In traditional Chinese painting, freehand shrimp generally uses rice paper or raw rice paper as drawing paper. Xuan paper is a kind of traditional China drawing paper, which is famous for its flexibility, good ink absorption, no deformation and no fading. Raw rice paper is a kind of rice paper, which is usually thick in texture and can withstand ink and wash better, and is suitable for painting large-scale freehand shrimps.
Xuan paper is a traditional paper for painting and calligraphy in China, and it is also one of the traditional papermaking processes in China. Xuan paper "began in the Tang Dynasty and was produced in Jingxian County". Jingxian County was under the jurisdiction of Xuanzhou in the Tang Dynasty, so it was named Xuanzhi.