Materials used by ancestors to write before the invention of paper and their shortcomings

Before the invention of paper, the materials used by ancestors to write and their disadvantages were as follows:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions: Writing is troublesome and materials are hard to find.

Silk: It's too expensive.

Bamboo and wood chips: too heavy.

Ancient ancestors mainly recorded by knotted ropes, and later gradually invented writing, and began to use Oracle Bone Inscriptions as writing materials. Later, bamboo and wood chips (bamboo slips) and silk were found and used as writing materials. But paper was invented because silk was too expensive and bamboo was too heavy. According to research, the production of paper began in the Western Han Dynasty.

Reference link:

Paper _ Baidu Encyclopedia

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