The whole process of ancient papermaking

Tiangong Kaiwu in the Ming and Song Dynasties recorded the technological process of China's ancient papermaking: splitting bamboo, floating pond, cooking for a long time, throwing materials into the curtain, covering the curtain and pressing paper, and baking by fire.

Ancient handmade rice paper craftsmen:

"Bamboo was cut before and after Qingming Grain Rain, soaked in the pond for more than one hundred days, and then thrown into the pond. After soaking, take it out, cut it into pieces, peel it and remove the knots, then add quicklime and cook it for about a week.

After cooking, filter, rinse, shower, mash, cook for the second time, or even steam instead of cooking, so that it is basically clean, and pure fiber is left after washing the shower. I just said, why is the fiber not sticky? The viscosity of the fiber is gone, just like cotton, it is not sticky.

Can't be broken, it's soft and insect-proof. It doesn't add anything, there is nothing to eat, there is no starch impurity at all, and the mice are not satisfied. Why bite it? In the past, the emperor in the court was afraid, and he was not at ease when the imperial pen and painting came. He had to add some Chinese medicine.

Actually, you saved the rice paper, which is a bit damp. Will not go bad, at least for more than 200 years, will turn yellow, but will not rot. Now many things in many museums are made of rice paper. Books and paintings are all rice paper.

This is a paper press. After that, the water inside was basically pressed down by a lever to dry. These papers will not stick together, because the slippery economy made of rattan here will be moved here after the water pressure dries, almost a day and a night later. "