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Notes, fine paper. Its surface is also called flower notes, brocade notes, and color notes, and the printed line is called line notes. At present, the popular ones in the city are Rongbaozhai and Ten Bamboo Zhai Flower Notes. After the improvement of papermaking technology in china's Han Dynasty, by the Southern and Northern Dynasties, this exquisite paper has appeared, and the Southern Dynasty Xuling's "Yutai New Yong Sequence" Cloud: "Five-color flower note, Hebei Jiaodong paper." Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, a popular one called Songhua Note. In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a female poet Xue Tao, "Still new in color and good at making small poems, but it is a big one, and I don't want to grow, but I am a small craftsman." The talents of Shu Zhong thought that it was convenient, and the same was true of the later subtraction of the notes, and the special name was Xue Tao. This kind of note is most suitable for scribe poets to write small poems or letters with a brush, and it is very popular and has become one of the ends of the literati's elegance.
In the late Tang Dynasty, many famous poets lived in Quanzhou, and the father and son of Wang Zhenyi and Wang Yanbin specially set up a "Zhao Xian Yuan" to treat each other, and the poems sang to each other. Wang Yanbin is a talented man, and the poetry is novel, in order to meet the needs of these poets' inscriptions, special craftsmen make new flower notes.
Quanzhou's papermaking technology in the Fifth Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty ranked among the highest in the country. The "paper tent" made by the poet Zanyun "is suspected to be Xie Shou Chengjiang Lian, who stayed in Chang'e White Rabbit Palace". The "paper quilt" produced is known as "the Mandarin Duck Strikes the Joy of Literature, and the Fish Notes Are Softly Embellished". On this basis, a well-known flower note was made, which was then called "thorn copper note".
Xu Yong's "Shang Shu New Flower Notes" is a representative work describing this kind of flower notes. Poetry Cloud:
Thickly dyed red peach February flowers, only the divine pen to walk the dragon snake.
Shallow autumn water to see mica, crushed light moss between the powder.
Write a good posthumous favorite, and write poems to send to Dou Tao's family.
The envoy entered the Golden Ruan Hall, and the night value was nothing more than grass and white linen
The poem describes the pattern, use, paper quality, texture and color of this note, metaphorically like The Hua Note written by Chen Hou in the "Flowers of the Back Garden of the Yushu Tree", and the beautiful brocade of the "Palindromic Poem" woven by Han Dou's wife Su Hui. He also wrote in a counter-contrasting way that even if the emperor wrote the edict at night in the Golden Ruan Hall, it was only written on white linen paper, where is the exquisiteness of this kind of flower note! This is a glorious page in the history of Quanzhou's papermaking process. One of the papermaking sites is the current Caobang Reservoir, which was then named "Paper Mill" because of papermaking.
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