What is the meaning of the album page

The meaning of "album page" is: album page is a form of mounting for calligraphy and painting works, and is also one of the traditional forms of book binding in ancient China.

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Books and paintings that are framed into a book in separate pages are called "album pages", or pages. 《儒林外史第一回》："Because of the former Japanese county master's command: to draw twenty-four pairs of flower album pages to send to the superior, the matter was handed over to me." Also used as a booklet of leaves.

Chinese painting and calligraphy framing style. Because the painting body is not big, also known as "small", also known as the book leaf, leaf book. By a sheet of cardboard folded cardboard, can be left and right or up and down.

There are three styles of albums, one is a horizontal painting heart, framed into the up and down flip, called "Push Tent"; a vertical painting heart, framed into the left and right fold, called "butterfly"; another framed into a folded into one, called the "Warp fold". "by folding type" (by folding type), the smaller vertical bars called "fold"; there are also mounted into a single piece, called "loose".