Zhou Huchen

Zhou Huchen

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Shanghai zhouhuchen caosugong pen and Ink Co., Ltd. (named after the famous pen maker "zhouhuchen") is a famous production-oriented enterprise in China's four treasures industry. It is composed of the old zhouhuchen pen factory and huishe caosugong ink factory (the former Shanghai ink factory). It mainly produces and sells "zhouhuchen" brand brush, oil painting brush and "caosugong" brand ink, ink ingot, etc.

brief introduction

The famous brand of pen making factory in China is named after the famous craftsman Zhou Huchen.

Zhou Huchen was born on the 5th of June in the year of Xinmao of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1591). He was born in Zhoufang village, Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province (now Zhoufang village, Wengang Town, Jinxian county). Zhoufang Village (the hometown of Chinese brush) is a famous hometown of brush making. Zhou Huchen made brush at home with his parents since he was a child, so he got the gist of brush making. His cousin Zhou Xianchen (according to the genealogical information provided by Zhou Xuanfeng, a descendant of the Zhou family, Zhou Xianchen is not Zhou Huchen's cousin) is the only one to use his pen. His cousin Zhou Xianchen was later a Jinshi in Central China. He successively served as magistrate of Taikang county and head of Nanjing criminal department. He is very familiar with Tang Xianzu, a famous dramatist, as a fellow official. According to his cousin's introduction, Zhou Huchen also made pens specially for Tang Xianzu. Tang Xianzu loved Zhou Huchen's pens very much. In order to thank Zhou brothers, he wrote the preface of Zhou's genealogy, leaving many ink marks such as "kejiadi", which has been confirmed in the existing Zhou's genealogy.

history

In 1694 (the 36th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty), Zhou Huchen's descendants took his family to Suzhou City of Jiangsu Province to set up "Zhou Huchen pen village". Zhou Huchen's descendants only gave birth to an only daughter, but did not have a son. Therefore, they passed on the brush making skills to Fu Shantang, their son-in-law, who was in charge of running the pen shop. Fu Shantang moved the pen village to Suzhou, absorbed the characteristics of Lake pen technology, and produced Langhao water pens, such as "antique Wang Lanxin", "right army calligraphy" and other special varieties, which are very suitable for writing couplets, banners and large-scale landscape ink splashing traditional Chinese paintings. They are deeply loved by calligraphers and painters, and have been known as "famous lake water pens" since ancient times.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, Zhou Huchen pen village was appointed by local officials to make tribute pens for the Qing court. In 1771, on the 60th birthday of Emperor Qianlong, Zhou Huchen pen village paid tribute to 60 birthday pens. The penholder was made of ivory, and there were 60 sets of four treasures in the study, such as inkstone, ink and brush wash (the official kiln of brush wash had Zhou Huchen's seal).

At the end of Xianfeng Period in Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid the war, zhouhuchen Bimo village opened "laozhouhuchen Bimo village" in Shanghai in 1862.

When he arrived at Fu Jinyun in 1892, he was the seventh generation descendant of Zhou Huchen. He adopted the operation mode of front shop and back workshop, with more than 50 employees and an annual output of nearly 300000 brushes. He moved the large-scale pen making workshop to Shanlian Town, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, and opened the "old Zhou Huchen pen and ink shop" at 68 Xingsheng street, Nanshi, Shanghai.

In 1934, Fu hongchu, the son of Fu Jinyun, took over the business of Huchen pen and ink village of the old Zhou Dynasty, which has been the eighth generation. Fu hongchu moved to Shanghai and opened a shop in Xingsheng street, Nanshi, Shanghai. He officially registered the "tiger" trademark, innovated the brush production technology, and developed many new products, such as Xiangjiang Yipin, Wulong water, Jiuchong spring drunk Xiantao, subject like water, Dajing water, etc. Among them, Langhao water brush is known as the brush five tiger general.

Fu hongchu also changed the way of brush sales in the past, taking various forms. For the domestic masters of calligraphy and painting, he used the brush bag form, and sent special personnel to customize the brush, so as to achieve the goal of "one person, one pen, one boutique", meticulous work and customized quantity. Zhou Huchen's brushwork is responsible for the brushwork of contemporary masters of calligraphy and painting. For example: Wu Changshuo, Zhao Zhiqian, Shen Yinmo, Zhang Daqian, Wu Hufan, Pan Tianshou, Yu Youren, Fu Baoshi, each painter's pen, Zhou Huchen's pen and ink shop has its own name. For example, Li Keran's two Langhao pens are called "teacher and student hall" and "Luomu Caotang" respectively, and Mr. Lu Xun's Zhou Huchen brush and ink villa brush is called "Jinbuhuan". The pen Tang Yun used to draw bamboo is called Lanzhu.

Zhou Huchen's pen and ink shop became a famous pen shop in Shanghai at that time. Li Ruiqing, a famous calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty, praised the book: "no one who makes pens on the sea can surpass Zhou Huchen.". Fu hongchu devoted his whole life to innovation and development, adapting to the progress of the times. The tiger brand brush in China is unique and prosperous. It is also exported to Japan, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asian countries, and the innovative brush is also sold to France and Italy.. Zhou Huchen has also become a famous time-honored enterprise in China.

Recent events

In 1956, Shanghai Laozhou Huchen pen factory was established as a public-private joint venture, which lasted for 10 generations.

Zhou Huchen founded Zhou Huchen's pen house in Lijia town of Linchuan in that year. It was known as "Linchuan's pen" in history and directly influenced the later Chinese calligraphy and Wumen painting school.

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