Hengshui "Houdian" Brush

Hengshui brush, also known as "Houbi", was called elephant pen in ancient times. It began in the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, and has a history of more than 500 years. The Qing Dynasty was regarded as the imperial use, so Hengshui was called "the holy land of writing brush" and "the hometown of writing in the north". There are more than 270 kinds of brushes in Hengshui, which are long and hard, both rigid and flexible, full of ink without dripping, and smooth and not stagnant. Mainly produced in Houdian Village, Taocheng District, the hometown of Hengshui brush. The tip of Hengshui Brush is made of various animal hairs, such as yellow wolf tail, fragrant fox tail, Nanshan wool, sheep beard, white horse hair, ox ear hair, etc. The pen holder is made of bamboo, purple bamboo, spotted bamboo, xiangfei bamboo, Eichhornia bamboo, etc., and the pen holder is embedded with teeth, bones, horns, bamboo, hardwood and other styles. The production technology is fine, the style is novel and the shape is beautiful. In particular, with materials such as mahogany, boxwood and ivory, the high-grade pens with carefully carved and inlaid Erlong play beads, dragons and phoenixes, phoenix play peony, ancient costume figures, landscape flowers and trees, etc., are more like icing on the cake and become exquisite and elegant arts and crafts with practical value. Deeply loved and appreciated by calligraphy lovers at home and abroad, the pen-making process is divided into more than 300 manual operation processes, such as basin, odd jobs, dry work, lettering and color loading. Strict inspection and acceptance system is implemented in the whole process, which makes the product quality stable and reliable. Many kinds of brushes in Hengshui, such as Fengyun, Shuiyue and Little Wolf Hair, have been designated as "trustworthy inspection-free products" by Tianjin Port.
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