Pen, ink, paper and inkstone are the famous Four Treasures of the Study in ancient China, and the pen is the first, so the pen container for holding pens has become an important auxiliary tool in the study.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yizun was full of praise for the pen container, and wrote "The inscription on the pen container": "The pen is horizontal or straight in writing, especially when people are ignorant. When the guest arrives home, he can rest assured that he is innocent. "
The predecessor of the pen container is the pen boat, pen bed and pen grid in the Tang Dynasty, which first appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the "China Ancient Ceramics Atlas", there is such a record, "The pen container, a learning tool, was used to insert a brush, which first appeared in the Song Dynasty and prevailed in the Qing Dynasty."
Because of its exquisiteness and ease of use, it quickly became popular and became a wonderful flower in the literati's study in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it is still flourishing today. The materials of pen holders are diverse, including porcelain, wood, bamboo, lacquer, copper, crystal, stone, jade, ivory, feeder, purple sand, jade, gold plating, etc., among which bamboo pen holders are the most.
As for its ancient system, Wen Zhenheng of Ming Dynasty called it "an ancient sample with holes and pens and ink" in Classic Records of Art Appreciation.
Another load: "The pen holder is bamboo brown, and the bamboo is inlaid with bronze, and rosewood, ebony and rosewood are also acceptable." The pen holder has been handed down from generation to generation, and the exquisite painting patterns and exquisite carving art are beautiful and pleasing to the eye.
The Wuhan Museum has a collection of learning pen holders made of different materials, from which the author selects fine products and personal collections for appreciation.
Bamboo pen holder: Bamboo is a plant with special cultural significance in China. He is also called "Four Gentlemen" with Mei, Lan and Ju, and "Three Friends of Old Cold" with Song and Mei. Its elegant character and faithful spirit have always been admired by the people of China. Bamboo carving, also known as bamboo carving, is a handicraft carved from bamboo. Jo Yeo-jeong, an antique collector in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Antique Guide Bamboo Carving": "Bamboo carvers carve bamboo.
His works are the same as calligraphy and painting, except that he used a knife instead of a pen and made paper ears out of bamboo. After the middle of Ming Dynasty, two bamboo carving art centers, Jinling (now Nanjing) and Jiading (now Shanghai), were gradually formed in the Jiangnan area where bamboo carving culture was extremely developed. Jin, a scholar of Gan Jiawen in Qing Dynasty, recorded in The Records of Bamboo People: "There are two schools of engraving, one started from Pu Zhongqian in Jinling, and the other started from Zhu in Jiading."
Most literati in China like bamboo. Su Dongpo said in the Northern Song Dynasty: "No meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar. Eating without meat is better than living without bamboo. " In the study, bamboo handrails, paperweights, ink beds, water bowls, inkstone screens, pens and pens, and brush mountains abound, and scholars especially advocate the use of bamboo carving pen holders.
Tu Long, a famous scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, had a soft spot for bamboo pen holders. He wrote in the pen holder of Notes on Furniture in the Study: "Zhu Xiang is elegant, with rosewood and ebony as the edges, and the rest are not good.
Pan Xifeng, a famous bamboo engraver in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, also wrote in official script on the pen holder: "Empty your heart, strengthen your festival, and let me study together." This shows the profound cultural connotation and unique charm contained in the bamboo carving pen container.