In the basic course of Huang Jian's calligraphy, Mr. Huang Jian also talked about the making process of a set of writing brushes. Let's take a look together.
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In ancient times, many calligraphers made their own brushes, such as Dan Wei, Zhang Zhi, Wang Xizhi and Zhi Yong. For calligraphers, the writing brush is like Tatsu Yamashiro, which must be improved. But now many people have never seen how the writing brush is made. If you know a little about the making process of writing brush, it will certainly be of great help to you in choosing writing brush in the future.
4. 1 material preparation-basin operation.
The first step is to prepare materials, that is, to prepare wool. China's wool selection is done in a basin, which is a very meticulous work.
In basin operation, besides a basin of water, the main tool is bone comb. Usually made from the shoulder blades of cattle, it can be used to comb hair and pat hair roots.
Pulling hair is pulling it off the leather board. Then soak the hair with lime water to remove grease and fishy smell, and disinfect it at the same time. This step is called ripening. (Qi Ming Press: This lime water soaking time needs to be grasped. If the soaking time is too long, the service life of wool will be shortened. )
The third step is very important, called hair selection, which is to divide the hair into different grades. A hair, like a leather bag, has three layers. The pocket itself is the cerebral cortex. Inside the bag is bone marrow, which is fibrous. This is the bone marrow layer. There is a scale outside the pocket, which is called a scale. The filled part of the hair tip is called glume, and the insiders call it sunspot. The elasticity of hair is related to the thickness of cortex and the length of glume.
Really intact hair is round and straight, and the score of 100 is only 35. Others are often flawed, such as split, no sharp point, hair shaft damage, bending and so on. When selecting wool, it is a very delicate process to wash it repeatedly in the basin, select one by one, remove the defective wool, and then classify it according to color, hardness, length and thickness.
According to experts, a sheep's wool can be used as a pen only about four taels, of which no more than one tael or six taels with "black spots". An excellent hair picker can divide these four or two strokes into ten grades according to the length, thickness, softness and hardness, and use them in all parts of the brush.
Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Zihao Pen": "There are old rabbits on the rocks in the south of the Yangtze River, and eating bamboo and drinking spring gives birth to Zihao; Xuancheng people use pens, one tenth of a hair. " Write down the difficulty of choosing points.