China's ancient culture of Changting Papermaking

Paper is one of the four great inventions in ancient China. Tingzhou is famous for bamboo making. In the Song Dynasty, "Lin Ting Zhi" ("Home Goods") has paper records. Changting Paper Co., Ltd. began in the late Tang and early Song dynasties and was established in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Its annual output was up to more than 10,000 tan. The output value of more than one million silver coins, the traditional bulk export "fist" products. Tingzhou Yukou Paper and Liancheng Xuan Paper are famous for their longevity.

According to the test, the fiber raw materials for Hakka handmade papermaking are gradually expanded from 楮--vine--bamboo--straw (buckwheat)-wheatgrass, etc., and bamboo is the most common (see "Tingzhou Fuzhi·property records"). .

The production of raw material paper “Tingzhou Yukou” is a raw material pulping method using salty ash as a raw material for pickling young bamboo and bamboo. After cutting bamboo and bamboo, breaking the tube, peeling, cutting the slices, and using lime to marinate, Washing, bleaching, stripping, flattening, treading, entering the underside of the blue, guttering, papermaking, wet pressing, trimming, pull paper, for baking, dry paper trimming, finishing and packaging processes. The fiber is slender, smooth and flexible, with a pure color and luster, and it is lustrous and bright. It has strong pulling force, no friction, good hygiene, non-toxicity, easy writing, no ink fade, and long-lasting resistance to insects. It is a paper for painting and calligraphy, offerings, etc. It is also a good product for cigarette paper in the early years. It is known as "Jing Jie Bing Qing," and "Cooling Frost." In the past, Teijin had been given a tribute. It was called "Sunday Tyan." Jade buckle paper is now widely used in brush writing, painting, reprinting ancient books, printing account books, and can also be used for carrying, packaging and so on.

The clinker paper "Liancheng Xuan paper" is the first of the four ancestors of Jiang's Yuanshi Kobayashi in Liancheng Gutianyuan. Its production was cut bamboo, bamboo cutting, bamboo dipping, washing, drying storage, marinade, washing (or erosion), plus Lime or earth alkali for the first time cooking, washing, adding alkali second cooking, bleaching (sub-sun, urine or leaching soda re-cooking, bleaching), made into a cake (ready-to-use paper), and then beating Made from. Because Liancheng Xuan Paper has the advantages of thin and tough paper, white color, and strong water absorption, it is a good material for hardcover printing, copy drawing, calligraphy, painting, and paste. The "Four Books", "Five Classics" and the "Book of Families" of Emperor Yongyi of the Qing Dynasty were printed on Liancheng Xuan paper.