Historical Development of Writing Brush Making Technology in Laizhou

Brush making is a traditional family handicraft of Han nationality in Camus Town (formerly Wangbao Township, Ye County). As early as the early Qing Dynasty, writing brushes were made here. On the eve of liberation, pen makers in Wangbao Township set up five pen clubs in Tianjin, including "Huashengtang Pen Club", "Hou Junchang Pen Club", "Shengshanzhai Pen Club" and "Chengwentang Pen Club" founded by Mr. Zhang Keshun. There are also Bizhuang in Tongji in Dalian, Bizhuang in Five Stars in Harbin, Bizhuang in Niuzhuang in Haicheng, Bizhuang in Beijing, Baoding and Yixian in Hebei. Mr. Jiang Yanling, an old calligrapher of Wang Bao's Jiangjiacun, taught pen-making skills in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province around 1940, and then returned to his hometown. Laizhou brush has been handed down from generation to generation. According to modern people, there is no way to verify the inheritors of the Qing Dynasty, and there are outstanding inheritors-Li and Liu Guangsheng, who are good at mastering the true method and exquisite brushwork. Teng Yanfu, Teng Zhanzuo and others are also quite accomplished in this respect.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), 1972, Camus Commune took the lead in organizing pen makers scattered among the people and established Camus Pen Factory. Camus Pen Factory gives full play to the technical advantages of Camus Town's family workshops, follows the traditional hand-made technology, and uses the natural resource advantages of the weasel tail hair, a specialty along the coast of Laizhou Bay, to produce all kinds of high-quality wolfsbane pens, and uses high-quality northeast Wei Yuan and raccoon hair to make brushes. He also modestly learned the experience of making Hu pen and Xuan pen, learned from others, and made long-edged sheep hair to enhance the health of the pen waist, which was deeply loved by painters and amateurs. 1978, Comrade Deng Xiaoping visited Japan and chose the "Taishan" brand brush produced by this factory as a gift for the Japanese emperor. In 1982, he won the highest total score in the second national brush quality appraisal, and was praised as the "top pen", which was favored by many calligraphers. 1983, 10 year 10. On October 29th, Mr. Liu Haisu, the founder of modern art education in China, the pioneer of the New Art Movement, an outstanding art educator, a master of painting and calligraphy, was 88 years old. He took his wife Xia to visit the Yexian pen factory and wrote eight characters of "a stroke, a cicada". Since then, a steady stream of painters and painters have come here.