WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT CHINA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The raw materials that Cai Lun first used to make paper were ____ . (more than 1 acceptable answers)
A
fishing net
B
plastic bags
C
rags
D
stones
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cai Lun then initiated the idea of making paper from the bark of trees, hemp, old rags, and fishing nets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tsai, Lun improved the technology of making paper from sesame fiber. He used recycleable meterials such as bamboo, tree skin and shabby cloth to make paper. The technique of papermaking was kept as a secret for five centuries in China.

Detailed explanation-3: -He made sheets of paper from inner bark of bamboo, mulberry trees, rags of cloth, and fishing nets. He mixed the composition with water, and after the mixture starts to soften, he poured the mixture onto a flat piece of woven cloth, draining the water, and dried the mix until it formed into a thin matted sheet.

Detailed explanation-4: -The birth of paper, as we know it today, took place under the Chinese Han Dynasty in AD 105. Ts’ai Lun, a court official, invented a papermaking process which primarily used rags (textile waste) as the raw material with which to make paper.

Detailed explanation-5: -The invention of paper is a symbol of advanced science and technology in ancient China. Improved paper-making traditionally dates back to 105 AD, when Cai Lun, an official at the court of the Han Dynasty, made a sheet of paper from mulberry and other coarse fibers as well as fishing nets, old rags, and hemp waste.

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