What is the process of making brushes?

Chinese brush, writing brush, is a traditional writing tool originating from China, and has gradually become a traditional painting tool. It is a traditional writing instrument originating from China. It is listed as one of the four treasures of China's study.

The brush was invented by the Han people in production practice. With the continuous development of human society, the industrious and intelligent Han nation has constantly summed up experience, preserved its essence, discarded its dross, and had the courage to explore and innovate. For thousands of years, it has made outstanding contributions to the creation of the glorious culture of the Han nationality and to the promotion of cultural exchanges between the Han nationality and all ethnic groups in the world.

The brush is a treasure provided by the Han people to the world's art treasure house.

Brushes originated around 1600-1066 BC. Regarding the origin of the brush, there are different theories in history, and the most recorded in history is the story of Meng Tian making a brush, but modern scholars believe that there were brushes long before Meng Tian.

The original brush was used to draw the strokes of oracle bone inscriptions, and the actual writing with a brush may have begun with the writing of characters on the slips and brocade silks.

The classification of brushes is mainly based on size, as well as the type of bristles, **, shape and so on.

According to the size, the brush can be simply divided into: small block, medium block, large block.

Classified according to the brush hair.

o Types: soft, hard, and both.

o Shape: Yuanhao, Jianhao, etc.

Pen tube. o Gold, silver, ivory, glass, red sandalwood, spotted bamboo.

At present, the most famous place for producing brushes is in Huzhou, Shanlian Town, Wuxing County, Zhejiang Province, which is called Lake Pen.

History. In 1954, in Changsha Zuogong Mountain No. 15 in the middle of the Warring States period Chu tomb has been unearthed well-preserved brushes. The wooden pole is used as a bamboo tube to put the hair on the wooden pole, which is the original brush.

Legend has it that the sheep hair brush invented by the Qin Dynasty general Meng Tian was first trapped into a pen head and stuffed into the hole of the pen shaft. The improvement of Mengtian brush is of great significance to the formation of small seals, which are different from large seals, and the lines of small seals are tactful and tortuous, which cannot be done by hard objects, so they should be written with brushes. Later generations of pen industry Feng Meng Tian as the ancestor.

In the pre-Qin period, the brush had a variety of names, such as "Yu", "Bulu", "Fu", etc., and later collectively referred to as "pen".

Xijing Miscellaneous Chronicles records the calligraphy inlaid gems used by the emperor of the Han Dynasty and made of the hair of the autumn rabbit.

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1. The hair of the brush is made of goat hair, rabbit hair, weasel, rat whisker, rat tail, tiger hair, horse hair, deer hair, etc. 2. Sheep's hair: The nib is made of goat hair.

3. Zihao: The nib is made of rabbit hair, which is named after the purple and black light of the color. 4. Wolf pen:

The nib is made with the hair on the weasel's tail.

What kind of hair is the brush made of.

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1. The hair of the brush is made of goat hair, rabbit hair, weasel, rat whisker, rat tail, tiger hair, horse hair, deer hair, etc. 2. Sheep's hair: The nib is made of goat hair.

3. Zihao: The nib is made of rabbit hair, which is named after the purple and black light of the color. 4. Wolf pen:

The nib is made with the hair on the weasel's tail.

Brushes can be made with goat hair, weasel tail hair, rabbit hair, or two animal hairs with different rigidity and softness. In addition, there are also brushes made of chicken hair, mountain horses, rat whiskers, horse hair, deer hair, etc. 1. According to the different raw materials of pen making, it is divided into sheep pen, wolf pen, purple pen, and pen.

The nib of the sheep's hair pen is made of goat hair, the sheep's hair pen is relatively soft, and the amount of ink absorption is large, which is suitable for writing round and thick dot paintings.

The wool making materials of the brush are mainly wool, weasel hair, and rabbit hair.

Sheep's hair brush. The nib is made of goat hair. The sheep's hair pen is relatively soft and absorbs a large amount of ink, which is suitable for writing round and thick dot paintings.

It is more durable than the wolf pen. Generally, there are large block pen, Jingti (or called the pen), Lianfeng, Pingfeng, Dingfeng, Gaifeng, banner, jade shoots, magnolia rui, Jing Hawthorn and so on.

Wolf quill. The nib is made from the hair on the weasel's tail. The wolf's pen is stronger than the sheep's pen, and it is suitable for writing and drawing, but it is not as durable as the sheep's pen, and it is also more expensive than the sheep's hair.

Common varieties are orchid bamboo, freehand, landscape, flowers, leaf tendons, clothing patterns, red beans, small Seiko, deer wolf calligraphy and painting, leopard wolf hair, special Changfeng wolf hair, super quality Changfeng wolf hair, etc.

