纸醉泾迷zhi Zui Jing Mi: 中国宣纸那些事儿Those Things About Xuan Paper

by Hui Pang

Overview

Chinese Xuan Paper, a Thousand-year Legend

In 2006, the State Council of the People's Republic of China issued the first batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage lists. Among them, the "Xuan paper making skills" of Jingxian, Anhui Province was listed, making this traditional handmade craft officially recognized as a national protected object. On September 30, 2009, this "Xuan paper making skills" of China was affirmed by UNESCO and included in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Having been a popular paper used for classical Chinese paintings and calligraphy, Xuan paper is one of the traditional Chinese papermaking crafts. Because Xuan paper is

easy to store, durable and long lasting, it earns the reputation of "paper longevity for thousands of years". The texture of Xuan paper is soft but tough, smooth and clean like jade, and rot and insect resistant. Used for paintings and calligraphy, the layers and strokes on Xuan paper are clear and distinct, bold and vigorous, saturated but not muddy, light but not lackluster. Words and paintings are brilliant and vivid on paper.

According to the " History of the Early Tang Dynasty", paper and writing brushes already appeared in the tribute presented by Xuancheng County to Chang'an during the reign of Tang Tianbao. The comprehensive and systematic use of green sandalwood bark to make Xuan paper began from the Cao family, represented by Cao Dasan, the ancestor of Xiaoling in Jingxian, in late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty.

Why can Xuan paper only come from Jingxian? How many magical legends are there in that place? Such, is our original intention to go into the introduction of "the mountain, the water, the people" with all those legends; and such, is our purpose to pass on the well documented history and legend to future generations so that they reveal the truth through these historical facts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087926407
Publisher:	Eastwest Art Culture & Education Center
Publication date:	12/06/2020
Series:	Chinese Intangible Cultural
Edition description:	Hui Pang ed.
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.44(d)
Language:	Chinese

About the Author

Mr. Pang Hui, born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, has engaged in the research and collection of Chinese art works for 35 years. He has a wide interest covering calligraphy, paintings, Buddha statues, porcelain, furniture, bamboo carvings, wood carvings and stone carvings, with emphasis on the study of Jinling Style paintings, Six-Dynasty Buddha statues of China, and other art works of ancient Jinling Capital. In particular, he is fond of collecting ancient rosewood and yellow rosewood furniture. He is now a consultant of Jiangsu International Culture Exchange Center, and vice president of North American Chinese Collection Association. Mr. Pang Hui has committed himself to Chinese cultural exchange. He has planned to publish a series of books on the intangible cultural heritage of China. Among them, two books have been published in the United States. One is "Modern Tracings of Oracle Bone and Bronze Age Inscription-Qin Shiwei Oracle Seal Carving and Calligraphy Art Collection", and the other is "Zhi Zui Jing Mi-Those Things about Xuan Paper".