What does Xuan paper look like

Xuan paper is a traditional Chinese paper used for calligraphy and painting, with a pure white and fine appearance, clear texture, soft and tough.

Xuan paper is produced in Jing County, Anhui Province, which originally belonged to Xuan City in the Tang Dynasty, hence the name Xuan paper. It is a traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting paper, pure white and fine appearance, clear texture, soft and tough, is to Jing County around the Shatian straw and China's unique green sandalwood bark, supplemented by the juice of the poplar peach vine made of complex technology, exquisite workmanship, up to a thousand years of non-corrosion. Now hidden in the Anhui Museum of the Southern Song Dynasty Zhang that the book of the scriptures, more than 800 years ago, its paper is still white and smooth as new, people have to marvel at the ancient papermaking technology.

Tang Tianbao years, in all parts of the country shipped to the capital Chang'an tribute, Xuancheng County ship in the "paper, pens" and other tributes, which shows that Xuancheng County has been the production of paper, pens.

Difference between raw and cooked rice paper

1, different materials

Raw and cooked rice paper are two major categories of rice paper, there is a big difference in the material, people often use this point to distinguish them. They are a kind of rice paper made of green sandalwood bark, and is mostly used for calligraphy and painting. When there are drops of water on the rice paper, if the water droplets on the surface of the paper gradually spread in all directions, then this kind of rice paper is raw rice paper; on the contrary, if the water droplets fall on the surface of the paper and do not immediately spread or will not spread out at all is cooked rice paper.

2, the use of different

Based on the characteristics of cooked rice paper absorbent is relatively weak, cooked rice paper is often used to paint brushstrokes, it can withstand the layers of paintbrush chapping, the ink on it to spread out, write out the word is more beautiful. And raw rice paper is more absorbent, easy to produce rich ink rhyme changes, so it is suitable for ink painting.