The art of paper-making

As we all know, that the art of paper-making is one of the four great inventions in China in time former. Cai Lun, the great Chinese inventor is the inventor of this great invention. Many of us may feel a strange when we learn about her career and could hardly he connected to his invention - the art of paper-making.

This man was one of the most trustworthy Emperor's Ministers. He was in charge of the construction of roads and channels throughout the empire.

At this time, messages were written on silk and bamboo. Silk was very expensive. Bamboo has been much less expensive, but it was too large to be used much. And is also difficult to transfer so that they are so large and heavy especially you must transfer a large amount of information. Great ancient man was dissatisfied. He decided he needed a new material to write about. He experimented with for years on many different materials. Finally, it was found that better communication originated from two things: old rags or old fishing nets.

Art of papermaking spread quickly in all regions of China. But the Chinese have managed to keep the method a secret until hundreds of years after his death. Finally, two European took the secret in the West. Then, the art of paper-making has been obtained know worldwide gradually.

Paper, that we have used now of course is much expanded, but the origin of the art of paper-making is the invention of the Cai Lun. Thanks to him, we had this very material to write about.