Ancient Ink Stick Collection of the Palace Museum

摘要

The Palace Museum,built on the site of the Forbidden City in Beijing,has a collection of some 80,000 study objects,including writing brushes,ink sticks,ink slabs and paper.Many of them are high-quality ink sticks made during the Ming and Qing dynasties(1368-1911).These ink sticks are categorized into such types as imperial ink sticks(made by court workshops),