By

Middle of east china, an ancient city called

ruian with a history of more than a thousand
years
The two villages that founded printing are in
the southwest mountainous region of the
city.


One of the villages that herited
chinese printing In caocun township
One of the two only villages that the
technique is still being used

Another ther village that

heritage chinese printing In
pingyaunkeng township
One of the two villages that the
technique still being used
today

Original print
The Chinese printing was first used like stamps. It was not efficient but that is what
they did. They made boards and stamp them onto the paper.

Bi Sheng invented the clay

movable printing technique in
the 11th century. He did not
invent printing but he is the one
who improved it. Originally they
used stamps, but he made the
character movable.


His clay movable typing was not that great because it had the same problem with
the stamps. Overtime when used it breaks.
His invention made it easier to print even though it breaks, you can replace the
characters


Later in the 12th mid century- the chinese printing technique was used for printing
of buddhism sutra in the western xia dynasty


After that, the chinese movable
printing was made of bronze and tin


Chinese printing helped changed Europe and aiding the spread of literacy.


First they selected a type of wood called the birch-leaf pear,
cut them into cubes and polish them. The wood hard and
tough.


The molds will be written on with a brush
reversely.
Then engraving the characters which
they did reversely, and cut off the blank
sides and the angle of the wood.


The ancestors of the wangs clan invented a unique rhyme for picking out
characters.
This technique was passed down from generation to generation
It covers the majority of bushou.


The molds of characters first be arranged on the printing
bored


The ink stick must be rubbed on the ink slab to create ink, then it will be dipped in
with a brush and placed on the printing board.


After you have painted the printing board, place a piece of Xuan paper, and move
a special coir brush on the paper, to and for, backward and forward to ensure the
paper to absorb enough ink from the molds of the characters.


When the xuan paper is lifted, you will have a piece of delicate mobile printing
work has finally completed.


Right now the chinese mobile type printing technique is being preserved and
hopefully passed on.

Work cited
"Wooden Movable-type Printing of China." Wooden Movable-type Printing of China Intangible Heritage - Culture Sector - UNESCO. Intangible Cultural Heritage, n.d.
Web. 17 Nov. 2016. <http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/USL/wooden-movabletype-printing-of-china-00322>.