News:Ancientprintingmachines, paper with plant seeds sandwiched, printing cylinders engraved with the God of Wealth/Kuixing, fancy refrigerator stickers for "Drinking Tea Freely" and "Mao Fei Jiarun"... On June 7, this session On the first day of the ICIF, the intangible cultural heritage exhibition area of Hall 14 was crowded with people at the booth of "Time Imprint". While stepping on the pedals, pulling the lever, and cooperating with hands and feet, you can get a beautifully printed picture of the goalkeeper. Anyone who sees it wants to use both hands and feet to operate it. This is an intangible cultural heritage enterprise focusing on movable type printing, one of the four great inventions of China. "Time Mark" comes from Qingdao, Shandong. The owner Ruan Tongmin's family is engaged in the printing industry. As a post-80s generation, he has witnessed the development, prosperity and subsequent upgrade iterations of printing.
From movable type printing to laser phototypesetting to now 3D printing... printing technology is constantly changing. But what about those "old machines in time"? Ruan Tongmin, who has a strong affection for printing, does not want to let those "old printing machines " that have withdrawn from the stage of history be dusted. "I grew up smelling the smell of ink. Have you ever seen characters printed with lead type? Unlike the books we read now, the products printed with lead type will have a bumpy feeling to the touch, which is the trace of the characters." Ruan Tongmin said , Parents often bring their children to his experience hall. It is also a Tang poem that children can memorize. When it is printed in lead type, let the children hold it in their hands. This kind of spiritual shock is given by other forms. no.
Ruan Tongmin told reporters that since 2012, he has collected more than 200 printing machines, casting machines, copper fonts, and paper cutters of different models from the Republic of China to the 1980s, including more than 100 printing machines and copper There are more than 30 boxes of fonts. With the innovation of laser phototypesetting technology, movable type printing has gradually withdrawn from the stage of history... Seeing a large number of movable type, printing machines, and copper type models being treated as waste products, Ruan Tongmin felt very uncomfortable.
"Movable type printing is the wisdom of our ancestors. I saw a Chinese character hall in Tokyo, Japan, and a similar experience hall in Taiwan, China. I wanted to build a similar carrier in mainland China." In 2012, collected from Uncle Factory After buying three sets of old equipment, Ruan Tongmin visited old printing factories in more than a dozen cities across the country to search for old printing equipment. In 2013, he established the first movable type printing shop on Nanjing Road, Qingdao. Provide movable type printing experience service. Since then, they have developed intangible cultural heritage study packages such as movable type printing, ancient papermaking, ancient book binding, rubbings, etc., and advocated the research concept of "bringing intangible cultural heritage home". Produce an intangible cultural heritage work. Poetry movable type printing material packages and experience packages such as "Spring Dawn", "Thoughts in a Quiet Night" and "Looking at Tianmen Mountain" allow children to print ancient poems at home by themselves. Later, it extended from printed characters to the story of excavating Chinese characters, and developed cultural and creative products such as keychains, copper bookmarks, and products with hundreds of surnames, and combined them with cultural and creative entities offline to customize course equipment, renewing the intangible cultural heritage , The old machine has revived again.