Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties lasted 379 years (58 1-960), which was the early stage of block printing. According to the unearthed cultural relics and documents, the prints in the Tang Dynasty are mainly some reading materials, daily and religious articles, such as Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues, almanac, language reference books, bills and so on. In addition to pure text books, there are books with pictures and texts. These printed materials were in great demand in the society at that time.
Printing in Five Dynasties and Ten Countries (10 century) developed on the basis of the Tang Dynasty and made new breakthroughs. The Nine Confucian Classics printed and engraved by the government is a pioneering work of the printing industry. Since then, the printing scope has been greatly expanded, and it has been further used to publish sage books. The popularity of block printing laid the foundation for the golden age of printing in Song Dynasty.
Song Yuan printing
During the Song Dynasty, engraving printing technology became more mature, and movable type printing technology was invented in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen perfected movable type printing and made a turntable to store characters, which accelerated the speed of fetching characters. In addition to monochrome printing, there are also multi-color printing, and there are also new breakthroughs in print binding and binding.
The content of printed matter in Song Dynasty expanded to all fields of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and hundred schools of thought, and various publications such as literature and history, philosophy, geography, poetry, novels, plays, astrology and music appeared. In particular, more scientific and medical works have been published. In addition to the printing of books and printed matter, there is also the printing and distribution of paper money.
Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, publishing centers have spread all over the country, and the quality and variety of printing paper have surpassed those of previous dynasties, forming a printing network of official engraving, workshop engraving and private engraving. Due to the popularization and progress of printing, the printed matter in this period tended to be perfect and became a model for later generations, laying the foundation for the development of Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Printing in Liao dynasty (907- 1 125)
The Liao State established by the Qidan nationality reached its peak in the 10 century. They attached great importance to Buddhism and absorbed a lot of Central Plains culture. In addition to printing a large number of Buddhist scriptures, they also print Confucian classics, various historical books, poetry collections and various reference books.
The most developed printing industries in Liao Dynasty were Yanjing (Beijing), Fanyang (Zhuozhou), Hebei and the north of Shanxi. At that time, there were many folk workshops in Yanjing, indicating that printing in Beijing was very prosperous at that time. The large-scale printed edition of Liao Dynasty is "Khitan Tibetan" (Liao Tibetan for short), with about 5,000 volumes.
In the wooden pagoda in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, several printed Buddhist paintings were also found, which were printed with black and white background and then drawn by hand.
Printing in Jin Dynasty (A.D.1115-1234)
In the fifth year of Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D.115), Jin Shizu proclaimed himself emperor with a beautiful face, formally established the Daikin Kingdom, destroyed Liao in the third year of Tianhui (A.D. 1 125), and occupied Kaifeng House in the fourth year, forming the Southern Song Dynasty and Kaifeng.
The Jin Dynasty attached great importance to printing, and established the imperial academy, which was responsible for the printing of books. According to records, there are more than 30 kinds of books printed by Jin imperial academy, including the Six Classics and Seventeen History.
Jin folk printing industry is widely spread in northern areas such as Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi and Shaanxi, especially Pingyang.
There are many printing workshops in Pingyang (now Linfen, Shanxi) and its vicinity, which are comparable to Jianyang in quantity and quality. The "Simitu" unearthed in Heishui City comes from Ji Jia, a famous printing workshop in Pingyang. Pingyang folk printing "synopsis of the golden chamber" is a huge project, which took more than 30 years to complete, with about 4000 volumes. This proves that a group of outstanding sculptors were concentrated in Pingyang area at that time.
Tripitaka
Jurchen, like Han nationality and Khitan nationality, believes in Buddhism. Buddhist scriptures are printed in temples all over the country, and some temples raise funds to print Buddhist scriptures themselves. The most famous is the gilded Tripitaka, which was carved in Tianning Temple in Hedong (southwest of Yuncheng, Shanxi) from 1 1438+073. More than 6,900 volumes of Buddhist scriptures were collected and made into scrolls. In A.D. 1933, this golden edition of Tibetan Scriptures was discovered in Guangsheng Temple in Zhao Cheng, Shanxi Province, also known as Zhao Cheng Collection.
Xixia Printing (A.D. 1032- 1227)
Xixia, established with the Tangut as the main body, lived in today's Ningxia. They believe in Buddhism and use Chinese characters as well as their own.
Xixia began to engrave books after the founding of the people's Republic of China, and it was printed in large quantities. Among the government agencies, there are Paper Industry Institute and Book Engraving Department, which shows that Xixia government attaches importance to printing.
There are the largest number of Buddhist scriptures in Xixia printed matter, and there are calligraphy books, Confucian classics, historical books, political books, military books and almanac in non-religious works, both in Xixia and Chinese. There are not only woodcut editions, but also wooden movable-type editions and clay movable-type editions from 12 to 13 centuries, such as 199 1 Xixia movable-type edition "Lucky Coming to the Mouth" discovered in Ningxia and 1989 Xixia clay movable-type edition "Wei Mo"
Ming and Qing printing
Printing in Ming and Qing dynasties not only surpassed the previous generation in quantity, subject matter and distribution of origin, but also the artistry of printed matter was not comparable to that of the previous generation, and it reached an unprecedented level in technology.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, woodcut printing technology became more mature and illustrations increased sharply. Due to the development of multicolor overprinter, the whole works of art can be expressed in the form of printing. In history, clay type and metal type have been fully revived, and there has been a climax of large-scale printing of wood type and copper type.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the square standard printing font with horizontal flat and vertical, horizontal light and vertical weight was the symbol of printing progress. In the book binding, the northern binding and the thread binding have become the mainstream. No dynasty in history published popular books with a wide range of subjects, especially illustrated operas, novels and picture books, like the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In addition, classics and history, Buddhism, science and technology, local chronicles, genealogy, series, books, western works and subsets of various minority languages are used.
Compiled works, even Catholic books, are all-inclusive publications.
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Western printing spread eastward.
At the end of Qing Dynasty, western printing technology and equipment were introduced into China, gradually replacing engraving technology. Some graphic works have been changed into lithographs. But the skill of woodcut printing continues to this day.
From some prints carved by the Qing court, it can be seen that the printing skills at this time were influenced by the West in terms of techniques and contents.
Western printing
/kloc-at the end of the 5th century/kloc-at the beginning of the 6th century, the spread of printing had a profound influence on western thought and society. It inspired the Renaissance and the Reformation. These two movements in turn further promoted the development of printing. Western scholars have pointed out that "almost every achievement in the process of modern civilization in the western world is related to the introduction and development of printing in different ways." First of all, printing can spread books widely, which means that the monopoly of the church on knowledge has been broken, thus opening the way for the development of new knowledge. On the other hand, printing promoted the development of European national literature, thus promoting the rise of nationalism. Because most of the books at that time were published in different European national languages, the vocabulary, grammar, structure, spelling and pronunciation of different national languages could be fixed by printed materials, which not only promoted the development of popular literature, but also promoted the confirmation of national consciousness in European countries.
Reformation and printing
The development of printing in Europe is closely related to the religious reform. 15 17 before Martin Luther issued the statement of religious reform, a certain number of popular bibles had been published. One of the fuses of religious reform is to resist the abuse of power by the church, especially to sell the book of atonement for profit. On the other hand, printing also made the idea of religious reform widely popular in the form of pamphlets and leaflets. So, religious reformers in Europe
When Martin Luther mentioned printing, he thought that "it is the supreme grace of God to spread the gospel."