龙鳞装｜非物质文化遗产

Dragon Scale Suit

龙鳞装

龙鳞装，其形式是：长纸作底，首页全裱穿于卷首，自次页起， 鳞次向左裱贴于底卷上。 其特点是便于翻阅 ， 利于保护书页。

Dragon scale is one of the forms of ancient Chinese bookbinding, its form is: long paper as the base, the first page is mounted on the first volume, and from the second page, the scale is mounted to the left on the bottom volume. It is characterized by easy leafing and helps to protect the pages.

龙鳞装始于唐代，用于北宋，是卷轴向册页过波阶段出现的一种装帧形式，它既节省纸张，便于书籍检阅，又具有卷轴的含蓄内敛之美。

Dragon scale packaging began in the Tang Dynasty and was used in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a form of binding that appeared in the stage of the scroll to the album. It not only saves paper, and facilitates book review, but also has the implicit and restrained beauty of scroll.

同时也增添了阅读的意趣，可正读亦可反观，页页藏趣，相映成章。但因其制作工艺复杂耗时，导致龙鳞装在今天已几近失传

At the same time, it also adds the interest of reading, which can be read or viewed, and the interest of page by page is reflected in the chapter. However, due to its complicated and time-consuming production process, the dragon scale has almost lost its existence today.

龙鳞装由卷轴装演变而来。它形同卷轴，由一长纸做底，首叶全幅裱贴在底上，从第二叶右侧无字处用一纸条粘连在底上，其余书叶逐页向左粘在上一页的底下。书叶鳞次相积，阅读时从右向左逐叶翻阅，收藏时从卷首向卷尾卷起。

The dragon scale mounting evolved from the axle mounting. It is like a scroll, made of a long paper base, the first leaf is fully mounted on the bottom, from the right side of the second leaf without words with a strip of paper attached to the bottom, the rest of the book leaf by leaf glued to the left under the previous page. The leaf scales of the book are stacked, leaf by leaf from right to left when reading, and rolled up from the head to the tail when collecting.

Three ways to say dragon scale

龙鳞装的三种说法

第一，认为古书的经折装就是旋风装。美国芝加哥大学名誉教授钱存训的《中国古代书史》称：书籍的卷轴形式，一直延续作用到9世纪唐代末叶，才被折叠的形式所取代。自此而后，中国书籍的形式便逐渐演变。最初的折叠式，称为‘旋风装’或‘经折装。这就是说，旋风装就是经折装，或者说经折装也可以称为旋风装。

First, it is believed that the folding of ancient books is a whirlwind. According to the History of Ancient Chinese Books by emeritus professor Tsien of the University of Chicago, the scroll form of books continued to function until the end of the Tang Dynasty in the 9th century and was replaced by the folded form. Since then, the form of Chinese books has gradually evolved. The original folding style was called the "cyclone pack" or "warp pack." That is to say, the cyclone suit is the folded suit, or the folded suit can also be called the cyclone suit.

第二，认为旋风装是在经折装的基础上演化而来的。刘国钧、郑如斯的《中国书的故事》中说：大约在经折装出现不久，有人发现这样容易散开，容易折断，于是就想办法，用一张大纸对折起来，一半粘在书的最前叶，另一半从书的右边包到书背，粘在书的末叶。这样，在拿取时，就不会有散开扯断书叶的危险。如果从第一叶翻起，直翻到最后，仍可接连翻到第一叶。回环往复，不会间断，因此，就把它称为‘旋风装’。旋风装是经折装的变形。经折装和旋风装大概是在9世纪中叶出现的。

Second, it is believed that the cyclone suit evolved based on the folded suit. Liu Guojun and Zheng Rusi's "The Story of the Chinese Book" said: About soon after the appearance of the book folding, someone found that it was easy to spread and break, so they tried to use a large piece of paper to fold it in half, and half was glued to the front leaf of the book, and the other half was wrapped from the right side of the book to the back, and was glued to the end leaf of the book. In this way, there is no danger of unravelling and tearing the leaf when it is taken. If you start from the first leaf and turn straight to the end, you can still turn to the first leaf. Circular reciprocation, without interruption, therefore, is called a "whirlwind". A whirlwind suit is a folded version. The folded and cyclonic dress probably appeared in the middle of the 9th century.

根据北京故宫博物院所藏《唐写本王仁昫刊谬补缺切韵》的装帧形式及历代诸家对此的称谓，又有一种说法，认为旋风装是卷轴装到册叶装的一种过渡形式。它的装帧方式，是以一幅比书叶略宽略厚的长条纸作底，而后将单面书字的首叶全幅粘 于底纸右端。其余书叶因均系双面书字，故以每叶右边无字之空条处粘一纸条，逐叶向左鳞次相错地粘 在每叶之外的底纸上。由于每叶都是粘在上一叶的底下，故右边粘连处看不出相错的粘连缝痕，而左边则形成上叶压下叶的错落相积的状况。

According to the binding form of the Tang Dynasty Manuscript Wang Renshi Published in the Palace Museum in Beijing and the names of various dynasties, another is saying that the cyclonic decoration is a transitional form from the rolling to the leaf-book decoration. It is bound by a long strip of paper slightly wider and thicker than the leaf of the book, and then the first leaf of the single side of the letter is fully glued to the right end of the paper. The remaining leaves are double-sided letters, so a strip of paper is glued to the right side of each leaf without words, and the left scale of each leaf is incorrectly glued to the bottom paper outside each leaf. Since each leaf is stuck to the bottom of the upper leaf, the right side of the adhesion can not see the wrong adhesion seam marks and the left side of the formation of the upper leaf pressure on the lower leaf of the scattered phase of the situation.

收藏时，与卷轴装卷向相反，是从首向尾卷起。从外表看，仍是卷轴装，但内部书叶却逐次朝一个方向卷旋转起，宛如自然界的旋风，故古人称它为旋风叶子、旋风叶卷子，即旋风装。因其书叶鳞次栉比，貌似龙鳞，故又称龙鳞装。打开来翻阅时，除首叶因全幅粘裱于底纸上不能翻动外，其余书叶均能和阅览现代书籍一样，逐叶随意翻览。这种装帧形式既保留了卷轴装的外壳，又解决了翻检不方便的矛盾，是对卷轴装的一种改进。待到书叶摆脱掉粘 自身的底纸，册叶装便真正产生了。

When collecting, it is rolled from the head to the tail, contrary to the rolling of the reel. From the outside, it is still a reel, but the internal leaf is rolled and rotated in one direction, like a whirlwind in nature, so the ancients called it a whirlwind leaf, a whirlwind leaf roll, that is a whirlwind pack. Because its book leaves row upon row, like dragon scale, it is also called dragon scale. When opened to read, the first leaf can not be turned because the whole width is glued on the backing paper, the rest of the book leaves can be turned at will, leaf by leaf, like reading modern books. This form of binding not only retains the shell of the reel but also solves the contradiction of inconvenient checking, which is an improvement of the reel. When the leaf gets rid of its backing paper, the leaf pack is truly created.