Zhu Yumo Xiuxi in the Orchid Pavilion

【 Lanting Xiuxi Zhu Yumo 】

Lanting Xiuxi Zhu Yumo, Qing Qianlong, 16.2 cm long, 8.4 cm wide, and 2.2 cm thick
This ink has a pure vermilion color, and still follows traditional ink making methods, with excellent production. On one side, there are two characters in regular script: “Imperial Ink”, with six characters in regular script: “Made in the year of Dingsi of Qianlong (1737)” in the middle. Below, there is a seal of “Orchid Pavilion Xiuxi”, all filled with gold. On one side, there is a picture of “Orchid Pavilion Xiuxi”
Gao Lian of the Ming Dynasty’s “Zunsheng Bajian • Yan Xianqing Appreciation” is accompanied by the “Zhu Mo Method”: “Use a good amount of cinnabar one or three, two liang of red cinnabar, boil the glue with Qin (scutellaria) skin water, clear it for seven days and nights, and pour out the clear water of the glue. In the sun, gradually dry and wet it to the point, print it with ink, and use it well in the inkstone. One method, using flower and cane yellow to grind the dots, forms a wonderful method of Zhu Sha ink during the Jianian period.” In the Qing Dynasty’s “Collection of Ancient and Modern Books”, the “Compilation of Ancient Calligraphy” records “The method of making vermilion ink”: “The method of making vermilion ink medicinal juice is like the method of making female yellow ink, but this method uses the best silver (stone) vermilion.” According to the “Regulations on Making Ink” by the Ministry of Internal Affairs “The material used for making vermilion ink is one kilogram of vermilion sand, six taels of Canton glue, three taels of borneol, ten taels of flying gold, one tael of cotton, two feet of white cloth, ten kilograms of carbon, every fifty taels. Each material obtained nineteen taels of vermilion ink, each weighing five taels and three taels, a total weight of twelve four taels and five taels. The Maoqin Hall handed over the black ink to be transformed, using twenty taels of borneol and musk as a reduction example. The red ink was transformed, using twenty taels of borneol as a reduction, using sixty two taels of six taels and eight taels of tobacco as a reduction. Each material weighed one hundred taels.” Eighty two, three hundred kilograms of tung oil and 150 kilograms of lard are required. “Twenty two two four coins for rush grass, thirty three two six coins for sapwood, twenty two two taels for raw lacquer…”



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