Chinese Wooden-Type Printing Cultural Village

Dongyuan Mu Moving-Type Printing is one of the four major inventions in China. Dongyuan Village is the only known and still used wood moving-type printing technology in China. It is completely preserved here, and it has a history of more than 800 years. In this village, there is a group of craftsmen who adhere to the wood movable type. The inheritance here is derived from the records of the genealogy. Children experience the steps of ink, paper and printing in wood movable type printing, which is quite fulfilling.

Located in Rui'an Dongyuan Village, on the edge of Shengjing Mountain Scenic Area, not an hour's drive from Huayan Forest Park, it is very suitable for visiting with surrounding attractions. The village is also very careful about the wooden movable characters display. It starts to put up advertising signs from the far side of the road. The greening on the roadside of the village is very beautiful. The old museum is under renovation, this is the new museum. Tickets are 10 yuan, equipped with commentators, warm and thoughtful, the exhibition hall layout is also very good, it is worth a visit.

In addition to the good ecological protection and continuation, the local area also retains a large number of traditional culture and customs. The movable type printing that has been passed down due to the needs of the family tree production is still in use today. Dongyuan wood movable type printing is the only known wood movable type printing technology in China that is still in use.

China Wood Moving Type Printing Exhibition Hall is located in Dongyuan Village, Pingyang Keng Town. Pingyang Keng Town is a small town in the west of Ruian. It is rich in tourism resources. It has 7.8 kilometers of Feiyun River Greenway, Ruian Feiyi Nanshan Cable Noodles, and the Millennium Ring Road Banlingtang Ancient Road. It is also famous for the East Yuanmu Moving Type. The old exhibition hall covers an area of 1161 square meters and a construction area of 668 square meters. It is a traditional agricultural family courtyard in Ruian, with stone walls, wooden structures, green tiles and hanging mountain tops. It was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. After the Qianlong first year (1736), Wang Yingzhong had five sons moved to Dongyuan. The second-house family built with wood movable type printing to make a fortune, has a history of more than 200 years. In 2002, the Ruian Municipal People's Government collected Wang's second-house compound and built a "China Wooden movable type printing cultural village display hall" after the original appearance was repaired. The new museum opened in November 2017, covering an area of 540 square meters, with a construction area of 1013 square meters. The new museum has two exhibition halls, one reflecting the history of Chinese printing, divided into three pieces of content of early civilization, engraving printing and movable type printing in the history of Chinese printing. Another main introduction of Ruian wood movable type printing technology, divided into the inheritance history of Ruian wood movable type printing technology, the technology characteristics of Ruian wood movable type printing technology, the impact of Ruian wood movable type printing technology and protection of three content. Dongyuan wood movable type printing is the only one that has been retained and still used in China. It has a history of more than 800 years. Its preciousness is that it completely inherits the ancient printing technology, including: wood movable type production, engraving, picking, typography, A series of printing processes such as printing are fully consistent with the printing process recorded in the Agricultural Book written by Wang Qian of the Yuan Dynasty, and are called the "living fossil" of Chinese printing. Dongyuan wood movable type printing technology directly inherited from the Northern Song Dynasty Biyi movable type printing invention basic form. Dongyuan wood movable type printing brush technology now has 2 national intangible cultural heritage wood movable type printing project representative inheritors (Wang Chaohui, Lin Chuxuan), 4 Zhejiang provincial non-legacy representative inheritors, 7 Wenzhou-level non-legacy representative inheritors, 17 representative inheritors of Ruian city level, as well as a large number of genealogists who fully mastered wood movable type printing technology. The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics showed the scene of ancient wood movable type printing technology in China, which made Ruian Dongyuan famous. In June 2008, Ruian wood movable type printing technology was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In December 2008, the Ministry of Culture determined that Ruian wood movable type printing technology as the main body, and declared "China movable type printing" to UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage project that urgently needs protection. On November 15, 2010, the fifth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage adopted the "Chinese Moving Type Printing Technology", which is mainly based on Ruian wood movable type printing technology, to be included in the "List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in urgent need of protection". In 2015, Wenzhou Science Association judge Wenzhou Science Education Base. Ruian wood movable type printing technology strictly follows the ancient law, the technology is very elegant. Wooden movable characters are used in good wood engraving, fonts are used in old Song Dynasty, and the typography is picked up in dialects passed down by ancestors. The poems are hand-printed with Xuan Paper. The binding is based on the line-installation of the ancient book version. The process has a type-picking type-type-proofing, a proofreading, a ink-scratching, and a brushing. One cover red circle one draw line one crossword one point spectrum one folding page one grass order all spectrum one binding one cover and other processes.

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