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In traditional Chinese culture, the art of writing is essential to education and scholarly success. Exemplary of this reverence toward calligraphy is the reference to the creation of brushes, ink, ink stones, and paper as the "four treasures of the study" in literature dating back to 420 A.D. Ink stones in particular were considered the most important and even the very soul of a scholar.