Box pen: As a practice pen, there is no need to use a high-grade wool pen. On the contrary, middle and low-grade bristles are thicker and more elastic than high-grade bristles. A "refined wool seal" or better "Changfeng seal", but a few cents to more than one yuan, more affordable, can be used to write 1-2 inch running script. This kind of pen is better than the products of Shanlianhu Pen Factory. Changfeng block letters can be divided into one, two and three numbers. These numbers don't mean size, but advantages and disadvantages. The first number is the best.
Jingti (or lifting pen) is also a low-grade pen, which is larger than block letters and has several sizes from 1 to 6. Dajing style pen, five minutes in diameter and two inches long. The pen holder is moderate in thickness and has a horn barrel at the front end, which makes it more comfortable to hold the pen.
United front, curtain, banner. It's the same size as Beijing's, but the front is longer, without corners, with greater quality, and Beijing's abstraction is better, which is suitable for writing works such as screen strips.
Top front, cover front, etc. There are about one to six sizes and models, belonging to the mid-range long front pen.
Combination pens or sets of pens for different types of sentences. Such as the arrival of a group of talents, the most glorious labor, spring, summer, autumn and winter, etc. There are four pens in the pen set of Qunying, which are engraved with the words Qunying respectively. The largest lettering group and the smallest lettering are also good long-side pens. This kind of interesting colored pens is very commercialized, and buyers like to buy one set at a time.
Jade bamboo shoots. It is named because it looks like a new bamboo shoot. Also divided into big, second and third sizes, it is a sheep paw pen with special specifications. The pen is short and thick, and the pen is short and fat. A line or block that is easy to express richness, and is often used for painting.
Yulan Ruichang Feng Pen is slightly larger than a block pen, which is a famous pen in wool pen and belongs to high-grade products. Fine selection of materials and exquisite craftsmanship. There are fine products, super products, antique and other different specifications. Excellent pens are understandable, but they are more expensive.
Beijing hawthorn (or hawthorn pen). This is the largest kind of pen. Hawthorn means to hold things with five fingers. There are several sizes up to six. The pen container is short and thick, and it is often made entirely of corners. Holding a pen is also slightly different from holding an ordinary pen, which is close to the way of writing with five fingers. A large pen can write more than two feet.
In addition, some pens are not named according to their raw materials or uses, but are endowed with an elegant reputation, such as right-handed calligraphy, purity and cleanliness, round and smooth beads, floating clouds and so on. Most of these pens are of good quality, and the size is in the middle, not less than dozens.
(2) Wolf hair: Wolf hair is made of the hair on the tail of a weasel (weasel). It is best to use weasel tail hair produced in Northeast China, which is called "Northern Wolf Hair" and "Kanto Liao Wei". and
Wool produced in winter is the best, thin and sharp, and it is lubricated and elastic. It's worse than wool. It's better to write and draw. But no wool is durable and more expensive. The main varieties are:
Zhu Lan: It is mainly used as a writing brush. There are three types: large, medium and small, and the size is similar to that of block letters in Yang Hao. Cursive writing is also good.
Freehand brushwork, landscape, flowers. They are all used for painting, with similar performance, slightly smaller than Juran, and can also be used as books.
Ye Jin, clothing patterns. It is also a brush, as thin as a small pen, with edges and leaves, which is most suitable for drawing clothes folds.
Red beans, small seiko. Slightly smaller than a small pen, used for fine parts of painting. It is also good to write in smaller letters.
Lu Langhao's calligraphy and painting. It is made by adding deer hair to wolf hair, which is slightly harder than pure wolf hair and is divided into three sizes: large, medium and small. Both books and paintings are ok.
Leopard wolf hair, or leopard wolf brush, screen pen, pen, block letters. They are all made by adding leopard hair to wolf hair, which is similar to deer and wolf hair in performance, and is also suitable for books and paintings.
Gabrielle. The word "Gui Jiao" means "Feng Zhi" and is named after the brush stroke, indicating sharpness. Wolf hairpin, made of wolf hair, is an ultra-small pen, which can be used for micro-writing. Generally, it is not used much, and the photo studio often repairs the negatives.
(3) Zihao: It is rabbit hair, named after its purple-black color. Its characteristics are tall and straight, sharp and sharp, and its elasticity is stronger than that of wolf hair. Rabbit hair produced in Anhui is the best. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was very precious. Bai Juyi wrote a poem saying: "Sharp as a cone, sharp as a knife, there are old rabbits on the stone in the south of the Yangtze River ... one tenth of the hair ... the price of purple cents is as expensive as gold ..." Because purple cents are very short, it is difficult to make them grow into big ones, and they are mainly small and medium pens. Such as oolong water, four flowers and purple hair, double pen. There are fewer varieties of font sizes, which are generally only used to write small letters.
(4) Double-stranded brush: made of two kinds of wool with different rigidity and flexibility. Most of the double brushes are either sheep wolf hair or sheep purple hair. There are not many other double brushes. The advantage of double-stranded brush is that it combines the advantages of soft and hard brush, moderate rigidity and moderate price, and is loved by many painters and painters.
Double two brush categories:
Harmonic type: a pen made by mixing two different hairs. For example, all the white clouds pens are a mixture of sheep and wolves, and they are representative double-headed brushes. Another example is the clever selection of Suzhou Lake Pen, which is made of wool and rabbit hair.
Heart quilt type: hard hair is placed in the center of the pen as the core, and short hair is used as the auxiliary hair around it, which is more common in sheep-purple double-strand brush, so the front of the pen is black, and the middle and back are white. Due to the different proportion of purple and sheep, it is divided into seven purple three sheep, nine purple one sheep, five purple five sheep and other names. This pen is mainly used for writing small characters, and can only be dipped into the exposed purple part. If they are all distributed, it will be unbearable to use.
(5) others. In addition to the above, there are many animals' hair that can also be used as pens, and those are still very good, such as:
Chicken feather: made of pure white chicken chest hair, soft as cotton, not easy to master. But in the hands of some good calligraphers, they can write a word with a special charm, and this product is often Fengying, such as the best Fengying in block letters. Few people use it, and the specifications are few, so it is difficult to see it in a pen shop. Another kind of pen is a double-headed brush made of chicken feathers and wolf hair, which is also a rare variety.
Horseshoe: mainly horse hair or mixed with other wool (goat beard can also be used instead). The performance is vigorous and straight, similar to wolf hair, slightly rough. But the horse mane is long and can be made into a large number of paintings and calligraphy, and the number is not much.
Moustache pen: It is a kind of hard writing brush harder than Zihao. It is said that it is mainly made of a kind of rabbit hair. A real moustache is not suitable for writing pens. Whether this is due to the loss of ancient laws remains to be studied.
Bristle pen: the bristles are too hard to be used as a whole pen, so the bristles must be split. There are four, six and eight open bristles. Even so, it is hard and thick. So there are very few users.
In addition, you can use other pens: musk hair, tiger hair, orangutan hair, goose hair and duck hair. Even beards and fetal hair are rare.
Plant pens: such as wool pens, bamboo pens, etc. It is made of stone by hammering the nib of wool into silk. This kind of pen is hard, brittle and rough, and can only write in large letters, which is not as good as wolf hair and wool. Few people make and use it now.