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inked, and page impressions taken from rubbings on cloth or paper. In 1322, a Fenghua county officer Ma Chengde ??? in Zhejiang, made 100,000 wooden movable types and printed the 43-volume Daxue Yanyi ??????. Wooden movable types were used continually in China. Even as late as 1733, a 2300-volume Wuying Palace Collected Gems Edition ?????????? was printed with 253,500 wooden movable types on order of the Qianlong Emperor, and completed in one year.

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