端砚自唐初问世以来,就受到文人雅士的青睐。宋代以后,端砚被推崇为“四大名砚”之首。一批诗人、文学家、收藏家对端砚的材质、性能、功用沉迷挚爱,赞美有加,留下了许多诗词歌赋;对端砚的制作、使用、欣赏、收藏进行了大量研究、记述,出现了许多专著,仅宋代就有苏易简的《文房四谱》、欧阳修的《砚谱》、米芾的《砚史》、高似孙的《砚笺》、苏轼的《东坡志林》、蔡襄 Duan Yan since its publication in the early Tang Dynasty, it has been favored by literati. After the Song Dynasty, Duan Yan was respected as the “four famous Yan” first. A group of poets, writers and collectors made a great deal of study, description and appearance on the material, performance and function of Duan Yan. For many monographs, there were Su Wenjian’s Four Syllables of the Four Seasons in the Song Dynasty alone, the “Yan Records” of Ouyang Xiu, the “Yan Shi” of Mi Yang, the “Yan Jian” of Sun Yat-sen, Cai Xiang