笔筒在古代文具中出现得最晚,大致到了明朝晚期,文人的案头才设置笔筒。这与一般人的想象有些出入。笔筒造型简单,一般口底相若,呈筒形,少有大的变化。比起其它文具,笔筒简单而实用,可在明朝中叶之前,文房用具中却没有笔筒。笔筒的前辈大致有笔架、笔床、笔格几种。唐诗人杜甫在《题柏大兄弟山居屋壁》一诗中有“笔架霑窗雨,书签映隙曛”之句,读来小景美不胜收。笔架何样?宋朝鲁应龙在《闲窗括异志》中有准确描述:“远峰列如笔架。”这使人对宋人案头常置石山有了功能上的了解。宋元明清大量传世的笔架 Pen holder in the late appeared in the ancient stationery, roughly to the late Ming Dynasty, the writer’s desk was only set pen holder. This is different from most people’s imagination. Pen holder is simple, generally similar to the mouth, was cylindrical, few major changes. Compared to other stationery, pen holder is simple and practical, but before the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but no pen holder in the study room. Pen predecessors roughly pen holder, pen bed, pen grid several. Tang poet Du Fu in the “title of the great brother mountain home wall” a poem “penholder dip window rain, bookmarks clearance 曛 ” sentence, read small beautiful beautiful. What is the pen holder? Song Lu Long in the “windowless awkward” in an accurate description: “Far peak columns such as penholder. ” This makes people always on the desk of the Rock Songshan has a functional understanding. Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty handed down a large number of pen holder