Study on the Manufacturing Technology of Guangdong Hand-made Paper

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 358; no. 4; pp. 42064 - 42068
• Main Authors: Zhou, Zhong, Xiaopeng, Peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.12.2019
• Subjects: Bamboo; Cutting; Drying; Inventions; Papermaking; Tourism; China; Guangdong China
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/358/4/042064

Traditional paper-making technology is one of the four great inventions in ancient China. The paper is make by hand and it is found in many areas of Guangdong. Guangdong hand-made paper is mostly used as gods paper, which has special requirements for quality. In order to study Guangdong paper-making technology furtherly, and provide scientific reference for its development, we combed around the factors of materials, tools and processes through experiments, summarized and checked the historical data, then analyzed thirteen processes, such as chopping bamboo, crushing bamboo, beating pulp, papermaking, loosing paper, drying paper and so on. These processes contain rich creative wisdom and are valuable historical heritage. Guangdong hand-made paper technology coexists harmoniously with local environment, and has handed over part of the process to machinery, but its industry scale is small and its economic benefits are not high. It will face the situation of no successor and technical fault. We need to develop Guangdong hand-made paper from the perspective of culture and tourism.