四百年前的出版家中国不但是世界上发明纸张最早的国家,印刷术也最先在中国使用。紧跟着这些伟大的发明的出现,中国人民的文化生活也大大发展了。作为资本主义萌芽的事例之一的印刷出版业也在宋代就有了很大的发展。关于北宋的印刷出版业的材料,现在保存下来的不太多。(前几年上海发现了一册北宋刻的 China, the publishing house four hundred years ago, is not only one of the earliest countries in the world to invent paper, but also the first one to use it in China. Following the emergence of these great inventions, the cultural life of the Chinese people has also greatly developed. The printing and publishing industry, one of the seeds of capitalism, also made great strides in the Song Dynasty. Materials on the printing and publishing industry in the Northern Song Dynasty have not been preserved so far. (A few years ago, Shanghai discovered a volume engraved in the Northern Song Dynasty