Question

What was an accordion book? Describe any two features of hand printing in China?

Answer 1

In about 594AD Chinese developed an art of hand printing. They made a traditional Chinese 'accordion book' which was folded and stitched at a side because the traditional rubbing paper could be printed on one side only.

Features of hand printing in China:-

• It became an important part as for the bureaucratic works or civil service exams by imperial state in China.
• This traditional woodblock printing as first came in China spreaded to entire world which later gave new ideas for modern art.

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