1. 1965 The publication "Buddhist Views and Five Observances of Buddhist Scripts" found in the White Elephant Pagoda in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province was identified as a movable type book from Fuyuan to Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1103). This is the earliest historical testimony of movable type printing technology in Bi Sheng.
2. Yao Shu in Yuan Dynasty (120 1~ 1278) advocated movable type printing. He taught his son, Yang Gu, to print books with movable type, which became Zhu's primary school and the recent ideological record, and the history of Donglai classics. However, Yanggu clay type was improved by Song people after Bi Sheng, not the original technology in Bi Sheng.
3. In the sixth year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Zhai Shiqi was an official in Raozhou, collecting magnetic households and writing The Book of Changes. According to experts' analysis, the so-called celadon (movable type) may be ceramic movable type fired from porcelain clay for making celadon.
4. 17 18 A native of Taian, Xudong, made pottery movable type and printed the Book of Changes. He calcined clay, made movable type, and used it for typesetting and printing books, still using the method used by Bi Sheng.
5./Kloc-Zhai Jinsheng of Jingxian County, Anhui Province, in the 9th century, came up with the idea of printing books with clay type because he saw the technique of Bi Sheng clay type described in Shen Kuo's Meng Qian Bi Tan. It took him 30 years to make more than 654.38 million clay movable type. 1844, printed as "first edition of mud printing trial printing". Since then, he has published many books. In the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of clay figurines made by Zhai Jinsheng were also found in Jingxian County. These movable types come in five sizes. He proved the feasibility of Bi Sheng's invention with his own practice and broke some people's doubts about the feasibility of clay type.
6. There were many wooden movable types in the Ming Dynasty, most of which adopted the traditional techniques of Song and Yuan Dynasties. In the 14th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1586), Yuan, Records of Remaining Knowledge of Tianxia Temple, and Jiajing's Bi Shui Qun Ying Waiting for the Theme Meeting Yuan (about151530) were all printed in wooden movable type.
7. In the Qing Dynasty, with the support of the government, the technology of wooden movable type got unprecedented development. Wooden movable type was popular in Kangxi period, and large-scale printing of wooden movable type books began with the publication of Yingwudian Juzhen Edition Series in Qianlong period. This book has been printed and carved into 253,500 movable types of jujube. Printed into "Yingwudian Juzhen Edition Series" 134 kinds, 2389 volumes. This is the largest printing of wooden movable type books in the history of China.
8. Making movable type with metal materials is also a development direction of movable type printing. Before Wang Zhen, people used tin as movable type. However, tin is not easy to print with ink and is difficult to popularize. At the turn of 15 and 16 century, copper movable type became popular in Wuxi, Suzhou and Nanjing, Jiangsu. Copper movable type printing entered a new climax in Qing Dynasty. The biggest project is the integration of printing 10,000 ancient and modern books. It is estimated that the number of copper movable type used is1~ 2 million.