What is the process of bamboo papermaking? Why do you say "more difficult"

Bamboo papermaking belongs to ancient papermaking. This kind of papermaking is very particular, and any process should not be sloppy. Bamboo papermaking first goes through three processes. First, paper raw materials? horse Reserves, second, papermaking, third, grass paper drying, processing into commercial paper.

First,? horse reserve

There are three main processes: chopping hemp, breaking hemp and soaking hemp.

The most important thing to pay attention to when cutting hemp is timing. Few crude fibers of bamboo are not lignified, but prepared for papermaking, so the subsequent papermaking process will be very difficult. However, it is hard to cut the older crude fiber, which is a difficult point for the process of picking hemp food in the later stage. Therefore, if you want to make papyrus paper with high color and quality, you must seize the opportunity.

Breaking hemp means peeling off the cut tender bamboo skin and soaking it in water with lime. Lime and pigskin are placed at intervals in a pond about 1.5m high and 2m wide. After putting it away, cover it with an unwanted layer of bamboo skin to isolate the air. After soaking in lime for 50 to 60 days, start washing hemp. When washing hemp, you should dig a drainage ditch and discharge lime water into clean water. Wash it with water for about three times continuously, then soak it for two months, and then enter the papermaking process.

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Second, papermaking.

Papermaking needs four small processes: stepping on hemp, adding slip, making paper and pressing paper.

In ancient times, it was very difficult to step on hemp. I hung my hands on the paper squeezing rod and stepped on the ground with one foot inclined, which turned bamboo and hemp into paste. Then pour the stepped pulp into a paper tank filled with water and add a broad-leaved vine to the bamboo forest in the mountain village? Is it slippery? . Then put the bamboo curtain up and pick it around, which means making paper. However, when pressing paper, you can't rush it. Use concave wooden blocks with fixing function to press the paper evenly. At this time, patience becomes particularly important, otherwise all previous efforts will be in vain.

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Thirdly, the papyrus is dried and processed into commercial paper.

This process is divided into three small steps: picking up paper, drying paper and making paper.

Picking up the paper is to uncover the dried paper one by one, which is convenient for the later process. Drying paper is to carry it out the night before and wait until the dew on the grass is completely dry. If the time is wrong at this time, the paper will rot in the water. When the sun is shining, the paper that has been dried thoroughly in one day can enter the papermaking process.

The dried papyrus can be made into marketable commercial paper after peeling, grinding and sliding. First, peel off four rows of toilet paper to peel the paper, tie the peeled toilet paper, and pull it evenly with a saw specially used for grinding toilet paper until the burrs are removed, and finally apply talcum powder. By this time, the paper was ready.

Paper made by an ancient method:

In southern China, the birthplace of bamboo papermaking and the place where ancient bamboo papermaking technology has been handed down are rare. Because the labor cost of this paper-making is very high, today this ancient method is close to extinction. Is this it? Is it harder? The best evidence.