Chapter 19 The Story of Manuscript Paper

The Story of Manuscript Paper When we first learned to write articles, there was no manuscript paper available.If you write with a pen, use Ordinary exercise book horizontal or vertical writing: if you write with a brush, you can use the one used in elementary school students' composition books today. A kind of manuscript paper with red grid or blue grid to write.My first creation to get the manuscript fee was published in the student magazine "A Journey to Hometown" in the Literature and Art column, this is a prose, which was written in the exercise book.Cheng I was introduced to this editor by Mr. Fang Wu, and I received a manuscript fee of 30 or 40 yuan.this is my bi

An unforgettable happy event. I don't know what manuscript paper Mr. Lu Xun and others in the north used at that time, but when I was in Shanghai After getting in touch with people from the Creation Society, I saw that the manuscript paper they used to write their manuscripts was all from the Shanghai family at that time. The rough-edged manuscript paper printed by the "Xueyi Society" has a very small grid, with 720 characters per page, and the grid is Printed in blue. At that time, most writers wrote with a brush.I have seen several writers use the same draft The same is true for several gentlemen from the Literary Research Association.Manuscripts on blue rough-edged paper from Xueyi Club at that time

Paper is obviously the manuscript paper that writers consistently use.Since I wanted to be a "writer" at that time, I naturally became a writer soon. used instead.Fortunately, this does not need to be bought with money. The table of the editorial department of Taidong Publishing Co. There are a lot of stacks on it, just take one back and go back. The 400-character or 500-character manuscript paper we are used to today is actually Japanese-style. Even the word "original paper" was imported from Japan.I don't know if anyone is going to fight for this "light Rong", because I don't think anyone has ever printed manuscript paper like this before we printed manuscript paper ourselves.

That was in 1925 or 1926. At that time, a few people called "Creation Society boys" I imitated the Japanese-style manuscript paper and self-printed a kind of manuscript paper with horizontal writing, each with three hundred and six characters, printed on Daolin paper, You can write with a pen, because at that time people gradually did not use brushes to write manuscripts.At this time, Cheng Fangwu, Guo Moruo and others They are not in Shanghai, but Mr. Duff is in Shanghai. Most of his creations during this period were written in This is on the "manuscript paper of the Publishing Department of Creation Society" written horizontally in purple.

Before that, Japanese-style original paper was used, and in Shanghai there were only Japanese bookstores in the Hongkou area. To buy, most of them are 400 characters per sheet, because Japanese writers calculate the manuscript fee according to the number of original manuscript pages, One page of original paper of 400 characters is used as a unit, so most of them are printed in 400 characters.But at that time the goods were not Many, not easy to buy.We saw the love triangle novel that Mr. Zhang Ziping sent back from Japan at that time, They are all written on this kind of original paper, which is really enviable. Sometimes when Ms. Bai Wei comes back from Japan during the summer vacation,

Passing by Shanghai, there was original paper in the box, so I asked her for some shamelessly. The original paper had a faint The unique fragrance of Japanese cosmetics is collected and reluctant to use. After Beixin, Kaiming and other bookstores opened in Shanghai, people who made their own Japanese-style manuscript paper gradually Get more.Many bookstores, newspapers, and magazines have their own manuscript paper.At one time, the modern draft Paper and manuscript paper are the most popular.The formats are all 32-fold double-fold, some with 400 characters, some with 500 characters Character.But I always feel that the 32-carat grid is too small, and I like to use the 16-carat double-folded 500-character one, because

Easy to delete and modify.However, such a large manuscript paper is sometimes not easy to buy, so I had to print it myself.many It's been like this for years, but I've never had my name printed on it.