What is the principle of Chinese character printing?

The principle of Chinese character printing is actually a Chinese character printing method invented by the working people in ancient China through continuous practice and research. Firstly, a number of blanks with the same specifications are made of clay, and the height of raised characters should be close to the thickness of the edge of copper coins. After being baked hard with fire, it becomes a single clay type, that is, a single word's male and female die. Then pick out the words according to the required typesetting and arrange them in the word tray in turn according to the paragraph logic. After the ink printing is finished, remove the font and use it again for the next typesetting.

In order to meet the needs of typesetting, many commonly used words will be prepared in case there may be repetition in the same edition. The beauty of this operation is that it can be used in conjunction with the system and is particularly flexible. When you encounter uncommon words, you can finish the typesetting task as soon as possible, although you are not prepared in advance. Every step of movable type printing shows the soul of Chinese characters. The appearance of movable type printing in Chinese character printing marks the birth of movable type printing and is a great technological revolution in the history of printing.

China is the first country in the world to invent movable type printing, which was invented by Bi Sheng, about 400 years earlier than German movable type printing. The unexpected encounter between writing and printing gives people a chance to know more about the spiritual world. At present, many fonts have been combined with modern digital information technology and become the original matrix of laser photocopying typesetting technology for Chinese character information processing.

Movable type fonts in China mainly include Song Style, Block Letters, Imitation Song Style and Bold Style. Block letters are dignified and square and widely used. In the long history of cultural development, China invented block printing and movable type printing successively, which is closely related to the stereotypes, inheritance and innovation of China fonts. Especially in the Song Dynasty, where printing developed rapidly, due to the extensive use of block printing, Song-style printing fonts came into being, which is a new writing method and gradually formed a special field closely related to calligraphy aesthetics.