What contribution has printing made to China civilization?

Block printing is an intangible cultural heritage with outstanding value, distinctive national characteristics and highly concentrated traditional skills. It embodies several excellent traditional crafts such as papermaking, ink making, carving and copying in China, and finally forms this unique cultural craft; It created a technical precedent for later movable type printing, is the oldest technical source of modern printing in the world, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of human civilization; Its implementation provides the most convenient conditions for cultural and civilized exchanges. In other words, two of China's four great inventions, namely papermaking and printing, are directly related to it, which is rare in other traditional crafts in China.

According to experts, among the seven intangible cultural heritages, paper-cutting, lacquerware and storytelling are generally divided into two categories, north and south, with certain geographical restrictions. However, block printing is the only cultural form without geographical restrictions, and its influence has even spread overseas. As a national heritage, it belongs not only to China, but also to the world.