Shanlian Lake Brush is one of the traditional painting and calligraphy techniques in China. It has a long history and exquisite craftsmanship, and is known as the skill of Mao Ying in the world. Shanlian Town, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province is the birthplace of Hu Bi, which has a history of more than 2,000 years.
Hu Bi is known as the "crown of skillful brushwork" because of its fine materials and exquisite workmanship, which has four characteristics: sharp, neat, round and healthy. The most famous Hu Bi are Yulanrui, Lantingsan, Youjun Calligraphy and Cui Hengchun. These high-grade lake pens are made of mahogany, torreya grandis, white porcelain or ivory, and are the best in lake pens.
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The production process of Shanlianhu pen is fine and complicated. From material selection to finished products, we have to go through more than 120 processes, which are roughly divided into two parts: basin work and dry work.
The pot maker and the pen maker each stand by and watch a water benefit, put tens of millions of hairs into the water, extract them, and then classify them according to the length of the pen tip. This is the "Qi Hao". Then the broken hair, plain hair, non-straight hair and plain hair are removed, and then the pen tip is "shaped" into a semi-finished product according to the soft and hard properties of the hair.
Dry farming farmers have to go through the processes of tying their heads, loading pens, selecting pens and lettering, and finally make finished products. The choice of pen is a difficult process. The pen holder holds the pen in his left hand and trims the pen tip with a knife in his right hand to remove the bad hair in the pen tip and the miscellaneous hair on the surface, so that the pen holder and the sharp edge are round, which meets the requirements of the lake pen tip and is neat, round and healthy.
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