The catalogue is introduced as follows:
The table of contents is a Chinese character, and the pinyin is mù lù, which means the table of contents before the text of a book. It is a tool for revealing and reporting books.
The introduction of the book is as follows:
Books (English: book; Pinyin: shjí；; ; ㄕㄨㄐㄧˊ Athena Chu) refers to the bound books and characters, in a narrow sense, the collection of characters, images and paper. Before the popularization of ancient paper in China, books were mostly made of bamboo baked by fire.
The history of books is as follows:
The history of books is closely related to the development of writing, language, literature, art, technology and science. It can be traced back to the inscriptions on stones, wood, pottery, bronzes, palm leaves, bones, birch bark and so on. The use of papyrus greatly promoted the development of books.
Around the 30th century BC, Egyptian papyrus scrolls appeared, which was the earliest embryonic form of Egyptian books. The papyrus scroll is closer to the concept of modern books than the clay tablets of Sumer, Babylon, Assyria and Hittite.
The earliest official book in China was The Concise Strategy, which appeared around the 8th century BC. Du Yu in the Western Jin Dynasty said in the Preface to the Collection of Spring and Autumn Classics that the Book of Great Events takes strategy as the key link and simplicity of small things. Before the invention of paper, bamboo slips were the main form of books in China.
In the 2nd century BC, paper made of plant fibers appeared in China, such as Baqiao paper unearthed in Xi 'an in 1957. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, after Cai Lun summarized the previous experience and improved it to make Cai Hou Paper (AD 105), paper became the main material of books, and the scrolls of paper gradually replaced bamboo and silk books.
China first invented and actually applied woodcut printing. As early as the beginning of the 7th century, China had used woodcut to print books. Before the invention of printing, China's books were mainly scrolls. In the 10 century, books in the form of leaves appeared in China, which gradually replaced scrolls and became books in the same form all over the world.