Produced in Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province in South China, the Duan inkstone is one of the four most famous inkstones in China along with the She inkstone in Anhui province, the Tao inkstone in ...

A craftsman processes a Sizhou inkstone carving in a studio in Cengong county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Nov 30, 2017. Sizhou inkstone, mostly produced in Cengong county, has a history of ...

An inkstone is literally a stone mortar for grinding and containing ink. Writing brushes, inksticks, paper and inkstones, which were used as writing and painting tools in ancient China, are called the ...

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"I just want to be buried with my inkstones after I pass away," Cheng Lijun says, sitting in her tiny inkstone shop in southeast Beijing. The 49-year-old native of Shexian County in East China's Anhui ...

A huge inkstone portraying "Dream of Red Mansions," one of China's Four Great Classical Novels, is a prime feature of an intangible cultural heritage inheritor's studio in Shanghai. At nearly five ...

Zhou Yongping processes a Sizhou inkstone carving in Cengong County, SW China's Guizhou Province, on Sept 23, 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin) 30 years' devotion has made Zhou an expert of historic inkstone ...

A craftsman waxes a Sizhou inkstone carving in a studio in Cengong County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 30, 2017. Sizhou inkstone, mostly produced in Cengong County, has a history of ...