Bi Sheng is a craftsman engaged in block printing, familiar with and proficient in block printing technology, and eventually became the inventor of movable type printing.
In the long-term engraving work, Bi Sheng found that the biggest disadvantage of engraving books was that each book had to be engraved again, which not only took a long time, but also increased the printing cost.
If you change to a movable type version, you only need to engrave a movable type, and you can print any book, and the movable type can be used repeatedly. Although the project of making movable type is bigger, it is very convenient to print books in the future.
It is in this inspiration that Bi Sheng invented the movable type edition, from which we can see that Bi Sheng is a man who is brave in innovation and good at thinking.
Role contribution:
The invention of movable type printing is a great technological revolution in the history of printing. Clay movable type invented by China in the Northern Song Dynasty (1048) and Bi Sheng (970- 105 1) marked the birth of movable type printing.
He was the first inventor in the world, about 400 years before Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type printing. In Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen successfully created wooden movable type and invented wheel typesetting.
In the middle of Ming Dynasty, copper movable type was widely used in Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou and other places in Jiangsu.