The history and origin of rubbings

Lithography originated from Xiping period in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Rubbing, also known as rubbing or die printing, is a kind of art or cultural relic made by rubbing technology. According to records, during the Xiping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, scholars gradually began to make foreign stone tablets with engravings and impressions, and later gradually developed rubbings. In ancient times, rubbing was an important way to preserve cultural relics. At that time, the ancients attached great importance to historical records, so they tried to preserve cultural relics for future generations to study and discuss.

In order to make more contributions to the preservation of ancient cultural heritage, literary and art lovers began to use rubbing technology to copy ancient cultural relics, inscriptions, stone carvings and other important cultural heritage for preservation. With the continuous development of rubbing technology, more and more cultural relics have been preserved all over the world. Since ancient times, the rubbing method has been widely inherited and developed in China.

Significance analysis of rubbing

In modern society, rubbing technology has become one of the methods to copy and preserve various cultural relics, portraits, manuscripts and inscriptions. Through rubbing technology, people can better understand and explore the ancient cultural heritage, so as to better inherit and inherit Chinese culture. At the same time, rubbing technology is also widely used in printing manufacturing, plate making and other fields. With the passage of time, many cultural heritages have been destroyed by the baptism of time.

Through the development of digital technology, cultural relics and historical documents are digitally stored and displayed, so that these cultural heritages can be permanently preserved and easily understood by people all over the world. Although the application of rubbings technology in modern times has been replaced by digital technology, as a cultural tradition and historical and cultural heritage, it still has high value.