Is it true that Meng Tian made a pen, and is Meng Tian a real history or a legend

Meng Tian (?.)—210 BC), a famous general of the Qin Shi Huang period, whose ancestral home was the state of Qi. Legend has it that he improved the brush.

Note: This is only an improvement.

The legend of Meng Tian's pen making has always been believed, and many people mistakenly believe that Meng Tian was the first person to make a brush.

Many brush makers also respect Meng Tian as the ancestor of the pen, and some places have also established Meng Tian Temple to commemorate.

But I have always been skeptical about this, because I have read historical records before, and in the relevant records of the era when Meng Tian was active, although the military achievements of Meng Tian's southern expedition to the north and the events of his death because he was framed by Li Si and Zhao Gao, there is no record of Meng Tian's writing.

One thing that can be used as a comparison is that Li Si of the same period, but the improved small seal was recorded in the historical records. The importance of the brush as a writing tool is self-evident, and it is doubtful that the stylistic improvements of the same period were recorded, but the writing tools were not.

Later, I learned that the Chu State brush of the Warring States period was unearthed in Hubei, which completely broke the statement that Meng Tian was the first to make a pen.

So is the statement that Chong Mengtian made a pen out of nowhere, and if there is a source, where does it come from?

Rummaging through the classics, I found that the earliest record is the "Naturalist Chronicles" of Zhang Hua of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty was four or five hundred years after the Qin Dynasty, and there is no earlier record to support the statement of Meng Tian's pen, basically this statement can only be said to be the lone evidence of this book.

Zhang Hua himself wrote in this book that Meng Tian used deer hair as a pen column to make Qin pens, which means that what Meng Tian did should only be a kind of Qin pen.

This statement is not only isolated evidence, but if you study it carefully, the details recorded in it cannot stand scrutiny at all.

I once asked the director of the pen factory about Meng Tian's pen, whether Lu Mao could make a pen. He smiled meaningfully at me, feeling that he had prepared for this kind of dispersion.

It turned out that a few years ago, a Japanese customer also listened to the legend that Meng Tian used deer hair to make pens and asked them to use deer hair to make pens.

There are many deer in Nara, Japan, and the Japanese Chong felt that deer hair was not uncommon in Japan, and felt that they could try to make it, so they asked the brush factory in China if they could make pens.

As a result, everyone was disappointed after getting the deer hair, the deer hair was rough and not sharp, and it was soft, which did not meet the needs of pen making at all.

Some people may want to say whether it will be a defect in today's pen-making process, I can say that there is basically no such possibility, and today's pen-making technology is only more mature than before. The pen unearthed in the Warring States Chu State is also made of rabbit hair, sharp and sharp, until the sheep hair pen is widely used, the rabbit hair pen and the wolf hair pen have been the mainstream of the brush in the early ancient period.

If the deer hair brush is really easy to use, it will not be unearthed until now, and in ancient times, rabbit hair, wolf hair and other excellent hard hair have been used as brush materials.

Then it should be said that Meng Tian's pen making is at most a brush that Meng Tian once made a deer brush column, which is more likely to be just a legend in itself.

Q&A after the song was dissolved: Do you think Meng Tian's pen is a legend or a fact, and some friends have used a deer brush.

In 223 BC, on the eve of the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian was ordered to go south to attack the state of Chu. While passing through his hometown of Xiangcheng, Meng Tian stationed troops there, intending to rest for a while before hitting the road. Although Meng Tian led troops outside and sent Jinchen, he still needed to write a battle report to the First Emperor.

He immediately had some rabbit tail hair cut off and wanted to use it to write the word Tsumori. But the smooth rabbit fur also does not absorb ink. Montan himself tried a few times, but still found it troublesome.

And he did what he did"Rabbit quill pen"Feel free to throw it outside. A few days later, when Meng Tian saw this one again"Rabbit quill pen"when you find it"Lie down"In a lime pit, the rabbit fur becomes smoother.

<> Meng Tian picked up the pen and tried to dip it in the ink again, but this time it was very smooth and dusty. Overjoyed, Meng Tian began to study the reason again, it turned out that the rabbit hair was soaked in alkaline water, and the oil on its surface was removed, so it became smoother. Meng Tian studied the principle of pen making, and after knowing this principle, Meng Tian soaked some animal hair and hemp in lime water together.

After filtering out the grease, he trimmed them neatly, tied them with silk ropes, and inserted them in bamboo tubes for use. The pen that comes out of this way is easy to dip in ink and writes smoothly. It spread among the army and gradually became popular throughout the country.

However, according to research, the invention of the brush was earlier than the Qin Dynasty, but Meng Tian's transformation of the brush is real, so the brush created by Meng Tian is also called"Qin pen", Meng Tian is called"The ancestor of the brush"。As a famous general of the Great Qin Empire, Meng Tian not only helped the empire complete the great cause of unification on the battlefield and completely defeated the Xiongnu who constantly harassed the Central Plains, but also built the Great Wall in our eyes under his auspices, opening up the unprecedented Qin Straight Road at that time.

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Improved, he found by chance that writing with a brush soaked in alkaline water was very good, and finally improved the brush. Because he transformed the brush, so that the brush used to tease the bridge to punch better, he also eliminated some places and carried forward some culture, so he will be called the ancestor of the pen.

Really shoot with beams. He made a brush with rabbit fur, and it will be more convenient to manufacture and use it through various processes. His invention had a profound impact on later generations, and he succeeded in creating a new type of brush. Stupid envy.

Yes, he really improved the brushes, because after filtering out the grease, they were trimmed neatly, so he would be known as the ancestor of the brush.

It was on the eve of the establishment of the Qin Dynasty in our country, and the war of the Qin army to unify the six countries was nearing its end. In 223 BC, the Qin general Meng Tian was ordered to march south to invade Zhongshan in Chu and quell the rebellion there. On the way to the army, Meng Tian passed through his hometown of Xiangcheng, and Cong was defeated and stationed in the area of Xiangcheng to rest for a while, and at the same time to learn more about the situation in Chu.

Meng Tian led his troops to fight abroad, and he needed to write war reports regularly and submit them to King Yingzheng of Qin, so that King Qin could keep abreast of the situation on the battlefield. There was a man named Liu Yin in Mengtian's army, whose position was a military Chinese book, who was responsible for recording military deeds, conveying orders, and helping the chief general Mengtian handle military affairs. Since there was no paper and brush to make the trembling at that time, the writing was done with a hard pen, that is, the "character A" was used to engrave the text on the bamboo slips, which was both time-consuming and laborious.

Although Meng Tian is a military general, he has a belly full of literary brilliance. He was very distressed when he saw that Liu Yin was tired all day, so he wanted to make a new tool for writing words.

One day, a hare ran into a lime pond near the barracks and drowned. When Meng Tian arrived here, he saw the hare in the lime pond and suddenly thought why not use the rabbit's tail to write words?

So, Meng Tian asked Liu Yin to cut off the rabbit's tail and try to write on the bamboo slips. Liu Yin wrote, he felt that it was both easy and easy, which was much more convenient than using "character A" to engrave words.

In the days that followed, Meng Tian continued to improve the pen. He soaked animal hair and hemp in lime water, then wrapped and tied it tightly with a silk rope, hollowed out one end of the bamboo tube, and inserted the tip of the pen into the bamboo tube for use, so that the writing changes were smooth.

Since then, clerk Liu Yin began to use this pen to write words, and gradually this pen began to become popular throughout the country, and eventually formed a brush.