The Rise of Printing media and the Formation of Song Poem Features Chang Kao-Ping Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Cheng Kung Uni

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2 The Rise of Printing media and the Formation of Song Poem Features Chang Kao-Ping Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Cheng Kung University Abstract The strengths of woodcut printing in the early Song Dynasty are characterized by accessibility, duration of preservation, cost effectiveness, and the ability to be stored easily. Furthermore, woodcut printing facilitated the circulation of literature, enabling the dissemination of information. Due to these qualities, therefore, woodcut printing enjoys the same status with that of transcripts (bibliolatries, manuscripts, codices). Accordingly, woodcut printing contributes a great deal to preserving, spreading, and promoting literatures written before and during the Song Dynasty, thus passing down cultural heritage. In fact, the emergence of woodcut printing has transformed not only the way through which knowledge is disseminated, but the quality of the information as well. This, in turn, influences Song intellectuals reading attitudes, perspectives, and environment, and leads to shifts in the writing style, the form of critique, aesthetic taste, and intellectual milieu of the Song Dynasty. From a macro-perspective, such an emergence also enables and assists the government to propel its Confucian policy, which includes holding civil examinations, giving lecture in the academy, turning education into an all-pervasive practice, and encouraging publication. Printing technique, therefore, can be termed as the catalyst for both the Tang and Song Dynasty s reformations, an invisible hand that marks the Song Dynasty as the forerunner of modernity. The aim of this paper, then, centers on the publication of Si Bu Dian Ji ( ) maybe relate the prosperity of the civilization in the Song Dynasty. The prosperity of printing media and the spread of books in the Song Dynasty, maybe influence Tang and Song poetic demarcation. Distinguishing it 40

Furthermore, woodcut printing facilitated the circulation of literature, enabling the dissemination of information.

3 from the study of bibliography and historiography with the hope of shedding light on the current comments concerning the Tang and Song Dynasty s reformations, the culture paradigm of the Song Dynasty, the divisions of poetry between the Tang and Song Dynasty, and the characteristics of Song poetry. Keywords: printing media, Si Bu Dian Ji ( ), the books circulate, Song Poem Features, Tang and Song poetic demarcation 41

divisions of poetry between the Tang and Song Dynasty, and the characteristics of Song poetry.

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