Open Culture (Official)The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
LoveThaess@openculture Bruh Korean needs to reintroduce Kanji - it's waaay too beautiful, even if stupidly hard to learn
Diary of Paracelsus’s Rose@openculture
To be precise, Jikji is the oldest surviving book printed using _metal_ movable type. The book known as "Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union", a Buddhist book in the Tangut language printed using wooden movable type, is dated the 12th century. It is considered the oldest surviving sample of the wooden movable type technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auspicious_Tantra_of_All-Reaching_Union
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)@Happyfishmedia Yep, we had movable type centuries before Europe, way more than 78 years. Pi Sheng invented it and he was around in the 10th century.
