As a Chinese, at what moment will you feel proud and confident? Of course, when the whole world is cheering for our glory.

When Beijing won the right to host the Olympics, the people of China were boiling over. When the Olympic Games officially arrived, the Chinese performed a wonderful performance printed by China at the opening ceremony, not only proud of China, but also shocked the world.

When it comes to printing in China, we have to give a thumbs up and praise seriously. He is one of the four great inventions of ancient China. His appearance, like the invention and creation of papermaking, had a huge impact on the development of China and the world. Chinese printing is very famous abroad, and there are many scholars at home and abroad all over the world. Although they have done a lot of research on Chinese printing from the perspectives of the origin, evolution and spread of Chinese printing, there has never been a comprehensive and detailed one on the market. , The systematic history of Chinese printing.

Therefore, Zhang Xiumin, who was elected as a member of the Second Academic Committee of the Library Society of China and an honorary director of the China Printing Technology Association, resolutely started the compilation of the "History of Printing in China" for China printing and national honor.

This book is about 500,000 words and consists of four chapters. This book provides an objective and comprehensive interpretation of the history of Chinese printing in terms of the invention, development, and spread of printing and its influence on countries around the world in accordance with the development sequence of the past dynasties.

Dr. Qian Cunxun, who wrote the "Preface" for this book, commented, "The publication of Mr. Zhang Xiumin's new work "History of Printing in China" not only enriches our knowledge in this subject, but also contributes to the research and understanding of the history of Chinese culture and science and technology. An important chapter has been added.

He also said that "(this work) is not only rich in content, considerable in quantity, but detailed analysis, rigorous structure, and unique insights, especially the characteristics of the article" and emphasized that "it will be an epoch-making work."

What do celebrities and scholars say about such high-level works? First of all, the whole experience and development from the invention of printing to the publishing of book engraving are described in detail. The location, content, characteristics of prints, life stories and various carving methods are described.

At the same time, it also provides a variety of new printing tools, such as paper and banknotes, as well as the latest printing tools. In summary, we can draw the following conclusions: "The History of Printing in China" is a more complete and systematic comprehensive work that people can achieve through searching.

When it comes to Chinese printing technology, we must start with the invention of characters. Everyone knows that in the beginning, there were no words in the human world. In order to accurately convey information, people can only remember by knotting. However, with the development of society, the drawbacks of using ropes to record events have gradually emerged. To be able to deliver information quickly and accurately. After thousands of years of development, hieroglyphs gradually evolved into Chinese characters we use.

In the process of the invention and transformation of characters, Cai Lun's papermaking and Meng Tian pen made characters and information into books and dissemination possibilities. However, printing was limited to stamps and rubbings at that time, which was a simple operation. The strong limitations of the two make it impossible for local culture to spread widely.

However, the use of seals provides experience for the further development of the printing industry, and rubbing provides a new direction for the development of the printing industry.

Later, in the early Tang Dynasty, mankind invented woodblock printing, which was an earlier printing technique in human history. However, it was time-consuming and laborious, and hard-printed characters could not be reused.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that Bi Sheng invented the movable type of clay sculpture. Its low cost and flexible printing method gradually replaced the time-consuming and laborious woodblock printing. The invention of movable type printing greatly reduced the cost of making characters, improved printing efficiency, and spread cultural knowledge to all parts of the world.

Later, pesticide scientists in the Yuan Dynasty invented woodblock printing and wheel typesetting. This technological innovation not only greatly improved the quality and speed of printing, but also contributed to the promotion of human cultural undertakings.

The invention and application of woodblock printing, clay printing and woodblock printing laid the foundation for the global prosperity of the printing industry. .

Around the 13th century, printing technology spread in Eastern and Western countries, and was further developed under the European innovation.

The most famous inventor is Gutenberg from Germany. He invented lead alloy movable type printing on the basis of Chinese printing. Lead alloy printing is widely used because of its low cost, high quality and fast speed. This technology, from invention to the complete replacement of iron plate offset printing technology, has gone through about 400 years.

In general, the emergence of various printing technologies has greatly improved work efficiency and provided positive energy for the development and spread of human culture.

All the above inventions can be regarded as a solid foundation for the rapid development of the printing industry in the age of electronic computers. .

Frankly speaking, as modern people, we can only learn about the history of printing from books, but cannot experience and directly feel serious.

We can actually feel the tremendous changes brought about by computer plate making and offset printing technology.

Take private customization as an example, as long as you are creative and willing to turn your ideas into reality. Then pick up the phone or log in to the computer, and customize the desired product with one click in a few minutes. Whether it's clothes, gift bags or personal portraits...

This is the convenience of printing. The origin of ta is China, he is more brilliant than the whole world. With the development of e-commerce, "Internet +" has become a mainstream industry. Driven by Internet technology, the printing industry will also develop rapidly. In the future, the printing industry will connect everyone, and everyone's life will undergo tremendous changes due to the development of the printing industry.

Here, we want to thank all those who have contributed to the printing industry, and we also want to pay tribute to Mr. Zhang Xiumin, who wrote the "History of Printing in China".

It is precisely because of his painstaking research that the mystery of Chinese printing has been unveiled; it is also because of Zhang Xiumin's seeking of truth and pragmatism that the history of Chinese printing has been made public and praised by the world; and the joint efforts of many saints such as Zhang Xiumin Next, China's development can be established in the forest of nations in the world.

Well, there is no need to say more praise, let us remember the "History of Printing in China".