The technology of book binding, optimized step by step, you know?

Books, as a kind of writing as well as the carrier of knowledge, a long time ago in a variety of forms existed. Most of the earliest written symbols were recorded on rocks and some objects that could be chiseled, and then later appeared chiseled on tortoiseshell and bone oracle bone inscriptions. As civilization developed, the carriers for recording written symbols began to change greatly.

Oracle bones

Scroll binding is the earliest form of traditional Chinese bookbinding, which is done by using many sheets of paper glued together and connected to form a very long page, and then using a wooden pole as its shaft, and the more extravagant ones also use gold, jade, porcelain, and ivory as the shaft of this type of binding. This way of binding has appeared before the Tang Dynasty, plus most of the books at that time for the copy on paper, and then finally be bound into a volume, so to the later books have followed the previous name, called the volume of the book. Even now, you can often see a lot of books and paintings are still using scroll binding, the most common are generally two kinds of vertical and horizontal axis.

Scrolls

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, a new type of binding appeared, which is also one of the traditional Chinese book bindings, the warp-fold binding. This way of binding initially appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, it uses the form of binding is the use of a long scroll, it is a positive and negative folded together, turning it into a large rectangular stack, and then finally this large stack of long scrolls of the outermost layer of the front and back of each additional a more rigid texture of rigid paper protection. This type of binding is often seen with the monks to publicize the interpretation of Buddhist scriptures held in the hands of the scrolls, so this type of binding is also collectively known as the Sanskrit folder binding. This binding of the book will be easier to read than the previous scrolls.

Sutra Folding

The use of sutra folding this way of binding since it has its advantages, then it must have disadvantages, because the use of sutra folding this way of binding books, after a long period of time after the book folding seams will often be broken. It is also because of this form of breakage, which inspired the invention of a new binding method: butterfly binding. This binding is the earliest use of the book pages into a book binding, the earliest appearance of the book is "butterfly binding". Its binding form is by folding each page according to the center seam, turning the side with the printed text inward, and then aligning each page of the book with the center seam as the base, and then using glue to stick them to another wrapping paper, and then finally forming a book. Because books bound in the butterfly binding method are flipped through like a butterfly fluttering on two wings, they are named butterfly bindings. In this type of binding, the rigid paper wrapped in front and back of the book is the "book jacket", the left side of the book jacket can be labeled with information such as the title of the book, and the flip side is called the "mouth of the book". The left side of the jacket was called the "mouth of the book," and the flipping side was called the "mouth of the book.

Butterfly

This type of binding appeared in the late Tang Dynasty along with the folded binding, but the butterfly binding was extremely popular in the Song Dynasty, and was still used in the Yuan Dynasty, and was finally eliminated in the Ming Dynasty. Similarly, the butterfly has its own advantages and disadvantages, the butterfly it is good in the book is not like a general booklet to the larger format into two halves, easy to read, while the butterfly books stored in the book mouth down, around the outside, can play a very good insect-proof and dust-proof effect, will not easily make the internal content of the text is damaged. But the shortcomings of the butterfly suit is to read, flip side will encounter two sides of the blank, also because of this, to the end of the butterfly suit was "packet back" replaced.

Wrapped back binding

Wrapped back binding is also known as wrapped back binding, is improved on the basis of the development of the butterfly binding new binding methods, originated in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It is bound using the strategy of folding the pages of the book back to back, so that the text face to the outside, the mouth of the plate as the mouth of the book, so that the two sides of the pages of the book glued to the spine of the book, and finally with a twist of paper through the binding, plus the book coat wrapped around the back of the book for the package. This binding is similar to the butterfly binding, but because the pages are folded and the center of the plate is facing outward, the text on each page is connected, making it easier to read than the butterfly binding. Packet back binding in the butterfly binding to overcome the inconvenience of reading and other shortcomings at the same time, but also retained the advantages of the butterfly binding back of the book adhesion, coupled with its own unique perforated binding, so that the book's degree of solidity is greatly enhanced.

Perforated binding

Southern Song Dynasty also appeared in the "line binding" of books, this binding is the pages of the book together with the front and back of the book cover bound together. Although this binding appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, but really began to popularize is in the Jiajing after the Qing Dynasty has basically defaulted to the use of this line binding binding method to bind books. Line binding marks the ancient book binding in China to mature, but also China's traditional book binding of the final stage of development, it is especially loved by the generations of book collectors.

Ancient books

Books are the crystallization of the great wisdom of mankind, the best embodiment of the will and ideals of mankind, the expression of humanistic ideas, the dissemination of knowledge, the accumulation of culture and art carrier. In the humanities continue to progress today, people for the pursuit of the spiritual world is more and more "harsh", almost anything related to the pursuit of spirituality are treated with a critical eye. The development process of book binding is the sign that human beings care more and more about and enjoy the spiritual pursuit.