Eight-character pen is a kind of writing brush.
1. Brush made of mouse beard.
2, it is a pen made of squirrel beard.
The parallel brush began in the Han Dynasty.
At that time, both Zhang Zhi and Zhong You used moustache pens.
Inspired by this, Wang Xizhi, a sage in the Book of Jin, grew a moustache and wrote a peerless masterpiece "Preface to Lanting".
The moustache pen is quite strong and sharp, comparable to a mane. Nowadays, the method of making moustache pen has been lost.
A writing brush, the most important thing is the nib.
The lake brush in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province is made of short-lived lamb hair, which is soft and especially suitable for making small bristles.
Xu Anbi made of rabbit hair in Xuanzhou, Anhui Province has a long history. Li Fushou's Beijing brush is rich in assets, and its nib is both "southern sheep and northern wolves", which is both rigid and soft.
Yangzhou is located at the intersection of north and south, and many famous pen makers have set up shops in Yangzhou, so it has also formed a style with wolf hair and rabbit tip as the main raw materials, and gradually formed the characteristics of smooth writing and full ink absorption.
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China brush type:
As a writing tool, the brush is constantly developing and changing, resulting in many varieties, but the basic structure is similar and has been used to this day.
Brush can be divided into four categories according to writing materials: purple hair, wolf hair, wool double hair and brush; According to the size of brush tip, brushes are divided into small, medium and large models; According to the length of the pen, it can be divided into three types: long front, middle front and short front, with different performances.
Judging from the function of brush, it can be divided into two categories: brush and painting brush.
There are simple types of brushes for writing calligraphy, which can be roughly divided into big characters, Chinese characters and small characters. Different types of pens can be used for larger characters.
Materials can be divided into hard and soft.
There are many kinds of brushes used for painting: Wolf Hair Brush, Ye Jin Brush, Literary Pen, Dianmei, Yi Zhao, Dragon and Phoenix Tracing Pen, Xiaoxing Palace, Little Red Riding Hood, Baiyun Pen, etc.
Wolf brushes can write and draw, but some brushes can only draw and can't write.
A pen for writing can also draw pictures.
Purple hair brush: commonly known as rabbit hair, the brush tip is made of the hair on the back of the neck of wild rabbits, and the purple-black hair is the best. It is black and elastic and belongs to high-quality hard hair brush.
Judging from the ink of several calligraphers in Wang Xizhi's home, they all use this kind of brush.
In the cursive song written by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, to Huai Su, there is a poem "The pen front kills all the Zhongshan rabbits", which shows that this kind of rabbit pen is also very popular in the Tang Dynasty.
Wolf brush: It is a hard brush made of the hair on the tail of weasel.
The characteristics of his pen: vigorous and powerful, suitable for writing and drawing, suitable for landscapes and meticulous brushwork, such as sketching figures and flowers.
You can also write various styles of calligraphy works, especially regular script, iron thread seal script and other calligraphy styles, which are quite skillful.