Shanlian Town, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province is the birthplace of Hu Bi. Meng Tian, a general in Qin Dynasty, was famous in the world, with a history of more than 2, years. The ancients built the "Menggong Temple" in Shanlian to commemorate Meng Tian, and it was famous in the Jin Dynasty. "Meng Tian brand" lake pens keep the characteristics of exquisite materials, and the production is fine and complicated. They are mainly made of raw materials such as goat hair, rabbit hair and yellow wolf tail, which are refined according to traditional processes. They have a unique style of sharp, neat and round, and their products are sold all over the country and exported to Southeast Asian countries.
Lake pens are divided into four categories according to raw materials and performance: sheep hair, wolf hair, doubled both brush and purple hair:
Sheep hair: selection. It is suitable to write all kinds of calligraphy, such as orthography, cursive script, official script, seal script and calligraphy, splash ink on landscapes and freehand flowers.
langhao: made of high-quality weasel tail hair from three northeastern provinces after winter. Wolf brush is vigorous and powerful, suitable for writing and painting, and suitable for splashing ink on mountains and rivers and freehand brushwork on flowers.
doubled both brush: The performance of the brush made of sheep hair and rabbit hair or wolf hair is between soft hair and hard hair, and it has the characteristics of combining rigidity with softness. Suitable for small and medium-sized regular script, meticulous painting, portrait, industrial plate making, etc.
Zihao: The rabbit is used as the raw material, and the pen is elastic, hard and straight. It is the hardest and sharpest kind of Hu pen, and it is suitable for writing medium and small regular script, industrial drawings and so on.
other varieties include badger hairbrush, moustache brush, customized hair brush, etc.