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History of newspaper development

early stage

As early as 2000 years ago, China had similar manuscripts.

It was a publication used by the government at that time to copy and distribute documents such as imperial edicts, ministers' memorials and related political situations, and it was called Di Bao.

It has some characteristics of newspapers and periodicals.

It can be considered as the earliest form of "* * * announcement".

the Tang Dynasty

Tang's "Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspaper" was a government newspaper published during the Kaiyuan period. It was printed by block printing and its quality was not high.

It was not registered itself, because the year of publication was Kaiyuan, which was later called Kaiyuan Miscellaneous Newspaper.

Song dynasty

There are many titles of newspapers in Song Dynasty, such as Di Bao, Bao Chao, Di Bao, Jin Theatre, Bao Zhuang, etc., among which Di Bao is the most common title.

The contents of "Dibao" mainly include imperial edicts and orders, words and deeds in daily life, decrees and bulletins of the central government, news of rewards and punishments for the appointment of officials, and chapters and sentences of ministers.

Ching Dynasty

"Dibao" is usually printed with movable type.

Because of printing with wooden movable type, the printing quality is not good, some fonts are skewed, ink color is scattered, proofreading is not accurate enough, and there are many typos.

Extended data:

Advantages of newspapers:

1, which can be read at any time, without time limitation, and will not miss the information reported at the specified time like TV or radio programs;

2, circulated to each other, the number of readers can be several times that of printing;

Even people with poor reading or understanding ability can spend more time absorbing news from newspapers.

With the rise of Internet, the circulation of online newspapers is stronger than that of traditional printed newspapers.