Ahh I remember my grandpa making these for his calligraphy. Too bad he didn’t pass anything on.. even the tradition instruments are collecting dust. Already hard to find someone who knows how to play them.
Oh wow, a lost Li Ziqi video! Why wasn't this shown on her channel? I only stumbled upon this because I was looking for videos about ink stick making. 😢 WHEN IS SHE COMING BACK???!!!
@dougras drogado there are other ways to dry it, like special overs, special dryers etc. What's the point of waiting for more than a year when you can dry it in less than a week?
@@cameoshadowness7757 this is because the traditional method that have done for many generations so that why she wrote 1 year to dry. Of course there are another method but the quality is far different from each other since the longest one tend to be the best quality more than fast dry and kept
Very much like both Japan and Korea...EXCEPT, leave it to the Chinese to mix in additional, precious components to bless both the maker and the user! Thank you, Liziqi! You are most gracious to share this with the rest of us!
She was a DJ, but she moved back to the countryside where she grew up to take care of her grandmother. She became a RU-vidr, showing traditional Chinese culture, so she's sort of a DIY tutorial presenter, like Martha Stewart, but with ancient roots.
New China TV is the official channel for PRC government, it will surely confirm with li ziqi before using her video, and ziqi is more than honored to be broadcasted by New China TV.
@@tufungagreen5571 lol. I'm sure they mean " bad", as in outstanding, truly memorizing, absolutely gorgeous. " she's a bad mamma jamma"( the ultimate compliment)
Far from the best way to make sumi ink. The highest quality ink never comes from burning oil, but from burning pine. Too many opt for more profit and inferior ink now.
What do you know. Ink sticks as made per Chinese ancient ways (for creating ink wash paintings, shuimo hua) are produced from both from pine wood or oil. Pine wood soot spreads more easily and has cold black colour whereas oil soot is warm black colour and spread less. You choose either of them for different purposes. For calligraphy and fine paint works, pinewood ink is preferred. The girl in the video is making soot from tung oil with herbs, which is more multi purpose ink.
When you "burn pine", you also burn heavier essential oils and sap in the pine to produce ink. That's the whole point of using pine trees. Tung oil is herb oil, oil essence from the seeds, so again, you end up having similar contents - burnt essential oils - in both inks. Albeit, when burning oil alone, the ink tends to be "thicker".
