What is the name of printing?

Printing is called one of the four great inventions of working people of Han nationality in ancient China.

Engraving printing was invented in the Tang Dynasty and was widely used in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Song Renzong and Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, which 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, which marked the birth of movable type printing.

Before the invention of printing, the spread of culture mainly depended on handwritten books. Handwriting is time-consuming and laborious, and it is prone to errors and omissions, which not only hinders the development of culture, but also brings undue losses to the spread of culture.

Seals and stone carvings provide direct experience enlightenment for printing, and the method of inking stone tablets with paper directly points out the direction for block printing. The development of printing in China has gone through two stages: block printing and movable type printing, which has presented a generous gift for the development of mankind. Printing is characterized by convenience, flexibility, time-saving and labor-saving, and it is a major breakthrough in ancient printing.

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The mass production of printed books increases the chances of book preservation and reduces the possibility of handwritten books dying out due to limited collection. Due to the wide spread of printed books and the increase in the number of readers, the church's monopoly on academics in the past has been challenged by secular people.

The priority of religious works is gradually replaced by humanist works, and readers have a better understanding of the differences and contradictions in ancient books, thus weakening their confidence in traditional sayings and laying the foundation for the development of new knowledge.

Printing makes the version unified, which is obviously different from the inevitable mistakes in the manuscript. Printing itself does not guarantee the correctness of the text, but proofreading before printing and errata after printing make the printed copy more perfect.

Through the pre-editing of printers, the form of books is becoming more and more unified, rather than the previous manual copy of their own interests. All these make readers develop a systematic way of thinking and promote the formation of organizational structures of various disciplines.