Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting styles. When grouped together with the inkstone, inkstick, and xuan ...

HANGZHOU - In a township around 60 kilometers from the city of Hangzhou, home of e-commerce giant Alibaba, a group of Chinese ink brush manufacturers are struggling to survive at a time when humans ...

Sifting through bags of goat hairs to select quality ones for the production of Chinese ink brushes can be tough and boring, but this is routine work for Zhang Wennian, 50, who is an inheritor of the ...

China will seek to have its four ancient writing tools -- the brush, ink stick, paper and inkstone -- included in the world's intangible heritage list. The four have been known as the "Four Treasures ...