Tiger pen: Tiger pen is free and durable, and is known as "the best pen in the world". Hubi is produced in Shanlian Town, Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
Tiger skin, Hui ink, Xuan paper and Duan inkstone, also known as "Four Treasures of the Study", are one of the traditional handicrafts of the Han nationality. It is an important symbol of the long and splendid Chinese civilization. Hu Bi's hometown is Shanlian Town, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Brush. In 2006, Hu's pen-making skills were selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Lake brush is exquisite in material selection, fine in technology and wide in variety, ranging from coarse bowls to fine embroidered needles, with four characteristics: sharp, neat, round and healthy. Tip: refers to the conical tip; Qi: after the nib is flattened, it is as neat as a knife; Round: the pen is round and full; Jane: The pen holder is upright and elastic. Tiger skin can be divided into four categories: Yang Hao, Langhao, Shuangshua and Zihao. According to the size specifications, it can be divided into four types: block letters, inch letters, middle letters and small letters. Tiger wall, also known as "tiger shadow". Ying refers to the neat and transparent part of the pen tip, which is called "black spot" by pen makers, which is the biggest feature of the lake pen. After this pen is dipped in black, its nib is still sharp. When it is scattered, the hair inside and outside is neat and not short. On average, goats in this area only give out three or two hairs, and the ones that are young are only six yuan. In a lake pen, each nib has sharp-edged hairs, which are selected from countless hairs with thickness, length, hardness, straightness and roundness, and have the advantages of pointy, fine, pure and durable.
Taicang Brush: Taicang Brush is located in Taicang Village, pingle town, Jin Meng, Henan. Taicang Village, named after the location of the ancient imperial granary, has a total population of 1 100, with Pan accounting for more than 95%. The history of Taicang brush making is well documented, which began in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty and reached its peak in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. At that time, there were dozens of brush makers in Taicang Village, among whom Pan Youwen, Pan Yunsheng and Pan Taisheng were famous, and these names became their own names. Xi 'an has two brush shops specializing in Taicang brushes. Taicang brush is characterized by sharp nib, fullness and roundness, strong ink absorption, soft but not soft to use, smooth and elastic. At that time, Taicang brush was exported to Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other provinces (autonomous regions) and enjoyed a long-standing reputation in the northern region. Among them, the small pen is the most famous and has become an indispensable bookkeeping tool for businesses. Taicang brush was also favored by the official department of the Qing court and became a pen for writing daily official documents. Most of the Mao writers in Taicang Village are Pan, and at its peak, there was a saying of "South Lake North Pan".
Mengbi: China Houdian Brush is produced in Houdian Village, Hengshui City, Hebei Province. In ancient times, it was called Mengbi, also known as "Mengtian Jingbi" and "Houbi", and it was called Xiangbi in ancient times. Houdian brush is made of excellent materials, long and hard, combining rigidity with softness, full of ink without dripping, slippery without stagnation. Mainly produced in Houdian Village, Taocheng District, the hometown of Hengshui brush, with more than 270 varieties. The brush-making process of Houdian is divided into more than 300 manual operations, such as basin, odd job, dry job, lettering and coloring. Strict acceptance system is implemented in the whole process, which makes the product quality stable and reliable. Li Xiannian, Yang Chengwu, Wang, Ji Pengfei, Fang Yi, Liu Zhijian and other national leaders visited Houdian Village and wrote inscriptions. Famous calligraphers such as Qi Gong, Fan Ceng, Liu Bingsen, Xiao Lao, Shen Peng, Fan Ceng, Sun Mofo and Aisingiorro Jeff, the younger brother of the last emperor, all splashed ink on the back hall brush. Thick classic brushes are well-known at home and abroad, and are exported to 11 countries and regions such as Japan, Europe and Southeast Asia, with an annual export volume of more than 3 million. Won the "Hundred Flowers Award" of Arts and Crafts and the National Excellent Product Certificate, as well as the Tianjin Import and Export Commodity Inspection Bureau and the Tianjin Foreign Trade Export Inspection Exemption Certificate. Fengyun, Shuiyue, Xiaolanghao and other brushes were designated as "trustworthy inspection-free products" by Tianjin Port.
