[Wangjie Temple Ancient Spring Ink]
Wangjie Temple Ancient Spring Ink is a group of ten ingots. It is filled with a natural color wooden box. The box face is filled with blue regular script “archaic spring style”, and the bet is “supervised by Wangjie Temple”. The font is slightly smaller. The box is lined with tortoise back brocade as grooves, and the ink is embedded in it, which is orderly arranged
The ancient spring ink is exquisitely made, imitating the ancient spring shape of the Warring States Period and the New Mang Period respectively, with each ink in duplicate. Among them, one ingot of ink is filled with gold regular script “Zitao calligraphy and painting ink”, Zitao is the master of ancient spring ink, and Wang Jie’an is the producer of ink
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the study of textual research was popular, and many scholars were keen on the study and textual research of ancient coins. In this style of study, many mohists have produced ink products in the form of ancient springs, which has added luster to today’s ancient ink culture. Among the ancient spring inks, only Wangjie Temple is the most complete. Therefore, its value is incomparable among the same kind of inks