Production techniques of Baisha Maolong pen

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Baisha Mao dragon pen making technique

Applicant: Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province

Project No.: 915

Project No.: VIII - 132

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Guangdong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province

Protection unit: Jiangmen Cultural Center (Jiangmen intangible cultural heritage protection center, Jiangmen Art Research Office)

Introduction to the production technology of Baisha Maolong pen:

Applicant: Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province

Baisha Maolong pen in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province originated in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 500 years. The founder of Baisha Maolong pen is Chen Xianzhang, a famous scholar, poet and calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, who is named Mr. Baisha. Baisha Maolong brush is made from the grass of Guifeng in Xinhui through many processes. The successful production of this kind of pen creates a new way of making pen with plant fiber and becomes an outstanding representative of traditional handicraft.

Baisha Maolong brush is simple and elegant, and its edge is very flexible: its strokes are pale and astringent, and its effect of drawing silk and flying white is excellent. It is suitable for walking grass, and can also be used to outline mountains and rivers. Due to the flexibility of Maolong's stroke, its strokes are clumsy and unique. The works written in Maolong pen are vigorous and bold. Chen Baisha's representative works of Mao long Shu, such as the temple stele of CI yuan and the poem volume of planting castor bean, are precious cultural relics. Maolong pen is exquisite, luxurious and elegant, simple and generous, full of natural beauty.

Since the reform and opening up, with the continuous development of social economy, farmers have gone out to work, and no one has harvested the thatch, resulting in the shortage of raw materials for the production of Baisha Maolong pen. At the same time, Maolong pen production technology is unique, the production process is more complex, so the output is limited, the market is not wide. The above reasons make Baisha Maolong pen production technology in a critical situation, which urgently needs to be protected and revitalized, inherited and carried forward.