Chinese papermaking, how step by step spread to the world?

Papermaking, known as one of the four great civilizations of China, has appeared as early as the Western Han Dynasty, but due to the cumbersome process of papermaking, it was not promoted until Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty improved papermaking, and papermaking spread in the folklore, which promoted the spread of culture and the development of related cultural industries, and contributed to the development of the history of the world's civilization. Papermaking is widely spread, inseparable from the need for paper and Ancient China broad-minded

Before the birth of papermaking, in the ancient times of extremely poor material conditions, can only choose the hard oracle bone as a carrier, writing is extremely inconvenient, and later, the people with bamboo and wood to make a scroll But bamboo is too heavy, not conducive to carry, and, because of the special nature of the bamboo material, easy to be eaten by insects and moisture, is not conducive to preservation, and cloth, silk and satin, although lightweight, easy to carry, but used to act as a writing tool is too extravagant, generally only the princes and nobles will be used. And paper undoubtedly solved all the above problems, become the new writing material. It is for this reason that the art of papermaking has been widely spread and learned by the world.

China has many neighbors, and people living on the borders had exchanges through marriage and trade, for example, near North Korea, Russia's Northeast region has a lot of Koreans and some Russian flavor, paper-making in the people's daily exchanges in the natural spread to other Asian regions. On the other hand, most of the time in ancient China was open to the outside world, a lot of Arabs came to China for trade, but also the paper-making technology back to their own countries, spread to Europe. Through trade activities and people's daily cultural exchanges, papermaking was popularized around the world.

The emergence of papermaking originated from people's need for culture, and it has epoch-making significance. Papermaking contains the crystallization of the wisdom of the children of the Yellow Emperor. After the birth of papermaking, lightweight paper replaced the former heavy bamboo, wooden scrolls, and expensive satin, has become a highly respected writing tool. The emergence of paper has made it possible to pass down the precious traditional culture, so that today we can get a glimpse of what the philosophers thought and the exquisite craftsmanship of the ancient artisans, which is of great significance.