Talking about China's four great inventions, I can't help but marvel that printing has played an important role in the development of Christianity and modern civilization.
Before the invention of printing, the main forms of human books were bamboo slips, scrolls, papyrus and so on. It is said that block printing appeared in China in the 6th century. During the period of 104 1 ~ 1048, Bi Sheng in the Northern Song Dynasty invented clay type printing. /kloc-in the 3rd century, with the footsteps of Mongolian soldiers, printing was brought to West Asia. ...
However, the printing revolution was 1454 Gutenberg printing, which opened a new era in the history of printing development.
Gutenberg printing had a great influence on the Reformation. It enabled the propaganda of the Reformation to spread quickly and economically, and also enabled the Bible to spread widely, and gradually became a book that everyone could get and read.
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Printing invented by China, characterized by manual operation, has been circulating for thousands of years. With the industrial revolution after the Renaissance in Europe and the formation of a modern industrial system, printing has made an epoch-making breakthrough.
With the cultural exchange, Christian missionary activities and the artillery fire of western powers, printing lost back to its hometown of China.
This lost printing directly led to the development of science and culture and the great changes of economy and society in modern China for more than 100 years. ...
I have to marvel, this is no accident! Is this God's ingenious arrangement? !