The invention of printing is one of China is greatest contributions to world civilization, formarly, human knowledge dissemination is only between individual copying and dictate behavior, but printing is a great engraved activities. The knowledge sharing beyond the individual limitations, becoming the behavior of the whole human society, In a sense, is to lead people through ignorance of the night, usher in the dawn of civilization.
1. Engraving printin
Engraving printing is the most ancient printing technology, originated in the Sui and tang dynasties, to the song dynasty to the peak. song dynasty engraving format, font, printing paper, ink, book binding form has a bigger development, yuan, Ming and Qing for hundreds of years is the engraving culture inherit and carry forward .Engraving printing is China first monument in the history of the development of printing technology.
2. Movable type printing
Movable type printing outside the engraving printing opened up a new path of printing. Northern Song Dynasty Qing li, the commoner Bi Sheng invented movable type version, over the next nine hundred years, appeared of wooden movable type, tin type, copper type, lead type, such as different material movable type printing, engraving printing materials, artificial, time and cost more than savings. The invention of printing is the printing technology development history China on the second milepost. On November 5, 2010, Chinese movable type printing by the United Nations education, scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) examined and approved the inclusion of the urgent need for the protection of intangible cultural heritage list.
3. Wooden printing machine
In the first half of 1455 born in Europe (now Germany) wealthy aristocratic family of Gutenberg and investor John Forster, completed the 42 line Bible printing, it marks the screw driven the success of wooden printing machine and metal matrix combination, become a revolutionary invention of the world.
4. Slate printing
In 1789, Senna field applied to the heavy Limestone Oil pattern is directly printed on paper, and making the wooden lithographic machine, leading to the invention of printing, slate. In 1820s, the western missionaries to china.
