The last dragon ever

Chapter 280 Let's Make Paper

After thinking about it, the ironware just came out, and the raw materials of the mirror are too complicated, so it’s better not to dream, especially the silver water, I don’t know what it is made of.

During the New Year, firecrackers are set off.

There are no firecrackers in this era, but there are bamboos, and the sound of lighting is the same as that of firecrackers.For the celebration, they were even dyed red, and piles of them were set on fire, and there was a crackling sound.

It doesn't matter if you don't know how to write couplets, let the children write one, two, three, four, five, and six. Anyway, red things are pasted on the door of every house.Some are made of leaves, while others are dyed red mats. The red cloth is so extravagant that almost no one uses it, except for Yang Luyun's door.

When she got home and saw the red cloth pasted on the door, she immediately said: ...

Fortunately, they didn't know there was such a thing as a red carpet. If they knew, her yard might turn red.

Yes, that's right, it's red.

It’s okay to paste red couplets with no words on the door, and there are many red balls with tassels hanging under the eaves, all made of wood or bamboo, which really look like lanterns at first glance.

When she saw these things, her first reaction was - she should put the paper on the agenda earlier.

Without further ado, he asked Hei to call a few people from the tool department who were relatively free, and said that he wanted to renovate things.

But when she opened her mouth, no matter how busy people are, they would say that they are free, and there is no one who is not free.In a short while, her yard was full of people, almost the entire tool department.

"Ahem, happy new year everyone, I'm sorry to call you here at this time, mainly because I saw the things you made, and I suddenly remembered that there is something that can be put on the agenda..."

There are five steps in the paper making method: chopping bamboo and drifting ponds—boiling wood with imperial foot fire—swinging materials into curtains—covering curtains and pressing paper—drying through fire.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to cut off the new bamboo, cut each bamboo into 5 to 7 feet long, then dig a pond on the spot, soak the cut bamboo in the pond for 100 days, and beat it hard when taking it out to make the green shell green. and bark off, let the bamboo soften.

In the second step, the previously washed bamboo material is mixed with lime water and soaked in wooden barrels for 8 days and nights. After cooking with lye, impurities such as lignin, gums, and resins in the raw materials are removed.Then take out the steamed raw materials and put them into a clear water pond for rinsing, and then put them in a pot and soak them in lime water for steaming, and repeat this process for more than ten days.After repeated cooking and rinsing, the bamboo fibers gradually decompose.

The third step is to take out the boiled raw materials and pound them into a muddy surface in a stone mortar. After the mashed raw materials are mixed with an appropriate amount of water, the fibers are completely separated and soaked in water to become a suspension of paper fibers, and then poured into the paper. inside the slot.Then use a thin bamboo curtain to filter the pulp, and the paper fibers are left on the bamboo curtain to form a layer of jing paper film.

The fourth step is to spread the bamboo curtain that has been scooped up on the press board upside down, and then carefully remove the bamboo curtain, and this layer of Jing paper film will fall on the board.Slowly stack up layers of paper sheets, and then squeeze them with heavy objects to drain the moisture in the paper sheets.The paper film is slowly formed under the pressure of heavy objects, and it becomes a piece of square paper.

In the fifth step, the alley for drying the paper is two brick walls made of earth bricks, and there are gaps between the bricks to allow the heat to escape.When baking paper, first light a fire in the alley, and then spread a piece of wet paper on the wall with thin copper tweezers. The heat from the gap makes the paper dry slowly. After drying, it is ready to use out of paper.

Yang Luyun spoke carefully, and the people in the tool department also remembered to be serious, asking questions about what they didn't understand, and solving it on the spot.

"This matter is not urgent, just let you know how to do it, and do it slowly when you have time, don't rush to report back to me. After the New Year, it will be spring plowing. Everyone is very busy. I don't want you to delay your busy farming because of this matter. matter."

"Don't delay, there are so many of us, just take a little time to make less, and experiment first. You will know the result after a while."

"Yes, that's it. It's not a special thing. If the paper can be made, the children don't have to hold the bamboo scrolls to study in the future, but can directly read the books made of paper. It doesn't matter if they don't make it. Now the paper It’s not very useful, the water on the paper will melt, and it will burn when it’s on fire, so it’s not very easy to preserve, things like maps are better drawn with animal skins..."

　Ahem, the papermaking process is from Baidu. I only know that raw materials such as bamboo are soaked in water, then boiled in a pot, pounded into a pulp, put into a wooden board, pressed, and dried.Details, or Baidu.

　　
　
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