Sunday, February 13, 2011

Inventions

One invention during the Tang dynasty was book printing. Book printing was made by the words painted in black pasted on paper onto a wooden block. The ink was pressed on paper sheets onto the surface of the wooden block, this was how they started to make copies. Book printing was used to make calenders,books,government documents and poetry. The first people to use book printing were Buddhist monks. During the process of book printing the religion Buddhism was creating new Temples so they also used book printing to make religous books of Buddhism. Buddhism was one of China's religion it is a religion of life and the understanding of situations in life.
http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/82267054.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF8789215ABF3343C02EA5485AB523E1DE8B3270F3C31A8D60B79747BACFD3AD687938C6E30A760B0D811297This is a man book printing.

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