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Show 1 OL PAPERMAKIN i IN CHIN AN JAPA ith 1) (chin), T thelattermeansanapkinor cloth. The twoin combinatio form %, The ol is p hofabando cord igi i graphlca ‘meaning that em bodvxh cloth radical Ifs are the following:-Ijf (ieh) meanis galzb |, manuscripts ind written scrolls ff (fu), meanin a rollof silk or paper, and § (cheng)whichconveysthemeaningtoun: ml]apamlmgorscr i1 Thecharacmm(chv.m)alsoemploys the cloth radical in denoting thetitle ofa book prev paper i 5,) were probably used centurics before the invention of paperstance which could be written upon many centuries of use by the Chinese scribes the strips of bambo wove a heinventionof de bytheharbru cloth for bot irely prachEaT I tisse vaes THis b cloth, and, as there was much waste when the silk was cutand trimmed, i s only natural that an fngenious artisan conceived the idea of beating th sill was expensive and even n ancient times there wasa desire o produc that firstsuggzs!zd to the ever prachca] malin paper.Itisentirely possible that the Chinese conceived the idea of ‘fe]tmg acraftthatantedate even thatof we bedateusallygioen fortheactual mvzmmn of paperis105'A. D, bu t process wasac«uany bmug}flQoanvdegreeofperfect o he 105 A.D s usually cited as thetimeaof thefirst papermaing forin vention was reported r, a]lytothc empero by the eunuch T'ai Lun, I who became the patronof i e o TRt R Chi people th name of Tsai Lun will always be closely identified with the beginning o papermakin The Che Mmg reported that "the ancients used stone to pound the sil Digitalimage© 2004 Marriot Library, Universtty of tah. All rights reserved |
