1. Collection of brush hair: Xu Anbi's hair source is selected in Jiuhuashan, Xuancheng, Anhui Province, and is made of three kinds of hair: yellow bone, white bone and black bone. Generally, it is collected in the spring molting period of sheep, and one-year-old male wool that has never been breastfed is selected to remove the mixed impurities.
2. Sorting and selecting: after the collected wool is washed and dried, it is sorted and selected according to the length and softness of the wool.
3. Making a pen container: use a wooden pen container to hold the selected wool, roll it up slowly along the direction of wool texture, and keep the belly of wool straight to make a pen container.
4. Hard pen container: After the centripetal pen container is made, it needs to be further processed with a hard pen container, so that the pen container is gradually thinned and hooked.
5. Making a pen container: insert the made pen container into a bamboo or wooden pen container and polish it with a grinder to get a round and smooth shape.
6, baking pen: put the prepared Xuan pen into the oven to bake, so that the wool fiber and the pen holder are integrated. When baking pens, it is necessary to adjust the temperature and time of baking pens according to the thickness and density of pen paper.
7. Molding: The baked Xuan pen needs to be trimmed and molded by polishing, bending, pressing and other processes to achieve the ideal nib, rigidity and color effect.
8. Finished product inspection: Finally, the appearance and quality of the finished Xuan pen need to be inspected, and it can only be sold after being bundled and packaged.
Xu Anbi in Xuancheng
Xuancheng Xu 'anbi has a long history and is one of the treasures of China traditional culture. Xuancheng's Xuan Pen making process is unique, which can make the brush hair soft and tough, and is suitable for artistic creation such as calligraphy and painting. Xu Anbi, one of the representatives of China culture, has become the first choice for painting and calligraphy lovers with its unique production technology and high quality. Nowadays, the production of Xu Anbi in Xuancheng has been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list and has become one of the treasures of China culture.
The production of Xu Anbi began in the Tang Dynasty, when the hair of Xuancheng brush was mainly white, and the production process was simple. In the Ming Dynasty, the production of Xuanbi gradually matured, and the selection of brush hairs gradually expanded from white hair to yellow hair and black hair, and the production technology became more and more exquisite. In the Qing Dynasty, Xu Anbi became an imperial pen, known as "Imperial Pen" and "Xu Anbi".
The manufacturing process of Xuan pen is very strict, which mainly includes the steps of material selection, pickling burr, making pen container and hard pen container, installing pen holder, baking pen, depicting lines, shaping and so on. Among them, baking skills are the core, and it is necessary to master different temperatures according to different pen materials and papers, so that brushing and pen holders can be perfectly integrated. At the same time, the pen-making process also needs to pay attention to details, such as the thickness of the pen container, the length of the pen holder, the ratio of pen hair to the pen holder and so on.