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Inkstick: Soot and Glue Pounded Thirty Thousand Times, Qimin Yaoshu

Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China (Wikimedia Commons) · CC0

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18. 10월 2026

Inkstick: Soot and Glue Pounded Thirty Thousand Times, Qimin Yaoshu

The inkstick recipe in Jia Sixie's Qimin Yaoshu (6th century): fine soot and glue, 16 to 5 by weight, the glue soaked in ash-bark water, with egg white, pounded in an iron mortar thirty thousand times and made into small sticks. Ground on an inkstone with a little water, a stick gives black ink. The picture: an Eastern Han dynasty inkstick (photo by Gary Todd, Wikimedia Commons, CC0).

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Weeks

안내

Watch: soot to inkstick

Goldthread visits an Anhui inkstick maker: soot collected, pounded with glue, shaped into sticks (no talking).

Sieve the soot

Pound good pure soot and sift it through fine silk inside a jar. It is so light that sifted in the open it flies away.

이 단계의 재료:

램프블랙1 jin

필요한 도구:

막자사발과 막자

견직물

뚜껑 있는 도자기 보관 용기

Soak the glue in ash-bark water

For each jin of soot take 5 liang of good glue and soak it in water with ash bark. The bark turns the water green, dissolves the glue and deepens the black.

이 단계의 재료:

동물 아교5 liang

물푸레나무 껍질1 개

물1 개

필요한 도구:

뚜껑 있는 도자기 보관 용기

접시 저울

Add egg white

Add the whites of 5 eggs, yolks removed, and mix everything together. (Jia also adds cinnabar and musk; they are left out here.)

이 단계의 재료:

달걀5 pcs

필요한 도구:

뚜껑 있는 도자기 보관 용기

Pound 30,000 times

Put it in an iron mortar, stiff rather than wet, and pound 30,000 strokes. The more, the better.

필요한 도구:

막자사발과 막자

Make small sticks

Shape sticks of no more than 2 to 3 liang: better small than big. Make ink only in the 2nd or 9th month. In warm weather it spoils and stinks; in the cold it dries badly and crumbles in the wind.

필요한 도구:

접시 저울