page_title: Daiyuexuan writing brush
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Daiyuexuan writing brush / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A shop at the Liulichang district in downtown Beijing
context_page_description: Daiyuexuan writing brush, is a famous brand of ink brush pens in China.
context_section_description: The brand was first created by brush pen maker Dai Yuexuan (simplified Chinese: 戴月轩; traditional Chinese: 戴月軒; pinyin: Dài Yuè-Xuān) in Beijing in Late-Qing Dynasty. Dai Yuexuan was a professional craftsman of making ink brushes, and he was originally from Zhejiang Province. Dai learned the techniques from Huzhou, also a city in Zhejiang. Huzhou is very famous of its ink brush-making, and was the largest center of ink brush manufacture and production during that time. Ink brushes made in Huzhou are finely names as Hubi (Huzhou ink brushes).
  Dai went to North China to develop his own business, and finally settled in Beijing, the capital of China. In 1916, Dai opened a shop in Liulichang, Beijing, and it was specialized in ink brush business, including manufacturing, producing, repairing, collecting, and introducing related knowledge and techniques of ink brushes. The shop later would become an ink brush company, and today it's still there in Liulichang (now a cultural district), Beijing.
caption: Liulichang, Beijing, where Dai Yuexuan first founded his own business of making ink brushes
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