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[luuquoctin]

The first topic is about history. Anyone can tell us who created paper, and some the history-related events?

[hieukieng]

Paper was first invented by Chinese a long long time ago (it is so easy to check the exact time by google but i'm so lazy to do that :p). Before the invention of paper, Chinese had used bamboo and sheep skin to write their documents :D Right?

[luuquoctin]

Nguyên văn bởi hieukieng

Paper was first invented by Chinese a long long time ago (it is so easy to check the exact time by google but i'm so lazy to do that :p). Before the invention of paper, Chinese had used bamboo and sheep skin to write their documents :D Right?

Your are totally right about the origin of paper. And the bamboo, in the form of strips sewn and rolled together into scrolls, was used for writing but too heavy and awkward to transport. However, I think sheep skin was used in some countries other than China.

Day by bay, giving just little information like this doesn’t take much of your time, and after one year, you will be able to combine them into a 100 page-book, wow, so great.

Cheer up, everybody, start writing now and exchanging thoughts and knowledge.

[lhb305]

Papermaking is one of the four great inventions of ancient (compass, papermaking, gunpowder, print). I have searched on internet but I could not find the exact time of the invention. It only announced that the first papermaking process was developed during the early second century.

Did you know when the first paper was used in our country?.

Oh, how I can turn off vietnamese typing mode. It is not convenient as English typing?.

[Bigdady]

Reading CNN 10 or 20 minutes per day, the most effective way....

[hieukieng]

According to wikipedia, paper was first used in Egypt, which was made from papyrus plant. So, what is the difference between the the one from China and the one from Egypt?

By the way, does anyone know when was paper first invented? I mean scientific paper. We are all bothered so much by this kind of paper :(

[Hieu QL03]

The 'paper' word derives from the Greek term called papyrus. Papyrus was a writing material for the ancient and produced as early as 3500 BC in Egypt.
When demand of storing material increased (such as library establishment) and the papyrus plant required growing in subtropical condition, parchment was invented. Parchment was writing paper which was made of sheepskin or calfskin.

[hanguyenvu]

All the information which I’ve got about the history of the paper that is from the internet and I think all you can also easily find it. I don’t have a deeply knowledge in the paper, but I know that paper has had an important role in our life. However, nowadays or in the future when the information technologies achieve many high attainments: the human’s data can be stored without paper, the mail can be sent free of using paper letter, the stories or the novels can come to the bookworm with the exception of being through a paper book … What will happen to the paper? What is your opinion???

[luuquoctin]

Nguyên văn bởi lhb305

Did you know when the first paper was used in our country?.

Oh, how I can turn off vietnamese typing mode. It is not convenient as English typing?

I couldn't find any information about the time paper was first used in our country, but as a logic anticipation, China invaded Vietnam in 111 BC, and they had to maintain a governing system for the new colony, so not many years after its invention, paper (and even paper making process) would be brought to our ancestors. I expect that paper appeared 2nd century AD in our country.

Ps: You may switch the typing mode by striking the F9 key twice.

[luuquoctin]

Nguyên văn bởi Bigdady

Reading CNN 10 or 20 minutes per day, the most effective way....

Thank you, this is a good idea. Reading like this will incredibly increase your vocabulary and reading ability.

I also would lilke to introduce one of my favorite link which provides short TV-like news, and brief contents are displayed just next to the video. Very good for your combination skill: listening, reading, and watching.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video