Wool, wolf hair, chicken feathers, bear brushes and bristles produced in pen-making gathering places such as Chengdu, Dazhou Nanba, Leshan, Nanchong, Xuyong and Mianyang are famous for their "hardness and softness, warmth and fullness". There are bristles in Shu, which provides material guarantee for bristle pens in Shu. At the same time, the use of bristles has had a far-reaching impact on the historical painting school. Chuanbi, Mo Chuan, Jiajiang Xuan Paper and Shuque inkstone are from Four Treasures of the Study and Sichuan.
Chuan pen is influenced by pen and gel pen. Traditional Sichuan pen-making faces the problems of inheritance and technical inheritance, and at the same time, talents are dying. Lake brush is exquisite in material selection, fine in craftsmanship and various in variety, ranging from coarse bowls to fine embroidered needles, with four characteristics: sharp, neat, round and healthy.
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Writing depends on the generation of writing brush. The research shows that the writing brush was produced in the Neolithic Age in China, and people in China have used it for thousands of years. Paintings and patterns on painted pottery should be painted on the embryo with brush strokes. Oracle Bone Inscriptions should also write with a brush first, and then carve with sharp tools.
The production of all kinds of brushes must go through the processes of material selection, degreasing, batching, hair trimming, charging, curling, finishing, binding, assembly, dry repair, front sticking, lettering and rope hanging. To sum up, it is commonly known as "water basin" (the operation process in the water basin) and "work" (the waterless process such as head fitting and dry repair). Pot technology is the key to determine the use and quality of writing brush, which requires sharp, neat, round and healthy pen tip (known as four virtues in history).
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