Porcelain was not a sudden invention, and an ancient form of porcelain existed during the Shang dynasty (1600 BC–1046 BC). Later, paper was brought to the rest of the world via the Silk Road.
Soon, paper became the new writing material, and it only took a few years before it was widely in use all over China. Later, he discovered that the quality of the paper could be improved by adding hemp and old fish nets to the pulp. Ts’ai Lun used the bark of the mulberry tree and pounded the fibers into a sheet. However, a recent archeological survey indicates that paper had already been invented 200 years earlier and was used by the ancient Chinese military. Paper was invented in ancient China around 105 AD during the reign of the Han emperor He Di by Ts’ai Lun (or Chai Lun), an official of the imperial court. The world “paper” was derived from papyrus. Around 2200 BC, the Egyptians discovered a type of reed called papyrus which could be used to write on by overlapping thin strips that had been soaked in water.
Before the invention of paper, people used different materials like wood, stone, and bone to write on.
