Chinese ancient traditional book binding design

Prior to the invention of the printing press, the book was copied on paper and paper, in the form of a long roll, which was unfolded during reading and was usually rolled up. The books in this period can only be loaded with scrolls. Han Yu's "Send Zhuge Liang to Suizhou to study" said: "The Minhou family has many books, 30,000 shafts, and one tooth suspension. If the new one is not touched," Ouyang Xiu returned to Tian Tian and said, "The Tang Dynasty books are all for reels. "After the popularization of engraving and printing, because the book editions were each formed into blocks, the installation of scrolls was no longer applicable, and the installation of ancient books was improved into the form of albums. There have been several forms of cyclone, discreet, back-loading and line-loading. The form of threading is still in use today.

Scroll loading also known as roll loading, the early form of book binding. Similar to good calligraphy and painting. Attach a wooden shaft to the left end of the long scroll and paper book and turn it up (Fig. 1). A large number of books in the Tang and the Five Dynasties discovered in the Dunhuang Stone Room were all adopted this way. According to records, the ancient palace collection scroll book is very elegant, "Sui Tang Jing Zhi" description of the secret library collection: "the upper red glass axis, the middle product glass axis, the next product paint axis"; "Tang Liudian" description of the Inner House collection: " The book of the library, the white tooth shaft, the yellow toothpicks; the Shiku book, the green tooth shaft, and the white tooth with white ribbons. "Into the era of engraved engravings, the books were changed to album forms, and some were still loaded with scrolls, such as "Open." "Treasure", "City of Zhao City," and so on.

Cyclone equipment is affixed to the pages of a single sheet of paper in reverse order. Each page is written on both sides of the page. A long scroll can be used to page through the pages. Zhang Shouji's “Infandel Manchu” described him as “flying by leaf and rolling to the end and still united in one roll.” This binding feature is that the appearance is still a long scroll, but there is a patchwork page in it. A binding form between the folded and folded (Figure 2). About prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. The National Palace Museum has five volumes of the Tang dynasty "Book of Supplements and Deficit Rhyme", which is the use of this cyclone.

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