What is the inheritance of traditional papermaking?

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun comprehensively reformed and improved papermaking technology and quality, making paper books the most powerful tool for spreading culture. Traditional papermaking has greatly promoted the development of science, technology, economy and culture, and has been handed down in northern Zhang Cun, south of Ann. In the Qing Dynasty, it was used as paper for memorials and imperial examinations.

The paper pulp produced by Zhang Fengxue, the inheritor of papermaking technology, needs to go through several processes such as material preparation and cutting, and the paper produced is called "white hemp paper". It has contributed to the development and inheritance of traditional papermaking.

Starting from Xi 'an, more than 20 kilometers to the south, there is a abundant river with water resources flowing into Weihe River from south to north, and an artificial river named Fenghui Canal in the east. Chang 'an North Zhang Cun lies between two flowing waters.

According to legend, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun was arrested and tried in Kyoto for political struggle. Unwilling to be humiliated, he committed suicide by taking poison in his own paper-making invention and the fief in Longting County.

Cai Lun family members were also implicated in running for their lives and hiding.

Hiding in Tibet, some fled to Ankang, crossed the Qinling Mountains via the Meridian Road, walked out of the Qinling Mountain Pass to the north, and taught the most advanced plant fiber papermaking technology at that time to northern Zhang Cun. Therefore, people in northern Zhang Cun are still using the paper-making method with plant fibers invented by Cai Lun.

The Qinling Mountains, south of North Zhang Cun, are overgrown with shrubs, and Broussonetia papyrifera and mulberry trees can be seen everywhere, which has become an inexhaustible high-quality raw material for papermaking. The turbulent river provides convenient conditions for soaking, fermentation, rinsing and pulping of Broussonetia papyrifera bark.

/kloc-for more than 0/000 years, papermaking workers in Chang 'an North Zhang Cun have been using primitive and simple tools to produce pure natural paperback books according to the complicated and complete technology invented by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This process is called "a living fossil to study the evolution of hand-made paper technology" by experts.

Northern Zhang Cun is vast and sparsely populated. Handmade paper has been the main source of local villagers' life since ancient times. Folk songs circulating in northern Zhang Cun tell the story of Cai Lun's experiment in papermaking and overcoming technical difficulties.

Folk songs say:

Cai Lun couldn't do the paper, but Guanyin's mother said the prescription. Zhang Lang burned lime and Li Lang made a piece of paper.

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