In the workshop of a brush-pen store in Huzhou, Shi Wangli makes traditional Chinese brush-pens. Her hands are immersed (浸泡)in water for at(little) eight hours a day, in summer and winter. The choice of the hairs in steps of making a quality brush-pen is of great(important) and the work she does cannot be performed a machine. It is a difficult but meaningful job. She is the youngest brush-pen technician in Huzhou. The manager of the store says he is worried the thousand-year-old technique for making the Huzhou brush-pen used in calligraphy (书法)will be lost with few young people(will) to learn it. In Chinese history, brush-pen is an essential (基本的)tool for cultural inheritance (传承). However, with the rapid progress of modern technology, brush-pens(replace) firstly by pens, then ballpoint pens and now keyboards.
The Ministry of Education required elementary and middle schools to start calligraphy classes(protect) the Chinese traditional culture. There is a general(believe) that brush-pen making should be regarded as a techniquerepresents Chinese culture. People should get to know the meanings and thoughts behind these traditional(technique).
