The printing exhibition is interesting, and it is laborious to expand the print
In the "Light of Printing" pavilion of the 25th National Book Fair, a number of precious cultural relics from the China Printing Museum attracted many attention. From the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the tiles engraved with embossed characters and patterns, the seals of the Western Han Dynasty, and the wooden movable type of the Uighur script, to today's digital, three-dimensional and green printing, people stop to watch and take pictures from time to time.
"The Light of Chinese Printing" exhibition is divided into "the invention and development of papermaking", "the invention and development of movable type printing", "ancient overlay color printing", "green printing achievements exhibition" and other eight parts, universal inkjet printer, exhibits are displayed in 8 glass display cabinets, bamboo slips "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Western Han Silk Book", "Lao Tzu", "Shangshu" fragments, engraved New Year painting "Mouse Marrying", etc., although it is a copy, proofing traditional plate making, but quite exquisite.
In the center of the exhibition hall, there are two round tables, the original two desktops similar to the turntable exhibits called "Wang Zhen Wheel Typesetting Plate", PET protective film, is the Yuan Dynasty agronomist Wang Zhen designed, the earliest typesetting equipment in history. Rotary typesetting, is to divide the word plate into a number of grids, movable type font mold according to the rhyme in the grid, under the vertical shaft support, the vertical shaft is fixed on the base. When typesetting, only one person needs to read the manuscript and one person rotates the word plate, and the required font can be easily taken out and typeset into the version. After printing, restore the font back to the grid one by one. The rotary typesetting disc became a pioneering step in typesetting technology.
On the other side of the pavilion, on the red velvet booth, there are three lead plates lined up, and movable type rubbing is being demonstrated on the spot. Two masters from Shanghai word mold factory, first take a special tool in the plate dipped in ink, evenly brush on the word plate, the pre-cut rice paper on the word, with a clean brush from left to right a few back and forth, a rubbing tablet is formed, the content has "three character classic", "disciple rules", "thousand family text", citizens queue up for a long time to give. While the two masters were methodically rubbing, they also had to answer the audience's gossip questions, and they were very busy.
The staff said that this kind of lead plate is basically extinct, and their factory does not keep the lead plate for profit, mainly to let everyone have a deeper understanding and understanding of printing, one of the four great inventions of ancient China, so as to stimulate national pride.