Historical Traceability of Hunan Brush Making Technique

Huzhou brush, referred to as "Hu Pen", is the best of the brushes, well known at home and abroad for its excellent production and quality, has become synonymous with the brush. Shanlian Town, located in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is the birthplace and main production area of Hubi, and is known as the "Pen Capital". In the small town of Shanlian, almost every family knows how to make brushes, and many families of brushes have emerged. Beijing Dai Yuexuan, Shanghai Yang Zhenhua, Tianjin Yu Yonghe, Hangzhou Shao Zhiyan and other pen factories are all opened by Huzhou people, and all of them are branded as lake pens.

Shanlian pen industry began in the Jin Dynasty. According to the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi "Huzhou Prefectural Records": "(Shanlian) a good practice, ...... residents of the most refined pen, covered since Zhiyong monk (Sui Dynasty, the name of Wang Faji, Wang Xizhi seventh-generation grandson) Jie'an Lianxi to and from the Yongxin Temple, the pen that is extracted from the work in this." After the development of the Tang and Song dynasties, the lake pen technology has made great progress.

Chinese brushes, the origin of very early, and the "lake pen" of the world-famous, when six or seven hundred years ago in the Yuan Dynasty. Before the Yuan Dynasty, the country to Xuan pen for the most famous. Su Dongpo, Liu Gongquan like to use the Xuanzhou pen; after the Yuan, Xuan pen gradually replaced by the lake pen, laid the crown of the status of the brush, the lake pen and ink, ink stone, Xuan paper together known as the "four treasures of the house of literature". According to "Huzhou Fu Zhi" records: "Yuan Feng Qingke, Lu Wenbao pen, its township Xi and fine, so the lake pen famous in the world." "Huzhou Feng pen marvelous, there are capable workers Shen Rixin. If you meet Yutang's hand, don't mind asking for a price like a pearl." People are willing to pay thousands of dollars to buy the lake pen, which shows its reputation.

The fame of the lake pen, and the Yuan Dynasty great calligrapher and painter Zhao Meng related to the local lake pen production techniques, very concerned about and attach great importance to, according to the "Huzhou Prefectural Records" records: he had to make pens for him, even if one is not as good as desired, that is, to make the split remake, the requirements are very stringent, this stringent quality requirements, has been passed down. In recent years in the modern society under the influence of economic, technological, cultural and many other factors, the traditional lake pen craft has been greatly impacted, facing the crisis of lack of successors. I believe that in the country and local governments at all levels to take active measures to protect, this Chinese craft wonder, will be inherited immortality, eternal splendor.