The origin of Lake Pen is Shanlian Town.

Hu Pen, together with Hui ink, Xuan paper and Duan ink stone, is known as the Four Treasures of the House of Letters, and is an important symbol of the long and splendid Chinese civilization. The hometown of the lake pen is in Shanlian Town, where there is the temple of Mengtian, the ancestor of the pen. According to legend, Mengtian, the general of Qin Shi Huang, invented the brush by using dead wood as a tube, deer hair as a column and wool as a quilt (coat).

Hui ink is made of pine as the basic raw material, mixed with more than 20 kinds of other raw materials, and refined through the processes of lighting smoke, and material, pressing and grinding, drying, thwarting the edge, tracing the gold, and loading the box, etc. The finished product has the color of black, moist, and firm, with the color of black, moist, and firm. The finished product has a black color, firm and light, into the paper does not fainting, lick the pen does not glue, long-lasting, fragrance and anticorrosive and moth-proof, etc., suitable for books and paintings, known as the aroma through the muscles and bones, slag does not stay in the inkstone of the name of the beauty.

The origin of the lake pen

The movie and television drama, we often see ancient Europeans with a feather pen to write, the action of the dashing and flowing. While the same animal hair is used to make writing tools, Chinese brushes have a completely different style, it chooses the soft and tough part of the animal hair, which can write a thousand different fonts, recording the events of different times in China and people with different personalities.

We all thought that the Shang dynasty's writing was only oracle bone writing, in fact, archaeological artifacts proved that the Chinese people at that time were already using brushes to write, only because it was not as good as the oracle bone writing carved on the hard bones to save, and regret not let the present day we see. The brushes we see today are said to have been improved by Meng Tien, the general who oversaw the construction of the Great Wall during the Qin Dynasty - a true master of the martial arts! Meng Ten used dead wood as a tube, deer hair as a column, and wool as a quilt.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Lake Brush