Houdian writing brush or Houdian-Maobi (simplified Chinese: 侯店毛笔; traditional Chinese: 侯店毛筆; pinyin: Hóu-Diàn Máo-Bǐ; "Máo-Bǐ" here means "ink brush"), is a famous kind of ink brushes in China.
[1] Houdian is a small village in Hubei Province.
[citation needed] The activities of manufacturing and producing ink brushes already started in the Ming dynasty.
The earliest historic record can be traced back to 1404.
[1] In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Houdian ink brushes were largely flourished, especially during the Guangxu era.