"If the Huzhou brush pen dies, an important part of Chinese culture will die with it," he said. Located in the north of Zhejiang province, Huzhou has been home to brush pen-making for thousands of ...

A wealthy family will install a table on the bed (or "kang" -- a heated brick bed used in Northern China) where stamps, classic Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist books, a Chinese brush pen ...

and over the decades the town has grown into one of the country's biggest brush pen markets, attracting tens of thousands of buyers from across China. In Chinese culture, writing brushes are ...

Meng Tian, an ancient general who supervised the construction of China's Great Wall over 2,000 years ago, is remembered more for his military prowess than his invention of the Chinese brush pen.

"The brush pen is the carrier that passes on Chinese culture. Maybe I can open a folk museum of ink brushes in the future," he said.

Holding a brush in each hand, a two-armed robot programmed to write Chinese calligraphy took a few ... It is about expressing one's emotion through pen and ink on a piece of paper.

Unlike his father, Hung Fai does not use a brush for ink painting. The 29-year-old contemporary artist uses a fountain pen instead. Chinese ink paintings are usually done with a brush ...