如今为印人惯用的石质印材,乃是千万年前生成于地下的叶蜡石或蜡石。中国地大物博,印材的石资源十分丰富,素来为印人称道并乐于奏刀的当数青田石、寿山石和昌化石。青田石产自浙江青田,该石结构紧密细润,最易受刀,刀石交会有心手双畅的乐趣,是历来印家首选的石材。寿山石产自福建寿山,其石性最具变幻,清初以田黄、芙蓉、艾叶绿为三大名品。昌化石产自浙江临安昌化,其名蜚天下皆因其出产艳红如鸡血的含汞印石——鸡血石。 Nowadays, it is a stone-printed material commonly used by the Indian people. It is a pyrophyllite or wax stone that was formed in the ground thousands of years ago. China’s vast territory, printed materials stone resources are very rich, has always been praised for the Indian and willing to play the knife when the number of Qingtian stone, Shoushan stone and Chang fossils. Qingtian stone produced in Qingtian, Zhejiang, the stone structure close and delicate, the most vulnerable to knife, knife and stone cross-hearted hands and feet of the fun, is always India’s first choice of stone. Shoushan stone produced in Shoushan, Fujian, the most transformable stone, the early Qing Tiantian, Hibiscus, Ai Ye green for the three famous. Chang fossil produced in Lin’an, Zhejiang, Changhua, its name all over the world because of its production of red as blood-rich mercury-containing Indian stone - heliotrope.