What are the characteristics of traditional papermaking technology in North Zhang Cun?

Abstract: Traditional papermaking in North Zhang Cun is a local traditional handicraft in North Zhang Cun, Xi, Shaanxi Province. According to legend, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun was implicated because of other people's faults, and the court wanted to take him to Kyoto for trial. Unwilling to endure humiliation, Cai Lun committed suicide by taking poison in his own paper-making invention and fief in Long Ting County. Cai Lun's family was also implicated in running for their lives and hiding everywhere. Some of them fled to Ankang, crossed the Qinling Mountains through the meridian passage, and passed the most advanced plant fiber papermaking technology to northern Zhang Cun when they walked out of the mountain pass at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. The main features and historical origins of traditional papermaking technology in North Zhang Cun are introduced in detail below. Let's have a look! The main craft is from the Western Han Dynasty to Cai Lun, and the production in North Zhang Cun is backward, which is a way of one curtain and one paper (see the cover picture of the novel The Legend of China Paper). By the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to Cai Lun's technical improvement, North Zhang Cun had been producing one curtain and many papers. The traditional paper-making processes used in North Zhang Cun are all done by hand. This ancient handicraft tool is simple, but the operation procedure is complicated. There are 72 processes to produce a finished product, which requires super-physical labor.

The main process is:

1. Collecting raw materials: Mulberry, holly and hemp are rich in the continuous Qinling Mountains and the banks of Fenghe River, and the skins of these trees and plants are just good raw materials for papermaking. They collected it twice in spring and winter respectively. Because the quality of bark collected in different seasons is different, the bark collected in spring is tender and easy to get, and the fiber is white, so the paper made is called white paper, while the bark collected in winter is old and the skin is black, so it is not easy to collect, so the paper made is called black paper.

2. Bundle: Bundle the collected bark into a bundle.

3. Soaking: It is to fully soften the bundled bark.

4. Cooking: it is to build a large steamer, commonly known as a leather pot, and cooking makes its raw materials soft. The purpose is to separate the black, hard and fiber-free epidermis from the bark and remove the softness.

5, on the quicklime water: the purpose is to heat and make it fully fermented.

6. Fermentation: Softening and refining bark fibers, and separating them from black epidermis fibers to fully soften the fibers.

7. Rinsing: It means washing in the river, so that the fiber and the black skin without fiber can be separated and peeled off.

8. Soak and knead: use a scrubbing piece, wrap it in shredded paper, and scrub it in water to remove non-fibrous impurities.

9. Step: The purpose is to refine fibers, remove impurities and form a raft.

10. Cutting broken fibers layer by layer is one of the key links and a core technology of indigenous papermaking.

1 1, tamping: pour the raft into it for tamping to form paper ribs.

12. tank: pour the paper reinforcement into the paper culvert, and stir it evenly with flying sticks and other tools to form slurry.

13. papermaking: papermaking with replicas. This is the main link of papermaking, and its core technology is nose suction, which also needs yin and yang to be orderly, which is conducive to paper uncovering.

14. Taking paper: Take the copied paper off the curtain and stack it.

15, layering: remove the moisture in the paper, which is convenient for uncovering and drying.

16. wall hanging: take off the dewatering paper and hang it on the wall for cooling.

17. Paper uncovering: Tear the connected and dried papers one by one and pile them into a pile, with 100 sheets as one knife.

18, packaging: packaging and listing.

The main feature editor 1, an outstanding representative of China's farming culture;

2. The technological process is scientific, meticulous, systematic and complete;

3. Labor tools are primitive, simple and practical;

4. It has a long history and no dating, and belongs to the original ecological culture.

Principal value editor 1, one of the four great inventions in China;

2. It is the birthplace of human papermaking;

3. Directly promote the development of human civilization and culture;

4. Establishing it as an intangible cultural protection project will greatly enhance the pride of the Chinese nation and enhance national self-confidence.

The historical origin is 1, which originated in the era of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Hemp paper unearthed from Baqiao in ancient Chang 'an is still on display in Shaanxi Provincial Museum.

2. Up to now, the local paper ballads are: "Cang Xie Zi, Leigong Bowl, Feng Chu Paper, Shui Piao Curtain". "A woman who doesn't marry North Zhang Cun stands me up in the middle of the night.

3. White hemp paper made in North Zhang Cun has been used for memorial service and imperial examinations from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and has been regarded as a fine product in all previous dynasties. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, white hemp paper was also introduced to Korea, Japan and other countries.

4. Before liberation, Xi 'an's newspaper used the paper from North Zhang Cun.

5. Before the Cultural Revolution, the statue of Cai Lun, the ancestor of papermaking, was enshrined on the wall of every papermaking workshop in northern Zhang Cun, and there was a Cai Lun Temple outside the village, which was dedicated to the "founder of paper saint Cai Lun" and was worshipped by papermaking workers and villagers. In the past, the village held a grand Cai Lun Temple Fair every New Year's Eve, shouting Shaanxi opera and visiting the market. The villagers had temple fairs for men, women and children. One of the highlights of the temple fair is that every three years, every paper worker will come to Yin Na to sign up for the lucky draw. This industry plays an irreplaceable role in the handmade paper industry. "Weigong" buys Lycium barbarum bark from merchants in Qinling Mountains, and the semi-finished paper made of Lycium barbarum bark is managed, priced, purchased or stored in a unified way.

6. During the People's Commune, almost every household in North Zhang Cun made paper. Commune centralized craftsmen, unified production, unified sales of supply and marketing cooperatives, used as wrapping paper.

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