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Inkstick: Soot and Glue Pounded Thirty Thousand Times, Qimin Yaoshu
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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).
Katamtaman
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Mga Tagubilin

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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

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.

Mga materyales para sa hakbang na ito:

Itim na agiwItim na agiw1 jin

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Almires at PanghaloAlmires at Panghalo
Telang SedaTelang Seda
Garapong Seramiko na May TakipGarapong Seramiko na May Takip
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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.

Mga materyales para sa hakbang na ito:

Pandikit mula sa hayopPandikit mula sa hayop5 liang
Balat ng AboBalat ng Abo1 piraso
TubigTubig1 piraso

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Garapong Seramiko na May TakipGarapong Seramiko na May Takip
Timbangang panimbangTimbangang panimbang
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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.)

Mga materyales para sa hakbang na ito:

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Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Garapong Seramiko na May TakipGarapong Seramiko na May Takip
5

Pound 30,000 times

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

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Almires at PanghaloAlmires at Panghalo
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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.

Mga kailangang kasangkapan:

Timbangang panimbangTimbangang panimbang

Mga Materyales

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Mga Kinakailangang Kasangkapan

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