Materials such as bark, silk, wood, and leather functioned in a similar way to paper, although they were either much more expensive or heavier. The history of paper dates back almost 2, years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Before then, people communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone, bones, cave walls, or clay tablets. Then it is discovered — in Maine and Massachusetts in the s — that wood can be pulped and turned into paper the first newspaper to be printed on paper from wood pulp is the Boston Weekly Journalin January The mass market is satisfied and has continued to be satisfied by this new source of material.
In the river plains of Mesopotamia, where writing first develops, clay is an easily available commodity. It becomes the writing material of the temple scribes. Their implement is a piece of reed cut to form a rectangular end. These two ingredients define the first script. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Thangka paintings shine at Nepal-China Arts Exhibition.
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Culture Insider: 8 things you may not know about Autumn Equinox. The Chinese Coins and Beautiful China photo exhibition kick off. Foreign couples tie the knot in traditional group wedding. China Ethnic Culture Week unveiled in Poland. It made heavy books that were difficult to carry. This was a problem. In CE, a man named Cai Lun came up with a solution. He was a Chinese court official who often used bamboo for writing and reading.
He knew how inconvenient it was and set out to find a better way. Cai had the idea to mix tree bark, hemp, fishing net, and cloth. The result was a lighter material that was easy to write on. Cai Lun had invented paper. Cai Lun brought his invention to the Chinese emperor. Cai and his apprentice , Zuo Bo, improved his paper-making process.
Soon, the use of paper spread throughout China. Eventually, paper also spread to central Asia and the Middle East in the 7th Century.
Middle Eastern traders may have brought it there. Another theory is that Marco Polo brought paper from China. Paper has changed a lot since CE. Today, paper is made almost entirely from trees. It comes in many forms and colors, and it serves a number of purposes. Can you imagine a world without paper? What would you write on at school? There would be far fewer books , and almost certainly no newspapers.
What would people draw and color on? Paper is one technology that certainly improved many parts of life! That's a great question, Blais! We're sure you could go on a Wonder Journey to find the answer to that question. Thanks for stopping by. We research topics submitted by users. Then, we draft a Wonder. Someone edits it--just to make sure there aren't missing words and that we have clear information. That's true, Ruby.
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