When learning European calligraphy, beginners can buy Langham House, and experienced calligraphy learners can choose Yang Hao.
Among them, Langham House is more suitable for European calligraphy.
Wolf hair: It should be made of weasel tail hair according to strict requirements. The surface of stellera chamaejasme pen is bright yellow or reddish and shiny. If you look closely, every hair is quite strong and straight. The waist is thick and the roots are slightly thin. Wet the nib and knead it into a flat shape, and you can see that its hair is bright and light yellow. Wolf tail hair is up to 6 cm (including pen bucket 1 cm), which is produced in the northeast and is particularly expensive. The length of the common stellera chamaejasme pen is 4-5cm. Most of the common wolfsbane pens on the market are made of yellow horse hair or ox hair, and some fake wolfsbane pens are made of dyed yellow goat hair, with a yellowish brown or reddish brown surface and slightly light or grayish white roots. The price of fake wolf hair is less than 10% of the price of real wolf hair, and it is almost impossible to use.
Wolf brush is actually made of wolf hair. The previous generation did make pens with wolf hair; But today's wolf hair is the hair of the weasel "wolf", not the hair of the wolf. What Langhao saw was recorded very late, and some people used "parallel pen", that is, Langhao's use can be pushed back to before Wang Xizhi's Jin Dynasty, but it is not certain. Weasels can only use the tip of their tails as pens. They are tough by nature, second only to rabbits but too woolly, and they are also healthy pens. Disadvantages are similar to those of Zihao, not too big.
The rat tail produced in Northeast China is the most common wolf hair, which is called "Northern Wolf Hair" and "Kanto Liao Wei". Wolf hair is stronger than wool pen and suitable for writing and drawing, but it is not as durable as wool pen and more expensive. Common varieties are Zhu Lan, freehand brushwork, landscape, flowers, Ye Jin, costume patterns, red beans, small seiko, deer and wolf hair calligraphy and painting (made of wolf hair and deer hair), leopard and wolf hair (made of wolf hair and leopard hair), special long-peak wolf hair, super long-peak wolf hair and so on.
Types of brushes
Hard brush: the pen is like a sword, such as wolf brush, mountain horse brush, ox ear brush, moustache brush, mountain rabbit brush, deer brush, etc.
Soft brush: The brush is soft. Such as: Yang Hao pen.
Double brush: both rigid and flexible, both rigid and flexible. The brushwork is between rigid and soft.