The process of living printing

1. Brush the arranged plates with water first, and then with ink. Pay attention to brush the ink evenly.

2. Then spread a piece of paper on the arranged version. Don't move after paving. Brush a little wax to promote lubrication.

3. Next, the rubbings. First, drag the paper gently onto the characters, and then drag it quickly on the paper.

4. Every word can be engraved when it appears, and then carefully cleaned and checked.

5. Open it slowly after you go.

6. Finally, the printing is finished.

Movable type printing is an ancient printing method, which was invented by working people in ancient China through long-term practice and research. First, make a model of the original text and inverted text of the single word, then select the single word according to the original, arrange it in the font plate, ink it and print it, and then remove the font after printing, so as to use it again in the next typesetting.

The invention of movable type printing is a great technological revolution in the history of printing. Clay movable type invented by China in the Northern Song Dynasty (1048) and Bi Sheng (970- 105 1) marked the birth of movable type printing. He was the first inventor in the world, about 400 years before Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type printing. In Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen successfully created wooden movable type and invented wheel typesetting. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, copper movable type was widely used in Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou and other places in Jiangsu.