Pen

442 or BRUSH IMG:p442_1.png:Chinese characters pi, used for writing, is said to have been invented by Mkjjg T'ien IMG:p442_2.png:Chinese characters a celebrated general of the First Emperor, who died B.C. 209. Before his time characters were painted with a reed pen dipped in black lacquer or else incised with a bronze style. BusHELL: Chinese Art, II, p. 122.