国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

OLYMPICS / What Happend Next

Olympics bring luck to China's age-old village

Xinhua
Updated: 2008-08-29 10:34

 

Dongyuan, a mountainous small village in Rui'an County in the eastern Chinese Zhejiang Province, could never have expected the Beijing Olympics to bring so much to it.

In the wake of the 17-day Beijing Games, tourists flocked into Dongyuan to take a look at the age-old wooden movable-type printing technique since this village is the only one in China where people still apply the technology.

"Before the Beijing Olympics, most visitors were either researchers or collectors of ancient books. After the opening ceremony of the Olympics,  a lot more visitors, many of them students, came to take a look," said Wei Xianzhu, staff of Dongyuan's movable-type printing exhibition hall.

After the August 8 opening ceremony, many people called to get more information about the technology and the number of the visitors in the last ten days rose notably over the same period last year, she said.

At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games, spectators and TV viewers around the world were thrilled by a four-minute performance showcasing the movable-type printing technology, with a formation of some 900 men imitating the operation of a printer and creating the image of the Chinese character "he" -- meaning harmony and peace -- in different calligraphic styles.

According to Wei, Dongyuan villagers have been using the wooden movable-type printing technology for more than 800 years. Villagers used the technology to print their pedigrees.

She said the exhibition hall was keeping more than 40,000 wood types of Chinese characters as well as 27 layouts.

The technique of making wooden movable-type and then using it to print has been passed down from generation to generation in this remote village, making this ancient craft a living example of China's ancient civilization. It has been listed as one of China's national intangible cultural heritages.

Movable-type printing, along with papermaking, gunpowder and the compass, were the four best-known ancient inventions by Chinese people. In the West, people began to apply printing technology about 600 years ago.

Comments of the article(total ) Print This Article E-mail
临朐县| 陆川县| 朝阳区| 东源县| 孝昌县| 内乡县| 衢州市| 长子县| 麦盖提县| 张家港市| 朝阳县| 丰县| 高碑店市| 彭阳县| 织金县| 光泽县| 图片| 凤凰县| 明光市| 张家口市| 贺兰县| 浠水县| 大安市| 林芝县| 青阳县| 竹北市| 陆川县| 海兴县| 浏阳市| 元江| 江北区| 阿拉善盟| 营山县| 晋州市| 滕州市| 大理市| 临江市| 新邵县| 台东县| 鸡西市| 云安县|