Data expansion:
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 origin of development:
1, overview:
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.
2. Simple strategy:
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 Spring and Autumn Classics: "The book of great events is based on policy, and the small things are simple." Before the invention of paper, bamboo slips were the main form of books in China.
Bamboo and wood are cut into long and narrow bamboo chips or wood chips, which are collectively called Jane, and slightly wider rectangular wood chips are called "squares". Some abridged versions are called "strategies" (volumes), also called "simple strategies", and the pimps or ropes used for weaving are called "weaving".
3. Silk:
China's ancient records, such as Shangshu, Shijing, Chunqiu Zuoshi Biography, Guoyu, Shiji, the chronology of bamboo books unearthed in the Western Jin Dynasty and Sun Tzu's Art of War unearthed in Linyi, Shandong Province in recent years, are all written in bamboo and wood. Later, people wrote in silk, which was called silk book.
"Mozi" has a record that "the book is on the silk and engraved on the stone". Silk books are made of special silk fabrics and are called "Silk Books" or "Silk Books", so they are also called "Silk Books".