MyStoryWithChina: Making Chinese inksticks

How long does it take to make a traditional handmade inkstick? And what's the process? Find out here... #MyStoryWithChina

[@apophisca2163]

1:14 store it for more than one year. *O MY GAH*

[@bunbutherozy7767]

Its so hostorical and exist for many centuries

[@uret2]

it take up to 4 years to ripe

[@beelotus7038]

We should live morally, grateful and respectful to all as our life needs and survival depends on each other in one way or another.

[@beelotus7038]

Louis Jones That is you. Others will.

[@matthewemrys1798]

This is soothing. Beautifully soothing.

[@나디아-x9o]

There needs to be a Chinese drama about ink makers!

[@bh551]

Beautiful story! Thank you for sharing. 🙏

[@williamyang6197]

Thank you for this wonderful and inspiring ink making video❤.

[@codyshi4743]

I would love to have a ink stick from her. I had just gotten interested in writing Chinese calligraphy.

[@Daniel-ol1fk]

Muchas gracias,un saludo para China desde España 🇪🇸

[@kalyanchakravarthy790]

Loved the ambience

[@Tawanhua]

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.

[@zaarkhananal7165]

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???!!!

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

wow HALLELUYAH PRAISE THE LORD! these are incredible

[@minka866]

Li Ziqui is that you?

[@bot700]

По ходу, государственного финансирования даже на синхронный звук не хватает.

[@SyazFouzi]

If i want to write letter to my wife.. i have to wait 2 years before i can write a letter

[@mahaphoublue7644]

There’s other way and also cheap for the quality and price

[@cameoshadowness7757]

Is there a specific reason it needs to be stored for more than a year?

[@cameoshadowness7757]

@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?

[@mahaphoublue7644]

@@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

[@cameoshadowness7757]

@@mahaphoublue7644 now that makes sense

[@DenisKoh]

​@@cameoshadowness7757 if you dry it too fast, the outer layer will dry faster than the inner core, causing cracks

[@hullopillow4853]

Isnt that Liziqi.

[@drivestowork]

Yes, it is.

[@judichristopher4604]

"WOW" Amazing

[@venessasifuentes2747]

Talk about the long game.

[@davidsonnow]

You will never find a girl this beautiful in the country in China. When they are pretty the parents send them to the city

[@bh551]

davidsonnow I feel sorry for your stupidity and ignorance. You know nothing about China, but loads of prejudice! MCP!

[@zainkalappadan1839]

Anybody has which instrument is used for the music?

[@thomasdykstra100]

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!

[@cheungcindy7735]

Both Japanese and Korean ink come from china originally

[@kaur8963]

Can anyone tell me it's ratio,?

[@miatortilla2924]

What is musk?

[@lauma5660]

I want vengan ink

[@blacklion3509]

im a sub of her channel Strong/powerfull woman, much respect! Same goes for 滇西小哥 Dianxi Xiaoge​! 😊

[@imaginewagons3777]

Wait isn't that Liziqi?

[@fufashi]

@@imaginewagons3777 yes it is

[@kykk2002]

Why you can use other people video??

[@李存勖-n5z]

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.

[@XimenaZhaoArchive]

They probably paid her for the license to use it.

[@juneping03]

Is she an actress???

[@だんだんーちゃん]

No, she's Liziqi. Look her channel up, you won't regret it!

[@XimenaZhaoArchive]

She was a DJ, but she moved back to the countryside where she grew up to take care of her grandmother. She became a KZbinr, showing traditional Chinese culture, so she's sort of a DIY tutorial presenter, like Martha Stewart, but with ancient roots.

[@jamesaritchie1]

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.

[@mahaphoublue7644]

Yes indeed, nowadays it just like a buffet to choose

[@CoockiexAngel]

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.

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

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".

[@Rohit-uy5xv]

Its japanese technique not Chinese

[@CoockiexAngel]

This is Chinese technique that has been transferred to Japan via Korea.

[@afuyan]

Weeb, argument discarded.

[@davidsonnow]

Brought to you by the CCP!

[@jiepeng489]

I laugh at comments like this.

[@kardifanzheng1173]

@davidsonnow ": Then I'm looking forward something brought by the united of the LGBT.

[@Im_drinking_with_your_father]

Anyone gonna mention how bad she looks 😩😩🤝

[@tufungagreen5571]

dafuq?

[@Im_drinking_with_your_father]

@@tufungagreen5571 I meant she’s cute 🙃 bad=cute

[@latonyagreen-warner7402]

@@tufungagreen5571 lol. I'm sure they mean " bad", as in outstanding, truly memorizing, absolutely gorgeous. " she's a bad mamma jamma"( the ultimate compliment)