木活字

中国古代家谱印刷中的木活字应用

On the Application of Wooden Type of the Genealogical Trees Printing in Ancient China

后来，人们又制成了金属活字和木活字，并广泛应用。

Later , movable type of metal and wood was made and widely used .

木活字在中国印刷史中曾经发挥过重要的作用。

This article attempts to illustrate the important application of wooden types in the history of Chinese printing .

元朝的一个地方官刻了3万多个木活字，用来印刷他自己写的书。

One county magistrate of the Yuan Dynasty had over 30 , 000 wood characters carved , with which he printed a book he had written .

木活字是清代活字印刷的主流，且有大量的木活字书籍保存下来。

The moveable wood-type printing was the mainstream in the Qing Dynasty , and a great number of books of this kind have been properly preserved .

到了元代大德年间，王桢发明了用木活字印书，可惜这些都没有传本，国内现存最早的活字印刷实物是国家图书馆藏元朝的《御试策》。

of which none has come down to the present day . The oldest moveable-type printed book in existence in China is Yushice in the Yuan Dynasty , which is now collected in the National Library of China .

这些都为中国古代版本学的确立准备了物质条件，亦对后来中国印刷史及版本学史均有较大影响。木活字在中国印刷史中曾经发挥过重要的作用。

The development during the period prepared the way for the establishment of bibliology in ancient China , and influenced the development of printing thereafter . This article attempts to illustrate the important application of wooden types in the history of Chinese printing .