On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

     On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

      Cai Lun invented papermaking as a deed. 80 years later, Zuo Bo calligraphy paper (Gong 105-264, 159) came out.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

      At the beginning, the composition of Chinese characters, from ancient pottery inscriptions, oracle bone inscriptions, stone drum words, stone tablets and silk books, bamboo slips to the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty (105 years), Cai Lun invented plant fiber and laid the foundation for paper as a traditional Chinese painting.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

      80 years after Cai Lun presented paper, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (Gong 185), based on Cai Lun’s papermaking, the calligrapher Zuo Bo created a new calligraphy art of Zuo Bo paper for calligraphy.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

       Lanting leather paper represents the evolution and progress of literary and painting paper in Jin, northern and Southern Dynasties and Sui (266-618, 353).On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

      During the Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties, the development history of Chinese calligraphy turned a new page. The evolution of calligraphy and painting paper in Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties mainly focused on the research of calligraphy and calligraphy paper.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

     “Preface to Lanting”, a calligraphy work by Wang Xizhi, the “sage of calligraphy”, is a work of him and his friends on a trip, using cocoon paper and mouse pen.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting PaperWhat materials and technologies are used in cocoon paper? On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

      It is proved from many aspects that cocoon paper is a kind of paper inherited and developed from Cai Lun paper. In general, the development of calligraphy and painting paper in the Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties was to improve the quality of pulp made of phloem fibers and apply new technologies to coating.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

     On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting PaperDuring the Tang and Five Dynasties, the raw materials of calligraphy paper were expanded, such as hemp, carnation, mulberry, rattan and a small amount of leather materials. The name of painting paper is usually named after the material, appearance or place name, such as hemp paper, seedless rattan paper, mulberry root paper, mesh paper, cocoon paper, etcOn the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

        The precision processing of Scripture paper and chengxintang paper in the Southern Tang Dynasty represents the prosperity of calligraphy and painting paper in the Tang and Five Dynasties (Duke 618-959, 341).On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

Throughout the Tang Dynasty, calligraphy had many treasures after inheritance and reform.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

      In the field of painting art, the first famous painter to use raw paper was Tang Wu Daozi (Duke 688 – 758). He was known as the “painting saint”. He changed the silk scroll paper, which was the reform and innovation of traditional painters in the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years.On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

       A set of bast fibers made of tribute paper in the Tang and Five Dynasties, including precision processed warp paper and chengxintang paper, is a pioneer in the processing of calligraphy and painting with paper, representing the prosperity of calligraphy and painting paper in the Tang Dynasty. On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper

      Due to the mass production and wide application of paper and the smooth transportation between East and West, paper production is not only all over the country, but also in South Korea, Japan, Central Asia, Arabia, Cairo and other places. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty was not only a prosperous period for the development of paper industry, but also the heyday of famous calligraphers and painters.  On the knowledge of Collecting Calligraphy and Painting Paper