What are the ancient aliases of the brush

When the brushes were first introduced, they were called BuLu, plug (bamboo), etc., but now they are uniformly called brushes.

The brush, a traditional writing tool originating in China, has also gradually become a traditional drawing tool. Brushes were invented by the ancient Chinese people in the practice of production.

Early brushes had many styles and different names. According to the Han Dynasty Xu Shen "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" and other documents, Wu called "not law", Chu called "Iu", Yan called "F", Qin called The name is "Pen" in the state of Qin.

Then Qin unified the world, the name "pen" was determined, because it is made of animal hair, so called brush, has been used to this day.

Extended information:

China's 5,000 years of history and the formation of its own splendid culture, the ancient often referred to as the "Four Treasures of the Scholar's Palace Scholar's room four treasures that is, "ink, paper and ink stone", of which the first of the four treasures of the pen, that is, brush, is China's unique cultural products.

In the thousands of years of history, the Chinese literati have used it to express their thoughts and feelings. The literati used the brush as a hoe, the paper as a field, plowing endlessly, so the long history of China has become the "Spring and Autumn under the pen".

Brush, than the ancient Egyptian reed pipe pen, the European feather pen has a longer history, but the latter has withdrawn from the stage of history, and the brush and the recent emergence of fountain pen, pencil, ballpoint pen, and known as the contemporary four pens, in today's history of painting and calligraphy is still colorful, and the vitality of the strong breathtaking.

There are many different opinions about when the brush began. The most storytelling claim is that the Qin general Mengtian made the brush. It is written in books such as "Records of the Grand Historian" and "Records of Museum" that Mengtian, who had orders from the king, thought that carving characters with a knife was too slow, so he "used dead wood as a tube, deer hair as a pillar, and wool as a quilt" to make the brushes.

Because of this legend, Mengtian was honored as the founder of the brush. The people of Shanlian, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, built the "Meng Gong Shrine" and held a grand ceremony every year on Meng's birthday, which has been passed down to the present day. But according to historians, the origin of Chinese brushes is much older than that, with a history of at least 6,000 years.

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