Huizhou prints began in the middle Tang Dynasty; During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Huizhou's official engraving, private engraving and square engraving also produced some fine crystals, but they did not account for a large proportion in the national engraving industry. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, Huizhou merchants intervened in the engraving publishing industry, which made Huizhou engraving publishing industry advance by leaps and bounds, and jumped to the top of the country from Wanli to Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, becoming an important engraving center in the country. As soon as Huizhou merchants entered the engraving publishing industry, they immediately showed their innate shrewdness. They made bold innovations in the ways and methods of engraving books and engraving printing technology. First, they edited and published a large number of books. Books are the easiest to learn. Books can summarize group records and search the rest, which is great. If you want to read more books, you must buy a series. Secondly, a large number of illustrations are printed to increase readers' reading interest and understanding and induce readers to buy. Third, take joint operation to shorten the publishing cycle and sell quickly. Fourthly, the printing and engraving technology was reformed, and four-color or five-color coloring printing technology was created, which made the plate much more exquisite and moving than ordinary engraving illustrations. He also created the printing technology of "short edition" and "arch flower", which pushed the color overprint woodcarving to a new peak.

At that time, Huizhou private workshops were carved like stars, and there were carving shops everywhere. Huizhou printmaking became one of the most influential schools in China at that time, and it was called "emblem print" internationally. Huizhou edition is most famous for its square engraving, exquisite collation and excellent printing, and features illustrations. In the early Qing Dynasty, private lettering was forbidden in Daxing Wen Prison, and lettering in workshops plummeted. During the reign of Kangxi, the ban on books slowed down slightly, but Huizhou was never restored to the prosperity during the reign of Wanli and Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. However, judging from the whole book engraving industry in Qing Dynasty, Huizhou book engraving is still active and is one of the national book engraving centers. This is mainly manifested in the development of college engraving, the prosperity of family engraving and the development of local chronicles genealogy editing.