Questioning the allusion of "talking on paper" actually has two directions. On the one hand, "Was there any paper in the Warring States period?" On the other hand, when exactly did the relationship between "talking on paper" and Zhao Kuo come into contact?
First of all, did paper really appear in the Eastern Han Dynasty? Could it be that there was already paper in the Zhao Kuo period?
We are familiar with Cai Lun papermaking, and call Cai Lun "paper god". But in fact, even in the history books, it is also recorded that Cai Lun summed up the papermaking experience of his predecessors, improved the papermaking technology, and created a plant fiber paper suitable for writing, "CaiHou Paper". So the history of paper should be older than we know.
The archaeological reality is very powerful, the paper from the early Western Han Dynasty excavated from the Matan Han Tomb in Tianshui, Gansu Province, China, is even closer to the Zhao Kuo period than to the Cai Lun period. This is the world's earliest physical evidence of "paper" that archaeology has discovered. In addition, ancient paper from the Western Han Dynasty has been excavated in places such as the Dunhuang Maquan Bay Beacon Site and the Dunhuang Sweet Water Well Han Hanging Spring Post Station Site, which further proves that the Western Han Dynasty already has "paper", not isolated evidence.
Let's take a look at when the word "paper" appears. The word paper first appeared in the Warring States period. But despite this word, we cannot prove that the "paper" of that time could already be used in writing. After all, historians now believe that the paper of the Western Han Dynasty is not yet easy to write. Not to mention that it has also been excavated that bamboo jane is still popular during the Three Kingdoms period.
Second, when exactly did the relationship between "talking on paper" and Zhao Kuo come into contact?
Words that appear with the meaning of "talking about soldiers on paper" are actually well documented in the Southern Song Dynasty. For example, Xin's good friend Liu Guo's "Drunken Song of Duojinglou" "Do not learn Liutao on the paper, do not learn the five classics of corruption and chiseling". There are many similarities in the same period. However, it is difficult to say that it has appeared before, after all, there are few books in history.
At present, historians believe that "talking on paper" should probably appear at the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Probably because of a couplet that appeared in the Ming Dynasty's couplet monograph "The Collection of Half Nine Pavilions", "The soldiers on paper have mouths; the military is smokeless." ”
But who at what time associated the "Battle of Changping" with Zhao Kuo's "Battle of Changping", and everyone is familiar with it now? It's really hard to verify. Because according to the evidence, it may be much later than anyone thinks.
Because the earliest thing that can be found is the "Five Thousand Years Up and Down" written by Lin Handa in 1979, which is a popular history book for children. Is this the truth?
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