“武士爱剑,文人爱砚。”作为文房四宝之一的砚台,历来受到文人墨客的喜爱。早在汉朝就出现了砖砚、瓦砚,后来才逐渐有了石砚。到了隋唐,就有了广东的端砚、安徽的歙砚、甘肃的洮砚和山西的澄泥砚。端砚名列各砚之首,最享盛名。端砚其质料取于广东肇庆高要县东南端溪之烂柯山(又称斧柯山)因其“身体的重量而轻, ”Swordsman love sword, literary love inkstone.“ As one of the four treasures of the inkstone, has always been the favorite of literati. As early as the Han Dynasty there brick brick, tile inkstone, but later gradually with a stone inkstone. To the Sui and Tang dynasties, there will be a Duan inkstone in Guangdong, Anhui inkstone, inkstone in Gansu and Shanxi Cheng mud inkstone. Duan Yan ranked first in all Yan, the most renowned. Duan Yan its material taken from Gaoyao County, Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, the southeast of the river of Ko Ko Shan (also known as Ax Ke Mountain) because of its ”body weight and light,