Simple and elegant words

Notes, paper also. The souvenirs mentioned here are special papers used by writers to write letters or lyrics in old times. It has a long history of production. Mr. Lu Xun once said: “As a result of the printing of primed wood, it is a long way to go. It has been established in China.” According to historical records, as early as the Tang Dynasty (about 1200 years ago), there was “Xue Tao.” "Appearance". The "New Book of the South" contains: "Xue Tao has a good poem and cherishes its largeness, but does not want to leave it forever, but it is a small one. After deduction of talented scholars, they have reduced their names accordingly. No. Xue Taojian." There is a famous "Lu Yanjian" in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were "Qing Jiangjian" and "Guanyinjian". The famous modern historian Deng Zhicheng’s “Five Shi Zhai Xiaopiao” has an article “Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming lumpur papers” written in a piece of paper. It reads: “In the Ming Dynasty, each note, sprinkle gold colored powder, gold flower printing The paper and the blue paper are not as good as rice paper, and they are dark green, thin and white, and there are five years of Xuande's papers made of bright and bright paper. There are papers like Shaoxing wax, yellow notes, flowers and ribs. Paper, Biyun Chunshu, Longfeng Mission Flower, Golden Flower etc. Tang has pulp and Liuhe Hefei He Paper, and the water is not smashed. The hard yellow paper can be dyed with xanthate dye.”

The earliest papers only focus on practicality, and there are no elegant decorations and patterns on them. Starting from the middle period of the Ming Dynasty, in the southern part of Jinling, invented a color printing technique of “bamboo arch flower”, which made the paper with a certain degree of appreciation. In this period, "Duanxuan Gu Gupai" is more representative, its color is more abundant, and the three-dimensional sense is also very strong.

The combination of poetry, books, paintings, and prints in a single documentary really became an interesting, elegant, and clear-cut work of art. It was in the late Qing and early years of the Republic of China. The tabloids at that time replaced the works of the workshop with literati painting. With a large number of imprinting masters, the style is delicate and fluent. It is well-proportioned and elegantly colored, and uses good rice paper and uses woodblock watermark technology. There are more than 20 shops in the capital. Famous in the Liulichang area are: Rong Bao Zhai, Qing Mi Zha, Song Shou Tang, Song Gu Tang, Song Hua Zhai, Yan Jing Pavilion, Yan Wen Zhai and others. There are paintings made by Qi Baishi, Lin Qinnan, Wu Changshuo, Chen Shizeng, Wang Mengbai, Chen Banding, Yao Xifa, Zhang Daqian, Wang Xuetao, and others. The contents include landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, grasshoppers, etc. The degree of peerlessness, merging famous paintings, famous stores, famous carvings, and famous names are all in one, and are widely praised.

It should be said that the development of Su-Jian has lost its original practical function because it is so beautiful that it has become an artwork with great Chinese cultural characteristics. Few people are willing to use it again and cannot bear to use ink to cover the lively scene of the charm. . People gather and bind it into volumes. It becomes a tab. It is not only a reward but also a precious painting material worthy of study and reference. The most famous ones include The Mustard Gardener's Tab, Ten Bamboo Slapsticks, Poems and Scribbles, Bogu Books, and Hundred Flowers.

In 1934, Mr. Lu Xun and Mr. Zhenzhen Zheng purchased various types of taboos from the Southern Paper Shop at Liulichang and other places. They selected and edited and published the “Northern Tabernacle” (after the liberation of the country, Rong. When Bao Zhai reprinted his name, he was renamed "The Beijing Tab". White rice paper and thread were loaded and a letter of six volumes was called "the only monument in the history of woodcuts in China." Now this tabulation has become a valuable piece of art, very rare.