Finally, brush tour operators addition Jingdezhen porcelain, Jiangxi there is a world famous tradition of property, that is, from the Eastern Han Dynasty began making the brush, also a producer on the town - town in Jiangxi Province. 'Chinese pen' Wen Kong tour operators, traditional way of doing business, a brush, although difficult, but the low start-up costs for farmers mainland business. However, brush and other traditional Chinese arts and crafts, as in terms of its material properties, are 'mountains nature of things' as the leading, on the one hand climate, changes in the natural environment to change its properties; on the other hand, the trend of industrialization also will impact its production, Wen town is facing the dilemma of inheritance and innovation. From Huzhou in Zhejiang Province town of Lian good town to Jiangxi Province, local Chinese brush production center drift, coastal and inland industrial turnover in miniature.
Today, Lake T shanlian town do people have no more than 2,000, while the text of practitioners in Hong Kong, has a size of more than 20,000 army tour operators. For businessmen, tour operators, but never entrepreneurship Elementary. Wen Hong Kong will be the last tour operators do? 'Pen' tour operators since 1991 to sell a brush Shenzhen, Wang Jianping has been removed in the southern cities, Beijing is his seventh stop, and now millions of year to have done the business. He would go home every summer to do pen, his home town paper mill is one of more than 2,000 brush workshop. From the Beijing Federation of Literature of the building, completed at the gate to the janitor's room a little haughty concierge Xie Tao, Wang Jianping and reporters to go sit with holly bus. He was 41 years old, from paper town, in Beijing to promote his 'Wu Yunhui pen store' brush almost two years. Man United are selling brush Wang Jianping key units. There are Chinese Calligraphers Association, the Artists Association and other institutions, the President of that Association, Vice-Chairmen in their line of business very influential, brush his business, those who are from the professional sector of 'opinion leaders' . This gave him the brush and the Beijing Academy of the Fine Arts Department's major well-known painter - especially calligrapher 'Trial' is a reason. If these people expressed satisfaction with the quality of the pen, usually recommend to students.
As a result, when the pen stalls placed Wang Jianping classroom door, business would not be bad. 'Let the people most professional test pen, business was workable.' He said. Since 1991 Shenzhen selling brush, Wang Jianping has been removed in the southern cities, Beijing is his seventh stop. Wang Jianping in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua Academy of Art University, Renmin University and other colleges and Liulichang, Panjiayuan, Ditan Park put off stalls. In contrast, customers are more concentrated in the universities. In Evergreen's a narrow rented room, piled boxes of brush. Wang Jianping individually to reporters to explain their materials and characteristics. Pen judgments is very professional thing, it depends on the material first used the pen head. 'Although many people use a brush, but many people do not understand the pen, including the painter he did not understand.' In his view, those beginners painting people, at least should know, Langhao not mean wolf hair, and a weasel tail hair; Yang Hao is not on wool Mongolian grasslands, but Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces goat hair. In the brush product portfolio, accounting largest and cents - the wolf tail and wool by mixing, supplemented bristle, nylon yarn made of wool lining and so on. Look at the pen, brush can be described as colorful, there are wood, bone, there are glass, ceramics, cloisonne, which produced in Fujian red Xiang Fei most valuable. Wang Jianping out a few pens pole only seven spots brush tears, told reporters: 'This is called 'fairies', sold for two thousand yuan a.' I also unexpected order, a singer Nicholas Tse. Wang Jianping customers everything from painting and calligraphy to singers, actors, developers have described "digimon cosplay costumes " as diverse. In absolute terms margins, brush profits are very substantial, issued $ 500 brush from Jiangxi, Beijing sold for 1500 yuan in 2000 yuan or even normal.
