Wei Lizhong, curator of Hangzhou Shizhuzhai Art Gallery and the inheritor of woodblock printing, came to Tianjin Normal University to give a speech about the inheritance and dissemination of national intangible cultural heritage-woodblock printing on Jan 8.

Wei Lizhong demonstrates how to do woodblock printing at Tianjin Normal University on Jan 8.[Photo/Xinhua]

Wei introduced the history and artistic status of woodblock printing and showed students how to do woodblock printing.

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia. It originated in ancient China as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. Woodblock printing existed in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century.

Wei(R) introduces his engraved copy of the Diamond Sutra. [Photo/Xinhua]