1, according to written materials, can be divided into: tire brush, wolf brush (wolf hair), rabbit shoulder purple brush (purple hair), deer brush, chicken brush, duck brush, brush, pig brush (bristle brush), mouse brush (moustache brush), tiger brush, ox ear brush, stone badger brush, etc.
2. According to the common size, it can be simply divided into: small characters, Chinese characters and large characters. The bigger ones are screen pen, couplet pen, bucket pen, pen planting and so on.
3. According to the elasticity of bristles, they can be divided into soft bristles, hard bristles and double-stranded brushes.
4, according to the purpose can be divided into two categories: brush and paint brush.
5. According to the shape, it can be divided into: round and sharp.
6. According to the length of the pen, it can be divided into: long front, center and short front.
brief introduction
1, Yang Hao pen
It is made of the beard or tail of a green sheep or antelope. Textual research began before the Northern and Southern Dynasties. By the Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian's improved new pen had become a pen-making material. Calligraphy is the most important thing, sheep are soft and have no front, and books are "weak and boneless", so calligraphers in past dynasties rarely use them.
2, Wolf brush
Literally, it is made of wolf hair. The previous generation did make pens with wolf hair; But today's wolf hair is the hair of the weasel "wolf", not the hair of the wolf.
3, chicken brush
It is made of chicken breast hair, which is quite soft and difficult for beginners to master, so it is not suitable for use. The chicken feather brush used by the ancients is to use the long hair on the cock's neck to remove the stalks, pull off the delicate short hair and make it into small letters and other hairs.
4. Purple brush
It is made from the back of the rabbit's neck, so it is named for its dark purple color. The strength of rabbits in the north and south of China is different, and some rabbits are made in the north and south. The tenacity of rabbits is called health brush, which is better than that of the north. It is long and sharp, suitable for writing straight Fang Zhengzhi characters, and is valued by calligraphers.