明朝年间,众多门类的手工业中,雕版印刷行业的雕版工最常见诸记载。近一个世纪,研究者在印本书页的折叠处、序言、章节、题记的末尾,或插图的角落中发现了六千余名雕版工的名字。他们的名字仅见于不到一成的现存印刷品,而且这些印刷品中不见制作于北京、广东、福建以及藩王统辖地区者;这一数量至少占明以前四个世纪所知雕版工总数的三分之一,也远远超过陶器、玉器、象牙器、漆器等手工匠人的数量。 During the Ming Dynasty, many types of handicrafts, the engraving industry printing engraving most common records. For nearly a century, researchers have found the names of more than 6,000 engravers in the fold, prologue, chapter, inscription at the end, or in the corners of illustrations. Their names are found only in less than 10% of existing prints, and none of them are made in areas under the jurisdiction of Beijing, Guangdong, Fujian, and the vassal; this amount accounts for at least one-third of the total number of engravers known in the past four centuries One, far more than pottery, jade, ivory, lacquer and other craftsman number.