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Delicate strokes, carved onto wood, with ultimate precision. This is woodblock (木印版画) printing, 【小题1】 ancient printing technique that has promoted human civilization.
Certain people are believed to bring Buddhism (佛教) into China during the Tang Dynasty, when there was a strong need 【小题2】 (produce) a large number of Buddhist scriptures (经文), and 【小题3】 (copy) by hand could not meet the rising demand. Ancient Chinese craftsmen thus came up with a novel way to create printed works 【小题4】 (massive). Then came the original version of woodblock printing.
Traditional woodblock printing can be divided into four major steps: writing, engraving, printing, and binding. With each step then sub-divided into several procedures, 【小题5】 takes roughly 30 steps to produce a woodblock print. Characters and images 【小题6】 (carve) to produce raised areas or lines, which calls 【小题7】 skilled hands.
The Buddhist scripture Diamond Sutra, the “earliest dated printed book”, can only be seen in the British Library, 【小题8】 a lot of Chinese treasures are stored. It is just one example of ancient works of art that not only tells the wisdom of our ancestors, but also is a witness of Chinese craftsmen’s continuous【小题9】 (commit) to beauty through centuries.
The invention of writing gave life to great thoughts, 【小题10】 it was the invention of printing that made knowledge a shareable fruit for all humankind.