PersonAD 121
Cai Lun
Also called: Ts’ai Lun
Later Han court eunuch who made good paper from tree bark, hemp, rags and old fishing nets and presented it to the emperor in 105
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Cai Lun, a eunuch of the Later Han court, made cheap, good-quality paper from tree bark, hemp scraps, rags and old fishing nets and presented it to the emperor in 105.
Themes this person appears in
- Ancient China and India770 BC – AD 220
From the Hundred Schools of the Warring States to the unified empires of Qin and Han, and from the Buddha to the Maurya and Kushan empires — the millennium that shaped East and South Asian civilisation