Paper Ancestor: Cai Lun, Never ceasing to strive

Author: Liu Xijun
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: He is considered the inventor of modern papermaking. His innovations in papermaking technology brought about a great revolution in the materials for books, making paper-based books a powerful tool for spreading culture and marking an epoch-making significance in the history of human civilization. To this day, nearly two thousand years after his time, the world still uses the papermaking production process he invented. As for the basic process of papermaking, it has not deviated from the model established by him during the Eastern Han Dynasty. Not only in papermaking but also in precision machinery manufacturing, he made outstanding contributions. During his tenure as the head of the Shangfang Bureau, he often visited the site for technical investigations. With a highly innovative spirit, he played a significant role in advancing the development of metal smelting and processing, as well as mechanical manufacturing techniques at the time. He is the pioneer of papermaking—Cai Lun. A renowned scientific master in the world, a founder of cultural dissemination, and a driving force of civilization's progress.