羊毫是当今使用最广泛的毛笔,品种也最多,光江浙一带生产的湖笔就有一百六十余种。羊毫笔头尖端呈黄绿半透明状的即是锋颖,羊毫按笔头的长短和粗细分为长锋和短锋、厚锋和瘦锋。厚锋和瘦锋是以笔头粗细而言的,厚锋型的羊毫笔头肥厚,腰劲足,含墨多,常用以作擘窠大字,如京楂、斗笔。一般用的笔大多是瘦锋型。长锋和短锋则是以笔头长短而言的,长锋羊毫锋颖长,锋腹柔,蓄墨也多。传统产品有‘顶峰’、‘盖峰’等,新品种则有‘鹤颈’、‘长颈鹿’、‘金不换’等。还有超长的如‘滴泉’、‘风眉’等,细长如玉簪,用以画衣褶、柳枝等袅娜的线条,而不适于一般的书法上用。短锋羊毫的典型品种有‘玉笋’等。 Sheep is the most widely used brush today, the variety is also the most, light Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province Lake Pen has produced more than 160 kinds. Sheep pen sharp tip is yellowish green translucent that is Feng Ying, according to the amount of pen head length and thickness is divided into long and short front, thick front and thin front. Thick front and thin front is the thickness of the pen in terms of the thickness of the front of the whipped pen, hyperthyroidism, containing more than Mexico, commonly used as the main character, such as Beijing Hawthorn, fighting pen. Most commonly used pen thin front type. Long front and short front is based on the length of the written terms, the long front Yang Feng Feng long, front abdomen soft, ink and more. Traditional products have ’peak’, ’cover peak’ and so on, the new varieties are ’crane neck’, ’giraffe’, ’gold does not change’ and so on. There are extra long, such as ’drop spring’, ’wind eyebrow’ and so slender, such as Hosta, used to draw the folds, Willow branches and other delicate lines, and not suitable for general calligraphy. Typical short breeds have ’jade bamboo shoots’ and so on.