The quality of inkpad directly affects the effect of seal artistic expression. The inkpad with good texture, printed in an iron pan, is delicious and calm in color, three-dimensional and spiritual. The poor quality inkpad is printed, which looks gloomy or shallow, some oil stains are leached, and the seal is blurred and even more ugly. There are many varieties of inkpad, and the red ones are generally divided into cinnabar, vermilion and wide drift.
In addition, the seal should be wiped clean before it is stained with mud. During storage, the inkpad should be turned over every ten days or so and stirred. Because of the weight of cinnabar, oily substances are light and floating, and the sand will sink for a long time, which is easy to form lumps, so the inkpad must be stirred frequently to make it uniform. Therefore, it can be durable.
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The development course of inkpad:
Since the Ming dynasty, the three-in-one process has gradually taken shape. Because different producers have different understandings on the selection and processing of oils and vegetable fibers, the quality of inkpad is still far from modern times. It was not until the middle of Qing Dynasty that the aged castor oil and refined moxa were basically determined as the standard basic formula. Although there are still professional ink pads for painting and calligraphy made of different oils and other fibers, it does not affect the authority and rationality of this basic formula.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the study of seal cutting promoted by epigraphy has become a grand view, and the radiation areas of Chinese culture, including Japan and Southeast Asia, have been deeply affected. Therefore, as one of the most important material foundations of seal cutting, Indy has once again attracted the attention of people in the industry and ushered in the most important development period.
Different from the past, most of the people who participated in the improvement of inkpad in this period were epigraphy masters, and the starting point was the artistic expression of inkpad. At the same time, advanced western science and technology, experimental and processing equipment all entered China during this period, which provided a theoretical and material basis for improvement. In addition, based on the improvement demand of use, the formula, technology and actual performance level of calligraphy and painting inkpad have finally reached an unprecedented height, which has also laid a technical and theoretical foundation for contemporary inkpad.
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