大小篆、古隶、秦隶都是硬笔书写，但与甲骨文一样，千余年来，却统统被无端误断为毛笔书写。这一误断，最早出自西汉宣帝时今文经学家戴德。在他传授的《大戴礼记》中记载了一首据说是周武王撰写的《笔铭》：“豪毛茂茂，陷水可脱，陷文不活。”戴德解释此铭的缘起，说是西周 Size seal, the ancient scribe, Qin Li are hard pen writing, but the same with Oracle, more than a thousand years, but all were mistaken for writing brush. This is a mistake, the earliest from the Western Han Dynasty Xuan Di contemporary textual scholar Dade. In his book “Dai Dai Li Ji,” a record is said to be written by Zhou Wuwang’s “pen ming”: “Hou Mao Mao, water can be detached, trapped alive.” Dade explained the origin of this Ming said Western Zhou Dynasty