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It is known as the best pen-Hu pen culture.

As we all know, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are Four Treasures of the Study, and "pen", as a member of Four Treasures of the Study, is also the most important writing and painting tool in Four Treasures of the Study. In ancient China, the requirements for writing brushes were very strict. As a frequent visitor to Four Treasures of the Study, there is no doubt about the quality of Hu Bi. Hubi is the essence of Huzhou culture and Chinese national culture. Let's take a look at Huzhou's Hubi culture.

Tiger Wall has a long history.

Tiger pen, also known as Tiger Shadow, is one of the "Four Treasures of the Study" and is known as the "crown of pens". Its hometown is Shanlian Town, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. According to legend, Meng Tian, the general of Qin Dynasty, used dead wood as a barrel, deer hair as a column and wool as a brush. Later, I settled in Shanlian, Huzhou, improved my writing brush, took the hair of rabbits and sheep, and used it to make what we now call a lake pen. Meng Tian taught the improved Hu Bi as a skill to Shanlian people, and at that time there was almost a prosperous scene of "every family can make pens, and every family can make pens".

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Hu Bi appeared. In the Jin Dynasty, Huzhou pen makers had mastered the advanced pen-making technology and began to adopt the advanced pen-making method with raccoon hair as the core and rabbit hair as the quilt. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, a large number of northern literati went south, and calligraphy and painting flourished in the south of the Yangtze River, which promoted the continuous improvement of pen-making technology in Huxi. In the Yuan Dynasty, Hu Bi replaced Xuan Bi as the first one in the world. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was no longer a dispute between soft and hard brushwork, and the establishment of both soft and hard brushwork ushered in a new stage of penmaking.

Hubi craft

"One in a million", the craft of lake brush is meticulous, complicated and exquisite, but the quality of the brush made is high, which can include its essence and characteristics with "precision, purity and beauty". The essence is that the production of each lake pen needs to go through 12 major processes, such as pen material, ordinary pen, water basin, knot, sleeve fitting, corner setting, pen selection and lettering. There are several minor processes in each major process, and the production process of the whole lake pen process can reach more than 120, and each process is very important, which directly or indirectly affects it.

Pure lies in the strict selection of materials. We must abandon the wool with broken ends, no front, bent but not straight, flat and not round, and choose the same kind of wool with sharp front, soft and bone, and suitable length, and glue them one by one to achieve the four virtues of "sharp, neat, round and healthy". Beauty lies in its shape, which is "light, white and straight". A pure pen with a pen made of torreya grandis and ivory white adds elegance and fluency.