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Bi Sheng, a commoner in the Song Dynasty, invented the world¡s first block-letter printing technique, the movable-type printing.
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Printing was one of ancient China¡s Four Great Inventions.
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The block-letter printing technique is also known as movable-block printing.Different from the old-fashioned wood-block printing,
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it involves the making of clay types, one for each character. For typesetting, a clay type was spread on a square sheet of iron until it
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was full. This method proved to be very scientific, for the clay types could be dismantled and thus used again. Bi Sheng¡s technique
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was the most remarkable achievement in printing.