The records of Xuan Paper were first seen in the "Records of Famous Dynasties" and "New Tang Book". From the Tang Dynasty, along the ancient history. The origin of Xuan Paper is Yi County in Anhui Province. In addition, Xuancheng, near Jixian County, produces this paper in an equal way. During the Song Dynasty, the papermaking industry in Huizhou, Chizhou, Xuanzhou and other places gradually shifted to Ganxian. At the time, these areas were under the jurisdiction of Xuanzhou Prefecture, so the paper produced here was called “Xuan Paper†and some people also called Jing County Paper. As rice paper is easy to preserve, long-lasting, not brittle, it won't fade, so it has the reputation of "Paper-thousand years".
According to folklore, after the death of Cai Lun in the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Emperor Jianguang (AD 121), his disciple Kong Dan was making paper in Minnan and he was eager to create a white paper that could be used as a teacher's portrait to express his memory. After a canyon stream, I saw an old Qingqian tree, lying on the river. As the water was washed all year round, the bark rotted and turned white, exposing long, white fibers. Kong Dan was ecstatic. Papermaking, after repeated trials, finally succeeded. This was the later rice paper.
After the Southern Tang Dynasty, Lord Li Hao especially loved Xuan Paper, and he did not hesitate to pay attention to the selection of domestic paper masters, to concentrate on opening the Zhifang in Kyoto, and to make his own study "Chengxintang Hall" make paper. Every day, he went to Chengxin Hall to watch the operation of papermaking. Sometimes he took off his yellow robe and fastened the apron worn by the paperworker. He took paper and roasted paper together with the workers. He made a batch of rice paper, and he personally tried to write it. Repeatedly until you are satisfied. After several years of time, he finally created a good piece of paper with "the skin is like an egg membrane, a clean and smooth jade, a thin and smooth, and a crown for a moment." Li Houzhu orders it as "Cheng Ming Tang Paper." This is a treasure in Xuan paper. All of them are kept by the palace and Li Yu enjoys it. In the Ming Dynasty, Xuanzong Zhu Zinci preferred to use Xuan paper to paint. His Xuan papers were thin enough to be thick and thick enough to be cut into pieces. Each piece of paper must be stamped with “Xuande five years ago. . Even the emperors love the rice paper so much, and then the literati ass is like a treasure when they own rice paper. It is no wonder that the famous Song dynasty writers Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi and others received the book of “Sacrifice in the Skyâ€. They were ecstatic, praised and prepared, and left “there is a Jiangnan Li’s day, a hundred gold forbidden city†and “ The fine grained jade version of Bai Ruyun, the paper millennium and the Shi Zhenzhen, made a good friend from day to day.
I once watched every detail of my production in a television camera. Its variety of craftsmanship attracts people. The raw materials it produces are mainly Qingcao trees in the mountainous area of ​​southern Fujian, with some straws, after a long period of soaking, ash pickling, cooking, washing, bleaching, beating, water fishing, adding plastic, sticking and baking, etc. Processes, more than one hundred operations process, which lasted more than a year, can produce high-quality rice paper.
One day, when I was visiting a paper mill in Fuyang City, where bamboo paper was produced in the Southern Song Dynasty, the shots of the production of rice paper in TV were superimposed on the actual scene: I walked into the paper workshop and my ears were papermaking. The curtains kept banging on the surface of the water, and the buzzing sound of the bamboo shoots in the niche. Several paper masters scooped up their hands, and the paper holders raked them in the pulp troughs and pulled them evenly. The bamboo curtains on the curtain and the paper case were opened. A thick and even wet paper appeared like a trick. Here is the paper master papermaking, where the wet paper is dried by the master of the drying paper, and the sheets are carefully torn off, affixed to the niche with a brush, and indirectly heated to dry the paper...
Like the bamboo paper produced in Fuyang, the craft of producing rice paper for more than a thousand years has reached this industrial age, but the outlook is worrying. Hand-made paper is not its own backwardness, but the merciless choice of the times. However, the loss of such folk arts is not only an inherited loss for thousands of years, but also an irreparable loss. Therefore, how to protect the intangible cultural heritage of Xuan Paper manufacturing techniques is before us. There is no doubt that the "core" nature of each culture is manifested in the inheritors. When he saw him, he only saw the "living" of culture. The most ideal realm for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage is the inheritance of this "living state." The real danger of intangible cultural heritage is brought about by the endangerment of the inheritor. They inherit precious cultural heritage. Once they pass away, if this culture is not passed down, this precious history will be permanently lost. It is pleasing to hear that Fuyang City has established the “Ancient Chinese paper-making and printing cultural village†under the principle of attaching equal importance to both protection and development. A complete set of traditional paper-making processes is completely protected. The government also invested to restore the construction of a paper mill dedicated to the production of bamboo paper, and called together some paper-making workers to produce high-grade bamboo paper, responsible for the unified recycling and sales. They also pay attention to the care and attention of the old craftsmen and make these paper-making talents who have extraordinary skills live in peace. When these old artists live, they protect the records of the papermaking process so that future generations can still see the original hand-made papermaking. Process. At the same time, they can teach back-to-school education so that their skills can be passed down.
The revitalization of China not only requires the growth of economic strength, but also includes cultural revival. Revival culture may wish to start from the inheritor who protects "living" and from the inheritor who protects the "paper" process.
Xuan Paper, a masterpiece that shines with the wisdom of the working people, is a testimony of ancient civilizations and embroidered with history. The turbulent years can wash away the glory of the human world. However, rice paper can consolidate eternity, pour beauty and hope.