Haha I like this, or because computers are more expensive, they saying may become, your argument isn't worth being put into a computer, or that is worth as much as being written on paper, haha I dunno guys, I like brownies :P
All jokes, in particular those that rely on language, are subject to time and circumstances. Thus, the old chestnut, "an oral agreement is not worth the paper its written on" only makes sense if one relies chiefly on paper as the means to convey legal agreements. Here, obviously, i attempted to expand upon the joke, making a comment in general on how legal agreements have lost their flair as fonts replace scribes.
Well done :-) Several years ago, I watched a similar documentary about paper making in Japan... I love traditional methods and technologies... We are loosing many of them, to the Wold's peril... If you don't know where you came from, you cannot map where you are going then, confusion and chaos results... We need to cling to our history to understand the future and our place in it... Without that road map, we loose touch with morals, love, empathy and so many other necessities of being human... Whether it is Paper making or the manufacture of a Samurai Sword or just Steel making, Potery, China Ware, Paint and Ink, keeping in touch with the original methods preserves these arts for generations to come and may one day, be necessary for survival...
Favorite Line: "I think what's important is your state of mind. You need a good state of mind in order to choose the right materials, and this determines whether the quality will be good or bad. If your state of mind is not good, then the work will be sloppy, and the finished product won't be as good."
"The most important thing is that this gets passed on doesn't have to be related by blood" I paraphrased a little but that is the most important thing about anything. I would be honored to learn this technique
I appreciate how China uncensored respects the people but opposes the oppressive government. This is how it should be. Thanks for the balanced approach.
I love videos like this. They are like gemstones in the electric mist that when found enrich my life. I love the internet because something like this can be sifted if one searches carefully. These days I am writing on rare and expensive paper with a fountain pen while sitting on a wooden bench near blooming roses and hoping it will rain.
Raza Khan “if the people are fine” if by fine you mean having their freedoms both metaphorically and physically revoked, lack of habeas corpus, physical abuse and rampant government corruption then sure. If by “millions lifted out of poverty” you mean brutal working conditions, unfathomable hours, toxic environmental conditions outside and inside, and millions of chinese detained in camps for religious and non party beliefs sure. If by good jobs and good life you mean being barricaded within their homes to die of a fast acting virus and having no notifications or time to prepare as well as losing employment then sure. Other than that you are an ignorant child that has no fucking clue what reality is. You’ve had 3 months of in your face evidence of exactly how china feels about the world and it’s people.
Love how Asians (in traditional thinking) insist that one's state of mind is essential to the outcome of something they do. I've heard Japanese artists/artisans say this too. I don't know it artisanship is commonplace in China, so this surprises me. I thought maybe the Mao regime had destroyed traditional Chinese art culture. This is refreshing.
One of the cool things that the Tales scholar hinted at, but didn't fully explore, is rare book replication. I worked at a museum that had an extensive paleontology exhibit, and we would explain to a lot of patrons that many of the fossils were replicas because the original fossils were too rare to be on display. Now imagine if this were applied to books? Anyone could buy Sir Newton's Mathematica, each school had copies of Shakespeare's original works, ect. That would create a demand for papermakers, caligraphers, bookbinders, and all those out-of-work BA's making versions that explain older books (like the half page Shakespeare books) and at the same time, do it by cherishing our heritage. (Plus, they might figure out how to replicate old book smell....)
+Crick1952 Be that as it may, most Western archives and musea don't actually get that much funding. Imagine the cost of acquiring the raw materials and hiring the professionals necessary to replicate these works. It's sad, but humanity has rarely seemed to show much regard for history and its relics..
***** Fortunately, for me, Shanghai Moon clicked the thumbs down on my comments so many times that I cannot see his comments, and I'm sure he can't see mine.
Papermaking is going away because people rarely even write anymore. There are schools in this world that do not even learn kids to write properly anymore. People are happy to have an ereader with ebooks so Amazon and other parties can update the books and delete books from your library. This is wat you pay for. I take pride in my fountain pens and my penmanship, and everyone else should as well. I will gladly pay a premium for good paper for the ink and pen I happen to be using at the time. And that includes handmade paper.
