“文人之有砚,犹美人之有镜也。一生之中,最相亲傍,故镜须秦汉,砚必宋唐”。我国四大名砚(初为端砚、歙砚、澄泥砚、红丝石,后红丝石为洮河石砚所代)始出唐代,独端溪砚位列四大名砚之首。尽管端溪石砚向来为世所重,列四大名砚之首,但是长期以来,人们就端溪石砚的出现时间、名称由来等等问题一直存有争议。本文拟通过对史籍的充分挖掘,并结合 “Literati there Yan Yan, there are still people in the United States also. In life, the most close relatives, the mirror should be Qin and Han, Yan Song Tang”. China’s four famous inkstone (first as Duan Yan, Yan, Cheng mud inkstone, red silk stone, red silk stone for the Shijie Shiyan on behalf of) began the Tang Dynasty, Duxikan Yan ranked first in four famous Yan. Although Duanxi Shiyan has always been the world’s heaviest, ranked the first four famous inkstone, but for a long time, people Duanxi Shiyan appearance time, the origin of the name and so has been controversial. This article intends to fully excavate and combine historical records