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Simple description of China's ancient Song and Yuan period book binding form?

Butterfly binding is a new form of book binding that emerged after the invention of printing. Some people infer that the fifth generation Feng Dao organization printing Confucian classics, using the butterfly binding, but no physical heritage, it is difficult to determine. The early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the printed scriptures, historical writings, all with butterfly binding, and soon in the country. From the beginning of the Liao dynasty, also use the butterfly binding, the process is generally comparable with the Central Plains. Butterfly application, is a major change in the book binding system. Is a book from the scroll, folded to the transformation of the booklet, thus determining the basic binding system has been extended to the present book.

Yuan dynasty in publishing, printing and so on, there are outstanding achievements, for example, the variety of printed books more than the previous generation; wooden movable type of the first and the application of the two-color overprinting of books and ink and Zhu ink and the implementation of the packet back binding and widely used and so on.

The Yuan Dynasty published books in the form of binding, butterfly binding, folding the main, butterfly binding is used for general books, such as the printing of the scriptures and history books. Scripture folding is mostly used for Buddhist scriptures. In terms of font is mostly used Zhao style, folk appear in the book, the use of more simplified characters.

Beginning in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, books are mostly used in color back binding. Color back binding process is characterized by: this page Qi seams text folded outward, with the page, hit the flush, staple in the blank side of the page, with paper twists through the staple tie flat, staple outside the cut, the back of the book, brush glue, paste on the back cover, cut up and down the mouth of the book. General books with thick paper for the cover, the court books, the paper framed with yellow damask. Printed in the Yuan Dynasty, "Secretary Supervisor Zhi" book, recorded table back craftsman Jiao Qingan batter material recipe: yellow wax, gelatin, alum, hyacinth, quinoa basket, saponin, thatched incense, patchouli half a penny, white five money, half a kilogram of hard wood, charcoal, two two. This recipe, including adhesives, preservatives and aromatics three major parts, visible at the time of the book binding materials is very scientific, it can make the book long preservation ~