The pen holder is one of the stationery items. For the tubular vessel holding pen, mostly straight mouth, straight wall, mouth bottom similar, relatively simple shape, no big changes.

     The generation of the penholder is no longer possible. Take the mulberry worms to bear in the sky of wood, or in the writing brush, and change for seven days. . It is not clear if the pen holder is what it says today. From the handed down, most of them are from the middle and late Ming dynasty. Editor of stationery, written by Ming tu long: “ Xiangzhu, to red sandalwood edge of the mouth set for the elegant, the rest of the goods ” . Ming wenzhen heng's \"the long things\" : “ Brush pot, XiangZhu Bing lv is preferred & throughout; . Therefore, there is a saying that the pen pot is the thing in the late Ming dynasty. Xi has the qiao stone pen frame, the name ‘ Jhao & rsquo; ; Presented with a mottled pen cylinder, the name ‘ QiuZhong & rsquo; There is nothing like it in the world. . It seems that the date of the pen pot should be at least down to the song dynasty. Because this is the category of cultural history, it is not discussed here. Ming wanli years of Shanghai baoshan zhu shoucheng couple from the grave of red sandalwood, on the big down small, plain, along the mouth edge where a protruding bands, with a seat, three low foot. The Ming dynasty wooden brush holder is embossed with dragon, flower and cloud dragon. The most commonly seen in the wooden pen cylinder is the embossed flower pen cylinder, the composition or concise, or plump and heavy but not disorderly; Mellow, smooth and classic.