What is papermaking?

As the name implies, it is paper-making technology, one of four great inventions of ancient china.

In the first year of Yuan Xing in the Eastern Han Dynasty (105), Cai Lun improved papermaking.

He made paper from bark, hemp head, cloth, fishing net and other raw materials through crushing, mashing, frying and baking, 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. 1797, French Nicolas Louis Robert successfully invented the method of machine papermaking. Since Cai Lun's time, China people have been ahead of Europeans in papermaking for nearly 2000 years.

The invention and popularization of papermaking had a far-reaching impact on the spread of world science and culture, and played an important role in social progress and development.