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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
Ìlànà
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Watch: soot to inkstick
Watch: soot to inkstick
Goldthread visits an Anhui inkstick maker: soot collected, pounded with glue, shaped into sticks (no talking).
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Sieve the soot
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.
Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:
Èédú èéfín1 jinÀwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:
Odó àti Ọmọ Odó
Aṣọ Sílíìkì
Ìkòkò Seramiiki Onídìí3
3
Soak the glue in ash-bark water
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.
Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:
Lẹ̀mọ́ ẹranko5 liang
Èpo Igi Eeru1 ẹyọ
Omi1 ẹyọÀwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:
Ìkòkò Seramiiki Onídìí
Òǹwọ̀n ìdọ́gba4
4
Add egg white
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.)
Àwọn ohun èlò fún ìgbésẹ̀ yìí:
Ẹyin5 pcsÀwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:
Ìkòkò Seramiiki Onídìí5
5
Pound 30,000 times
Pound 30,000 times
Put it in an iron mortar, stiff rather than wet, and pound 30,000 strokes. The more, the better.
Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:
Odó àti Ọmọ Odó6
6
Make small sticks
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.
Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tí a nílò:
Òǹwọ̀n ìdọ́gbaÀwọn ohun-èlò
5- 1 jinÀyè
- 5 liangÀyè
- 1 ẹyọÀyè
- 1 ẹyọÀyè
- 5 pcsÀyè
Àwọn irinṣẹ́ tó nílò
4- Àyè
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