Couplet paper is very particular ... there are six main types.
Zheng Dan paper dyed with red lead is not easy to fade. The red lead used is polished, colored with glue, dyed by two people, and baked with charcoal fire. When baking, the fire surface is covered with grass ash to prevent the paper from being damaged by flame. This paper is better with jade buckle paper. Fine workmanship, strict requirements and low output. In the past, only 400~500 sheets were dyed per person per day. This kind of paper was generally used for more delicate articles, such as book covers or titles of books and periodicals. China ancient book thread-bound books all use this paper as the title page. In addition to decoration, it also has the function of moth prevention and has special effects on protecting books. Bright red does not fade easily. Sprinkle silver foil or copper-tin foil on Zheng Dan paper, which is called "silver doping", which is more distinctive. "Mixed silver" positive Dan paper is often used as cover or couplet. Because it is not easy to fade for a long time, it is called "Wan Nianhong" or "Never Fade".
Scarlet paper-exquisite craftsmanship and strict technical requirements. The raw materials of cinnabar paper are: bonus essence (mostly squeezed from Sichuan bonus), plum essence red powder, golden yellow, and hematoxylin cake (1000 sheets of paper 15 kg of hematoxylin cake, mixed with three colors).
Cinnabar paper is called "three strokes of cinnabar" because it is dyed with three pens. Its manufacturing process is as follows: the first brush is painted with a long brush (clear water); The second pen uses a short brush to make the color uniform and let the color enter the paper; The third "loosening the pen" (the bristles should be dry) is to lightly hang the pen by hand, that is, the pen tip is just perpendicular to the paper surface, and gently sweep the paper surface in a balanced way, so that the silk threads are arranged in parallel and evenly, and the pen diameter is opposite from end to end, and the relatively average pen diameter is "aligned" with the naked eye, which is mounting; The head and tail silk patterns are staggered and skewed, which is called "angular pen"; The pen path is disorderly, or there are spots on the paper, or the unqualified pen is "inferior". This scarlet paper is also dyed with jade buckle paper. Its use is mostly used in Spring Festival couplets, and it is mainly sold to all parts of the province, Hong Kong and Singapore. This kind of vermilion paper is characterized by deep red color (commonly known as "thick meat"). Therefore, during the Spring Festival or celebrations, people often use this kind of paper to make couplets, which are red, green and green after being pasted, and do not fade for a long time, and are well received by users. So the batch is very large.
French double red paper-ordinary red paper, dyed with full newsprint (white newspaper). It's wrapping paper Such as incense sticks, gift bags (red), Cambodia, stickers, wedding cards, etc. Its color is roughly the same as cinnabar paper, but it is different from paper, and it is also dyed with glossy paper.
Luo gift paper-cinnabar face, sprinkled with tin records, called Luo gift.
Li Dan gold paper has a Dan-colored surface, which is just colored with gold and sprinkled with tin foil. Also called "bronzing".
The so-called "inlaid with gold" is after dyeing. Those who wax and grind are called "Lijin", and those who don't wax and grind are called "Luojin" and "then". Yangjiang and Yangchun counties often use these two kinds of paper.
Other colored paper-all kinds of colored paper, also known as variegated paper. Including red, yellow, blue, white, black, green, gray, purple, azure and other colors of paper, it is mainly used as "clothing paper", dyed with pottery paper, made into various funerary clothes and sacred clothes, which are superstitious articles and burned during sacrifice. Colored paper is dyed with a pen, which is also called "dragging color". In addition, there is a kind of paper specially dyed with firecrackers, which is called "dragging paper". When dyeing, alum is added to the dye to make the colored paper brittle. When firecrackers are set off, the red paper is fried all over the yard and becomes "red everywhere". The dyeing tank used to dye this kind of "drag color" paper is called "drag groove", and paper-cutting is also dyed with drag groove.
Abrasive paper is also a kind of dyed paper, mainly crepe paper. This kind of paper has a special production process, and its effect is as luxurious and elegant as crepe fabric, so it is called crepe paper, so the paper needs to be polished, also called ground silk paper. Mainly used as clothing paper. According to historical records, "the red line of grinding flowers" is used to grind out patterns with various colors of paper and print patterns on woodcuts.
Production process:
1. Carve out all kinds of required patterns on the board as flower trays.
2. Dyeing-there are 10 colors. Mainly red, black, green, dark green, yellow, eggplant color and so on. Color should be mixed with powder mud (ceramic mud) and color to dye paper, in order to show flowers.
3. Polishing-put a pattern on the bottom, cover the colored paper to be polished on it, and polish it with a "pig's waist" stone (similar to a touchstone) to make the engraved pattern appear on the colored paper, that is, crepe paper.
The wood block is made of silver wood, which is fine, hard, non-cracking and wear-resistant.
Stone-commonly known as "pork loin stone", about 15×6×5 cm, this kind of stone is sold in stone shops in this city. The stone surface should be suitable, thin and smooth, slightly "star-shaped" (that is, not exposed). It is easy to grind out patterns when using, and it is necessary to walk quickly so as not to wear the paper. Therefore, the requirements for stones are particularly strict, and they are generally purchased directly by operators. This is one of the main tools for grinding paper.
Waxed paper is a kind of paper grinding. Wax paper is made by grinding and is called "wax paper".
There are also grinding gold and grinding gold paper.
Due to the backward paper grinding technology, mainly manual, low output and heavy physical labor, it is gradually reduced and replaced by woodcut printing paper and machine printing paper.