The earliest binding form-simple binding
Binding form of bamboo slips. Before the invention of papermaking, most books in ancient China were written on bamboo or wood chips, which were called bamboo slips or wooden slips. In order to facilitate reading and collection, bamboo slips are woven together in order with ropes. Later, people called this binding form simple and strategic.
The method of simple packing is to weave the simple packing with hemp rope, silk rope or leather rope, which is similar to the weaving method of bamboo curtain. After compiling an article, the content is one article, which is called strategy, also called simple strategy. "Policy" and "book" have the same meaning. Woven with silk rope is called "silk weaving", and woven with leather rope is called "weft weaving". After weaving the Jane into a raiders, roll it forward from the tail Jane, put it into a cloth cover, and roll it forward when reading.
Bamboo slips are the earliest binding form in China, which was popular in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. In the Jin Dynasty, with the application of paper and the appearance of paper books, simple strategy books were gradually replaced by paper books.
The oldest binding form-scroll binding
Scroll binding began with silk books, and was applied to paper books when paper books prevailed in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later generations have been using it, and modern mounted calligraphy and painting are still mounted with scrolls.
Scroll binding evolved from the binding form of Jane Eyre rolled into a bundle. The method is to stick a shaft (usually a wooden shaft) at the end of a long scroll article and roll the book on the shaft. For silk books, articles are written directly on silk books, while for paper books, a piece of paper with words is pasted on a long scroll in turn. Generally, the head of a scroll is bonded with a piece of paper or silk, which is called "mounting". The mounting is tough and does not write, which plays a protective role.
Then tie the mounting head with a ribbon to bind the book. Put a sign on the end of the ribbon and tie it to fix the ribbon. When reading, open the long scroll and stretch it gradually with the reading progress. After reading, roll up the scroll with the shaft, tie it with the ribbon in front of the scroll and put it on the tea rack.
Exquisite scrolls are mainly displayed in shafts, labels and belts, such as white toothed shafts and toothpicks with yellow and red stripes; Carved rosewood shaft, purple toothpick, etc.
Transition from rolling loading to album loading
One of them-cyclone suit
Whirlwind clothing evolved from scroll clothing. It's like a scroll, with a long piece of paper underneath. The whole front page is pasted below, starting from the right side of the second page, a piece of paper is pasted below, and the other pages are pasted below the previous page one by one.
The pages of this book are by-products. Turn from right to left when reading, and roll up from beginning to end when collecting.
This binding form is the same as loading scrolls from the outside, but the pages inside are like cyclones in nature, hence the name whirlwind loading; When unfolded, the pages are arranged in an orderly proportion, so it is also called Longlin.
Cyclone loading is a transitional form from reel loading to album loading in China's early years. Tang Yun, written by Wu Cailuan in the Tang Dynasty in the Palace Museum, is bound in this way.
Transition from rolling loading to album loading
The second form-folding
Folding is the first binding form used in Buddhist scriptures, which began in the late Tang Dynasty. In order to read the scriptures conveniently, Buddhist disciples kept folding long scrolls left and right to form a rectangular stack, which is also considered to be influenced by the binding form of Indian laurel leaves. Later, some rubbings, rubbings and paperbacks also used this form, which is called a passbook or commemorative book.
This binding form has been completely separated from the reel. From the appearance, it is similar to the later album books, and it is an intermediate form from scroll loading to album loading.
The Early Form of Album-Butterfly Dress
"Butterfly costume", referred to as "Butterfly costume", is an early album costume. Appeared after being impressed, evolved from being impressed, appeared in the late Five Dynasties, and prevailed in the Song Dynasty.
The method of butterfly mounting is to fold the printed surface of the page in half along the middle seam, then align the page according to the crease, stick the back of a stack of creases together with a pack of lining paper, and finally cut it into a book. The book "Butterfly Clothes" is just like a butterfly flapping its wings, hence the name "Butterfly Clothes".
The development of book binding form to butterfly binding marks that the book binding form in China has entered the stage of "album binding"
Bao Beizhuang, a binding form, appeared at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Wrapping, also known as back wrapping, is a binding form developed on the basis of butterfly dress, which appeared in the late Southern Song Dynasty and was widely used in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Yongle Dadian in Ming Dynasty and Sikuquanshu in Qing Dynasty are such binding forms. The main difference between Abao's quilt and butterfly suit is that when the page is folded in half, the center of the page is facing outward, and the back is opposite. When turning pages, each page is front.
Its binding method is to align the folding pages, punch holes outside the right column, twist the binding paper flat, smash it flat and fix it, then wrap it with thick paper from the back of the right book and stick it firmly with paste.
A popular binding form after the mid-Ming Dynasty-thread binding
The thread-bound hinge is exactly the same as the one in the bag, with the center facing outwards and the back opposite. The difference is that the whole package of back cover paper is changed to two single covers before and after, the back of the package is changed to bare back, and the paper twisting and punching binding is changed to thread binding.
Thread binding is the most advanced in the history of traditional binding technology in China. Thread-bound books are easy to read and not easy to break. The process and style of thread-bound books have changed to varying degrees, such as "wrap angle" and "robe cover", but they are not beyond the scope of thread-bound books.
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