+Jame Gumb If you take pride in that penmanship, I suggest you take a few writing classes yourself because your grammar and spelling are somewhat lacking. Aside from that, although I agree that writing is an art that should be preserved, I would like to see your sources; I might not be all that up-to-date on international education laws, but I don't particularly recall any countries allowing schools not to teach handwriting. As for writing on paper, it's a thing I do nearly every day. In many cases it's much quicker to grab a pen or pencil and write something on a piece of paper that's in front of you on your desk than it is to open up a text processing program, typing your text and then saving the file somewhere on your computer, under a specific name that you have to think of as well. This is one of several reasons why most people aren't that concerned with the possibility of handwriting disappearing, but hand-crafting paper is an entirely different matter.
Zap Gun I would say they are excellent for a 5th language. How well do you do in the 5th language you learned? And how is typing=writing? Some Canadian states, some Russian oblasts and some Chinese regions no longer explicitly make schools teach their students learn to write by hand so many schools simply do not. Education is a national thing, if there is such a thing as international education laws, please do show me some.
Jame Gumb For a fifth language I must admit it's quite good, assuming your previous four are all fluent. As for sources, you've given examples now but not any sources. Also, by international education laws I meant education laws in other countries in the world; I'm saying I don't know much about the education laws in other countries. And lastly, although education is in many cases a national thing, in some areas like the European Union, certain aspects of education have been decided by the larger group of countries. Especially the value of a degree is often decided internationally (getting a bachelor's degree in Germany can get you a job that requires a bachelor's degree in Spain too, without needing to follow any special re-education).
Zap Gun Certain minimum demands of bachelors degrees and masters degrees are very similar, but the same profession may require very different demands. I know of only 2. My brother had a gf that was a nurse, bt she was trained in the USA, but there nurses have more responsibility in some area´s, such as giving medication, but a lot less in others, such as calling a time of death and preparing the body to be put away.She had to do 2 extra years here and complained a lot about having to run anything passed a doctor, and not being allowed to do anything that required any cutting no matter how small. Another is accountancy. I have a friend that is an accountant, and hee it required 6 years of internship and only then do you get your full diploma and bachelors degree, and if you do not do it flawlessly, you get an extra year. Fuck up majorly and you can get 2 and in some cases 3 extra years. Many other countries even in the EU do have interernships for accountants but not 6 year ones. How many languages do you know? Is English your first?
Jame Gumb English could be considered my second language; my first and native language is Dutch. All English I know is auto didactic though, as I was far ahead of my school's English education at all times. Aside from Dutch and English, I have never been truly fluent in any languages but was capable of reading texts in German (to the point my teacher once asked me if I could translate a WWII era hand-written German letter she found in her attic and see if I could track down who wrote it, but not having any experience in finding lost and probably dead German people I'm afraid that I didn't succeed at finding anyone... translating went fine though) and having basic conversations in French and Spanish at some point. Sadly, since I'm awfully out of practice on those fronts I've lost a lot of that ability now. And then there's some fairly basic vocabulary and grammar in Latin, ancient Greek, middle English, Italian, Swedish (although most of that is because Dutch and Scandinavian languages have a lot of similarities, especially in pronunciations) and recently I've been following a Japanese course which is going quite well. Can't say I'm quite up to the level of fluency in 5 languages, though, so I'll commend you on that. Also, you talk about "here," but I don't seem to recall you ever stating where you're from.
Nowadays because of global warming people are encourage to use less paper to prevent from tree cutting. But nowadays there are even worse forest fires are happening. How many trees and lifes are been killed and burnt?
+zayuran KightSpider Sometimes they do! Books usually have a table of contents in the front and an index in the back. When researching a subject I used the card index in the library to select books under the subject. Then after pulling the books from the shelf I would skim though the index and table of contents to see if the book had the information I was looking for. This way I didn't have to read the whole book if I was only looking for a specific piece of information. These days the card indexes are gone or are long neglected relics among the library furniture. But once you've gotten the book titles from the computer the process can still be used utilizing the index and table of contents. Saves a lot of research time when handling physical books.
William Albert O GOD I don't know what went wrong but I accidentally open the wrong page cause I no get the index menu and now a dark portal has opened up and monsters are spilling out!!! How do I CTRL ALT DELETE this shit!?!?!?
