Rice paper: thin as cicada wings as clean as snow, paper life for a thousand years sparkling

"Thin as cicada wings as clean as snow, trembling like fine silk without hearing a sound." Evenly moisten the ink is thick and light, and the paper life is shining for thousands of years. "This is the praise of the ancients for rice paper. As one of the four treasures of the study room, rice paper enjoys the reputation of "the king of paper" and "millennium life paper", not only as thin as cicada wings, trembling like fine silk, but also full of charm, writing is both bone and spirit, vivid rhyme, painting is radiant, layered.

Rice paper is tangible, square and repaired, the size can be cut, to thin and strong, to thick and greasy; rice paper is colored, white as frost and snow, moist as a green cloud; rice paper has a state, not rotten and mothless, ink rhymes, can be transformed into couplets, strip screens, middle halls, can also be made into hand scrolls, albums, vertical scrolls, etc., with indefinite methods.

Rice paper began in the Tang Dynasty and was produced in Jing County, Anhui Province, because Jing County was under the jurisdiction of Xuanzhou Prefecture at that time, so it was named after the place, which has a history of more than 1500 years. The word rice paper first appeared in Zhang Yanyuan's "Records of Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties": "Those who do good things should place 100 pieces of rice paper and use wax for imitation..."

Rice paper was praised by the ancients as the "king of paper". Since its inception, it has been praised by poets, calligraphers and painters, and writers. The Song Dynasty poet Wang Lingyou praised it: "If you have money, don't buy gold, buy more Jiangdong paper, and Jiangdong paper is as white as spring clouds." "It can be seen that the popularity of rice paper at that time. Calligraphy everyone Zhao Puchu's love for paper is even more overflowing with words: "Look at the Galaxy Zhao Yanchi, Jing County Jade Edition Qi Reverie." Chengxin's old system knows what it is like, and wins a thousand wonderful words. Modern literary hero Lu Xun also praised rice paper: "Printed prints, Chinese rice paper first, the world is incomparable, it is warm, soft, thick, eat ink, light but not slippery, solid and not dead, hand-extended woodcut, is the most ideal paper." "A few sentences, that is, the quality and disk of rice paper.

The beauty of rice paper is in fusion. "The fine skin jade version is as white as clouds, the paper life is a thousand years of world treasures, the morning and evening Linchi becomes a friend, and the faint dot dye is always charming." The pen dipped in ink and fell on the paper, and there was feeling and life, waiting for "a beach of gulls and herons", waiting for it to take root and sprout, blossom and bear fruit. A piece of paper lying flat, black and white, thick or light, or virtual or real, just as countless intersecting souls are silently telling: swords, walls, stone tablets, will age in the weathering and collision of time, and the white, flexible rice paper, as well as the calligraphy and paintings on it, will always be full of vitality.

Rice paper is waiting. To make a piece of rice paper, you have to go through more than a hundred processes. It is not urgent, its production process is complicated and harsh, without repeated cooking, pounding, washing, it can not create "tough and moist, light and not slippery, white and dense, pure texture, rubbing and folding, strong ink"; it can not wait, the fished pulp needs to be dried immediately, dot corners, sweeping, non-stop, every second must be competed. The thin thickness of rice paper is good or bad, lies in the method of fishing paper, a dip and a pick to see the kung fu, the error is within 1 gram, more than one point is too thick, less than one point is too thin. Each papermaking process, seemingly inadvertent, actually pays attention to the heat, rhythm and scale, implying laws and experience. Only "the choice of materials must be refined, the examination work must be good, the hard work is done together, and the labor costs are spared", and the paper produced can be "firm and soft inside, delicate in literature and science, and white in color".

Rice paper virtue is speechless. Silent rice paper, ferrying countless taidou masters, do not compete for merit, obscurity; carry the treasures of ancient and modern masterpieces, loyal and persistent, indifferent and quiet. As a writer said, rice paper is colorless, but it is called white stone, a thousand dyes, Merrill bouldering, sea millet pan gold, young willow Yangcui; only the stone Tao is deafening, Banqiao rhymes, tragic Hongxiao forest, bitter Zen autumn, crown in the spit show...

Picking in the skin, precipitating in the fishing paper, forming in the drying paper, checking in the inspection paper, a piece of raw propaganda, semi-cooked propaganda and cooked propaganda shine in time, pieces of cotton, pure skin and special purity are eternal and immortal in the years, a knife and knife rice paper in the literati and scholars' homes faded the fire, converged the sharp edge, emitted the smell of time and shade, and bred the beauty of calmness.

Every piece of paper has vitality, a soul, a drop of ink, it will naturally spread out, like a cloud. Although a piece of paper is thin, it weighs a thousand tons.

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