What is the most important thing in Four Treasures of the Study?

In Four Treasures of the Study, the pen is the most important.

Four Treasures of the Study is a set of very old tools, they are: pen, ink, paper and inkstone. These four things are very important to ancient China literati, because they are the only way to record what they have learned.

The pen is the most important tool in Four Treasures of the Study, because it is used for writing. In ancient China, pens were usually made of bamboo or bones, and the requirements were very delicate. Generally speaking, scholars use pens made of bamboo to write official documents, while pens made of bones are used to write diaries, letters and so on. Four Treasures of the Study symbolizes a person's wisdom and talent, because only those with wisdom and talent can use these tools to create excellent works.

Writing brush making and introduction of main sects

Brush is a traditional writing tool invented by China in Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. It is mainly made of the hair of birds or animals. Rabbit hair was first used, and later it was also used by sheep, ferrets, wolves, chickens, rats and other animals. The pen tube is made of bamboo or other materials. The head is round and pointed, which is used for traditional writing and painting.

The main schools of contemporary brush production: brushwork, Xu Anbi, Chuanbi and Hubi. By the Tang Dynasty, Xuanzhou (now Xuanzhou City, Anhui Province) had formed a pen-making center, and the professional origin appeared for the first time in the history of pen-making in China. The purple desk pen made of Xuanzhou rabbit hair (with deer hair and wool) is called "Xuanhao" and is famous all over the country. Ancient sages praised his poems. Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Purple Pen": "There is an old exemption on the stone in the south of the Yangtze River, and eating bamboo and drinking spring gives birth to a purple pen" to praise the writing brush.