Introduction of Ruyang Liu Brush

Ruyang Liu brush is a traditional Han handicraft of Ruyang Liu, Sundian Town, Xiangcheng City, Henan Province. According to "Xiangcheng County Records" 342 pages, so far there have been more than 2,000 years of history, there is a famous pen craft inheritors so far there are 66 generations, Ruyang Liu village known as "the township of the brush", "the township of the wonderful pen" reputation. "Ruyang Liu" brush selection of materials carefully, only the rabbit hair selection criteria is the autumn hair to take the healthy, take the tip, the spring and summer hair is not; Wolf hair selection must go to the Northeast to collect the winter weasel tail hair to make. The process mainly includes: hair splitting - degreasing - dehairing - hair loading - Qi hair - matting - cutting hair - combing hair - hair trimming - head and other 128 processes. The process is unique. The finished product should have the tip, round, Qi, healthy "four virtues", soft and hard moderate standards; its external decoration, especially the decoration of the pen is more extremely elaborate, according to the shape of the pen and the requirements of high, medium and low grade with it, both beautiful and generous.