This is woodblock printing, an ancient printing technique that propelled human civilization. As Buddhism prevailed in China during the ... to produce a woodblock print. Carving lies at the center ...

A new take on the last days of the centuries-old Japanese woodblock tradition ... port on the southern tip of the Liaotung Peninsula in China. Japan had won Port Arthur in the Sino-Japanese ...

Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press, monks and artisans in China were drawing on their ... translate and print Buddhist scripture.

JINAN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- In the chilly winter, visitors to Hexingyong Workshop in east China's Shandong Province ... Creating a woodblock print involves over 50 steps, all done by hand.

Xu Jiahui, a national inheritor of Liangping woodblock New Year painting, colors a woodblock print at his workshop ... currently being exhibited at the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum ...

Folk artists hang newly-made woodblock new year paintings up to dry in Yangjiabu Village of Hanting District in Weifang, east China's Shandong Province ... The "Zao Wang" print, a key figure in ...