Introduction On The Engraved Books In Song Dynasty

Ancient classics is recorded in the experience of the most important tools of human knowledge, but the development of printing is the important support of the classics development. Printing is one of the important inventions in ancient China, and as same as the papermaking, that having a profound impact to promote the development of culture. The Song dynasty was the golden age of engraving and printing and movable type printing was also appeared for the first time in the world at this time, so the Song dynasty ushered the golden age of the bookshop, book engraving and collect books.The Song Dynasty, in spite of its weakness in politics, achieved the unprecedented development on the culture, technology, and arts, which reached the heyday of culture in China’s feudal society. The progress of the culture in Song Dynasty was reflected in all aspects, not only in agriculture, mulberry, and medicine but also in Confucian classics, history, philosophy and literature, all of which were attributed to the enormous progress in printing. The art of printing had become more mature through the development in Tang and Five Dynasty. After Song Dynasty printing flourished greatly due to much attention and encouragement attached by the government, Song Dynasty turned the most splendid page in the history of printing.At the beginning of the song dynasty’s founding, the books as "the basis of teaching and the source of governing revolution", the purpose was to learn "predecessor hing scrap thought enlightenment" So at the beginning of song dynasty’s founding, that put the engraving and the sorting books in the important position. There were three engraving systems in Song Dynasty:government printing, commercial printing and personal printing. which influenced and promoted each other and developed a great event. As the new techniques improvement, the form of binding and layout of the Song dynasty books were also changing, which establishing the basic paradigm of engraving books in our country, and creating great contribution to our country since culture communication.The industry of publishing and printing in the Song dynasty was closely related with the social existence, social contradiction. The development and prosperity of book publishing is the product of the over-all development of politics, economics, society, and culture. The progress of the society provided the favorable space, environment and condition for the development of printing industry, conversely, the development of printing industry produced great economic effect. The engraving in Song Dynasty promoted the development and flourishing of commodity economy, in the social framework of natural economy, making commodity economy keep on proliferating and expanding gradually.In Song dynasty, the books circulation not only throughout the country, but also through private channels or official relations also spread to the Liao Dynasty, Western Xia, Jin Dynasty, Japan, Korea and other countries. The huge profit of Book sales industry make folk print buying boom, at the same time, the books quantity increased, book sale way of diversity, and the bookshop were throughout the country, the management, the competition and the price of the book market performance was more and more obvious, so that developed into certain book market in the song dynasty.The books is a kind of social culture carrier, its essential attribute is sociality. Developed engraving career and mass distribution of printed books, will greatly promote the socialization of library. The books sociality in the Song dynasty highlight performed in the increased collection of social books and the formation and development of library system. Song dynasty formed the mixture collection system by government book collection and private book collection, which play an unprecedented social functions.