What is the development of wood movable type technology in Qing Dynasty?

In the Qing Dynasty, with the support of the government, the technology of wooden movable type got unprecedented development. During the reign of Kangxi, wooden movable type became popular, and the large-scale printing of wooden movable type books began with the publication of the Yingwudian Juzhen Edition Series in the reign of Qianlong.

This book was printed and carved into 25 kinds of jujube movable type. 350 thousand Printed into "Yingwudian Juzhen Edition Series" 134 kinds, 2389 volumes. This is a large-scale printed book with wooden movable type in the ancient history of China.

Xu Yu, the creator of magnetic plate printing in Qing Dynasty, made pottery movable type in 17 18 and printed the Book of Changes. He calcined the soil and made it into movable type, which was used for typesetting and printing books, and still followed the method used by Biya.

Zhai Jinsheng, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, came up with the idea of printing books with clay type after reading the Bi A clay type technique described in Shen Kuo's Dream Story. Thirty years later, he produced 65438+ ten thousand clay movable types. Finally, at 1844, the cloud was printed as "First Edition of Clay Printing Trial Printing". Since then, Zhai Jinsheng has printed many books.

Later, researchers found thousands of clay characters made by Zhai Jinsheng in Jingxian County. These movable types come in five sizes. Zhai Jinsheng proved with his own practice that it is feasible for Bi A to invent clay type, which broke some people's doubts about the feasibility of clay type.

Copper movable type printing entered a new climax in Qing Dynasty. The big project is the collection of ancient and modern books, with a printing volume of 10000 copies. It is estimated that the number of copper movable type will reach 6.5438+0 million to 2 million.