On the first day of the first lunar month, He Xian, who had no descendants to visit, took the gift and walked to Shuijingzhuang to pay New Year's greetings to the teacher. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sima Hui was staying in the academy, with a purple sand flow teapot in his right hand and a bamboo slip in his left hand, sipping tea and reading a book.

Nowadays, in Yingchuan, Nanyang and other places, drinking tea directly with a purple sand teapot has become a symbol of the identity and taste of celebrities.

Sima Hui obviously wouldn't be for the sake of vassal elegance, but drinking tea in a purple clay pot does make people feel relaxed and happy, and they have a sense of elegance, which makes people like him want to stop.

Seeing He Xian coming, Sima Huilu had an extremely happy look. It can be seen that he is now staying very well in Shuijing Academy.

After bowing and asking for New Year's wishes, He Xian quickly gave the gift he had prepared to Sima Hui and offered it with both hands.

The blue silk cloth wrapped around it was opened, and inside was a paper book bound with silk thread. On the cover of the book is written "Mr. Shuijing's Collected Sayings", which contains He Xian's classic remarks on Sima Hui's preaching and teaching in the past six months, including incisive expositions explaining works such as "Analects" and "Book of Songs".

Sima Hui put the purple clay pot and bamboo slips in his hand, stood up, sorted out his appearance, took the "Collection of Mr. Shuijing" handed over by He Xian with both hands, flipped through a few pages, closed it, and solemnly made a gesture towards He Xian.

Writing books and making speeches was the top priority for scholars in ancient times, and Sima Hui's gesture was to express the excitement in his heart.

Of course, He Xian avoided it sideways, no matter from which angle, he didn't dare to accept this big gift now.

"This is the paper you mentioned earlier that can be used to write books, right? It's so beautiful! It's much more beautiful than Cai Hou paper! No wonder you have the confidence to write a book! You've created another big surprise for you! Sima Hui said lovingly, flipping through the white paper.

In the 21st century, anyone who has studied calligraphy and painting will not know about rice paper. Calligraphy and freehand painting use raw Xuan, Gongbi painting uses familiar Xuan. It is simply the best choice in the world of calligraphy and painting.

Shengxuan, water absorption and water wetting are strong, easy to produce rich ink rhyme changes, with the line of splashing ink method, ink accumulation method, can collect water halo ink, to achieve the artistic effect of water ink retention. Freehand landscapes use it more. It is this kind of magical variability that has attracted countless celebrities and giants from ancient times to the present day to pursue ink rhyme and change in unremitting exploration, which has not been interrupted until now......

Cooked Xuan is coated with alum and so on during processing, so the paper is harder than raw Xuan, and the water absorption ability is weak, so that the ink and color will not be scattered when used. Therefore, the characteristics make Shu Xuan suitable for painting brush strokes rather than ink freehand paintings. The disadvantage is that there will be "leakage" or brittleness when stored for a long time. Cooked Xuan can be reprocessed, coral, mica paper, cold gold, sprinkled gold, wax gold rib, peach tiger skin, etc. are all reprocessed by the cooked Xuan color paper. Shengxuan has strong water absorption. When writing with light ink, the ink tends to seep in and dissolve. Writing in thick ink is relatively easy. Therefore, when creating calligraphy and painting, it is necessary to master the intensity of ink in order to be handy.

These characteristics of rice paper are mainly because of the special raw materials, that is, the bark of a kind of sandalwood tree produced in Xuancheng and the high-quality sand field long stalk indica straw, so that the rice paper is as white as jade, easy to preserve, not brittle, will not fade and many other advantages. The later Xuancheng of Anhui Province, that is, a county in Yangzhou in the Han Dynasty, where is the specific, He Xian has not yet found out, and the current process to make rice paper must be a fool's dream. However, this does not prevent He Xian from manufacturing the paper belonging to Wancheng in accordance with the production process and material selection characteristics of rice paper.

The first is the separation of raw materials, that is, the raw materials are degummed in the lye solution by soaking or cooking, and dispersed into fibrous form;

The second is pulping, which is to cut off the fiber by cutting and pounding, and make the fiber broom, and become pulp;

The third is copying, that is, the pulp is soaked into slurry, and then the pulp is scooped with a paper grazer (mat), so that the pulp is interwoven into a thin sheet of wet paper on the paper grab;

The fourth is drying, that is, the wet paper is dried or dried, and when it is removed, it becomes paper.

Mulberry bark, rattan bark, sandalwood bark, wheat stalks, rice stalks, bamboo and other raw materials were tested, and this book was made of mulberry bark and rice stalks in a certain proportion, which in He Xian's opinion was barely used for writing. The fiber is still relatively coarse, and the surface of the paper often appears concave and convex, but the advantage is that the toughness is good, it will not be easily torn, and the ink is not dizzy, which can barely meet the requirements of writing books.

Following He's Zishaju and Caravan, He's Paper Mill also began to operate. Of course, the output of paper is far from enough to put it on the market, but the victory is that Hejiazhuang has abundant labor, and He Xian now hoards paper as a material.

With paper, printing was naturally on the agenda. According to the development process of printing, engraving printing should be the boss of printing. But with more than 2,000 years of knowledge accumulation, He Xian obviously directly abandoned the boss of the printing industry. In He Xian's view, movable type printing is the first choice to save time and effort, be cost-effective and technically difficult! With better options, who is going to cling to old technology?

After thinking about it for a long time, He Xian decided to tell Sima Hui about the printing technique without reservation.

On the one hand, it is naturally out of the consideration of the master-apprentice relationship, and on the other hand, it is because Sima Hui is a master of gold and stone.

For the development of this cause, it is most appropriate for movable type printing to be handed over to Sima Hui to be responsible for research and exploration! Because, He Xianda had no intention of making a profit from this from the bottom of his heart.

After listening to He Xian's description of printing, and the blank paper in his hand, Sima Hui immediately realized the importance of these two techniques for readers. Once the books can be printed page by page in the future, books will no longer monopolize the resources of the family, more and more people will read books, and the Chinese civilization will naturally go to a higher level. For Sima Hui, who upholds the promotion of national culture and does not pay attention to the controversy between narrow schools, He Xian but printing will be famous through the ages.

Just when Sima Hui was immersed in the mood of reproducing the glory of Chinese civilization, He Xian had quietly retreated. Papermaking and printing are just the first steps for He Xian to popularize education and open up people's wisdom in the future. He Xian didn't know how much profit there was in it, but he didn't plan to make a profit from it, and he wouldn't sell it at a high price after the books were printed in the future.

Now that he wants to get money, it is easier for him to create a big man of his ideals. He Xian is also working in this direction now!