No.5 Exhibition Hall for Evolution of Chinese Characters: The No.5 Exhibition Hall for Evolution of Chinese Characters is also called the Exhibition Hall of the Printing and Information, which is located in the East Hall on the third floor. It consists of five sections, including the “Origin of the Printing”, “Block Printing”, “Evolution to Typography”, “Out of Use of Lead and Fire” and “Information Era”, showing the development of paper making, block printing, typography, modern Chinese characters and the development of characters and information technology of the Chinese minority nationalities.

No.5 Exhibition Hall for Evolution of Chinese Characters

Engraving printing

Engraving printing process

No.5 Exhibition Hall for Evolution of Chinese Characters

Movable-type printing in passed dynasties

Aluminum alloy movable-type typesetting and printing

Composing stick of Wang Zhen’s wooden type rotating wheel

Type setting

Typesetting and printing machine

Type evolution

Chinese character input into computers

Keying in Chinese

Bamboo slips presented in the Olympic Games