Raw rice paper: When water drops on rice paper, the water drops on the paper gradually spread around.
Cooked rice paper: the water droplets on the paper did not spread immediately or no longer spread.
2. Different uses
Raw Xuan paper: It is easy to produce rich Mo Yun changes, and can receive light ink and colorful artistic effects, which are mostly used in freehand landscape painting.
Cooked rice paper: it can be described in detail and repeatedly rendered and colored, and is suitable for painting fine brushwork landscapes with green and heavy colors.
Extended data
Xuan paper, tiger skin, Huimo and Duanyan are also called Four Treasures of the Study. Xuan paper is famous for its flexible texture, white and smooth, delicate and uniform, and lasting color. It is a unique brush paper for painting and calligraphy in China.
More than 65,438+0,000 years ago, Xuanzhou Prefecture (now Anhui Province) used the best paper produced locally to pay tribute to the imperial court, hence the name Xuanzhi. After the death of Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, his disciple Kong Dan used to make paper in Xuanzhou. He found in the mountain stream that the bark of the dead sandalwood tree that fell in the stream was white and rotten after washing, and the paper made of it was white and delicate.
Xuan paper is not only used for China painting and calligraphy, but also used for woodcut watermark, folding fan, seal cutting along the seal, China letterhead, antique tablet, folk paper-cut and refined paper flower.