Paper: Writing paper and printing paper are sold in units of "knife", with a "knife" of 100 pieces, and the "knife" or "10,000" used for commemoration (customs are sold according to different types of 9,000 or 9,500 pieces).

The difference between urban and rural areas was produced and continued because of the stereotypes formed by the whole society of rural people like the original country: they may hardly recognize a few big words in their simple and not complicated life. They could hardly find a good dress in a huge room. The only good dress on Mao Erlang and his wife was always locked in a dark cabinet. It was their wedding clothes. Except for the New Year, they would come out to see the light and bask in the sun. During the rest of the year, they were almost always in a dark corner. Today, this is not very special day, Mao Erlang and his wife wore this new dress for the first time, just because a gentleman came to the village. In fact, they were already very familiar with the man who was Zhuge Wolong, but they were just temporarily built in the village.

I saw this person again in a private school. As the first time they could enter that simple school, they showed enough respect. The cross-circle circles on the wooden boards were repeated, and he and his wife were like most people. The ruler in Zhuge Wolong's hand did not greet them less on their calloused hands, but they were full of joy after being beaten. Perhaps they were too old and their old heads seemed to be very good, but they remembered the Chinese characters "knife" and "picking" that had long been entered into their lives. As for the complex relationships they established, it seemed too difficult for them. Zhuge Wolong's own statement also had great problems. Even if he really understood the conversion relationships, he might not be able to explain them clearly.

Mao Erlang has never walked out of the countryside in his life. The farthest time he went was to go to his wife's house in a neighboring village. He came and went for less than five miles, and he could cross a mountain. So like most people in the countryside, he was just one of a group of farmers who knew frogs in the well. His activities were limited to the local life. The main link that was related to him was the area he was familiar with and the land he cultivated. Not long ago, his eldest son Da Zhangzhu came back and told him that when the family was divided into a land that truly belonged to him, he and his wife knelt on the land and cried loudly for a while. He believed that with that land, their future life would definitely be better.

The older generation once said, "I am not used to living upstairs, and I can't get involved in the earth." Mao Erlang, like most farmers in the hometown, was very attached to the land under their feet, because the land was the hometown, and they themselves were like rice. The land was the basis for their growth and their destination after death. The tempering of his survival skills and the establishment of the land were even more natural.

When Mao Erlang heard the word "paper" for the first time, he had little idea in his mind. He was just not sure how old Wu Bo was, the prefect, and he thought it was more powerful than Fu Zhongjing and Fu Chunnian of Fuzhuang. Otherwise, how could the land under Fuzhuang's name be finally distributed to them? When he heard that this kind of paper that was taken out of the pond in the future would be the favorite of those scholars in western Sichuan, he was still happy for a while. At that moment, he hoped that a certain child in his family could also use the paper made in the workshop. In fact, the matter was

The development far exceeded the imagination of Mao Erlang and even the entire Yuanwen people. A few days later, a large wooden pot was built with wood on the slope of the bamboo forest in Yuanwen. The workers who built this pot called the bamboo pot. After it was built, they would be used to cook bamboo on the mountain. This kind of steamer actually consists of three parts: the bottom is a stove about one zhang high and about two zhang in diameter, and the bottom is a fire hall for adding fuel; a large iron pot placed on the stove; and a conical wooden pot about two zhang high and about two zhang in diameter, which is the type of bamboo pot. I heard that these bamboo pots can hold a lot of fresh bamboo.

The production of this kind of bamboo paper is an absolute technical job, a complex and high-skill technology with fine division of labor. Those workers who understand these jobs say that they have to go through 72 "hands and feet". The most important thing here is actually the "steaming work" and "paper making work". The bamboo pot in front is the "steaming work". The seasonal technology of making bamboo and other hemp materials into "tribute paper" materials according to seasonal changes; the "paper making work" can be carried out throughout the year to make the material into pulp and then turn the pulp into paper. The "material making section" work starts in May and June, mainly cutting down tender bamboo. At this time, the bamboo hemp fibers are long and tough.

