Close up, craftsman hands carving Chinese wooden movable type characters, Dongyuan Village, Ruian, Zhejiang Province,China
Close up of hands carving small wooden Chinese characters for printing by one of the handful of living masters trained in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage art of Chinese wooden movable type carves a small wooden Chinese character to be used in print making at Dongyuan Village, Rui'an, Zhejiang Province, China. Chinese movable type has been used here for 800 years and continues today as families reprint their pedigree or family genealogies using the same ancient Chinese printing technology created by Bi Sheng in the 11th century, hundreds of years before Johannes Gutenberg introduced movable type printing in Europe.
Size: 6016px × 4016px
Location: Dongyuan village, Rui'an, Ruian, Zhejiang Province, China
Photo credit: © Shelly Rivoli / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: bi, blade, blocks, carve, carves, carving, characters, china, chinese, city, closeup, cultural, dongyuan, donyuan, family, genealogies, genealogy, hand, hands, heritage, intangible, master, movable, museum, pedigree, preservation, print, printer, printing, province, ruian, sheng, skill, small, tradition, trained, training, type, unesco, village, wooden, working, zhejiang
