How to store books

Most people will place mothballs in the bookcase, which does have a certain effect on the prevention of mold and insects. But many brands of mothballs contain PDCD (p-dichlorobenzene) chemical substances, which has been classified as the sixth category of toxic products, the human body has side effects. There are some people are afraid of moth moths destroy books (especially antiquarian book collectors fear more), they often use some supermarkets in the common chemical pesticides spraying bookcases, the results of the moths are rampant as usual, but the books have suffered from its own harm, yellow spots all over the body. From ancient times to the present, the book mold repellent method is very much, book lovers may wish to learn from the following:

Bookcase mold method:

1, placed rue grass. Northern Song Shen Kuo in the "dream stream pen talk" said: "the ancients hide books to avoid moth with rue, rue, vanilla." Like ningbo fan's tianyi pavilion book collection is very rich, which more rare version. The pavilion in the book three hundred years without mold and moth all rely on the merit of grass rue. Later, scholars and poets to write poems on Tianyi Pavilion, most of them mentioned rue grass. Tianyi Pavilion using the rue grass Jinxiu from Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County. Jinxiu vanilla in the local called "Ling Xiangzhao", growing at an altitude of 3,000 to 5,000 meters in the deep valleys of the mountains, is a very valuable vanilla, books and paper and human health have no side effects, and now you can still mail-order this kind of rue grass from the Internet.

2, once a year to carry out the "sweeping". What is sweeping? That is, every year to pick a windy and sunny weather, all the scriptures to the outdoors, and then use a feather and other light sweep of each page of the book. This method draws on the method of book collection in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Chengdu Wenshu House collection of books is very rich, the cabinet does not place any mildew repellent agent, the book is never mildew and insects, their secret is to carry out a sweep of the scriptures every year. They every year the scriptures through the flip once, the process of flipping, can destroy the pests stable ecological environment, coupled with their feathers sweeping, but also can drive out the eggs of existing pests. This is the Wenshu Academy collection of books well preserved the real mystery.

3, the use of newly developed 8489 and AD99 insecticide. These two kinds of medicine for the new pollution-free medicine, the Department of a variety of herbal composite from, is with a strong volatile, fragrant odor, non-toxic and harmless to humans and animals, does not pollute the environment, on the paper, handwriting has no adverse effects and other advantages. They not only have a good function of repelling pests, but also have a strong insecticidal effect.

Other related information:

1, the temporary not framed painting and calligraphy pieces can not be folded stacked up, or stored for a long time will be folded from the folding place broken, or in the folding place to leave a black crease, so as to affect the aesthetics of the framed. If you want to temporarily enjoy, do not use nails on the wall or paste sticking to the wall, otherwise it will directly damage the painting and calligraphy piece. Correct preservation of calligraphy and painting piece of method is: can be lined with a layer of calligraphy and painting piece of comparable width of thin rice paper or leather paper, paper roll as the axis of the calligraphy and painting piece of roll up, and white paper or plastic film packaging, placed in the painting box or bookcase.

2, painting and calligraphy after framing should be properly preserved, stored in the place should first consider moisture-proof, moth-proof, rodent-proof, anti-mold, anti-fouling and so on. Each piece of calligraphy and painting can be put into a plastic bag or cloth bag, can also be wrapped in white paper, storage should be placed flat, do not vertical, not to place heavy objects on top of the calligraphy and painting so that the calligraphy and painting pressure. If there are conditions, according to the specifications of the painting and calligraphy formulated box, and put some camphor and moisture absorber in the box.

3, calligraphy and painting framed pieces should not be stored too tightly or loosely rolled, not to reverse the volume. If rolled too tight, heaven and earth on both sides of the head will leave the heart of the painting and edge material seam indentation, affecting the beauty of the painting and calligraphy, but also may lead to deformation of the framed pieces or fall off; if rolled too loosely, easy to fold the painting and calligraphy; if the reverse roll, will make the painting and calligraphy appear a crease, especially antique paintings and calligraphy damage is even greater.

4, hanging and displaying paintings and calligraphy to be cautious. Hanging calligraphy and painting to hold a painting hairpin to pick the painting rope, one hand to hold the painting and calligraphy not unfolded part, and then slowly let go to hang the painting and calligraphy, remove the painting hairpin. When displaying paintings and calligraphy, one person should pull the painting rope, and the other person should hold the head of the axle to unfold the painting and calligraphy, avoid holding the middle part of the painting and calligraphy with two hands upward, or else the 5 fingers of the hand will scratch the painting and calligraphy out of the crease. For calligraphy and painting works without axle head, when displaying the two fingers should be clamped, so that the painting passes through the finger gap. In addition, it should also be noted that the calligraphy and painting should not be hung for a long time, hang a period of time to be rolled up after a period of time to collect; on the long storage of calligraphy and painting should be hung out regularly to ventilate.

5, show hand scrolls, albums should pay more attention to double, because the hand scrolls, albums of framing more complex than other painting and calligraphy framing. Hand scrolls should be placed on the display of flat desk or table, pay attention to the case or desktop should not be water points or dirt. Hand scrolls should not be unfolded for too long, and should be rolled up as they are unfolded. Booklet unfolding the best not to turn the finger, can be a smooth and burr-free bamboo strips inserted into the booklet between the pages of the page flip. The booklet is generally thicker, the beginning of the page or turn to the last few pages will appear on both sides of the book thickness is uneven, between the two pages of the overhang, at this time, if you do not pay attention to press the overhang in the middle of the page, it is easy to cause the phenomenon of fracture.

6, the custodian has been broken antique calligraphy and painting to be more cautious, a moment can not be repaired, do not feel free to show, in order to avoid painting and calligraphy again broken. If the painting and calligraphy has been broken, it is more important to prevent the loss of loose pieces, so as not to bring difficulties in the future repair. Whether it is old or new paintings and calligraphy, as long as the original frame can still hang, painting heart is not broken, generally do not rush to uncover the frame repair, because uncovering the frame once will be on the painting and calligraphy of the paper pigment damage once. If the original framed painting and calligraphy off or painting the heart of a serious damage, should be timely to uncover the frame repair.