笔墨纸砚，即 “文房四宝 ”，不仅是中国历代文人墨客的案头至爱，更是中华传统文化的重要载体。 Calligraphy is an important form of Chinese art. And brush, ink, paper and ink slab are four important tools for Chinese calligraphy, collectively known ...

Those qualities began to emerge very clearly during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), when Chinese artisans perfected the manufacture of the basic materials still used by calligraphers today: ...

If you were a Chinese scholar in the middle of the ... a Bitong (a brush pot) to put your brushes in, and an ink stone to grind up ink. These pots are quite difficult to date accurately, but ...

the calligraphy brush. “Brushwork describes the aesthetics, styles, and the artistic tradition that has to do with Chinese ink painting and calligraphy because the visual effects [of the brush are] so ...

The four implements of brush, ink, inkstone and paper, were later dubbed the "Four Treasures of the Scholar's Studio." The scholar-official class, an outgrowth of the bureaucratic government, used ...