Chao Children's Academy ｜ Do you know the mystery of printing?

Wooden Word printing

Chao Children's Academy

During the summer vacation, the Chao Children's Academy officially started! Today I brought you "Wooden Living Printing". Want to know the mystery of the printing of wooden characters? Listen with us!

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China's wooden character printing is one of the oldest printing technologies in the world. After engraving on the wooden board, it must be seen into a single word, and the knife is used to be repaired. Full a version of the box, and use a small bamboo slice to flatten and tightly apply the ink to spread the paper.

The wooden print printing process is very sophisticated. A variety of tools are needed, such as carving knives, carving plates, printing boards, and use of brush (brown brush).

The engraving is the most difficult process in the printing of wooden characters. First of all, use a brush to write the virals to be carved on the modules, then carved with a carved knife, and finally dig the remaining blank places. The whole process is manually operated by manual operation.

"Wooden Words" can be called the activation stone of the world printing. At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games, the large -scale performance of "Living Word Printing" allowed them to cross time and space, which was reproduced in the eyes of the world and made the world amazing.

On November 15, 2010, "Living Printing" was reviewed and approved by the Fifth Meeting of the UNESCO to protect the intangible cultural heritage government committee.

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