Rice paper

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Drawing on rice paper

Commonly referred to as rice paper designated material is to collectively a collective term that has been used on several paper-like materials from East Asia to refer, China paper , Xuan paper , Japanese paper , Hanji (Korean paper) and Tibetan paper produced from different plants.

In another context, rice paper refers to the thinly peeled , dried pulp of the rice paper tree ( Tetrapanax papyrifer ) in Chinese kung shu , which is cut into strips and then pressed. It is a sheet-like "paper" material and was used extensively in Guangdong China at the end of the 19th century as a common carrier medium for gouache paintings that were sold to western customers of the era. The material is mainly obtained from the pulp of "rice paper trees" called species from the Araliaceae family.

It was first mentioned in southern China in 1637 . It is extremely white in color and has a spongy , waffle-like structure. The name "rice paper" was created by the British because of the whiteness of the paper of white rice mistakenly derived and there is not from rice straw or - flour . The term was first defined in the Chinese-English dictionary by Robert Morrison in 1823, who referred to the use of the Chinese medicinal plant as a material for painting , as well as for making artificial flowers and shoe soles .

But there is paper made from rice straw , this is a very coarse, cheap paper. → Type of paper , straw paper. This paper, however, has nothing in common with the term "rice paper".

Chinese rice paper

A distinction is made between the rice paper tree ( Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K. Koch ) and the Tibetan rice paper tree ( Merrilliopanax alpinus (CB Clarke) CB Shang ). The former is a small tree that is native to Taiwan's and Japan's swamp forests and is grown in China . It is sometimes also cultivated as an ornamental plant. The second species is native to Tibet . These types provide the basis for what is known as "Chinese rice paper".

For production, the plant parts (branches) are first boiled and the bark is removed. The cylindrical core of the pith of the twigs is rolled on a flat and hard surface against a knife, whereby the core is cut into thin layers of fine, ivory-like tissue.

The paper is very suitable for watercolor paintings . However, due to its texture, it is less suitable for writing. Dyed differently, this "rice paper" is also used for the production of artificial flowers .

Japanese rice paper

So-called Japanese rice paper is also not made from components of rice plants.

Edible rice paper

Different types of rice wafers - made from rice flour - are edible and are mistakenly called rice paper. This can be used as food packaging.

These rice wafers are also used in the kitchen, for example for spring rolls or dumplings . The rice wafers , which usually consist of a mixture of a large amount of tapioca starch and a smaller amount of rice flour and salt, are soaked in lukewarm water before further processing and then drained. Edible rice wafers are available packaged in Asian grocery stores in many places. They are used u. a. in Vietnamese cuisine . There they are called "rice paper", "rice sheets" or "spring roll skins". In China they are called "wafer paper".

  • Edible rice paper laid out to dry ( Vietnam )

  • Edible rice paper, square and round design

Web links

Commons : Rice Paper  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
  • Rice paper at materialarchiv.ch, accessed on October 19, 2016.
  • Rice base paper on materialarchiv.ch, accessed on October 19, 2016.

literature

  • Therese Weber: The language of paper. A 2000 year history . Verlag Haupt Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna, ISBN 3-258-06793-7 . (Cultural and art-historical aspects of paper in Asia and Europe as well as PaperArt)

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  1. ↑ song Yingxing: Tiangong Kaiwu. 1637, online (Chinese) , German edition, Konrad Herrmann: Opening up the heavenly treasures. Economic development NW, 2004. ISBN 978-3-86509-133-8 .
  2. ^ Robert Morrison: A dictionary of the Chinese language: in three parts. East India Companys Press, 1823, ISBN 978-1-270-74289-0 (Reprint, Nabu Press, 2011).
  3. ^ Josep Asunción: The Complete Book of Papermaking. Lark Books, 2003, ISBN 1-57990-456-4 , p. 14.
  4. ↑ Agnieszka Helman ważny: The Archeology of Tibetan Books. Brill, 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-27504-1 , p. 22.
  5. ↑ Helen Hiebert: The Papermaker's Companion: Versa Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-58017-200-4 , p. 45.
  6. ↑ Plant names of Tetrapanax species - unfortunately with outdated taxonomy .
  7. ↑ Eileen Yin-Fei Lo: The Chinese Chicken Cookbook: Simon & Schuster, 2004, ISBN 0-7432-3341-7 , p. 35.