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Coarse-paper Shop

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Coarse paper is handmade paper made with rice straw or other raw materials. It is yellowish and rather rough in quality. Originally it was regularly used as packing paper or for polishing utensils and covering cartons. Shops did not use goods as their signs because coarse paper was rather fragile. It was also very difficult to make realistic-looking model signs. Consequently, all coarse-paper shops agreed to use a string of four metal disks as their signs. Some disks are written with "Gan Cao Cu Zhi" (coarse paper made of licorice root), so as to be easily identified by buyers.

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