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INVENTION OF PAPER
- The Chinese invented paper.
- The Chinese invented paper as early as 105 CE.
- Chinese put paper in many uses
- Paper replaced silk.
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- Chinese even invented toilet paper
- Chinese began making toilet paper in the 500s
- By 1300s China was producing between ten billion and one hundred billion sheets of toilet paper
PROCESS OF MAKING PAPER
- The process of making paper combines several materials.
- They used plant fibers to make paper
- Workers put plant fiber in a small bowl called a mortar
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- They pounded plant fibers with a tool called a pestle
- They added water and mulberry bark to the plant fibers and pounded the mixture into a pulp
- After that they poured this pulp onto a piece of loosely woven cloth, letting the water drain through
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- Chinese made the first paper from bamboo
- Paper was expensive to make
- They grew bamboo on farms
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- It took three tons of bamboo to make one ton of paper
- Later, the Chinese used hemp fibers to make paper
- It took six tons of hemp to make one ton of paper
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- Hemp grows faster than bamboo does
- Hemp made a stronger paper
- Hemp also made paper last longer
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- They began to use paper for writing
- Woodblock printing was invented
- The first printed newspaper was seen in China
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- Ts'ai Lun invented paper
- Ts'ai Lun was a big success
- Paper was used all over China
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- The paper invented was light, thin, durable and more suitable for brush writing
- The word paper came from the word papyrus
- Paper was first used for purpose of wrapping.