But the brush is not lucrative industry, which is very difficult to have a scale business. 'Brush business do not. In the text of Hong Kong, sold 3 million a year to pen the village there are very few.' Wang Jianping said. The reason, first of all that the brush is handmade, complicated process, from the choice of hair, neat hair, skimmed started looking up manufacturing processes more than 100 channels, a single output is not high. Wang Jianping, the age of 17 as an apprentice in a pen factory, and now, every summer will be home to do a pen, with the help of the father, his wife, written about a week to do more than 500. 'Do people want to quiet the pen, emotional ups and downs will affect the quality of the brush.' In today's paper town, not much really want to learn the craft of writing brush young man, who craft good pen division, mostly born in the 1950s generation. Another reason not afford to do is to scale high technology threshold, but the investment threshold is very low. Many text Kong tour operators have claimed that he is from the ancestral craft brush, in fact not the case. In today's article harbor, Pen specialization has been very clear, some people specialize in written, another part specializing in pen. Some brain active young people often buy the club written, the West family to buy pen and engraved his name on the rod pen store, go out into the country to sell to go. '
This is a shortcut, but this brush, quality is often very unstable, it can not really make a pen store brand.' Wang Jianping said. Wang Jianping million a year to have done the business. His family's workshop, is one of more than 2,000 Gangzhen brush workshop in size of more than 20,000 practitioners brush tour operators army, he is considered a winner. 'Pen' drift brush tour operators army, had microscopic Zhejiang figure, they are difficult to attract to a human resource in economic output is not so high the traditional manual trade, industry shift to the new 'Chinese pen 'Wen town's young people achieve entrepreneurial opportunities. Winter is very cold and the Yangtze River Basin, pens head is 'Water as' (do pen called 'dry as a'), to bare water, many of the papers do not harbor pen division of the pen after the winter. Of course, some people are very hard, in the text of the South Village town is located in a rice field in a brick building where, Xu Wen Hui, Xu Wenhu brothers are combing a cold sink a dusky large written. To their knowledge, Alex's grandfather's generation brush craft there. In addition to selling brush, two young people after 85, but also looking forward to another thing. They plan, and so over the years, went to Beijing to do the painting business. 'Wen Hong Kong has a lot of people made a fortune doing this,' Tsui brothers, told reporters that 'It can not brush for painting, and you know what those artists still like it?' For the vision is still the art business, Xu Brothers and intends to use the cash to start, their entrepreneurial seeds brush and at home that a few 'ancestral' porcelain. Xuyun Hui said he had sold in Liulichang brush, those who buy pens painter left his impression is that does not love a bargain, always directed expensive to buy. So imagine, with those 'generous' deal with artists, business promising. I do not know Xu brothers now busy making money shrewdness painter, and whether to make the appropriate estimates. But the pursuit of economic interests than the bigger the brush, also had another 'Chinese pen' business mind Huzhou shanlian town youth. Before the rise of the text Harbor brush, brush the lake pen in the world. Lake pen manufacturing center in Huzhou in Zhejiang Province town of Lian good, but now, there's Lake pen and textile, foundry industry compared to already marginalized.
And now in Hong Kong compared to the text, it has been quite different. Restricting Lake T is a major factor in the development of human input, with the rise of modern industry, the traditional manual cottage lake pen, because of complex, hard work, low income, low-status, young people do not want to join, a lack of enthusiasm for Lake T , have another way of living, so that the whole industry growing numbers. Shanlian town now 40 years old lake pen less than 10 professional technicians. Indeed, in the affluent Zhejiang province, in order to attract local human resources to economic output is not so high a traditional manual industries, has been very difficult. Wang Jianping, told reporters that he had never quite like him in the country ran a brush business Zhejiang. On the human factor, which has become Hong Kong's Wen comparative advantage. You do not need much start-up capital, no outside shop, use the slack time to complete stocking, from a business point of view, the brush is a particularly suitable text Kong rural youth entrepreneurship business. Wen town of about 70,000 people from the town center to the surrounding villages, almost every household was selling pens outside. Terms of production volume, brush Wen Kong accounted for more than 70% of the country, is a veritable Pen Center. Wen town's economy, second only to professional medical equipment Nanchang Jinxian town liduzhen say that it is pens workshop and tour operators are a major achievement. Currently, the annual sales of the text Harbor Pen industry more than 1.5 billion, and local government support policies that benefit the more than Huzhou Lake T policy, Wen Hong Kong does not levy taxes on the brush workshop. Wen Hong Kong people should be grateful to brush, if not the same as Wang Jianping, who is doing more than a million a year business, work at home when a pen is also a good career. 'Income Gangzhen good pen workers 4,000 yuan per month, Common also has nearly 2000 yuan.' Chun Tong, founder Li Xiaoping told reporters. Wen Hong Kong brush the current market is in short supply, 'We can store the pen is out of stock, and other delivery people in the queue, not enough to do things out of the pin.' 'Salvation' brush brush on the size of the text Kong Although impressive, but many pen store and tour operators scattered and disorderly, to reflect the lack of a professional nature and taste local norms.
