Luban is the umbrella for his own inspired inventions.
In ancient times, there were no umbrellas. Once it rained, people would get wet. Lu Ban has been thinking about how to avoid getting wet, so he built many small pavilions on the roadside specifically for people to take shelter on rainy days.
But making a pavilion is time-consuming and inconvenient after all. The smart Yun had an idea at this time. She studied the prototype of an umbrella based on the structure of the pavilion built by Lu Ban. She used cloth The umbrella surface was made, and the umbrella ribs were made according to the structure of the pavilion, and the prototype of the umbrella appeared. Extended information
Oil-paper umbrellas became popular in the Tang Dynasty
The papermaking industry in the Tang Dynasty was very developed and paper was widely used in society. Some craftsmen applied tung oil on paper to make "oil-paper umbrellas" that could prevent rain. For a time, the scene of everyone holding up paper umbrellas when it rained could be seen everywhere in Chang'an. During this period, due to the emergence of rice paper specially used for calligraphy and painting, oil-paper umbrellas for calligraphy and painting appeared, which specifically used rice paper as the umbrella surface and calligraphers and painters wrote and painted on the umbrella surface.
In the Song Dynasty, "green oil umbrellas" were widely used, and the color was mainly green. In the famous "Along the River During Qingming Festival", people in the lively market used this kind of "green oil umbrellas". The word umbrella also appears frequently in literati's poems. For example, Kong Pingzhong of the Northern Song Dynasty "climbed the Cao Pavilion to look far away, and the paper umbrella was stuck in the hand and could not be used"; "The strong wind caused the umbrella to fly, and the thin horse bowed repeatedly and the oil clothes broke." The "oil clothes" also refers to the oil-paper umbrellas.
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