The first person in history to invent the writing brush was Meng Tian. Meng Tian's ancestral home was from the Qi State at the end of the Warring States Period. He was highly regarded by the Qin State and was a general of the Qin State. Qin Shihuang valued him very much. Meng Tian has been smart and hard-working since he was a child. When he was ten years old, he invented the writing brush by chance and solved the problem of writing difficulties. He was considered a very powerful child prodigy. ?
Before the victory of the Qin Dynasty, all dynasties in my country used to write books on bamboo slips with knives, which was very time-consuming, laborious and cumbersome to carry. No one has been able to solve this problem for thousands of years, but it was solved accidentally by 10-year-old Meng Tian.
In 250 AD, Meng Tian was playing in the countryside with his family. Meng Tian had a great time admiring flowers, grass, insects and birds while shooting birds with a slingshot. Later, Meng Tian shot a bird, and his family picked it up and gave it to Meng Tian. However, Meng Tian found a piece of grass in the bird's mouth. There were some hairs on one end of the grass. It felt fluffy and very interesting.
The curious Meng Tian also imitated the bird and put grass in its mouth. Because there is saliva in the mouth, the hairs become sticky. Meng Tian became even more curious, and tried to write on his hands with the hairs stuck together. Unexpectedly, the words he wrote were very clear and beautiful.
Meng Tian was very excited as if he had discovered the new century. He got some more grass like this. After returning home, he used the same method to stick the hairs together, then dipped them in pot ashes and tried to put them on I didn't expect it to be very fast when writing on the bamboo slips, and I wasn't tired at all. However, the grass is easy to break, which is a problem, but this is not a problem for the smart little Mengtian. He used goat's hair instead of grass and tied the wool to a wooden stick to write. Now he no longer had to worry about the hair breaking.
But a new problem has arisen. The words on the bamboo slips are not easy to save. How will Meng Tian solve it? As expected of a child prodigy, the talented Meng Tian discovered that if silk was used instead of bamboo slips, the writing would not fall off, and the writing would be beautiful and easy to carry around.
His grandfather Meng Ao was very happy and immediately told Prince Chu of Qin. After seeing Meng Tian's demonstration, King Qin and his son were very excited, greatly praised Meng Tian, ??and asked him to improve on this basis. In this way, the writing brush was invented, and at the same time, the writing brush was promoted to all parts of the country, and Meng Tian's fame grew, and every country knew about him.