Human accumulate useful knowledge, there are about ten thousand years of history. Text generation, had made the retention and dissemination of a big leap forward. The invention of printing and application of various types of printed matter in large numbers, so that useful knowledge spread like wildfire, spread the precious golden classics that human culture has made substantial progress. In modern times, the development of social productive forces and technological advances, contributed to the printing technology advances, the development of printing and the spread of education and to promote the dissemination of knowledge, so that human civilization entered a new era.
The invention of printing, is a glorious chapter in the history of human civilization, and the establishment of the feats great matters of great honor belongs to the Chinese nation.
About 1,300 years ago, China's invention of the printing press. The invention of printing, is the ancestral wisdom, has a long and difficult process of exploration.
1. the text generation
Our character is from the ancient knot rope, carved wood notes beginning, and later through knot gradually formed a hieroglyphic painting notepad
Kanji fonts, in the long process of development always constantly changing. The first is the Shang Dynasty Oracle and Zhou Dynasty inscriptions on ancient bronze (also called Bronze). Since the Qin Dynasty less, and gradually standardized, the seal script, official script, to today's regular script, running script and cursive
The invention of writing a great leap forward in human civilization , the text of the application , making the language information to be accurate, complete , image reproduction , to the subsequent stone , published in wood, as well Transcription , printing books , creating convenient conditions for the birth of the printing press .
2.pens, paper, ink invention
Pens, paper, ink have been invented for the lifetime of the text to create the necessary material basis.
Before the invention of the printing press around 1000 , when it appeared in our brush, as was written with rabbit hair to thin bamboo as a pen dipped in cinnabar like the colored material in the bamboo, Sibo carrier like paint . Paint brush convenient, durable, ancient legend , continuous improvement, to become the best of writing instruments still in use.
The beginning of the second century AD , the Eastern Han Dili years, Cai Lun Chang summed up the experience of their predecessors copy paper , using bark , hemp head , Popi and other paper material , made of a high quality plant fiber paper , called "Cai Xiu paper ." Paper with a soft, lightweight , good toughness , easy to manufacture , cheap , etc., is very suitable writing materials , and soon replaced the bulky and expensive bamboo Sibo .
To the third century AD , made up of soot ink , this ink with pine smoke and gelatin preparation. Soluble not faint , tinted not off , very suitable for writing and printing .
3.stamped with Billiton Stone
From the perspective of printing technology , the seal is equivalent to printing plates, stamp that is printed , and inscribed seals , are the plate .
Seal , the initial letter only for use with the area of small, usually carved a name or rank. Jin dynasty to the fourth century , the emergence of larger seal, according to books contained , then the seal has 120 words . Seal with 120 characters printed cover obtained should be a replica of the essay .
Early seals , mostly recessed anti write Engrave , printed in the dirt , get a raised embossed seal against writing is printed in black and white, on paper get is a positive write text. Yang Wen wrote this from the anti achieved a positive write text copy method , already pregnant with the prototype of woodblock printing .
Rio stone is another invention of printing origin .
Spring Previously, the text engraved in stone , folk have been widely circulated. After the spring , stone engraving technology is quite adept , when Emperor touring everywhere Stele merit . By the year 175 years ( Emperor Ling of Han Xiping four years ) , Zhonglang Yong was ordered to write the Confucian classics , and 46 people carved stone , which is the famous " Xiping Stone Classics " and then brush with extension methods to stone the word rubbing down, called rubbings can be corrected when the book or scripture used ( see Figure 1-6 , Figure 1-7 ) . Obviously, stamped with the extension stone with the same purpose.