What is the origin of newspapers? When did newspapers start appearing in China

Newspapers first appeared in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty around the second century BC.

Di Bao was the first newspaper in the world. Many people in the West believe that the earliest newspaper was the "Daily Chronicle" created by Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire in 59 B.C., which was an official newspaper that conveyed urgent military information, but this kind of newspaper did not live long and was soon discontinued. As far as the age of the newspaper is concerned, China's "Di Bao" appeared in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty around the second century B.C., about a century earlier than the "Daily Chronicle" of the Roman Empire.

China: In 1815, British missionaries founded the first regular Chinese publication in Malacca, Chase, a monthly Chinese publication with the aim of propagating doctrine, 190 years ago. In 1827, the missionaries ran the Canton Record in Guangzhou, the first Chinese newspaper in China, 178 years ago.

As for the newspaper run by the Chinese, it is the "Circulation**" run by Wang Tao in Shanghai in 1874, which is 134 years ago.

A request printed in 1605 was recently discovered by the Gutenberg Printing Museum, one of the world's most famous printing museums, and the rare artifacts in this collection confirm that the world's first newspapers appeared before 1605. This conclusion is at least four years ahead of the date of the earliest newspapers in the current writings.

In the current textbooks on foreign journalism, the world's first printed newspaper is generally marked by the newspapers of European countries that appeared in the early 17th century. For example, the Antwerp newspaper in the Netherlands (Nieuwe Tijdinghen (1609), the German newspaper Circular (Relationoder Zeitung (1609), the English weekly news (its full name is the weekly news from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, the West Rhine, France and the Netherlands in 1621), and the French newspaper La Gazette (1631). This is confirmed by the frequent print newspapers published in some European countries in the early 17th century, and the sources** are from the Encyclopædia Britannica (1980 edition, vol. 15, p. 236).

Therefore, it is generally believed that the world's first newspaper was born in 1609.

The Gutenberg Printing Museum in Mainz, Germany, is one of the most authoritative printing museums in the world and is home to the world's first printing press. Recently, the museum informed the World Press Association that the "birthplace" of the German newspaper Relation had been found in the small town of Strasbourg, France. The place is now part of France and was then called "Deutsche Rheinland".

The Secretary-General of the World Association of Newspapers, Mr. Bowing, was immediately overjoyed to learn of this information. "The evidence is beyond doubt, and we're all very excited," he said. ”

It is reported that the Bulletin was printed and published by a man named John Carrollus. Newspapers at that time did not yet use the printing press, so this man made a living by specializing in hand-copying news, which he sold to wealthy people. As the role of information for business became more apparent, hand-copied newspapers became in short supply.

But copying newspapers by hand is inefficient and less profitable. So Carolus came up with the idea of using a printing press to mass-produce newspapers. In 1604 he bought a printing shop, and in the summer of 1605 he began printing newspapers with a printing press.

The "letter of request" that was found was written by Carolus to the Strasbourg parliament. He asked the city council to protect his publishing rights and not to allow others to print the newspapers he printed.

This is in fact a matter of copyright, probably one of the first in the world to call for copyright, and the issue of print and circulation has been strategically considered.

Many people in the West believe that the earliest newspaper was the Daily Chronicle created by Julius Caesar of the Roman Empire in 59 BC. In fact, as far as the era of the newspaper is concerned, China's "Di Bao" is about a century earlier than the "Daily Chronicle". "Di Bao" is also known as "Di Bao" (also known as Di Banknote), and has the name of "Chao Bao", "Article Newspaper" and "Miscellaneous Newspaper".

The word "newspaper" is used in all four, which shows that it is a kind of annunciative news used for notification, and it is a news copy specially used for the imperial court to disseminate documents and political information about the government. "Di Bao" first appeared in the early Western Han Dynasty (about the second century BC). From the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, although the name of Di Bao changed frequently, its distribution was never interrupted, and its nature and content did not change much.

With the invention and development of papermaking, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, China made paper with plant fibers, and "Di Bao" has been copied with paper, so that "Di Bao" has been further developed and more convenient for distribution and transmission. In the Tang Dynasty, the "Di Bao" was distributed by the envoys who were stationed in the capital. In the twelfth year of the Tang Dynasty's Great Calendar (777 AD), the envoy of the palace was renamed "Jinjuan", and under the unified jurisdiction of the Shangdu Zhijinjuan Academy, the publication of the "Di Bao" was carried out.

Therefore, among the various newspaper origins, "the original form of Chinese newspapers originated in the Tang Dynasty" is the most credible. The earliest surviving newspaper is the Dunhuang Tang Guiyi Army's "Advance to the Courtyard" in the British Library in London, England, which is more than 1,100 years old. According to historical records, Di Bao was published until the abdication of the Qing emperor in 1912, when it ceased to be published.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, newspapers had been called "Di Bao", "Chao Bao", "Di Copy", "Jin Ju Yuan", "Zheng Bao" and so on, but "Di Bao" was still the most common name. Because the content published in the "Di Bao" was also the major policies and personnel changes of the imperial court at that time. Therefore, its distribution has always been strictly controlled by **, and it is copied by hand.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, movable type printing began to be used for the printing of Di Bao. Before the introduction of Western printing, the Qing Dynasty cabinet set up a special organization "copy room" outside the Donghua Gate in the capital, and every day the newspaper office sent people there to copy the news released that day, called "palace documents". After the reporter obtains the copy, he immediately prints it.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to "Di Bao", there was "Beijing Daily". The "Beijing Daily" is composed of three parts: "Gongmen Copy", "Decree" and "Fold", due to the large number of words in the fold, typesetting is time-consuming, and it needs to be completed in the evening to complete its printing and binding, and it will be issued the next day. This kind of "Beijing Daily", which is printed in half and double-paged, is very similar to the ** issued now.

1.The advent of newspapers has broadened the platform for the dissemination, development and exchange of culture.

2.The advent of newspapers has enriched people's lives and satisfied people's thirst for knowledge.

3.The advent of newspapers revolutionized the way history is written and the way people understand it.

4.The advent of newspapers boosted the economy and increased jobs.

In fact, it's the same as what the big brother said earlier.

It has greatly changed the channels for people to obtain information, shortened the distance between various related things, and made the intersection more convenient and fast. Contributed to the course of history and changed the whole world.

The emergence of newspapers has broadened the platform for the dissemination, development and exchange of culture.