One is rice paper. Named after being produced in Xuanzhou. It was made before the Tang Dynasty, and sandalwood bark was used as raw material. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was made of more than ten kinds of raw materials such as bamboo, hemp and mulberry.
Xuan paper is soft and tough, beautiful in texture, white and delicate, and its rubbings are undamaged, which is beneficial to writing and painting. Mo Yun has distinct layers, unique penetration, initial absorption of moistening ink, dripping ink and coloring, which can show the unique style of painting and calligraphy, writing with backbone and drawing with charm.
In addition, it is also resistant to aging, moth, heat and light, suitable for long-term preservation, and has the reputation of being the king of paper for thousands of years.
Xuan paper can be divided into raw Xuan, cooked Xuan and semi-cooked Xuan according to its processing methods. Raw rice paper, also known as base paper, is used directly after production, with strong water absorption and ink wetting, and is strongly used for splash painting and freehand painting. The brush strokes are clear, dry, wet, thick and light, and varied.
Cooked rice paper is called cooked rice paper or alum rice paper by soaking alum in raw rice paper. It is made by adding alum, calendering, pulping, filling powder, dark color, sprinkling gold, waxing and sizing. It is not easy to smudge when painting and calligraphy, and it is suitable for neat and meticulous meticulous meticulous painting and writing official script. This paper will leak over time. Hard yellow paper used to write scriptures in the Tang Dynasty and honesty paper in the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty are all cooked rice paper.
Semi-cooked propaganda is a kind of raw propaganda soaked in various plant juices. It has weak water resistance and is used for writing or painting. It's getting dark, and it's slowly dispersing. Suitable for writing small screens, album pages or drawing part-time
Xuan paper is divided into cotton, clean leather and extra clean leather according to the proportion of leather. According to the thickness, it is divided into two feet, three feet, four feet, five feet, six feet, seven feet, eight feet, two feet, six feet, four feet and eight feet. It is divided into single-foot, double-foot, three-layer and four-layer specifications.
The thinnest Xuan paper is specially made, which is mainly used for rubbing, copying, printing ancient books, binding and printing spectrum. Their names are Lian Mian, Zhahua, Rib, Tortoise Back, Cicada and so on.
The second is the famous Xue in the late Tang and Five Dynasties. It is a processed dyed paper, named after Xue Tao's invention. Xue Tao, a native of Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty, lived in Sichuan with her father in her childhood, but after her father died, she became a prostitute.
Xue Tao was good at writing poems and songs, but he thought the paper was too big. He personally instructed the workers to change small pieces of paper. It is also called Huanhua Stationery because it is made by Huanhuaxi near Xuetao House. According to legend, Xue Tao once scattered plant petals on paper and processed them into colored notes. This kind of paper is bright in color, delicate and delicate, also known as Songhua stationery. There are imitations in later generations.
Three, water paper, this is a famous paper in the Tang Dynasty, also known as flower curtain paper. This kind of paper can display bright lines or patterns except curtain lines when viewed in light, aiming at increasing the potential aesthetic feeling of the paper.
There are two ways to make water grain paper. One way is to weave a texture or pattern with thread on the paper curtain. Because of the curtain, the pulp is thinner when making paper in this place, so the texture is brighter and appears on the paper. The second method is to use hadron to press the mold made of wood or other materials with texture or pattern on the paper, just like the watermark pattern of securities paper and currency paper now.
The fourth piece is Tang paper. Xuan paper produced in Huizhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty is as thin as an egg film, as clean as jade, thin and smooth, and some are as long as 50 feet, even and thin from beginning to end.
Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, especially loved this kind of paper, and specially stored it in Chengxintang, where he studied and read the memorial, for the long-term use of the palace, so it was called Chengxintang Paper, which was regarded as an artistic treasure by later generations.
The fifth is the thank-you note. This is a kind of processed dyed paper, which was created by Xie Jingchu in the early Song Dynasty, hence the name. Inspired by Xue Tao paper stationery, Xie designed and manufactured ten kinds of stationery in Yizhou, that is, ten kinds of special paper for letters. This kind of paper is colorful, novel, elegant and interesting. It has ten colors, such as crimson, pink, apricot, bright yellow, dark blue, light green, light green, green and light cloud, which are as famous as Xue Tao's notes.
The sixth kind is Korean paper, also known as Korean paper and Korean tribute paper. It is paper produced in ancient Korea. "Negative Land" said, "Korean paper is made of cotton and cocoon. It is as white as silk and as tough as silk. It is used for writing and cute with ink. This China has nothing, which is also a miracle. "
Korean paper is dominated by thick curtains, and the spacing between paper lines is larger and thicker than that of white paper. Through careful study, most Korean paper used in China's writing during the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties was mulberry paper. In the Qing Dynasty, China had imitation Korean paper.
Seventh, golden millet stationery. Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin advocated Buddhism, and the wind of sutra printing prevailed all over the country. In order to meet this need, at that time, she specially made a kind of hard yellow paper with thick and light stripes, also called wax yellow warp paper, or Jinsu stationery.
Jinsu Temple is located at the foot of Jinsu Mountain in Haiyan, Zhejiang. Because copying scriptures in the temple requires a lot of paper, it is named Jinsu Stationery. It is characterized by hard and dense texture, light transmission, moth-proof and waterproof, beautiful color and long service life. Although it has lasted for thousands of years, it is like a new system.