Bamboo-pipe jade bamboo shoot pen

[Zebra bamboo tube jade shoot pen]

Zebra bamboo tube jade shoot pen, 30.7 cm in length and 1.1 cm in diameter
Pen tube and cap made of bamboo. There are brown stripes on the surface, so it is called “mottled bamboo”. The upper end of the tube is filled with blue and green regular script “jade bamboo shoots”. The top and cap are inlaid with ivory. The pen is made of sheep hair and has a long front shape
Sheep hair pen is characterized by softness and durability. During the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods of the Qing Dynasty, due to the prevalence of textual research and the diversity of calligraphy styles, the sheep-hair brush was widely accepted by the literati because of its adaptation to the needs, and became the main product of the brush in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province (the most famous pen making center in the country at that time). The use of pens in the imperial court of the Qing Dynasty has also changed with the society. The “Miscellaneous Notes of the Bamboo Leaf Pavilion” of the Qing Dynasty contains: “The imperial pen can only be played by the hardest one of the Zihao… Because of its inappropriateness, Mo Xieyao (then the secretary of the Ministry of Household) was ordered to use it as an outsider, try it, take the Yanghao and the Jihao, and make it like this.” From the rise of the Yanghao pen and the analysis of the changes in the use of pens in the imperial court of the Qing Dynasty, the jade bamboo shoot pen should be the Huzhou brush that was tribute to the court after the middle of the Qing Dynasty