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The Invention and Development of Movable Type Printing

time2016/10/27

During the Northern Song Dynasty, China Bi Sheng invented clay movable type printed book, it means the movable type printing was born. He was the inventor of the world's first movable type of printing, about 400 years before the German Gutenberg type. The invention of movable type printing is a great technological revolution in the history of printing.

The description of the movable type

Soon after Bi Sheng invented the mud movable type, China Xixia region used wood movable type to print books. AD 1298 or so, Wang Zhen invented the wheel reel plate. He place the wood movable in the two wooden turntable according to rhyme, which greatly improved the efficiency of typography. In Yuan Dynasty, wood movable type has been spread to ethnic minority areas, Gansu Dunhuang Qianfo Dong has been found hundreds of hardwood made of Uighur wood movable type.

Wood engraving