In the face of industrialization, such a 'do little industry' continued to be benign, more of a need for a culture of ambition rather than industrial ambitions. December 10, 2011, an eclipse of the evening, the reporter saw in the text Zou farming town. This is a well-regarded figure in the text Harbor Pen industry. In addition to the development of a brush, he also compiled a 'writing' and 'prime fish farming pen store' two periodic publications. Another amazing thing is that he invested in the port of text located in the countryside 16 million yuan to build up a brush Heritage Museum. Zou farming 43 years old, elegant sober, good calligraphy, guqin good. His topic of interest and other pen makers are different, he is more willing to talk about the history of art, especially painting and calligraphy pen calligraphy history. 'Ming Dynasty and Dong Qichang using Howe, Fu Shan, Wang Duo with the Yang Hao; Wang Qing dynasty rule, Chas standard using and ho.' In his view, a good teacher should be like a pen Jidong listen musician playing the piano but also understands, as only understands pens, but also understands the calligraphy, 'Now most do not understand the calligraphy pen division, which is a big problem.' Zou ancient farming brush a lot of physical inspection, not yet open the door Brush cultural museum that will showcase his collection of brush since the Yuan Dynasty. In his view, the text Harbor brush to go a stage revival of traditional crafts. Historically, Hong Kong Wen brush and pen Lake in Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province emblem pen compared to the position is a gap. 'Lake Pen with major intelligentsia, literati emblem pen mostly lower with; Jiangxi brush is mainly to meet the needs of urban and rural non-scholar class, such as accountant.' Up to now, although the decline has long been the emblem of the pen, pen lake has shrunk dramatically, Port status text brush rising rapidly, but he believes that contemporary Hong Kong compared with the ancient text Pen Pen division level, there are a considerable distance. Harbor Boulevard behind a high gate Wen big house, still weathering countryside restaurant, Zou farming to reporters about the 'Chun Tong' founder Li Xiaoping and pen pen Zhuang teacher and painter Liqiu Ming. Modern technology for text Harbor brush, the two men own some insights. In Li Xiaoping and 李秋明 opinion, contemporary brush material degradation is a particular problem. 'Wool is the first raw material degradation.' Li said. Traditionally, Yang Hao choice of materials is produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in Taihu Lake Basin mountain wool for the top grade. But over the past three decades due to climate warming, as well as the industrialization of goat in captivity, a sharp decline in the quality of wool. Another material used to make the pen of bristles, is the same reason there is a clear degradation in quality. To compensate for the degradation of "darker than black costume " raw materials, about twenty years ago, Wen Hong Kong introduced a nylon brush. 'Nylon elastic good, its use in a way to make up the raw material degradation, and, unlike the length of nylon Langhao as restricted, its text property in Hong Kong to promote the big brush.' Li said. But on the other hand, despite pushing the paper artificial harbor brush popularity in the country, professionals in the acceptance is not high, because the nylon has a significant drawback that the ink reservoir is poor.
Li Xiaoping admitted that on objective conditions, the raw material is already irreversible degradation of the. If you want to reach the ancient good brush performance, contemporary pen division to be expedient to make some adjustments and to explore the technology on which the text of Hong Kong, it still is unfinished business. This year, there are two messages sounded favorable to pen makers: First Chinese calligraphy declared 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' is successful, the second is below the cosplay costumes for sale requirements of the Ministry of Education Primary and Secondary recovery calligraphy. However, from another point of view, these two good news reflects some kind of crisis. Question about the identity of Chinese calligraphy perhaps a little professional: most Chinese characteristics as an art, it should have been given the status of Western arts equal dialogue, but 'non-left' manifested, just the value of their traditional resources and non-energy response of art contemporary life, which actually means that calligraphy remains to be done to engage the contemporary world. As to writing curriculum Ministry of Education has yet to recover in terms of traditional pens, but also a challenge. Calligraphy Pen influence the popularity of the process is that the size of the profits to make the text more neglected pen store in Hong Kong already mature enough level of technology, 'there are 267 million primary and secondary students, which means a huge demand. This will lead to Some people will put into large-scale energy production, but also has the size of profits, good pen division will go to those who produce only low-level brush pen store Jiangxi pen store creativity in the process will become weak. 'From the industry perspective, workshops and pen store is very fragile.
So far, the rise in production does not make Jiangxi brush pen genuine beyond the glorious history of the lake. Ancient legend of hundreds of well-known pen divisions, Lake T accounted for more than 60%, the cumulative lake pen position not happen overnight. Jiangxi brush history never to 'Gan pen' in the name to the lake pen, logo pen par. Now, the text on the size of Hong Kong brush Although impressive, but many pen store and tour operators scattered and disorderly, to reflect the lack of a professional and tasteful local norms. Zou Wen Kong farming will brush called 'writing', still is not very wide a spread position. The next day, the town side of the road and out of the text, the reporter saw a Fujian enterprises to undertake industrial transfer, 'Hercynian Industrial Park' will be completed. Wen Hong Kong economy lagged far behind the coastal areas, it is clear that large-scale industrialization has been close. Therefore, Hong Kong Wen brush prosperity is not necessarily once and for all. Zou farming, Liqiu Ming and Li Xiaoping, do not agree with a brush is a common industrial products, but should be included artificial beauty and cultural value of the arts and crafts. In the face of industrialization, such a 'do little industry' continued to be benign, more of a need for a culture of ambition rather than industrial ambitions.