Did you know you can make paper from animal poo as well... I think camel/ elephant/ horse poo. In fact I believe traditional way of making paper is the only sustainable method and will come back maybe even beat the e-books...
***** You mean e-books out of paper ;-)? Seriously there is a lot of wasted precious natural ressources + pollution of all sort to make these e-books Vs natural paper= just trees (that if not cut would probably burn or rot away at some point, their natural death...).
China Non-Stop Paper books, and even ancient stones last a lot longer than optical data. Data can easily get corrupted. This is amazing to me. Thank you for this. I'm going to take time to read books again.
Hemp is a world class paper grade fiber, especially for heavy vellums and is easily used for both thin, crisp papers, soft, pliable papers, and heavy rigid papers.
***** Hey Chris, let me give short summary about the invention of paper according to what I know so far. the method being used and showed in your video is from Uyghurs, (you definitely know them), they still use that ancient method to make papers today, not for daily use but rather to keep the original method alive. I personally met the person who had been doing this since he was 10 and he died two years ago at the age of 106. So the question arises, how come it's called a chinese invention, and who is that guy Kai lun? well, he copied the method when he visited the land of uyghurs and after he went back he announced it as if he discovered or invented the very first paper. it's basically a copycat game. if you don't believe, you can do a little research about it coz it's very well stated in some historical sources.
***** I'm not inventing the history bro, I'm telling the history that I know very well. if you don't know about the history of Central Asia please remain silent till you get something to say about it.
I am commenting before seeing the end of this video, but I remember being in Rainy Lake, Minnesota in the US several times where there was and still may be a huge paper mill where they go from wood pulp to the finished product. The process is so incredibly stinky that the air pollution spreads for 30 miles in every direction. It is ungodly awful and almost takes one's breath away. Major money maker though, presumably.
I wonder. Who cares what some ancient people say? I mean, sure it can be important, it can be some superstitious nonsense. What I mean though is: why does it matter who came up with something? if it's 'fabricated' or some ancient record doesn't really matter. what matters is what is written, not when it was written or by whom or if it's just digital, on paper, chiseled in a rock or bent over plants in a corn field forming the text.
I wonder what the Bible looked like before paper. who wrote the Bible and transfered the Bible to paper. did the person do any changes, left out something?
Seriously though lol, Paper was made in 105 A.D in China, A.D being after Jesus died...... HOW WERE THERE SCROLLS?!?! they have paper that carbon dates back 5000 years ago (dead sea scroll)
+Mike O'Tren so i take it you are being serious, well, scroll used to be made from animal hides or plant fibers or other materials, take papyrus for example, it's technically paper, but not like the one made by Chinese people
Nicely done. Interesting topic too. Traditional paper crafting does have a future provided they manage to find ways to increase their paper quality over industrialized crafting (conservation wise, that is).
When told, "The agreement is not worth the paper it's written on", one wonders if perhaps cheap paper makes for cheap agreements...
Ruiqi Mao Good point!
Haha I like this, or because computers are more expensive, they saying may become, your argument isn't worth being put into a computer, or that is worth as much as being written on paper, haha I dunno guys, I like brownies :P
All jokes, in particular those that rely on language, are subject to time and circumstances. Thus, the old chestnut, "an oral agreement is not worth the paper its written on" only makes sense if one relies chiefly on paper as the means to convey legal agreements. Here, obviously, i attempted to expand upon the joke, making a comment in general on how legal agreements have lost their flair as fonts replace scribes.
You sure do like to articulate yourself well! :P
Thank you...
Well done :-) Several years ago, I watched a similar documentary about paper making in Japan... I love traditional methods and technologies... We are loosing many of them, to the Wold's peril... If you don't know where you came from, you cannot map where you are going then, confusion and chaos results... We need to cling to our history to understand the future and our place in it... Without that road map, we loose touch with morals, love, empathy and so many other necessities of being human...
Whether it is Paper making or the manufacture of a Samurai Sword or just Steel making, Potery, China Ware, Paint and Ink, keeping in touch with the original methods preserves these arts for generations to come and may one day, be necessary for survival...
Favorite Line: "I think what's important is your state of mind. You need a good state of mind in order to choose the right materials, and this determines whether the quality will be good or bad. If your state of mind is not good, then the work will be sloppy, and the finished product won't be as good."
