The Four Great Inventions Papermaking Information

Papermaking

Papermaking is one of China's four great inventions, paper is the accumulation of long-term experience of the ancient working people of China and the crystallization of wisdom, it is an outstanding invention in the history of human civilization.

The earliest paper appeared, the ancient Chinese working people on the top of the silk cocoon silk weaving, the rest of the cocoon, sick cocoon, etc., then use the bleaching method to get the silk floss. The bleaching is completed, the gabion mat will leave some residual floss. When bleaching more often, gabion on the residual wool will accumulate into a layer of fiber flakes, after drying peeled down, can be used for writing. This was the earliest form of paper.

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Development and History of Papermaking

Cai Lun improved the art of papermaking in the first year of Yuanxing in the Eastern Han Dynasty.?

The paper he made from raw materials such as bark, hemp heads and my cloth and fish nets, through the process of thwarting, pounding, frying and baking, is the origin of modern paper. This kind of paper, the raw materials are easy to find and cheap, the quality also improved, and gradually universal use. To commemorate the achievements of Cai Lun, later generations called this paper "Cai Hou paper".

Paper is the accumulation of long-term experience of the Chinese working people and the crystallization of wisdom, paper is used for writing, printing, painting or packaging and other sheet-like fiber products. Generally by the pulping treatment of plant fibers of the water suspension, the combination of staggered on the network, the initial dehydration, and then compression, drying and become.

China was the first country in the world to invent paper. During the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to 8 B.C.), hemp fiber paper was already available in China. The texture was rough, and it was too small and costly to be popularized.

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