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Calligraphy and painting are both wooden blocks used to press paper.
You said that the official name of this block should be "paperweight".

Paperweight is a traditional handicraft of Han nationality in ancient China. Refers to something used to press paper when writing and drawing. Most of them are rectangular strips, which are also called weighing scale and pressure scales for some reasons. The original paperweights had no fixed shape. The origin of paperweight is that ancient literati often put small bronzes and jade articles on their desks to enjoy. Because they all have a certain weight, people will use them to press paper or books while enjoying them. Over time, they developed into a stationery for study-paperweight. There are all kinds of paperweights, such as brick, stone, wood and so on.