Although it is time-consuming and laborious to carve this on bamboo slips, it is not easy to save, but it is gradually much cheaper than cloth. Although it was not very popular at that time, for ordinary people, the price of cloth was so expensive that even clothes could not afford good cloth, let alone writing.
If you practice calligraphy every day, you will use a lot of cloth. Even people from wealthy families can hardly afford such a large sum of money, let alone ordinary people at that time. Therefore, writing with cloth is difficult to be popularized among the people. And the writing effect of cloth is not so perfect.
As we all know, ancient people wrote with brush and ink. When ink is dyed on cloth, it is easy to get wet and not easy to dry. Even in the end, all the words may be smudged together, so it is not so convenient to write with cloth, and sometimes it is even worse than the original bamboo slips.
So more people will still use bamboo slips to write. Also, the ancient cloth was not as fine as it is now, and the ancient cloth was rough. Writing on rough cloth, not only the writing experience is not good, but also the writing effect is not very good, so people still choose to write on bamboo slips between bamboo slips and cloth. This is not only cheap, but also the effect of the written words is better. Having said that, I have to sigh that writing on paper is the most comfortable, cheap and effective.