasty, Shexian, the birthplace of Li Mo, was renamed Huizhou, and Li Mo was renamed Huimo.
Inkstone: commonly known as Inkstone, it is a tool for China to write, paint and grind pigments. Ink was very popular in Han Dynasty, but it was widely used in Song Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many kinds of inkstones, including Yan Tao, Duanyan, She Yan and Chengni, and they were called "four famous inkstones".
The importance of Four Treasures of the Study:
1, used to record daily deeds and compile various books.
In the palace, there will be special historians to record the daily life and various major events in the palace, and record some great achievements of the emperor, concubines and courtiers. Historians always carry pens with them and record events at any time; Moreover, there are also books edited and revised by Gong Wei, which consumes a lot of pen, ink and paper every day.
In the folk, people will use these four treasures to record daily chores or create folk works. Most of the materials of novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties came from neighborhood rumors and the theory of ghosts and gods, which were copied and sorted out by people, and then produced today's masterpieces.
2. Inherit the most important part of civilization
Masterpieces throughout the ages are mostly written with pen, ink, paper and inkstone. They and their masters handed down these famous poems, events and paintings from generation to generation. Now which one is not a boutique, which one is not a treasure that people are scrambling to get.
Without this pen, ink, paper and inkstone, there may not be the great achievements of the past dynasties that we know now, and we have no chance to explore the mysteries of the past, let alone inherit those excellent cultures, praise those great people, and remember those history worthy of our meditation. They are the tools we use to continue civilization.