Brush making skills (Yangzhou brush making skills)

Chinese national intangible cultural heritage Name: brush making skills (Yangzhou brush making skills)

Applicant: Jiangdu City, Jiangsu Province

Project No.: 1180

Project No.: VIII - 200

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

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Type: new item

Applicant: Jiangdu City, Jiangsu Province

Protection unit: Yangzhou Jiangdu traditional Chinese painting brush factory

Introduction to brush making skills (Yangzhou brush making skills)

Applicant: Jiangdu District, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province

There are four schools of Chinese brush making techniques: Xuanbi, Hubi, shuibi and lifushou. Yangzhou brush (also known as "Yangzhou water brush") is unique for its hemp tire. According to the history of the Qing Dynasty, "Yangzhou Zhongguan's painting brush is excellent in ink and white drawing, and the water brush is also wonderful."

Yangzhou brush with Langhao, rabbit tip (rabbit back of the hair) as the main raw materials, local pore hemp as auxiliary materials, tools more self-made. Its production technology is very complicated. There are more than 100 processes in the three links of water basin, installation and dry farming, which are closely linked and rigorous. The key process depends on the artist's hand feeling, tongue feeling and visual inspection. The nib is exquisite in thickness, length, tenderness and sharpness. The technique is exquisite and full of charm. The system of Yangzhou brush is taught by the master orally and by the heart, and the scholars practice and speculate repeatedly. It is difficult to get started, and even more difficult to master.

Yangzhou brush, with water into the set, culvert water leakage, durable; pen head and pen holder, complement each other; elegant character, very healthy charm. The representative work "Xiangjiang Yipin" was once known as "the king of the pen".