"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 ...

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 ...

A girl sits in a large inkstone in Wuyuan, Jiangxi province. Inkstones are considered one of the traditional "four treasures of study" and have continued gaining popularity among collectors. Wang ...

The day's China news in pictures: people play in the ice and snow, an 18-ton inkstone is displayed, a tourist takes photos at a Hong Kong protest site and more.