Origin of writing brush: The history records that "Qin Shihuang ordered Prince Fu Su and Meng Tian to build the Great Wall to defend the northern Xiongnu, and Meng Tian took rabbit hair from the mountains to make pens", and the four books of the study also recorded that "Meng Tian used to make pens, with the extension of wood as the tube, deer hair as the column and rabbit hair as the quilt, which was called" Cang Mao "in history, and the museum said:" General Qin Mengtian took fox hair as the column and rabbit hair as the quilt ". The invention of writing brush can be traced back to Yangshao culture period at the end of Neolithic Age. Although there are not enough written records to prove it, the study of the flowers on Yangshao painted pottery unearthed may have been drawn with a tool similar to a brush. Through the study of Oracle bone inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, it can be clearly seen that the edge of the knife-carved Oracle bone inscriptions was first written on it with a brush, and then engraved, indicating that there was a brush in this period. Judging from the glyph, the characters on the bronze wares of the Zhou Dynasty are obviously traces written with a soft pen tip. From the shape and meaning of the characters, we know that the writing tool, namely the writing brush, has a variety of ancient writing brushes and related writing utensils in the Chu tomb of the Warring States period unearthed in Zuojiagongshan, a suburb of Changsha, Hunan Province. This is the first time we have imagined the image of a brush before the Han Dynasty, which really looks like a big picture. The brush in this batch of cultural relics is called "Changsha Pen", which is made of high-grade rabbit hair. Hair length is 2.42 cm, pen tube 16.6 cm. The pen holder is made of fine bamboo. The manufacturing method is to insert the rabbit hair clip into the tube end, tie it with filaments and fix it with paint. This work is quite superb in technology.
I hope you are satisfied that I can raise the flag, hehe.
The earliest writing brush can be traced back to about two thousand years ago.
Before the Western Zhou Dynasty, although there were no physical objects of writing brushes, we can find some signs of using pens from prehistoric painted pottery patterns and Shang Dynasty Oracle Bone Inscriptions. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the brush was widely used to write bamboo slips and silk books. The writing brush of the Spring and Autumn Period was found in the tomb of Zeng Houyi in Leigudun, Suizhou City, Hubei Province. It is the earliest pen found so far. Later, the Warring States pens unearthed in Zuojiagong Mountain, Changsha City, Hunan Province, the Qin pens unearthed in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, and Fangmatan, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, as well as Mawangdui in Changsha, Fenghuang Mountain in jiangling county City, Gansu Province, Xuanquanjia in Dunhuang City, Maquanwan, the Han pens in the ancient rock area of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the Western Jin pens in Wuwei are all precious materials left by ancient times.