The back shop brushes attach great importance to the decoration of brushes to meet the requirements of domestic and foreign users. Almost every household in Houdian Village makes a living by making brushes. By 1952, Houdian Brush Factory was established in the village, bidding farewell to the previous family workshop production and embarking on the road of industrialization. In the eighties and nineties of last century, when the brush machine in the back shop was the most prosperous, overseas orders from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian countries poured in every year. At that time, in order to complete orders, factories often had to work overtime, with annual sales of several million yuan. Houdian brush is simple, elegant and exquisite, and it is the first choice for painters and art collectors. It is also a boutique for units or individuals to communicate and give gifts, which is deeply loved by consumers.
Changkang Brush: The beautiful and ancient Changkang Town is located in the north of Hunan, China, near Dongting Lake. This is a typical land of fish and rice. The ancient temples here are beautiful and outstanding, and the profound cultural heritage has nurtured generations of literati such as Zuo and Xia Shangshu. Unfamiliar mountains and strange water have nourished generation after generation of ingenious pen-making technicians. Because Changkang has been under the jurisdiction of Hunan since ancient times, the brush produced by Changkang is called "elephant nose". With the joint efforts of skilled craftsmen and famous calligraphers, Changkang's elephant trunk won the reputation of "Xiang Ying's skill is the best in the world" and is the first in "Four Treasures of the Study". Changkang Town is therefore called "Huxiang Pen Capital". However, with the development of the times, the art of calligraphy and painting is constantly changing. Traditional incense pens (especially pure wool pens) are easy to be flat, soft and inflexible, and are increasingly unsuitable for people who like to use flexible pens in calligraphy and painting, especially those who like to use pens with easy neck rotation, strong waist and strong flexibility.
Over the years, Changkang Pen Industry has chosen high-quality goat hair, rabbit hair, weasel tail hair, squirrel, squirrel, mink, stone badger, arrow hair, monkey tail hair, beaver, bristle, ox ear hair, goat hair and imported nylon hair from Northeast China and North China according to the suggestions of many famous painters and painters. It produces eight series of calligraphy and painting and six souvenirs of travel, gifts, lovers, birthday girl and baby hair, including traditional wool pens, wolf brushes and double-stranded brushes, as well as various new Hunan pens, such as the widely used mixed healthy wool pens, neat pens, stone badger pens, wolf brushes, oil painting pens and chalk. Let Changkang pen industry truly achieve "round, sharp, neat and clean". At the same time, many painters and calligraphers praised the pen, such as the old calligrapher Shi Mu: "With a pen, it is full of vitality; The beauty of the times is the capital of the times; Algae beat for fu, flowers spit for poetry; After it was too white, several people got it. " Yan Jialong, an old calligrapher, wrote "Outstanding". Yang Bingnan, an old calligrapher, wrote an inscription: "Wonderful pen gives birth to flowers". Zhang Gong, an old painter, wrote "Total annihilation". Li Chan, vice chairman of Hunan Calligraphy Association, wrote the following questions: "Xiangbi is the best in Xiangyin" and "Xiangbi is the best in flowers". Liu Yun, President of Hunan Painting and Calligraphy Research Institute: "Hui Feng He Chang". Zhang Zhixiong, chairman and calligrapher of Yueyang CPPCC, wrote: "Fang Jia strives for first class, and the good pen lies in Changkang". The title of the old painter Chaoshan Bao: "Chang Kang writes in Chinese and English, and his calligraphy is the best. He swims in the sea of ink and sweeps thousands of horses in his hand."
Nowadays, the elephant trunk of Changkang pen industry is not only handy to use, but also enjoyable for the New Year. The elephant trunk of Changkang pen industry has not only become the first choice of more and more people in the painting and calligraphy circles, but also is loved by tourists, collectors, party and government organs, enterprises and institutions and other people from all walks of life, becoming a first-class product, beautifying the home and giving gifts to teachers and friends.
There are more than 200 kinds of brushes. According to the different raw materials, it can be divided into wool quilt, double wool quilt, purple wool quilt and wolf wool quilt. Some brushes are made of the hairs of two kinds of animals. For example, two-strand brushes are made of rabbit hair and wool. According to the ratio of two kinds of wool, purple wool is divided into "seven purple three sheep" and "five purple five sheep" There is also a kind of purple wolf hair made of rabbit hair and weasel hair. Purple wool is softer than purple wolf hair, and the hardness of sheep wolf hair is between the two. Double-row brush is generally suitable for beginners to practice calligraphy.
In addition, the size of the brush is different. The biggest one is called Hawthorn Pen, the pen holder is thicker than the bowl mouth, and it weighs dozens of pounds. Followed by buckets and banners; Then big letters, middle letters (inch letters) and small letters. The smallest is "Guibi". Beginners can write big characters with big characters and small characters with small characters.