Mohai Library, the earliest modern publishing house in Shanghai, is the first printing institution in Shanghai to adopt western-style China letterpress printing. The printing machine of lead printing equipment is made of iron, driven by ox cart, and the transmission belt passes through the wall seam to drive the printing machine, so there is no ox cart in the computer room.
Mohai Library has trained a group of scholars who are familiar with western learning, such as Wang Tao and Li. Together with Ai He, they have written and translated many books introducing western politics, science and religion. Mohai Library has dormitories. At that time, both maddox and Wang Tao lived in Mohai Library.
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Woodblock printing sprouted in Qin dynasty, and 40-character imperial edicts were printed on pottery measuring instruments in Qin dynasty by woodblock printing, which was really the beginning of woodblock printing.
The earliest printed matter in China was the "King Kong Prajna Paramita Sutra" printed on April 15th, 9th year (868) in Xian Tong, Tang Yizong, which was taken away by Hungary in Dunhuang Stone Room on 1907. Engraving in the Sui Dynasty before the Tang Dynasty has already begun.
According to Shen Kuo's Meng Qian Bi Tan, the woodblock printing of the Five Classics began in 932 and was carved by Feng Dao, the prime minister of the later Tang Dynasty. The engraving of the Nine Classics began in the first year of Yin Di in the Han Dynasty after the Five Dynasties (948).
According to Shen Kuo's Meng Qian Bi Tan (Volume 18), movable type printing was invented by Li Qing Bouyebi N (1041-1048), which is the beginning of movable type printing in China.
According to movable type printing in Yuan Dynasty, calligraphy, wood movable type printing and tin movable type printing began in Yuan Dynasty. Copper movable type printing began in the Ming Dynasty. In modern times, type prevailed, from Bi N tile to type for hundreds of years.
Baidu Encyclopedia-History of Modern Printing in China
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