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Show PART I EARLY HISTORY OF CEREMONIAL PAPE FORE the advent of paper which was invented b T¥ai Lun (4 ) aboutA.D. 105,0 as carly as th period of the Western or Former Han Dynasty (§i{#) 06-A. D. 25, wealthy Chinese placed silver an copper coins in the tombs and coffins of their decease relatives,o that the departed might ha n of money for various purposc of Empero Wi Ti( ), B. Goilinonil i mmkunumwu,, uhllmN\chmnst ex by Ti'ai Lun, whl]uhmpuorflalr{w-fi) 6, ruled mw...\mM.mnmnmdhy uu.m,mfior-m Later Han" that pap was placed i the tombs as substitute for the metall g the dynastics of % () and Cin (A) n ), A n pape nd offere it to n,u,,.m,,sm.;/m. (507 o ge sllverm\dcnpp coins According to t ical work entitled Cia PuT ung Chityp bibedinCh \mnlfill,th'fiYflpap notes issued in the Celestial Empire made their appear Digitlimage© 2004 Marritt Library,University of tah. Al rights reserved |
