Chinese PaperChinese PaperBy Ale ProcBy Ale Proc

About Chinese Paper

Paper has always been important to everybody,

everywhere. You may think when paper was made

long ago it was made the same way we make it now,

but you’re wrong. Paper did not begin from trees, like how paper is made

now. It began from something else. But do

you want to know where paper was invented, and who invented it? Paper

was invented in China. But to find the answers to the other questions, you will have to read this report.

 

About Chinese

Papermaking 

In China, around 105 AD, Tsai’ Lun, the inventor of paper, made his paper by

mixing finely chopped mulberry bark and hemp rags with water, then mashing it flat, then pressing out the

water, and lastly letting it dry in the sun. Then this skill was

brought to India in the eleventh century and then brought to North and South

America around the sixteenth century. Then, in the

nineteenth century, the skill was brought to Australia, which made papermaking spread to the whole world.

 

 About Things Used

Before Paper

Before Tsai’ Lun, books were made out of bamboo. They were also made out of

silk, which was very expensive, and would be hard to buy because the price would be way too

high for people to buy it. Also, in the West, books

were made out of sheepskin or calfskin. Did you know that people in China were trying to find something easier to write on other than papyrus or parchment? And that it

took 3,000 years to come up with paper? That is

really strange.

Paper

As you can see, China holds a great part in the history of

paper. And without Tsai’ Lun, we would still be writing on papyrus, or

parchment, or silk, etc. So if Tsai’ Lun were alive today, we would be thanking him

for inventing paper. We could all see Tsai Lun holds a much bigger part in the

history of paper then China does. And this would have

never been printed on paper.