During the days when the bamboo pot and papermaking pond were built, Mao Erlang and the whole village went back to the bamboo forest in their hands to cut the bamboo. They breathed the familiar smell emitted from the bamboo forest. Everyone was very excited. In fact, the people in the native village knew very well about the inexhaustible bamboo forest under their feet. In the first year, two years, and three years of bamboo had to be cut off every year to ensure that they continued to regenerate. These originally ordinary bamboos could become successful in those scholars.

The touchstone of fame, everyone has a sincere sense of pride. After harvesting, these bamboos were split and cut off as Wu Bo asked in advance, soaked in the stream next to the bamboo forest, and were pressed on it with large wood and stones. Two weeks before the bamboo pot was officially ready to fire, the outer skin of the bamboo had rotten, and only the bamboo slices with the "meat" in the bamboo stems were rinsed again, mixed with some lime and soaked again until they were sent to the bamboo pot. Steaming these bamboos was not

Simple, Huotang burned for seven days. On the day when the white air was completely cooled down, it was time for Mao Erlang and other strong men to really work. Almost all the young and strong laborers reached the top of the pot and used a long pestle pole to pound the "material". I heard from Master Wu that these bamboo materials must be separated while it is hot, otherwise the "materials" will become hard and stick together over time. Next, the "materials" were hugged out of the pot with a material rake layer by layer and spread on the ground with stone slabs.

On the top, someone continued to beat it with a long wooden stick or hammer. After being tempered, the lime and lignin on it were washed away in the pond or mountain stream. The washed "material" will be put back into the bamboo pot and steamed for the second time. This time, some lye with grass alkali or alkali ash is added for five days and nights, and then put in water to clean again. When the alkali liquid is washed, the "material" turns white and fluffy like feather cotton wool. Then pile the "material" into "cake" for fermenting for a period of time.

The ‘paper making work’ (including beating, paper making, brushing, and whole paper) can be carried out any period after the material is made, which makes Mao Erlang and other farmermen even more happy. They can have an extra income during the slack season, which is something they had not expected. During the period when they worked hard to make the material, their whole family not only ate the meat and white rice carefully prepared for them by Lord Wu, but also received a good portion of copper. What they didn’t expect most was that egg flowers were floating in a bucket of free soup. The egg flowers Mao Erlang ate these days were as good as the eggs he had eaten in his life. For the first time in his life, Mao Erlang finally had some hope for some forgotten beauty in his life. Several sons who were getting older and older might not be able to marry a wife in a long time.

Beating: Every morning, the beating worker cuts off one of the piles of paper materials and smacks, tramples barefoot for about half an hour, then adds a powder called bleach, and lets it decolorize again. At this time, the fiber is still too long and thick for papermaking, and needs to be beaten into pulp. At this point, a foot mortar called "the mortar" by the locals is a bit like a pestle mortar used for pounding rice. The beating worker stepped on the control rod of the mallet, and the hammer head of the paper mortar was raised, and the foot loosened the control rod, and the hammer head fell into the mortar full of paper materials. He pounded it repeatedly until the "material" turned into pulp.

Papermaking: The pulp that has been repeatedly pounded is transported to the papermaking shed. The papermaking shed is open-air, with a huge rectangular sandstone scoop pool/paper trough (commonly known as the "trough"). These nervous papermakers of Dazang add a full scoop of pulp to the water in the paper trough, and then add some water skiing (made with specific plants. If you are interested, you can check out the six-episode documentary "The Four Treasures of Chinese Study". It contains it. I am really too lazy to look for it bit by bit. I remember there is mulberry skin) to prevent the pulp from agglomerating. Next, stir the mixture quickly until its color and concentration are like milk. The paper is made of paper curtains, which consist of two parts: one is elastic bamboo made of thin bamboo strips.

The sheet is painted with paint, wrapped with silk thread, horse hair and fishing line. The other is the curtain bed (a harder wooden frame to support bamboo sheets). The papermaker straightens his arm and holds the curtain bed, leans over and invades the paper curtain into the groove. He drags the paper curtain in the water and lifts him horizontally from the groove. At the same time, he raises the curtain bed with his left hand to filter out the remaining water. A layer of paper film is formed on the bead curtain. Then, scoop a little slurry in the lower right corner of the paper curtain, lifts up his right hand slightly to the left, so that the first layer of fiber and the second layer of fiber are intertwined. Then, put the paper curtain on the paper tank, removes the long wooden strips that fix the paper curtain on the frame, and puts the paper curtain on a table. In this way, the first piece of paper is lying horizontally, and the paper curtain with wet paper is clamped on the cardboard/

