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All the drawing materials we use have a history, and some of them go back much earlier than we can imagine. This is the case for India ink, known in some countries as “China ink,” as it has been used in the countries in disciplines ranging from tattooing to comics, and whose existence is deeply linked to the history of the country. Discover everything you always wanted to know about India ink in the video below: its origins, the reasons for its importance both in your country and in the rest of the world, and its unexpected connection to everything from the political to the economic, and, finally, the artistic.
India ink is one of the oldest drawing materials in existence. Its origins are directly linked to the emergence of the Chinese alphabet. But where did the first manifestations of the ideograms we associate with the Asian country come from? The oldest ideograms on record are found in some curious divination tools: the oracular bones. Made at least years before Christ, these bones were thrown into the fire to interpret the future in their cracks.
Many of them have characters carved into them and others have preserved ink inscriptions. Thus, already in the first historical samples of a more or less established Chinese alphabet, we can appreciate the importance of ink, something that would only grow during the next centuries. The towns of what is now known as China had already spent thousands of years using ink made from a mix of soot and water before, in BC, the first emperor of China made it a key element of the birth of his empire.
Qin Shi Huang was known for his eccentricities as the nation’s dictator such as the original Great Wall and the terracota warriors. A believer in mysticism, Huang was obsessed with immortality. If he could not attain it himself, he would at least give it to his empire.