Ribbed rice paper was first produced in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty. Wang Chengzhi in Hangzhou has curtains made of copper wire. It used to be famous all over the world, but its technology has long been lost because there is no heir. Later, although someone copied it, it was far from being compared with the ribbed paper made in Wang Chengzhi.

After Kangxi, there was also the production of narrow curtain ribbed paper, which was thick and white. After the origin was transferred to Jingxian, the quality was the same as that of Xuan paper. Curtain pattern presents regular dense latitude and longitude lines, which are deep and clear, and it is named because it looks like a reed screen. Although this kind of paper is thin, it has excellent toughness, excellent wettability and ink wettability, and is the first-class rice paper. The main difference with ribless rice paper is that it can be used to rub paper besides painting and calligraphy and making album pages.

In recent years, due to the scarcity of raw materials for producing rice paper, most of the rice paper produced now uses its substitute materials. Although the appearance looks the same, the quality is not as good as before. For example, in 1992, the four-foot "ribbed" paper with the red star trademark of Jingxian Xuan Paper Factory was now fired to about 20,000 yuan. For example, it may even be higher than the price of ribbed rice paper produced in earlier years.