Ordinary rice paper value increase nearly 100 times Qing Tan is in short supply

"There is no money to buy gold, buy more Jiangdong paper, Jiangdong paper white as Chunyun." The phrase in Wang Ling's "re-posting the right to be full" is described by the Song people who love the collection of rice paper. Xuan paper is an indispensable carrier for Chinese painting and calligraphy. Because of the texture of cotton, tenacity, whiteness, non-deterrence, non-corruption, strong ink effect, anti-aging, non-discoloration, Xuan paper is called "the king of paper, the Millennium birthday paper."

Recently, rice paper, which has always been low-key, has received frequent attention and market prices have risen repeatedly. The style of Xuan paper collection is renewed. An ancient rice paper, often thousands of dollars, the price comparable to gold.

Thousands of years of refining Chinese rice paper, great name! In 2009, Xuan Paper’s traditional production techniques became among the world’s “Inventory List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”. The millennium history of Xuan Paper carries a wealth of historical, cultural and social information.

Xuan paper is originally produced in Jing County, Anhui Province, and also includes nearby Xuancheng and Taiping. In ancient times, these areas were under the jurisdiction of Xuanzhou Prefecture, and the paper produced was named Xuan Paper.

Xuan paper began before the Sui and Tang dynasties. According to legend, after the death of Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, his ** Kong Dan paper in Minnan, would like to create a white paper for the portrait of the teacher to express his memory. Once, Kong Dan accidentally saw an ancient Qing-Tan tree lying on the river, washed by running water, bark rotten white, exposing white fibers. Kong Dan was ecstatic and took papermaking. After repeated trials, he finally developed rice paper.

The term “Xuan Paper” first appeared in the “Famous Paintings of Ancient Dynasties” written by Zhang Yanyuan, a scholar of the Tang Dynasty. “A good family should have a hundred sheets of Xuan paper and use wax to prepare for writing.” In fact, prior to Zhang Yanyuan, rice paper was used as a tribute. Now. The Old Tang Book records that in the second year of Tang Tianbao, when Shaanxi Taishou Weijian paid tribute to the court, the tributes of each county had "Xuancheng County ship ...paper, pen, and Huanglian, etc." The "Cheng Xin Tang" paper produced by the producer is the treasure of Xuan Paper. It is "the skin is like the egg membrane, and it is as clean as a jade, thin and smooth, and crowned in a moment."

With regard to the development of Xuan Paper, there is another way to talk about Xiaoling Village in Ji County. According to the preface to the revising of Xiaoling Cao's Genealogy in the Qing Dynasty, “When you dispute the battle at the end of the Song Dynasty, you have to quarantine and avoid turmoil. The Cao’s Zhonggong VIII Sun Cao’s third year moved from Xiaochuan to Xiaoling. , from the 13 House, the Department of the mountains, the fields are scarce, unable to cultivate, because of Cai Lunlun for the industry, to livelihood." Cao Dasan inherited the previous people's papermaking technology, through practice to create a clean white pure paper.

According to research, China's earliest existing Xuan paper painting is the Tang Dynasty painter Han Yu's “five cow map”, dating back more than 1200 years.

Xuan Paper has the characteristics of “toughness and ability to run, light but not slippery, dense white, pure texture, non-destructive, strong ink repellency”, and has unique penetration and lubrication properties. Ancient literati, calligraphy and painting masters are all fond of. Using rice paper inscriptions to paint, the ink rhyme is clear and distinct, and it is of a clear and concise nature. It has a balance of energy and energy, and is full of imposibility. It is thick and not sloppy, light and not gray. Its characters and paintings are vivid on paper, and they are full of energy and sparkle.

In 2008, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine announced the “National Standard for Rice Paper”, which stipulates that “Cannahsue and Shatian straws produced in and around the Ji County of Anhui Province should be used, and Other raw materials should not be used, and the mountains that are unique to Gifu Prefecture should be used. Spring water, according to the traditional process through a special traditional process formula "produce advanced art paper, is the rice paper.

"Xuanzhou Paper expensive"

"It's light like a white wing like snow, shivering like fine silk is not heard." This is a poem describing the characteristics of rice paper. When I was a child, writing brushstrokes and paintings used Chinese rice paper. However, the original rice paper can be purchased only for a few cents. The current price is no longer comparable.

Mr. Huang, a calligraphy enthusiast, is a frequent visitor to Beijing Gehua Baihua Art Supplies Store. “Buy a knife in March 2011 production of the Red Star brand skin four feet a single, 620 yuan. Buy more, afraid of price increases.” He said that last year bought about 5.5 yuan a, to buy a knife can also And then one or two dollars less.

One knife, that is, 100, is commonly known in the industry.

Ordinary rice paper rose a lot, and the rise of mid-to-high-end rice paper products was even more alarming. For example, a “Qianlong for publicity” of China Xuan Paper Group Corporation continued the production process since the Tang Dynasty. It was strictly produced in accordance with the standard of Xuan Paper during the Qian Long period, and was hand-crafted with the best raw materials by the most skilled workers in the county. The value of this rice paper is already worth $12,900. In addition, some special varieties, such as the special rice paper for the return of Hong Kong, the 2008 Olympics commemorative rice paper, and the commemorative paper for the 50th anniversary of the founding of New China, have all experienced soaring market prices.

Collection of rice paper has been there since ancient times. In the 1990s, Xuan Paper’s collections and transactions started gradually and showed a continuous warming trend. Ordinary rice paper in the sixties and seventies is currently valued nearly 100 times.

Why does Xuan Paper increase prices? On the one hand, the prosperity of the calligraphy and painting market in recent years has led to a significant increase in the demand for Xuan paper; on the other hand, Xuan Paper uses two special raw materials, namely Tan Tan and Sha Tian. A blue-green tree grows for 10 years before it can be converted into raw materials for production. At present, the Qing Tan is basically in a state of supply shortage. At the same time, the increase in labor costs has also contributed to the rise in prices of rice paper. Rice paper production is a hard work. Nowadays, few young people are willing to join. In addition, market rumors that Zhejiang hot money entered the Xuan Paper area and the large number of high-end rice papers purchased in Ji County also helped increase the price of high-end rice paper.

Due to shortage of supplies, some businesses have determined that the price of Xuan Paper will continue to rise, and the market has already appeared to be reluctant to sell.

Whether it is the increase in prices of raw materials, employment, and technology, or because of hoarding and speculation, in short, with the increasing demand in the market in recent years, Xuan Paper is increasingly in short supply. "Zuzhou paper expensive" has become a fact.