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Where was paper first made? In China. The Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hair-like parts of certain plants. In Egypt and the West, paper was not very commonly used before the year 1400. The Egyptians wrote on papyrus, a kind of paper made from the pith or the stems of tall aquatic cyperaceous plants. Europeans used parchment for many hundreds of years. What was parchment? Parchment was made from the skin of certain young animals. They were very strong. We have learnt some of the most important facts of European history from records that were kept on parchment. Oh, I see. How about paper in Europe? Well, paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia which now makes a great deal of the world's paper but didn't begin to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that the best paper could be made from trees. After that Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States became the most important in paper making. They are forest countries. Today Finland makes the best paper in the world and the paper industry of the country is the biggest in the world. New paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 300 metres long and six metres wide in one minute. Oh, my goodness. That's amusing.
纸最早来自哪个国家？ 中国。中国人两千年前就造出了纸，他们现在还有那时候造的纸呢。但是中国纸不是用树做的，是用那种像头发似的植物做的。在埃及和西方国家，纸直到1400年以后才被广泛使用。埃及人用纸莎草写字，这种纸是用高大水生莎草科植物的芯或者茎做的。而欧洲人用羊皮卷用了几百年。 羊皮卷是什么？ 羊皮卷是用一种动物幼兽的皮做的，非常结实。我们从流传下来的羊皮卷上了解到了很多欧洲历史重非常重要的事实。 哦，我明白了。那欧洲的纸呢？ 直到1100年，南欧才开始造纸。斯堪的纳维亚现在虽然有着世界上首屈一指的造纸量，但也是1500年才开始的。有个叫schaeffer的德国人发现用树可以做出好纸，再后来加拿大、瑞典、挪威、芬兰和美国成了造纸大国，他们都是森林国家。现在最好的纸产自芬兰，芬兰的造纸业是世界上规模最大的。新的造纸机器非常大，造纸很快。最大的机器能在一分钟之内造出长300米、宽6米的纸。 哦天哪。这么神奇。 ——by vincit 欢迎讨论