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The supply of bark could not keep up with the demand for paper, resulting in the invention of new kinds of paper using bamboo during the Song dynasty. [19] In the year 1101, 1.5 million sheets of paper were sent to the capital. [17]
Of those who originated China's Four Great Inventions of the ancient world—the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing—only the inventor of papermaking, Cai Lun, is known. [81] Additionally, in comparison to other Chinese inventions such as the writing brush and ink, the development of paper is the best documented in literary sources. [6]
This sub-section is about paper making; for the writing material first used in ancient Egypt, see papyrus.. Paper: Although it is recorded that the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) court eunuch Cai Lun (50 AD – AD 121) invented the pulp papermaking process and established the use of new materials used in making paper, ancient padding and wrapping paper artifacts dating from the 2nd century BC ...
Printing is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of China that spread throughout the world. [3] [11]According to the Book of the Southern Qi, in the 480s, a man named Gong Xuanyi (龔玄宜) styled himself Gong the Sage and "said that a supernatural being had given him a 'jade seal jade block writing,' which did not require a brush: one blew on the paper and characters formed."
Western writers and scholars from the 19th century onwards commonly attributed these inventions to China. The missionary and sinologist Joseph Edkins (1823–1905), comparing China with Japan, noted that for all of Japan's virtues, it did not make inventions as significant as paper-making, printing, the compass and gunpowder. [33]
Paper used as a writing medium had become widespread by the 3rd century [4] and, by the 6th century, toilet paper was starting to be used in China as well. [5] During the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) paper was folded and sewn into square bags to preserve the flavour of tea, [ 1 ] while the later Song dynasty (960–1279 CE) was the first ...
Hemp wrapping paper, China, c. 100 BCE. ... The kraft process, invented in the 1870s and first used in the 1890s, is now the most commonly practised strategy; one of ...
The oldest known piece of paper with writing on it comes from the ruins of a Chinese watchtower at Tsakhortei, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, dated to 110 CE when the Han garrison abandoned the area following a nomadic Xiongnu attack. [11] By the 3rd century, paper became one of China's chief writing mediums. [12]