Mark Mathews Even though we made this episode years ago, that line always stays fresh in my mind too.
Heart warming and heart breaking at the same time.
"The most important thing is that this gets passed on doesn't have to be related by blood" I paraphrased a little but that is the most important thing about anything. I would be honored to learn this technique
go find him
I would love to find him
@Just me His name is on there as well as the name of his company and the nation they live in....should be enough...
Paper-making could reasonably be described as an early information technology. Without something on which to write, literacy is pretty pointless.
Thanks for the posting of this subject,❤ John
Kudos to Talas for the preservation of books and paper and the skills and devotion involved in these human endeavors.
I appreciate how China uncensored respects the people but opposes the oppressive government. This is how it should be. Thanks for the balanced approach.
I adore these vids about china's culture.
Always refreshing to see something positive from intellects like these.
Having visited the paper making museum in Hangzhou, China I can appreciate this wonderful film even more.
Chris....I love your Journey To The East episode! Love learning about another ancient lost art. Keep 'em coming!
terriesmith1981 Thanks! I have two more left to publish.
+China Uncensored This series is so well polished! Why didn't you dudes release it?
I love videos like this. They are like gemstones in the electric mist that when found enrich my life. I love the internet because something like this can be sifted if one searches carefully. These days I am writing on rare and expensive paper with a fountain pen while sitting on a wooden bench near blooming roses and hoping it will rain.
i became slightly less impressed when I saw the stainless steel shredder.
This is the kind of stuff the CCP wants its people to forget about. It honestly breaks my heart.
Muirbidul ancient china was better than modern china becuz of communism
How ironic, once a super power of culture, economic and technology. And now.
+memk i as chinese overseas blame the commie regime, commie regime destroy everything
Raza Khan “if the people are fine” if by fine you mean having their freedoms both metaphorically and physically revoked, lack of habeas corpus, physical abuse and rampant government corruption then sure.
If by “millions lifted out of poverty” you mean brutal working conditions, unfathomable hours, toxic environmental conditions outside and inside, and millions of chinese detained in camps for religious and non party beliefs sure.
If by good jobs and good life you mean being barricaded within their homes to die of a fast acting virus and having no notifications or time to prepare as well as losing employment then sure.
Other than that you are an ignorant child that has no fucking clue what reality is.
You’ve had 3 months of in your face evidence of exactly how china feels about the world and it’s people.
Hemp makes better paper faster as well to grow and process.
Love how Asians (in traditional thinking) insist that one's state of mind is essential to the outcome of something they do. I've heard Japanese artists/artisans say this too. I don't know it artisanship is commonplace in China, so this surprises me. I thought maybe the Mao regime had destroyed traditional Chinese art culture. This is refreshing.
One of the cool things that the Tales scholar hinted at, but didn't fully explore, is rare book replication.
I worked at a museum that had an extensive paleontology exhibit, and we would explain to a lot of patrons that many of the fossils were replicas because the original fossils were too rare to be on display.
Now imagine if this were applied to books? Anyone could buy Sir Newton's Mathematica, each school had copies of Shakespeare's original works, ect.
That would create a demand for papermakers, caligraphers, bookbinders, and all those out-of-work BA's making versions that explain older books (like the half page Shakespeare books) and at the same time, do it by cherishing our heritage.
(Plus, they might figure out how to replicate old book smell....)
Your here too?!?!
+Crick1952 Be that as it may, most Western archives and musea don't actually get that much funding. Imagine the cost of acquiring the raw materials and hiring the professionals necessary to replicate these works.
It's sad, but humanity has rarely seemed to show much regard for history and its relics..
mucilage substance is added, called neri, which is extracted from the roots of the plant tororo-aoi
Geez can't you guys just have a nice calm discussion about paper. Ha!, I couldn't type that w a straight face! China Un rocks! I'm hooked.
What is the dispersion agent she adds in the 6:18 minute?
It is called a formation aid, which can be natural or synthetic. The Japanese call it tororo-aoi.
Wonderful job guys! Thank you so much for this documentary.
Chris as usual, thanks for the share. Excellent as usual.
what is that machine used to cut up the bark into smaller pieces called? 5:33
Maybe you should approach Netflix about this series... Because all I can say is, Bravo and Encore!
