"Gold is easy to get, but Li Mo is hard to find". "Li Mo" is a kind of ink name, which was written by Li Chaoqiao, the father of Li Tinggui and He Qi, who lived in Yishui (now Yixian County, Hebei Province) in the Five Dynasties. In Li Mo, the pine smoke is light, the glue is good, the seasoning is even and the hammer is fine. It is said that after 50 or 60 years of storage, it is still "as hard as jade and as tattooed as rhinoceros".
Li Tinggui's ink is very particular about materials, such as pine smoke, pearls, jade chips, borneol, as well as precious items such as raw lacquer, antler glue, rhinoceros horn and musk. Mashed100000 times before molding. Therefore, Li Mo is as hard as a stone, full of sinews and greasy, as shiny as paint, and can even be used as a knife to cut wood and paper. The existing Li Mo is the "Hanlin Romantic Month" hidden in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
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Huimo is made of pine as the basic raw material and infiltrated with more than 20 other raw materials. The finished product has the characteristics of deep color, solid luster, no smudge when entering the paper, no fading for a long time, rich fragrance, corrosion resistance and moth resistance, and is suitable for painting and calligraphy. High-grade Huizhou ink includes ultra-top lacquer smoke, tung oil smoke and ultra-pine smoke. The production of Huimo began in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The founder is Chao Heting.
From the middle of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty, a large number of population and economic centers moved south due to the chaos in the buffer regions. The Xi family moved south from Yishui (now Yixian) in Hebei Province and settled in Cangzhou, attracted by the wonders of Huangshan Baiyue, Lianxi and Xin 'an.
Xi's father and son are ink makers. At this time, Gu Song in southern Anhui was used as raw material, and the tamping and gluing processes were improved. Finally, a good ink "rich in muscle and greasy, shiny as paint" was created, which lasted for a long time and was full of fragrance.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Li Mo