Beijing Special Eight-Treasure Seal Inkpad

Beijing Special Eight-Treasure Seal Inkpad

　　The Beijing Special Eight-Treasure Seal Inkpad features bright and pure colors, clear imprints that don’t smudge the seal, resist oil bleeding, withstand sunlight and heat, remain moist over long storage, and maintain their original color indefinitely.

　　The inkpad is made from eight premium, valuable medicinal ingredients: musk, cinnabar, ruby, coral, vermilion glue, red leaf, aged castor oil, and mugwort wool. The cinnabar used is top-grade mirror-bright cinnabar; natural rubies and corals are finely ground and repeatedly rinsed; pearls are selected and refined; castor oil is naturally sun-dried and treated through seasonal temperature changes, then stored for over 20 years; and mugwort wool undergoes selection, rinsing, and wool-picking processes. These materials are then blended, stirred, ground, and tested for fineness before adding refined mugwort wool. They are further pounded in a stone mortar until uniformly fine — a process involving more than 30 steps in total. The mixture is then left to mature in a vat for 6–10 months to allow the oil and ingredients to fully penetrate and stabilize, resulting in the final product.