The ninth century B.C. gave rise to the first high tide in woodblock
printing. During that period, printing was active in many places. Apart
from the printing of Buddhist scriptures and Buddha portraits, private
printing of almanacs, books on geomancy and fortune telling, glossaries
and rhyming dictionaries were widespread. A considerable amount of printed
material dating from this period has survived to the present day.
[Printing] [The Song Dynasty] [The Yuan Dynasty] [The Ming Dynasty] [The dissemination of printing]