Did the Tang Dynasty develop papermaking?

Paper was developed in the Tang Dynasty.

China invented papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the first year of Yuan Xing in the Eastern Han Dynasty (105), Cai Lun used bark, hemp head, cloth, fishing nets and other raw materials to make paper, which is the origin of modern paper.

This kind of paper is easy to find, cheap and has improved its quality, so it is gradually widely used. In order to commemorate Cai Lun's achievements, later generations called this kind of paper "Cai Hou Paper".

Papermaking is one of the four great inventions in China. Paper is the crystallization of the long-term experience and wisdom of the ancient working people in China. This is an outstanding invention in the history of human civilization.

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Development course of papermaking

Among the cultural relics unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan, there are silk books and paintings. According to records, silk is a kind of silk fabric. The paper we use now is written by angle silk, which also shows that paper originated from silk. Silk in the Western Han Dynasty was more expensive, and only nobles could afford it. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that real paper appeared, that is, Cai Hou paper.

Cai Hou refers to eunuch Cai Lun. Although Cai Lun was a eunuch, he was quite talented and was a superb manufacturing expert at that time. In fact, plant fiber was used to make paper more than 200 years earlier than Cai Lun, but the process was rough and the materials were mostly hemp, so the quality of the paper made was very poor. Cai Lun summed up the folk papermaking technology, and made cheap and practical paper by using cheap materials such as bark fishing nets.

Throughout the history of paper development, it is not accurate to attribute the credit of papermaking to Cai Lun alone. Accurately speaking, paper should be the crystallization of the wisdom of working people for hundreds of years, but Cai Lun's contribution to papermaking is undeniable.

Papermaking was later introduced to Arab countries and European countries, which strengthened the cultural exchange between China and these countries. Cai Lun improved papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was a revolution in writing materials and made paper easy to carry.

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