Study on Causes of Disappearance of Wax Printing Technique in the Central Plains Area during Song Dynasty

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10.2991/sschd-17.2017.88How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Wax Printing, Disappearance, Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Area.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the sudden disappearance of the wax printing technique in the Central Plains area during Song dynasty. We analyzed historical literatures, textile archaeology, and various other methods to summarize the main reasons leading to the disappearance of the wax printing from three aspects: political, economic, and technical factors. Political factors are reflected in the promulgation and implementation of dyeing injunction in the Song Dynasty; the government did not support this technique in folklore for the process wasted a lot of resources. Economic factors are reflected in the difficulty to obtain a large number of beeswax, the raw material for wax printing, because of the reduced territory in Song Dynasty. Technical factors are reflected in the generation and widespread of the new alkaline printing process, which accelerated the demise of wax printing.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bin Li
AU  - Hong-Guang Ye
AU  - An-Ding Liu
AU  - Xiao-Jing Fang
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Study on Causes of Disappearance of Wax Printing Technique in the Central Plains Area during Song Dynasty
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 461
EP  - 465
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-17.2017.88
DO  - 10.2991/sschd-17.2017.88
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