Papermaking is one of the four great inventions of ancient China and an important symbol of Chinese civilization. The lightness, thinness, and ease of writing of paper have made the emergence of paper rapidly develop from the era of simple memorization of simple books, cloth, sheepskin, and even untied notes to the era of cultural dissemination.

It can be said that the advent of paper has allowed Chinese civilization to enter an era of civilization where books can be widely inherited when other countries were still using parchment to record things and even knotted ropes.

In a sense, it was the emergence of paper that made Chinese civilization.

The subsequent advent of printing pushed this civilization further to glory. Thinking of paper, Li Xi thought of other things.

Although paper carries the inheritance of civilization, it is far more important for the spread of civilization than other things. However, in ancient China, the most exported products were not paper or books, but fine porcelain and silk.

The art of papermaking has been learned by other countries, so much so that other countries have it. But porcelain and silk, in ancient China, have been unique to China for a long time.

Thinking of this, Li Xi's heart suddenly rejoiced, and said to Tyrande: "Tyrande, is there any paper in your world?"

"Paper?" Tyrande was slightly stunned and raised the sheepskin scroll in his hand, "Lee, that's what you're talking about?"

"It's not. Li Xi shook his head, "I mean paper, forget it, just say it with your mouth, you may not be able to know it." I ask you, what kind of writing is used in your world except in sheepskin?"

"Writing?" replied Tyrande, smiling again, "in addition to sheepskin, we have planks, cloth, and sometimes even bark, and wooden tablets. ”

"Oh!" Li Xi smiled, "That's no paper?"

"Lee, what exactly are you talking about?" asked the Storm Sunchaser.

Li Xi smiled, "Let's come over and have a look." ”

As he spoke, he walked to his computer, opened the webpage, searched for paper and books, clicked on the picture on the computer, and showed the elves at the same time, while explaining, "This is paper, and in our world, it will be used to print books." You see, using paper, after printing into a book, you can write so many words on one page. A book has hundreds of pages, thousands of pages, you do the math, a book, how many things can be recorded. ”

"Ahh

In this world, the things they use to pass on words or knowledge are mainly sheepskins, wooden tablets, wood chips, tree bark, etc.

If you want to record an event, such as a war, you may need a room of wooden planks, which are not only inconvenient to store and read, but also easy to lose.

Now the paper that Li Xi asked them to see, not only had they never seen it, they had never even heard of it, and they didn't even dare to think about it.

An ordinary book can be made up of hundreds or even thousands of sheets of paper, and what can be written on one piece of paper is better than several large wooden boards. What can be recorded in such a book, if it were recorded in their world, in their way, may require several large rooms to store it.

Therefore, the paper and books on the computer are completely beyond their understanding.

"Hehe!" Li Xi glanced back at the expressions on the faces of the elves, couldn't help but smile again, and said lightly: "If I say that I can teach you how to make paper and print books, what do you think?"

"What?" The elves were taken aback again, and Tyrande couldn't help but grasp Li Xi's hand, and said excitedly: "Li, you taught us to make paper, and what else is printing...... What books are printed?"

"It's a printed book. Li Xi corrected.

"What is a printed book?" asked Tyrande, puzzled, "how is a book printed?

"Who gave me a wooden block?" Li said.

"Bang!" Tyrande didn't hesitate, slapped the table, slapped a small corner of the table, and handed it to Li Xi, "Li, is this enough?"

"Enough. Li Xi stretched out his hand to take it, and couldn't help but glance at Tyrande. Unexpectedly, under the excitement of the white tiger girl, there would be a violent side.

"Who will lend me another knife?" Li Xi asked again.

"I have. An elf took out a delicate knife from his body and handed it to Li Xi.

"Very nice work of art, nice!" The appearance of this knife was extremely beautiful, and Li Xi couldn't help but admire when he held it in his hand.

Then he took a knife in his hand, flattened one side of the piece of wood in his hand, carved a simple word on it, and said, "Who is going to take a little ink or something, or paint or something?"

These things are sold in the elf shop, and the Storm Sunrider smiled and said, "I'll come." ”

"By the way, take another piece of cloth. Li Xi added.

"Got it. The Storm Sunseeker agreed and walked away. Soon after, he brought a few pieces of cloth and some paints of various colors over and asked Li Xi to choose.

Li Xi picked out a piece of white cloth and black paint, dipped the seal of the word 'one' in his hand in the paint, laid the white cloth flat on the table, and directly covered the seal in his hand on the white cloth, and said while covering: "This is printing!"

When he glanced back, he saw that the elves were all staring at him in a daze, obviously because they had not yet realized the benefits of this kind of printing.

Li Xi smiled and explained: "There is only one word on this seal now. Just imagine, what if there were a hundred words, a thousand words on the seal?"

"Ahh

"It's amazing!" Tyrande looked excited and praised, "If we had paper, we would have the printing press, we would be able to mass-produce books and record the culture of our elves in a meticulous manner." ”

"Tyrande. Li Xi said with a smile: "You still don't think enough, with printing, with books, recording and inheritance is only one of the aspects, the most important thing is the spread of culture." You can adapt the heroic deeds of the elves into stories, print them into books, and sell them to the human race and even the orcs, so that they can know the beauty of your elven life. ”

"You're right, Lee. "Tyrande is overjoyed.

In her eyes, of course, it is not far enough to see how much impact this kind of cultural transmission can bring. But letting the Terrans and Orcs know the beauty of their elven life is what Tyrande wants.

"There's one more thing besides paper...... , by the way, you all come and see, who knows this thing?" Li Xi said, searching for a picture again and clicking on it.