WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -But few would know that more than 1, 500 years ago, ancient Chinese craftsmen invented a new type of paper, which later became an essential item for traditional Chinese study and an icon of Chinese culture. It’s call Xuan paper, or rice paper, known among Chinese literati as the “King of All Paper.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the compass-the four great inventions of ancient China-are significant contributions of the Chinese nation to world civilization.

Detailed explanation-4: -Uses of paper included as packaging for delicate items such as medicine & as wrapping paper, especially for parcels of tea. Besides its use for writing and books, paper was used to produce topographical and military maps from the Han dynasty onwards.