Stone spirituality of Yishui inkstone

Yishui inkstone is a kind of purple-gray water rock named "amethyst" and "Jade Belt Stone", which is excellent in stone quality and comparable to Duanyan. Stone is often dotted with natural yellow, white and green spots, with delicate texture, soft texture, good toughness, moderate hardness and naturalness. The inkstone made by this method has the advantages of fast inking, no damage, even inking and difficult evaporation, and has the excellent characteristics of inking, storing ink, moistening pen and exciting ink. Yizhou Records records that "the rock is not the tail of the stream". The inkstone is purple, green and white, thin and hard, which is quite good for inkstone.

Yishui inkstone is named after the stone collected from the ancient Huangboyang Cave in Zhong Nanshan on the Yishui River, and Yishui's name comes from a merchant family-Yi tribe who lived on both sides of Yishui about 5,000 years ago. Shanhaijing Yedongjing: Wang Haituo has a barbarian, Hebo has a servant cow, and a barbarian kills Wang Hai and takes a servant cow. The word servant means divination. In ancient times, divination used tortoise shells and shoulder bones of cattle as tools, which were engraved with Oracle Bone Inscriptions, a servant cow from Niu Jiao who was good at divination. It can be seen that the word "Yi" in the Book of Changes should come from the word "Yi" in the Book of Changes. Yishui River is quiet and deep, with clear water quality. It deeply embraces Xiushan on both sides of the strait. Qing Xiling, the land of merchants, was built at the foot of Yunmeng Mountain on the north bank of Yishui. Therefore, Yishui inkstone was produced in Yishui, and inherited the aura of heaven and earth from the root. As an auspicious object and a town of geomantic omen, it has added a divine power.