Why did movable type printing make such a great contribution to the development of world culture?

Printing types: 1. Classification of printing methods according to the relative position of ** and non** areas on the printing plate According to the relative position of ** and non** areas on the printing plate, common printing methods can be divided into four categories: letterpress printing, gravure printing, lithographic printing and stencil printing: (1) letterpress printing, the first part of the printing plate is convex, the printing principle is similar to the seal, the early woodblock printing, movable type printing and later lead printing all belong to letterpress printing.

2) Gravure printing, the first part of the printing plate is lower than the blank part, and it is often used for the printing of banknotes, stamps and other valuable ones. (3) Lithography, the first part of the printing plate and the blank part are almost on the same plane, and the principle of immiscible oil and water is used for printing. (4) Hole printing, the first part of the printing plate is a hole, and the ink passes through the hole....

It has promoted the process of human history and civilization... There is no need to waste time and effort to stereotype the whole board, and at the same time, it also avoids the error of the stereotype, only the need to destroy the whole board, only need to make a single word correction. In addition, the reuse of words is also possible, which facilitates printing and allows knowledge to be quickly transmitted through paper.

The development of world civilization is inseparable from knowledge, and even more inseparable from convenient communication.

Engraving printing before movable type printing was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and most books often took several years, and the storage of plates took up a lot of space, and they were often damaged by deformation, moth-eaten and corrosion. Books with a small print run that don't need to be reprinted, the plates become waste. In addition, typos are found in the engraving, which is very difficult to correct, and often requires the entire plate to be re-engraved.

1, movable type plate making just to avoid the lack of engraving, as long as the preparation of enough single movable type in advance, can be imposed at any time, greatly speed up the plate making time.

2. After the movable type plate is printed, it can be disassembled, and the movable type can be reused, and it is easy to change the typos.

3. And the movable type occupies less space than the engraving, which is easy to store and keep.

4. Therefore, whether in plate making, printing and storage, movable type printing greatly saves manpower, material resources and time.

In this way, the superiority of movable type is manifested. Afterward.

Before movable type printing, there was writing, but at that time, characters were carved on bulky objects such as bone, wood, stone, bamboo, etc., which was not conducive to carrying, that is, not conducive to transmission and communication. In the same way, it is not conducive to the development of culture.

Movable type printing can theoretically accelerate the process of cultural exchange and development in the world. But the spread of movable type printing in China to Europe did not play a real role. China's movable type is clay characters, and the use of lead characters in Europe has popularized the public.

Movable type printing, papermaking, compass, four major inventions.

1) The invention of movable type printing created the idea of movable type typesetting and laid the foundation for the development of modern lead typesetting technology.

2) It shortens the time of printing and production of publications and improves the production speed of publications.

3) The spread of movable type printing has contributed to the development of the world's publishing industry. After the invention of printing, it was soon introduced to Korea and Japan. At the same time, it was introduced to Egypt along the Silk Road through Persia and then to Europe.

The German Gutenberg developed lead-antimony-tin alloy movable type (that is, the current so-called lead movable type), which further improved the movable type printing technology, thus making the world publishing industry gradually enter a new period of development of mechanical printing. Bi Sheng lived in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he synthesized the techniques of his predecessors to invent movable type printing, air raids, and techniques. The advent of movable type printing facilitated the spread of culture, and printing in China preceded the invention of metal printing by the German Gutenberg by more than 400 years.

Movable type printing is one of the four great inventions of ancient China that is famous all over the world. In the era before Bi Sheng's invention of movable type printing, the more advanced was engraving printing. Engraving printing is more troublesome, you need to make the wooden board or bamboo board into a thick and thin shape in advance, the size of the uniform shape, the words written on the paper are reversed to paste on the wooden board or bamboo board, and the craftsman begins to carve.

A book requires a lot of planks, that is, the planks of a book will fill half a room. Lettering also takes a long time, and sometimes a book requires many people to work together for years. A lot of literary and scientific knowledge is not conducive to dissemination because it is written too slowly.

In this way, the technology improved little by little, and movable type printing was promoted, not only the quality of printing, but also the quantity of printing. The emergence of movable type printing has made great contributions to the spread and development of culture.

The famous Song Dynasty scientist Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" recorded: "If only printed.

Three, two, not simple and easy; If you print dozens or even hundreds of copies, it will be extremely fast. Bi Sheng's movable type printing method, if only two or three copies are printed, it is not considered trouble-free, but if hundreds of copies are printed, the work efficiency is obvious, the manpower and material resources consumed in printing are greatly reduced, and the printing efficiency (speed, quality) can be greatly improved, and the engraving printing is much superior. Prior to this, although there were techniques such as facsimile printing, rubbing, and engraving printing, these methods were not only cumbersome and laborious, but also time-consuming, and it was not easy to store, and it was more difficult to correct the typos if there were misprints in Xianghui.

Movable type plate making just avoids the lack of engraving, as long as a single movable type is prepared before printing, you can carry out imposition at any time, and the plate making time is greatly accelerated. After the movable type printing is completed, it can be disassembled, and the movable type can be recycled, and the space occupied by the movable type is much smaller than that of the engraving, which is more convenient in terms of custody and storage.

The origin of movable type printing:Engraving printing, which began in the Tang Dynasty, was developed and perfected by Bi Sheng in the Song Renzong era, resulting in movable type printing. The method of movable type printing is to first make a single word of the Yang text reverse text mold, and then according to the manuscript to select the single words, arrange them in the word plate, ink printing, and then remove the word mold after printing, and leave it for the next typesetting to be used again.

The Tang Dynasty invented engraving printing, and it was already widely used in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Although the Song Dynasty invented movable type printing, the Song Dynasty did not use movable type printing widely. The Song Dynasty still commonly used woodblock printing.

Engraving printing. Engraving printing is on a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness, pasted on the copy of the neat manuscript, the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper front and the wooden board are attached, the characters become reversed, the strokes are clear and legible. The engraver uses a carving knife to cut off the part of the layout without handwriting, which becomes the yang script with the font convex, which is completely different from the stele yin script with the font recessed.

When printing, ink is applied to the raised font, and then the paper is covered on top of it, and the back of the paper is gently wiped so that the handwriting is left on the paper.

In the Song Dynasty, the engraving printing industry developed to its heyday. Engraving printing has played a major role in the spread of culture, but there are also obvious shortcomings: first, engraving is time-consuming, labor-intensive, second, a large number of book plates are inconvenient to store, and third, there are typos that are not easy to correct.

Bi a's invention comes alive.

Compared with our printing technology today, the word printing technology seems to be a bit original and backward, but the movable type printing technology he invented has the main function of modern printing technology, so it is a huge revolution in the history of world printing, and has played a huge role in promoting the exchange and dissemination of world culture.

Movable type printing is an ancient printing method, which was invented by the ancient Chinese working people after a long period of practice and research. So do netizens know what impact movable type printing has on world culture? Let's follow me to find out.

1. China is the hometown of printing, and printing technology in many countries in the world has been developed under the direct or indirect influence of Chinese printing.

2. Movable type printing was invented by a folk artist named Bi Sheng in the Northern Song Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, movable type printing spread to Yuben and Joseon. Chinese movable type is made of wood, and later the Koreans created copper movable type based on wooden movable type, which is the world's earliest copper movable type.

3. The movable type printing technology of the Yuan Dynasty also spread to Persia, Egypt, and Europe. Later, the German Gutenberg was influenced by Chinese movable type printing, and used lead, tin and other metals to develop movable type in European pinyin script, which was used to print books.

The above is an introduction to the impact of movable type printing on world culture, I don't know if netizens understand?