I wonder if these types of papers are reachable online
Really interesting! :) Thanks for uploading this!
Slimy Weasles Glad you enjoyed!
Chris, a Confucious Institute is coming to my university in April. I'm trying to stop this. How do I do that? I need suggestions!
Slimy Weasles sorry for interfering... what university is it?? I am curious...
Bt Tan confucius is worse than hell
Bt Tan how u know there is no confucius in hell?
Wondering how 50 cent army can troll this thing.
Marko Polo If they can't kill the message, they go after the messenger.
***** See Shanghai Noon. He found a way...
***** Fortunately, for me, Shanghai Moon clicked the thumbs down on my comments so many times that I cannot see his comments, and I'm sure he can't see mine.
***** oh his comment was removed! I am so glad... but thx to him, I found out only 5-15% of the citizens (communist party members) can vote...
Marko Polo There is no such thing as a "50 cent army".
This is amazing great video
Thanks for another great Journey to the East! Hopefully there will be one dedicated to ceramics.
That one almost made me cry; I have a personal connection to paper.
Holy cow ... too much work to make paper.
Despite its industrial culture, here in the Northwest paper is a big one.
At first I thought I could do it but as soon as I seen the machine I was like "yeah nope I guess I ain't trying this anymore."
Fascinating
We have to be grateful to China. Without the invention of paper, can we imagine how we wipe our asses today?
+Captain Morgan ...aye captain, they were full of shit
+Alba Whiteman white men paper full of shit. we never use paper to wipe our asses. we use water and soap since ancient time to wipe our asses
tp was first used in SONG danasty of china about 800 years ago
dynasty,sorry
Papermaking is going away because people rarely even write anymore. There are schools in this world that do not even learn kids to write properly anymore. People are happy to have an ereader with ebooks so Amazon and other parties can update the books and delete books from your library. This is wat you pay for.
I take pride in my fountain pens and my penmanship, and everyone else should as well. I will gladly pay a premium for good paper for the ink and pen I happen to be using at the time. And that includes handmade paper.
+Jame Gumb If you take pride in that penmanship, I suggest you take a few writing classes yourself because your grammar and spelling are somewhat lacking.
Aside from that, although I agree that writing is an art that should be preserved, I would like to see your sources; I might not be all that up-to-date on international education laws, but I don't particularly recall any countries allowing schools not to teach handwriting.
As for writing on paper, it's a thing I do nearly every day. In many cases it's much quicker to grab a pen or pencil and write something on a piece of paper that's in front of you on your desk than it is to open up a text processing program, typing your text and then saving the file somewhere on your computer, under a specific name that you have to think of as well. This is one of several reasons why most people aren't that concerned with the possibility of handwriting disappearing, but hand-crafting paper is an entirely different matter.
Zap Gun I would say they are excellent for a 5th language. How well do you do in the 5th language you learned?
And how is typing=writing?
Some Canadian states, some Russian oblasts and some Chinese regions no longer explicitly make schools teach their students learn to write by hand so many schools simply do not. Education is a national thing, if there is such a thing as international education laws, please do show me some.
Jame Gumb For a fifth language I must admit it's quite good, assuming your previous four are all fluent.
As for sources, you've given examples now but not any sources.
Also, by international education laws I meant education laws in other countries in the world; I'm saying I don't know much about the education laws in other countries.
And lastly, although education is in many cases a national thing, in some areas like the European Union, certain aspects of education have been decided by the larger group of countries. Especially the value of a degree is often decided internationally (getting a bachelor's degree in Germany can get you a job that requires a bachelor's degree in Spain too, without needing to follow any special re-education).
Zap Gun Certain minimum demands of bachelors degrees and masters degrees are very similar, but the same profession may require very different demands. I know of only 2. My brother had a gf that was a nurse, bt she was trained in the USA, but there nurses have more responsibility in some area´s, such as giving medication, but a lot less in others, such as calling a time of death and preparing the body to be put away.She had to do 2 extra years here and complained a lot about having to run anything passed a doctor, and not being allowed to do anything that required any cutting no matter how small. Another is accountancy. I have a friend that is an accountant, and hee it required 6 years of internship and only then do you get your full diploma and bachelors degree, and if you do not do it flawlessly, you get an extra year. Fuck up majorly and you can get 2 and in some cases 3 extra years. Many other countries even in the EU do have interernships for accountants but not 6 year ones.