Purple brush. The nib is made of rabbit fur and is named for its purple-black and shiny color. This kind of pen is straight, sharp and sharp, and more elastic than a wolf's hair.

In addition to this, there are pens made of chicken hair, mountain horses, rat whiskers, pig bristles, etc. There are also white wool, green wool, yellow wool, sheep whiskers, horse hair, deer hair, musk hair, badger hair, raccoon hair, mink hair, mouse whiskers, rat tails, tiger hair, wolf tails, fox hair, otter hair, orangutan hair, goose feathers, duck feathers, chicken feathers, pheasant feathers, pig hair, fetal hair, human whiskers, thatch, etc.

The best brushes

The lake pen is the best in the brush, and it is known as "the best skill of the pen". The lake pen is exquisite, the craftsmanship is fine, the varieties are numerous, the thick one has a large bowl mouth, the thin one is like an embroidery needle, and it has the four characteristics of pointed, Qi, round and healthy. The lake pen is divided into four categories: sheep hair, wolf hair, and purple hair; According to the size and specifications, it can be divided into four types: large Kai, inch Kai, medium Kai and small Kai.

The fame of the lake pen, and the Yuan Dynasty calligrapher Zhao Mengfu related, he is very concerned about the local lake pen production skills, very concerned and attached, according to the "Huzhou Mansion Chronicles" record: he once asked someone to make a pen for him, even if a disappointment, that is, to order the dismantling and remake, the requirements are very strict, this strict quality requirements, has been handed down to this day.

Wool.

The brush has a longer history than the ancient Egyptian reed pen and the European quill, but the latter has withdrawn from the historical stage, and the brush and the fountain pen, pencil and ballpoint pen that appeared in modern times, and are known as the four major contemporary brushes, still shine in the history of calligraphy and painting today, and its vitality is breathtaking.

There are different opinions about when the brush began. The most storytelling statement belongs to the pen of Meng Tian, the general of the Qin State. It is recorded in books such as "Historical Records" and "Naturalist Records" that Meng Tian had the king's life outside, and he thought that it was too slow to engrave words with a knife, so he made a brush with "dead wood as a tube, deer hair as a column, and wool as a quilt".

Because of this legend, Meng Tian is revered as the ancestor of the brush. The people of Shanlian in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province built the "Menggong Ancestral Hall", and held a grand sacrificial ceremony on Meng Tian's birthday every year, which has been followed to this day. However, according to historians, the origin of Chinese brushes is much earlier than this, with a history of at least 6,000 years.

Generally speaking, the nibs used to write large and medium letters are wool or rabbit hair, and most of them are rabbit hair; The tip of the pen used to write the small block is the tail hair of the weasel. In addition, there are special brushes for calligraphers and painters, and their tips are made of deer, fox, tiger, and even mouse whiskers.

Except for what was said upstairs. A few bucks, inferior ones. It's all artificial. In the wool brush, the mountain wolf Hao is the most, gentle, condensed, smooth outlining the corners and incisions, meticulous and non-bifurcated, and it is also the most expensive.

There are sheep's hair (made of wool), wolf hair (made of wool), and kan (made of wool and wolf hair).

The process of making a brush is as follows:

1. To make your own brush, you only need to wash the prepared wool, and after drying, select the ones with similar lengths and put them together. Tie the middle tightly with a thread, and use scissors to cut off the hairs one centimeter behind the thread. Then glue the cut parts to dry, and cut off the middle thread.

Finally, put the nib into the barrel and you're done.

2. It is best to have two people at a good banquet when tying the nib wool, so that it is not easy to let the wool scatter. Be careful not to hurt your hands when using scissors. In the selection of wool, you can choose wool, pig hair, rabbit sweater and socks and other elastic wool.

Pen material process: refers to the selection and classification of pen wool according to the length, thickness, color and luster of the wool.

Water basin process: It is to make the sorted wool into a semi-finished nib. It is one of the most complex or miscellaneous and critical processes.

Knotting process: refers to the semi-finished nib after ligation and bonding to make the finished nib.

Tube selection process: select the pen tube according to the pipe diameter, pipe length, roundness, straightness and other values.

Fitting process: Assemble the finished nib with the barrel. Flatten the ends of the barrel first, then hollow out a section and insert it into the nib.

Inlay process: use ornaments to process and decorate the pen barrel. In the process, it is required that the mouth surface is evenly smoothed and the connection is tight.

Pen selection process: is to twist the pen into the shape of the pen head, remove the bent hair, and wipe the pen head.

Lettering process: It is to engrave the word on the pen barrel according to the lettering requirements.

Precautions: 1. It is best to have two people when tying.

2. Be careful of scissors hurting your hands.