Transcript The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China

The Four Great Inventions of
Ancient China
中国古代的四大发明
Presentation by :Zhang Carolyn
(Zhang, Yajie---雅杰）
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• ☺gunpowder 火药 (huŏ yào)
• ☺ compass 指南针（zhĭ nán zhēn)
• ☺ papermaking 造纸术 (zào zhĭ shù)
• ☺ movable printing 印刷术(yìn shuā shù)
GUN POWDER
火药 (huŏ yào)
Gunpowder was invented by Chinese
alchemists in the 9th century.
How the Gun Powder works
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Gun Powder—Gun/Firework
Gun Powder is an ingredient of gun and firework.
Chinese Gun
The Compass
指南针（zhĭ nán zhēn)
Who invented the Compass
and when was it invented?
• The Compass was invented by the
Chinese. It was invented in the Han
Dynasty known as the 1st century.
Why was it invented
(short story)
• Before the creation of the Compass land
explores and people on sea had to use the
sun, stars, and the wind to guide them to
their destination. Then the Compass was
invented and now the creation helps many
people on sea or land get to their
destinations
司南 sī nán
Paper Making
Ancient Chinese Inventions
(造纸术 zào zhĭ shù)
Pictures of the ancient paper
All of these are
different
ancient papers!
This is Papyrus
paper
Comparing New paper with old
paper
See the
difference?
??
New
Old
The 4 great
inventions of china:
movable printing
(印刷术 yìn shuā shù)
The history of the movable printing.
 The earliest woodblock printed fragments to survive are from China and are
of silk printed with flowers in three colors from the Han dynasty (before 220
CE).
 It is clear that the Chinese were the first by several centuries to use the
process to print solid text, and equally that, much later, in Europe the
printing of images on cloth developed into the printing of images on paper
(woodcuts). It is established that the use in Europe of the same process to
print substantial amounts of text together with images in block-books only
came after the development of movable type in the 1450s.
Who invented printing???
 The man who
invented printing was
named “Bi Sheng”.
 And here is his
picture-------------------}
Short biography of Bi Sheng
 Somewhere between 1045 and 1058, Bi
Sheng, who lived in China's capital of
Bianliang during the Northern Song
Dynasty (960-1127), invented the
moveable type.
The pictures of printing
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谢谢！