相传,在唐代元和年间,寓居成都浣花溪畔的才女诗人薛涛,从红色的鸡冠花、荷花等花瓣中提取染料,自创一种深红色的、尺幅狭小的加工纸,这种纸被后世称为“薛涛笺”。薛涛曾以此写诗,与当时的文化名流元稹、白居易、杜牧、刘禹锡等人相唱和,因而名著于文坛。笺纸,特指尺幅较小且华美的纸张,并不完全等同于我们现代意义上的信纸。虽然有一部分书信功能,但多为文人士大夫阶层吟诗唱诵之用。 According to legend, during the Yuan Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, Xue Tao, a talented poet living on the banks of Huanhuaxi in Chengdu, extracted dyes from the petals of the red celosia, lotus and other flowers and created a crimson, narrow-scale processed paper. Known as “Xue Tao 笺 ”. Xue Tao used to write poetry, and the cultural celebrities Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Du Mu, Liu Yuxi and others sing and so famous in the literary world. Paper, especially small size and beautiful paper, is not exactly the same as our stationery in the modern sense. Although part of the letter function, but mostly clergy and literati classes chant poems.