The influence of writing brush on huzhou.

Hubi is a traditional painting and calligraphy handicraft in China with a long history and exquisite craftsmanship. Known as "the skill of tiger baby is the best in the world", it is known as one of Four Treasures of the Study and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

Shanlian Town, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province is the birthplace of tiger skin. Meng Tian, a general in Qin Dynasty, is famous all over the world, with a history of more than 2,000 years. The ancient people built "Meng Gong Temple" in Shanlian to commemorate Meng Tian, and the Jin Dynasty became famous. "Montaigne" brand lake pen keeps the characteristics of fine materials, and the production is fine and complicated. They are mainly made of goat hair, rabbit hair, yellow wolf tail and other raw materials according to the traditional technology. They have a unique style of sharp, neat and round, and their products are sold all over the country and exported to Southeast Asian countries.

According to raw materials and properties, tiger skins can be divided into four categories: Yang Hao, Langhao, Shuangshua and Zihao;

Wool wool: made of fine and high-quality goat wool from Jiangnan water town, with soft performance and comfortable convergence. Suitable for writing orthography, cursive script, official script, seal script, calligraphy, splash-ink landscape, freehand brushwork flowers and other calligraphy.

Wolf hair: made of high-quality weasel tail hair from three northeastern provinces after winter. Wolf pen is vigorous and powerful, suitable for writing and painting, suitable for splashing ink on mountains and rivers and freehand brushwork on flowers.

Double-stranded brush: the performance of the brush made of wool and rabbit hair or wolf hair is between soft hair and hard hair, and it has the characteristics of combining rigidity with softness. Suitable for small and medium-sized regular script, meticulous painting, portrait, industrial plate making, etc.

Zihao: Rabbit is used as raw material, and the pen holder is elastic, hard and straight. It is the hardest and sharpest of the lake pens, suitable for writing small and medium-sized regular script and industrial drawings.

Other varieties are: badger hair brush, moustache brush, customized hair brush, etc.