On the table; when the paper curtain was lifted, a soft and wet piece of paper was left on the cardboard/table. This process was almost every papermaker taught by Wu Yonglin. For him, who had experienced the four major invention workshops in China many times in later generations, everything seemed to be easy and familiar, but at this point, almost exhausted all his energy and intelligence. Fortunately, Yuan Township does not lack skilled craftsmen. The fine and vivid lion heads prove that this place was originally a place for crouching tigers and hidden dragons. Those paper curtains and curtain beds were quickly created by the locals according to his drawings. The speed was simply amazing to Wu Yonglin. It may be that there were days left in it, and it was not accidental that the bamboo paper workshop settled in Yuan Township. When the first wet

After the bamboo paper was fished up in Wu Yonglin's hand, the next piece was copied and placed on the previous piece as before. Due to water sliding, it was difficult to stick together. (As aside, after the papermaking was passed to the West, foreigners never knew how to avoid making the wet paper not stick together, and could only put felt between the paper.) For a familiar papermaker like Wu Yonglin, hundreds of sheets of paper can be copied out a day, and the next stack of wet paper will be placed on the paper. The paper squeeze consists of two heavy wooden boards, a horizontal wood, and a rope. When pressing the paper, the force of the paper squeeze should gradually increase. If the paper is pressed too quickly, the water will remain in the pile of paper to form blisters, which will cause the paper to crack.

Paper brushing: The preparation for paper brushing starts at night. After the papermaker takes the paper out of the thorn, the men are already asleep. The women use a gadget Wu Yonglin has prepared long ago to call tweezers to uncover the soft paper and spread it on the table. Every ten pieces of paper are stacked. The next morning, these stacks of paper are moved to a special drying wall outside the house (it can also be used in a drying shed specially for this purpose, but the method of fine paper is generally dried naturally). Single sheets of paper are removed from the stack of paper and brushed flat on the wall with hard brushes/row brushes. In order to save space, the paper is covered one by one, ten pieces are hung one by one. After a few days, the paper is completely dry, and the paper is like thick cardboard, so that it can be taken off.

Whole paper: mainly divide sheets, smoothing, sorting, counting, cutting, folding and packaging. Paper cutters are also quite particular. Cutting paper requires one-size-fitting cutters, otherwise the paper cut repeatedly will have burrs and thorns. When Wu Yonglin took out the broken wave knife he carried with him to cut the paper, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and there was a sense of embarrassment of killing chickens with a ox knife. Fortunately, the paper cut finally met the requirements. Not long after, a batch of specially made paper cutters with thick backs and thin blades and almost like moon hooks were sent from afar. Finally, they met this requirement. There was no doubt that these were naturally from the hands of Mr. Liu Li.

Such a papermaking workshop requires at least one person to beat pulp, one person to copy paper, and one person to brush paper. If such a workshop is only equipped with three people, it cannot fully utilize its production potential because workers cannot devote themselves to their jobs without distraction. If this workshop can achieve its maximum effect, two assistants will be needed to help carry and carve paper. Such five labor is necessary, not counting the female labor force needed by the previous family: responsible for preparing three meals a day, washing and sewing clothes of family and hired workers, taking care of children, caring for vegetable fields, raising pigs and chickens, and sometimes raising silkworms and working in the fields. In addition, the entire workshop also requires someone to be responsible for repair and transportation. The advantages of Mao Erlang, the whole family, are fully reflected. The completion of these workshops is slowly affecting the lifestyle of the entire native villager and Mao Erlang's family, and they have never expected future changes.

The moon was in the sky, as bright as daylight, two figures stood in the distance and looked at the hot papermaking workshop. One of them asked, "I'm really not going back with me to see how much the paper will be sold?"

"Don't people need to watch the workshop here? Anyway, it's not far from Chengdu Prefecture. I want to go back and see you. You will arrive in less than an hour."

"That thing hasn't passed in your heart yet?"

"Maybe it will take some time."

"Then I won't force you anymore. My family will always keep a house for you. If you want to come back, you can come back at any time."
Chapter completed!