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The invention of the Chinese nation

Paper-making
Paper-making technology, the invention of the Chinese nation to world civilization, one of the
outstanding contributions.

About 3,500 years ago in the Shang Dynasty, China will have a carved turtle shell and
animal bones in the text, called the Oracle. To the Spring and Autumn, when, with bamboo
and wood turtle shell and animal bones alternative, known as bamboo and wood slips.
Oracle Bones and Jane Du is very heavy, Warring States thinkers Hui Shi out lecture,
with the Letters on the installed five cars, so there are learning-rich story of five cars. The
Western Han Dynasty at the court aristocracy, he also used fine silk, or a tissue-paper
writing. Thick waterproof silk is fine silk, silk is the general term for minor official party silk
writing on fine silk, the ease of writing, not only write more than simple slips, but also in
the above painting, but it is expensive, can only be used for a small number of aristocratic
palace.

The 2nd century BC, the early Western Han Dynasty have been made of paper. Is the
Eastern Han period, the rumor was invented by Cai Lun. However, archaeologists have
found the earlier paper.
Inventor
Yuan-Xing Han Teijin first year (AD 105), Cai Lun in the manufacture of silk crystal summing
up the experience of their predecessors, based on the invention of using bark, broken fishing
nets, rag, hemp as a first-class raw materials, manufacturing has become suitable for writing
The plant fiber paper, only to make paper become widely used writing material. Known as the
'Caihou paper.' On paper the concept of a common understanding. What kind of articles called
'paper.' In ancient times, Egypt has a paper toilet paper, parchment Europe, China's history
of silk with cotton wadding paper and fine silk used for writing paper and Caihou paper.Only
plant fiber manufacturing Caihou paper on the world paper industry development and the
spread of human culture has far-reaching implications, the basic process still in use.
According to historical records and future generations to study the basic points of
paper-making Cai Lun sum up is to use plant fiber as raw material, through the cut, macerate
cooking, rinsing, Chung pound, curtain copy, drying and other steps made of fabric laminates.
Without going through the basic steps to deal with the fiber paper sheet, do not have the basic
properties of paper, you can not call it the concept of China's ancient tradition of paper.

Invention of paper-making is improving, rather than the inventor of paper. If this is the statement
in the article is contradictory. The world's first paper is an Egyptian papyrus, and the European
Middle Ages are commonly used in parchment, these two papers because the materials a
single, limited room for improvement was the use of the plural types of materials, replaced by
Chinese paper.
Movable-type printing technique
It began in the Sui Dynasty of block printing by Bi Sheng Song Renzong when the development
of improved, resulting in movable type printing by the Mongols spread to Europe, so called after
the completion of the printing press was promoted to the ancestor. China's printing is a precursor
of modern civilization of mankind, for the wide dissemination of knowledge exchange and create
the conditions.

Woodblock printing is a knife in a wooden block carved into the bulge to the anti-write, and then
the ink, printed on paper. Every kind of book printing, wood carving had to scratch, the speed is
very slow. If the engraved version of things go wrong, but also re-engraved, the labors of hard work,
is understandable.
Song lettering workers Bi Sheng in the year between 1004 to 1048, with fine quality and with a
sticky clay, made a four-square long cylinder, inscribed in the above anti-written words on a word
India, on the kiln where hard with the fire to form a movable type. Then the article content, the
characters line up in accordance with the order placed in a box made of an iron plate, and then
pressed flat on the fire heat, they can printed. Removed after the end of the movable type printing,
the next can be reused. This improvement is called after the printing plate printing live.

Such printing methods may look primitive simple, yet with modern typeface typography the same
way, so that the printing press into a new era.

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