Abstract:

The block printing has both cultural and commercial characters. A cultural center, which has a basis of business and trade and many scholars and men of letters, can provide redoubled development opportunities than other places. There were close relations between the change of regional cultural structure and the block-printing center in Fujian. The center had a shifting process from the location in Jianyang of North Fujian to Tingzhou Sibao of West Fujian and then to provincial capital Fuzhou in history. The rise and decline of the press was a barometer of cultural development.

Key words: block-printing in Jianyang, private block-printing in Sibao, regional cultural structure