How many languages do you know? Is English your first?
Jame Gumb English could be considered my second language; my first and native language is Dutch. All English I know is auto didactic though, as I was far ahead of my school's English education at all times. Aside from Dutch and English, I have never been truly fluent in any languages but was capable of reading texts in German (to the point my teacher once asked me if I could translate a WWII era hand-written German letter she found in her attic and see if I could track down who wrote it, but not having any experience in finding lost and probably dead German people I'm afraid that I didn't succeed at finding anyone... translating went fine though) and having basic conversations in French and Spanish at some point. Sadly, since I'm awfully out of practice on those fronts I've lost a lot of that ability now.
And then there's some fairly basic vocabulary and grammar in Latin, ancient Greek, middle English, Italian, Swedish (although most of that is because Dutch and Scandinavian languages have a lot of similarities, especially in pronunciations) and recently I've been following a Japanese course which is going quite well.
Can't say I'm quite up to the level of fluency in 5 languages, though, so I'll commend you on that.
Also, you talk about "here," but I don't seem to recall you ever stating where you're from.
_Prelude music plays_
“Hey, that’s the music from _Terragenesis!”_
Very touching, very beautiful!
Very interesting and not quite what I was expecting on China Uncensored :-)
Copyright 2011, so this was what Chris was doing before China Uncensored?
what is the actual name of the dispersion agent?
Nowadays because of global warming people are encourage to use less paper to prevent from tree cutting. But nowadays there are even worse forest fires are happening. How many trees and lifes are been killed and burnt?
Really, really awesome. Well done.
Asian techniques baby.
Good and Positive mind will always make a person better.
I hope youtube could add a feature to hide comments from certain users. I hope I can block XX moon's comments, which are annoying.
jichifly Haha, but his comments are some of the most beloved on this channel!
This is so cool.
fantastic watch!
Thank you. :)
loved it, quite interesting for sure.
my god this was a n epic video thank you so much for this just amazing
it took me 20 minutes to figure out paper doesn't have a menu screen.
+zayuran KightSpider Sometimes they do! Books usually have a table of contents in the front and an index in the back. When researching a subject I used the card index in the library to select books under the subject. Then after pulling the books from the shelf I would skim though the index and table of contents to see if the book had the information I was looking for. This way I didn't have to read the whole book if I was only looking for a specific piece of information. These days the card indexes are gone or are long neglected relics among the library furniture. But once you've gotten the book titles from the computer the process can still be used utilizing the index and table of contents. Saves a lot of research time when handling physical books.
William Albert O GOD I don't know what went wrong but I accidentally open the wrong page cause I no get the index menu and now a dark portal has opened up and monsters are spilling out!!! How do I CTRL ALT DELETE this shit!?!?!?
No use fighting it. Now that we got you, resistance is futile.
William Albert Nooooooooooooooo!
Moving and inspiring.
Working in those paper place in Asian seem to be quite relax.
WHY THE ARGUING??? This a DOCUMENTARY about papermaking, NOT A IDEOLOGICAL DEBATE!!
great series
thanks Chris. Please look at the gem stone trade in rural China. Keep up the good work.
Did you know you can make paper from animal poo as well... I think camel/ elephant/ horse poo. In fact I believe traditional way of making paper is the only sustainable method and will come back maybe even beat the e-books...
China Non-Stop Well why can't we make ebooks the same way?!
***** You mean e-books out of paper ;-)?
Seriously there is a lot of wasted precious natural ressources + pollution of all sort to make these e-books Vs natural paper= just trees (that if not cut would probably burn or rot away at some point, their natural death...).
China Non-Stop
Paper books, and even ancient stones last a lot longer than optical data. Data can easily get corrupted. This is amazing to me.
Thank you for this. I'm going to take time to read books again.
@@ChinaUncensored The CCP males books out of bull poo... Does that count? ~( 'w')/
Hemp is a world class paper grade fiber, especially for heavy vellums and is easily used for both thin, crisp papers, soft, pliable papers, and heavy rigid papers.
amazing, thank you.
You know there's more than one kind
good program.
My sister was listening to the audio and she asked if someone was getting kidnapped.
though in terms of preservation parchment or vellum was much more sturdy.
