China Xuan paper is called "Japanese paper" abroad. Professor Tsinghua: How long will it take to export culture?

Among more than 200 countries and regions in the world, only four countries, namely, ancient China, ancient Indian, ancient Egyptian and ancient Babylon, have the oldest civilization origin in the world, so they are called the four ancient civilizations.

The Chinese nation is the only country among the four ancient civilizations that has continued its traditional culture without interruption. As long as you think about this glorious history, every Chinese people can't help but give their thumbs up for their motherland. However, once upon a time, the Lion of the East became a country that was trampled upon and bullied by other countries at will, and even our ancestral cultural treasure, Xuan Paper, became a recognized "Japanese paper" in a trance. Faced with such a humiliating situation, Professor Tsinghua shouted: "The cultural image is extremely backward, and China's cultural output has a long way to go."

Xuan paper was renamed "Japanese paper"

As the saying goes, if you want to be rich, build roads first. The development of a country depends on many necessary factors. Among them, there is a very important key factor besides the basic elements such as rich material, open-minded and advanced technology. This requires barrier-free transportation hardware and proactive external communication.

In the process of continuous exploration all over the world, the whole human society has gradually extended in all directions, and even formed a highly concise concept of "global village". There is no longer a distant gap and distance between countries, and everyone can go in and out of each country according to their own needs, so as to enjoy knowledge and discuss with each other.

Surprisingly, when a group of professors from Tsinghua University, China visited and exchanged with European countries, they wanted to buy some rice paper to write brush strokes and draw Chinese paintings to nourish their feelings. But I found that the streets of Nuoda have a strong artistic atmosphere, but I couldn't find a painting shop where I could buy rice paper.

Although Xuan paper is a unique product with national characteristics in China, this phenomenon can't help but arouse people's curiosity today when materials from various countries are circulating all over the world. When people are full of disappointment, they occasionally find that it is not that European countries don't sell rice paper, but that when you say the word rice paper to others, they have no idea at all, because what we traditionally call rice paper is called "Japanese paper" abroad.

So when you need Xuan paper and you are abroad, you can satisfy your creative desire by buying Japanese paper. This is even more incredible. Xuan paper was originally produced by combining the characteristics of traditional calligraphy and Chinese painting in China. Only China's unique painting art can use Xuan paper, a national "specialty", but why did it suddenly become Japanese paper abroad?

It used to be an ancient China craft.

In fact, as long as you look up relevant information, you will find that Xuan paper is called Japanese paper in other countries because of this history.

As we all know, in the ancient feudal society of China, the "Four Great Inventions" that made great contributions to the progress and development of human society once made people all over the world admire them. While other countries are still using expensive and heavy materials such as sheepskin, stone, cloth and silk as the carrier of words, China has created practical and beautiful Xuan paper in the Tang Dynasty through the continuous improvement of primitive papermaking by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Because China literati generally use brush to write and paint, except for a little turquoise, ochre and other colored pigments, they are basically black, and Xuan paper is produced according to their various characteristics. Its texture is light but tough, its color is white, but it can withstand repeated application of ink color. Moreover, in the hands of calligraphers and painters in China, although there is only one ink color, it can present a distinct and exquisite picture effect in various brushstrokes, thus creating a unique cultural and artistic style in China.

With the continuous strengthening of international trade, all kinds of porcelain, silk, pen and ink in China have won a broad world market with their unique national characteristics and superb technology.

Before the Qing Dynasty, China exported all kinds of traditional craft commodities like a treasure house of prosperity, thus gaining huge economic benefits. This phenomenon makes the capitalist countries that are mercenary and take economic interests as the highest criterion shine, and they begin to plot to steal our traditional technology, so as to get rid of our technological monopoly and seek economic interests.

Take advantage of the fire to rob and be stolen

However, China's rice paper manufacturing technology has become the bag of other countries under this sinister intention.

It was the British who first stole the manufacturing technology of China Xuan paper. With the development of the war in the late Qing Dynasty, China's solid and closed doors began to be gradually destroyed by strong ships and guns, and western countries, which had long coveted the rich land and materials in the East, began to burn and plunder China crazily. The manufacturing technology of Xuan paper is the most exquisite manufacturing technology in Jingxian County, Xuanzhou, and has since become the object of theft in other countries.

A Japanese named Zheng Chen Qi, sent by the Paper Department of the Japanese Cabinet Printing Bureau, went to Jingxian County to find the secret recipe for making rice paper. As both belong to the East, the habitat of Chen Zhengren is almost the same as that of China aborigines in appearance. Moreover, he claimed to be the nephew of Master He Zie in dapu county, Chaozhou, Guangdong, so no one found anything unusual about him. After more than two months of exploration, Zheng Chen has basically found a way to make rice paper in its habitat.

Subsequently, in the ninth year of Guangxu, the Japanese once again sneaked into Jingxian to steal the production method of Xuan paper, and returned to China to publish the related book "Paper Diary of Qing Dynasty". Of course, even so, trivial and superficial scattered information can't support Japan to make its own rice paper.

It was not until 1906 that Yazaemon, a Japanese mountain, got the secret of Xuan paper systematically and completely after many in-depth snooping. In his article "China Paper Law", the origin, varieties and especially the production methods of Xuan paper are elaborated in great detail, and even many places are equipped with patterns, which is undoubtedly a leap-forward progress for Japanese paper technology.

Later, with the continuous acquisition of information and experiments, and Japan's capitalist social operation mode, Japan successfully manufactured its own Xuan paper and sold it to all countries in the world. At that time, China was in a period of political turmoil and initial social change, and its operation in the world market was lackluster.

Even though the quality of Japanese rice paper is always inferior to that of China due to the production environment, differences in raw materials and lack of technology, it has a brand-new name wherever it goes, and that is Japanese paper, because it is a big exporter of rice paper and has made great efforts to brainwash its culture.

If you think about it carefully, it is really hateful for western countries and Japan to take advantage, but what is more painful is that our country itself accounts for a large part of the reason why rice paper is so upside down.

If China people in every era can attach importance to the protection of cultural heritage and keep pace with the development of the times, then no matter how carefully planned by other countries, they will be helpless in the face of China's powerful international strength. So many times, changing the name and surname of Xuan paper should arouse our national humiliation. When this sense of shame is transformed into the determination to rise again, then the future of the Chinese nation is limitless.