What was paper first made of?

What was calligraphy written on before the invention of paper?

Where is my area of strength?

Where is there area for improvement?

How was Painting Significant to Chinese Culture

Although painting was not invented in China it was important to Chinese culture. The Chinese regaurded it as the one true art with its close relation to calligraphy. They created paintings for poetic and philosofical purposes. They created portraits too. There were also religious paintings and paintings of objects.

What Was Writing Like and Who Invented it?

The invention of chinese writing is credited to emperor Fixi sometime between 2953-2838 B.C. It used pictoral symbols and was written on tortoise shells before paper. The members of the scholar-gentry class that staffed the imperial bureaucracy used the four treasures. They are a brush, paper, an inkstick, and an inkstone. It is called calligraphy.

What was Paper Made of?

Paper wasn't always wood. Paper started out as silk. Later the Chinese pounded bamboo to a pulp, boiled it with lime for eight days, poured it into a vat, carefully lowered a screen into it, when it came out it was covered with wet fibers which were pressed and dried. Later on they used mulberry bark, straw, hemp, and seaweed. Now it is made of wood which is probably easier to make.