Palace Museum's new gallery sheds light on imperial printing history

A gallery displaying printing woodblocks opened at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Monday, the first such exhibition space of its kind since the museum opened to the public in 1925.

The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, was China's imperial palace from 1420 to 1911.

It houses 1.86 million cultural relics, and about one-third of these are ancient books, documents and related printing woodblocks, making the museum a key venue on the development of Chinese literature.