Why did movable type printing in Song Dynasty not be widely used in China, but it had a far-reaching influence in the West?

Bi Sheng's movable type printing, though invented very early. But until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most printing units still used traditional block printing. Besides Meng Xi's written records, there are not many records about movable type printing. Therefore, the influence of movable type printing on China and even the world is very limited.

There are thousands of commonly used words in China, while there are more than 20 letters in the west. So western typesetting is of course much more convenient. However, with the textual research of historians, more and more movable type prints have been unearthed with archaeological practice, which seems to have broken many traditional historical views.

Only China literati prefer to record princes and princes, and few scholars are interested in describing the objectivity of science in the book. Like gunpowder in China. We use it to set off firecrackers, but westerners use it to improve guns. There is no essential contradiction at all, but which has a greater impact on future generations.

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Clay movable type invented by China in the Northern Song Dynasty (65438- 1) and Bi Sheng (970- 105 1) marked the birth of movable type printing. He was the first inventor in the world, about before the type printing in Johannes Gutenberg. 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.