Why was this not on tv!
Michael Thomas Rush Limbaugh has kids? This page says he doesn't - marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/rushlimbaugh.htm
Beautiful
Wow, I learn something
had i he means, I'd go to korea to learn the craft from the Jangs.
Great vid
When I first saw the paper lady I found it was Jean Stapleton!
I wonder if any companies or persons have patents on paper?
More videos like this.
Great video.
Although, I must ask. Wasn't it the Ancient Egyptions who were the first to make paper?
ויאמר סבבה! They were using a different technique using papyrus. The way we make paper now evolved out of the way the ancient Chinese were doing it.
***** ah, I see.
***** Hey Chris, let me give short summary about the invention of paper according to what I know so far. the method being used and showed in your video is from Uyghurs, (you definitely know them), they still use that ancient method to make papers today, not for daily use but rather to keep the original method alive. I personally met the person who had been doing this since he was 10 and he died two years ago at the age of 106. So the question arises, how come it's called a chinese invention, and who is that guy Kai lun? well, he copied the method when he visited the land of uyghurs and after he went back he announced it as if he discovered or invented the very first paper. it's basically a copycat game. if you don't believe, you can do a little research about it coz it's very well stated in some historical sources.
***** I'm not inventing the history bro, I'm telling the history that I know very well. if you don't know about the history of Central Asia please remain silent till you get something to say about it.
+ויאמר סבבה! Papyrus will also rot away very quickly if the air is ever so slightly humid. Meaning it only stays around for long in deserts.
what is the title of your background music?
I am commenting before seeing the end of this video, but I remember being in Rainy Lake, Minnesota in the US several times where there was and still may be a huge paper mill where they go from wood pulp to the finished product. The process is so incredibly stinky that the air pollution spreads for 30 miles in every direction. It is ungodly awful and almost takes one's breath away. Major money maker though, presumably.
"In Chinese, it's called Go(or Gou)". No, it's not, it's called Jiao, or something else, but defiantly not Go(or Gou).
just awesome
20 minutes to find out how paper was made, hell no!
Where is the Taiwanese paper mill? I live in Taoyuan and would love to see this.
nice video.
now i can make my own roll!
this was produced long before "chinas new bank". chibots are really funny.
Hmm... I never though I was writing on the skin of murder trees. : P
***** Well, that's one way to put it haha
Can he pass the paper making to me ? I can continue their generation of paper making
I wonder. Who cares what some ancient people say? I mean, sure it can be important, it can be some superstitious nonsense. What I mean though is: why does it matter who came up with something? if it's 'fabricated' or some ancient record doesn't really matter. what matters is what is written, not when it was written or by whom or if it's just digital, on paper, chiseled in a rock or bent over plants in a corn field forming the text.
Okay wait... the father and son making paper are korean.. not chinese...just saying
Nyeh heh heh oops I thought it said papyrus
I love this!!!!! I want to buy some real paper!!!!! Hahahahahahahaha xD
Why are they speaking Korean? Aren't they supposed to be Chinese?
I wonder what the Bible looked like before paper. who wrote the Bible and transfered the Bible to paper. did the person do any changes, left out something?
They had parchment, which was basically cowhide stretched to the thinness of paper. The original Bible was written on that.
+Awesome Person ...was the cowhide sized with bullshit ?
This is Korean
That music harkens for a rub and tug.
who goes to the library to get a book on how to make paper?
just google it man, jeez. damn baby boomers amirite
Right Meow agree
So China really made paper?? what about the scrolls that they had in Moses's day and the paper they had in Paul's day?
Seriously though lol, Paper was made in 105 A.D in China, A.D being after Jesus died...... HOW WERE THERE SCROLLS?!?! they have paper that carbon dates back 5000 years ago (dead sea scroll)
+Mike O'Tren so i take it you are being serious, well, scroll used to be made from animal hides or plant fibers or other materials, take papyrus for example, it's technically paper, but not like the one made by Chinese people
paper is for noobs
I literally wipe with paper.
What a waste of time
Nicely done. Interesting topic too. Traditional paper crafting does have a future provided they manage to find ways to increase their paper quality over industrialized crafting (conservation wise, that is).
Anybody know what the dispersion agent is?