Raccoon paper peach blossom color, good inscription poetry jade hook
From the age of 16 to the age of 20, Xue Tao rejected the pursuit of a group of powerful local tycoons and built a large courtyard with two entrances by Huanhua Creek outside the city.
Reading countless people, there is no shortage of money, if it is not a high degree of spiritual fit, she will never easily give affection. Until the age of 24, Xue Tao met his favorite confidant and fell in love with Meizhou Thorn Shi Zhengyi, and what was particularly rare was that both of them were very interested in papermaking.
Lang Cai female appearance, like-minded, ordinary paper has been difficult to depict the deep love of the honey, Xue Tao with Leshan annatto mash, plus mica powder, and then mixed with the sweet raccoon stream water, made into pink paper, used to convey the feelings of the silk.
At the age of 27, Zheng Tao bought a high-grade paper mill to give her a birthday gift, since then, Xue Tao is more addicted to the papermaking process, developed a unique dyeing technique, in addition to pink, but also dyed dark red, bright yellow and other colors, and with these beautiful colors of paper made of exquisite small notes, after the advent of the paper, set off a fashion trend, although expensive, but let the literati inkers dream of.
Du Mu, Yuan Shu, Bai Juyi, Liu Yuxi, the top celebrities at that time copied poems or books to and fro, all preferred Xue Tao's notes.
Xue Tao's note was on fire, but Zheng Yao left, and Xue Tao wrote the last farewell poem for him with amorous note paper: Rain darkening the mountains and rivers, leaving people to hide the tall buildings. Shuang Jingqian rode a piao Dong mo, and the only Luo Shi looked up.
In Xue Tao's life, he wrote many farewell poems, sending Wei Gao, sending Yuan Shu, sending friends, Xue Tao's notes were born of love, and also made the paper family famous.
▲ Zhang Daqian's "Xue Tao's Drawings"
The strong literary style of the Song Dynasty added new colors to the paper.
After the long-lasting plain notes, the low-key and luxurious flower notes shine out.
In addition to Chengxintang paper, there are also Xie Gong notes, moss notes, dragon and phoenix notes, Tuan Hua notes and golden flower notes, many famous notes in history are from the Song Dynasty.
Song notes mostly use the technique of lighting, depiction or printing and dyeing to make various patterns on pure white or yellowish paper, because they are too low-key and subtle, many of the patterns in the Song Dynasty works that exist today are "hidden" very deeply, and were once mistaken for plain notes.
▲ Song Huizong's "Pond Autumn Evening Map" part
▲ Fan Chengda's "To the Yangzheng Supervisor Temple"
▲ Su Shi's "To The Filial Piety Ping Guo JunZhi Mu"
The art of printmaking in the Ming Dynasty led to the development of paper, plain notes and flower notes can no longer meet the pursuit of personality by the literati, they have designed their own exclusive patterns, the style is also from simple to fresh, in addition to the various color notes, with complex patterns, exquisite patterns and even gold sprinkling paper has appeared.
▲ Sprinkled gold paper, ribbed sprinkled gold paper
When the colorful paper was compiled into a book, the "note sheet" became the "Clean Play" upstart of the literati and scholars.
The most famous is wu faxiang's "Luoxuan Changing Ancient Notes" and Hu Zhengyan's "Ten Bamboo Zhai Notes" in the Ming Dynasty, which are all watermarked with chromatic woodcuts, and take the lead in the history of world printing to adopt the concave and convex "arch flower" technology to create a three-dimensional visual effect.
▲ Luo Xuan changed the ancient note spectrum
▲ Luo Xuan changed the ancient note
▲ Ten Bamboo Sai Ancient Notes
In addition to vegetables, fruits and flowers, insects, fish, birds and beasts, landscapes and strange stones, gods and Buddha figures, ancient pots in the study room, Bogu Ding Yi, such as golden stone characters, ancient book pages, historical allusions and miscellaneous things that are difficult to classify, can be used as paper patterns.
▲ Qin Hanwadang paper
▲ Bronze paper
▲ Coin copper mirror paper
▲ Dunhuang Feitian note paper
In ancient times, he made paper and often cooperated with literati and painters, and Liu Songnian in the Song Dynasty participated in the production of cedar notes. Cao Zhibai and Wang Mian of the Yuan Dynasty, Jin Nong and Wang Shishen of the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Nanyu of the Late Qing Dynasty were all keen on designing and manufacturing notes.
▲ Qing Chen Hongshou Codex paper
▲ Qing Chen Jieqi codex paper
▲ Qing Nguyen Yuan, French Good Codex paper
▲ Qing Shen Jingxiu Codex paper
▲ Qing Shao Peilin Codex paper
▲ Qing Pan Shien Codex paper
▲ Qing Shen Wei Tiao codex paper
▲ Qing Zhu Xueqin Codex paper
▲ Qing Zhao Zhiqian codex paper
In modern times, there are also a large number of famous artists who draw notations, Wu Changshuo, Wu Zhiqiu, Qi Baishi, Chen Shizeng, Fu Xinshe, and Zhang Daqian have all participated in the drawing of notes.
▲ Wu Changshuo Codex paper
▲ Zhang Daqian Codex paper
▲ Lu Xun Codex paper
▲ Chen Shi once drew a note
▲ Wu Zhiqiu painting notes
▲ Qi Baishi painting note
Although the size of the paper is not large, it integrates poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal carving, which adds elegance to the literati's feelings.