5000多年前,古代埃及人用尼罗河畔生长的纸莎草当纸来使用时,书写工具有的是用纸莎草的茎。他们将草茎斜着切断当笔,蘸上用矿物颜料和水调成的“墨水”写字。但纸莎草名为草,实则是种高大的草本植物,它的茎也很粗,像竹管一样。这种“笔”握起来当然不会使人感到舒服,所以,后来埃及人就改用芦苇管作笔了。埃及人在芦苇丛中采集芦苇管,然后把这些芦苇管埋在畜粪堆里,几个月后, More than 5,000 years ago, when ancient Egyptians used paper-based papyrus growing along the Nile as paper, the writing instruments used stems of papyrus. They cut the straw stem obliquely off the pen, dipped in “ink” written with mineral pigments and water. But papyrus grass, in fact, is a kind of tall herbs, its stem is also very thick, like bamboo. Of course, this type of “pen” does not feel comfortable, so later Egyptians changed their pen to reed pipe. The Egyptians collected reeds in the reeds and buried them in the dung. A few months later,