As recorded in 1088 by Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays, the Chinese artisan Bi Sheng invented an early form of movable type using clay and wood pieces arranged and organized for written Chinese characters.

Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing for texts on paper originated in China by the 7th century during the Tang dynasty, to the spread of book production and woodblock printing in other parts of Asia such as Korea and Japan.

2021年6月22日 · Printing was invented over a millennium ago, around the year 700, in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907), before it spread across East Asia, Southeast Asia and the globe sparking a revolution in the dissemination of information in its wake.

Scholars believe that woodblock printing first appeared in China around 600, probably inspired by the much older use of bronze or stone seals to make impressions on clay and silk, and the practice of taking inked rubbings of inscribed texts from bronze and stone reliefs.

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2018年5月7日 · Created in China, the printing press revolutionized society there before being further developed in Europe in the 15th Century by Johannes Gutenberg and his invention of the Gutenberg press.

2014年12月30日 · More than four centuries earlier, the Chinese inventor Bi Sheng (990-1051 AD) created the world's first known movable type system for printing. Left: Bi Sheng (about 970 - 1051) is a native of Yingshan, Hubei.

此《The invention of printing in China and its spread westward》（中国印刷术的发明及其西传）由美国学者Thomas Francis Carter著。 全书共分四部分、二十四章，征引了中国、朝鲜、日本等国的大量文献，对于印刷术的发明及其向世界各地的传播作了较有系统的论述。

2025年1月9日 · By the end of the 2nd century ce, the Chinese apparently had discovered printing; certainly they then had at their disposal the three elements necessary for printing: (1) paper, the techniques for the manufacture of which they had known for several decades; (2) ink, whose basic formula they had known for 25 centuries; and (3) surfaces bearing ...

2024年3月18日 · Papermaking, gunpowder, printing and the compass are four great inventions by ancient Chinese people that have had a huge impact on the entire world.