Who invented movable type printing What are the characteristics of movable type printing

1. Bisheng invented movable type printing. Bisheng was the first person in the world to invent movable type printing, whose movable type printing could better adapt to the needs of the society, so that copying books was no longer as laborious as before.

2, movable type printing is an ancient printing method, which was invented by ancient Chinese laborers after a long time of practice and research. First made a single word of the yang text reverse character mold, and then in accordance with the manuscript to pick out the single word, arranged in the word tray, ink printing, printing and then the word mold will be dismantled, waiting for the next time to be used again when printing.

3. The invention of movable type printing was a great technological revolution in the history of printing. The invention of clay movable type by Bi Sheng (970-1051) in China during the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1041-1048) marked the birth of movable type printing. He was the world's first inventor, some 400 years before German Johannes Gutenberg's lead movable type. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen succeeded in creating wood movable type, and also invented the rotary wheel typesetting. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, copper movable type was more widely used in Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou and other places in Jiangsu Province.