What's on cooked silk like cooked rice paper?

Silk for Chinese painting: Silk is a kind of silk fabric. There are two kinds of silk used in Chinese painting: raw silk and cooked silk. The role of raw silk is like raw rice paper, which is simply infiltrated by color or ink painting. Cooked silk is bonded with alum water, like cooked rice paper, which feels more delicate and moist than cooked rice paper. Keep it sealed to avoid alum leakage and moth-eaten.

Silk yarn is a commodity made of silk staple fiber and regenerated into silk yarn by spinning. Silk is made of silk yarn or yarn and woven in plain weave. Therefore, silk includes silk thread and silk products.

Silk is compact and light, with delicate and clean surface, smooth and smooth, and soft luster. It is often used as clothing materials and decorations. The painted silk woven from raw silk needs no refinement, with fine layout and smooth surface, and is specially used for painting and calligraphy, pasting fans and tying lanterns. In ancient China, poems, paintings, documents and scriptures were often copied on silk.

Boxuan is the most important calligraphy and painting material in ancient China. It has the artistic characteristics of tenacity, thinness and uniformity, and the painting effect is particularly good. Mainly different from raw silk, cooked silk, plain silk and colored silk. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yanyuan recorded in the Book of Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties: "Today's painters, pen and ink are mixed with Lu Ai, Dan Qing and their mud residue, and they migrated to silk, not painting." "

Qian Songyan's Ink Drop said: "Silk used for painting is a special product. There are raw silk and cooked silk. Use raw silk first, then cooked silk. Nowadays, all the cooked silk is sold in the market, and the cooked silk has been glued with alum, so the painting effect is better. " Therefore, since the Han Dynasty, famous silks have appeared in all dynasties, providing an ideal carrier for China's traditional meticulous painting.