Formal books, is in the spring and autumn period and the warring states era, more than two thousand years ago.At first, people written on pieces of bamboo or wood and these bamboo or wood called Jane or suffer. Breaking bamboo board in the same length and width of thin (usually 5 inches to 2 feet in length), made the surface, in the above lettering or paint pen to write with a knife, each piece can be written for 8 to 14 characters.
Some slips of the with hemp rope,wire rope or pimp string up, ike put on a rope among a few pieces of bamboo slips. Legend because Confucius study diligently, and the wear volume of thongs broken many times.This heavy book, of course, is very convenient to use. It is said that emperor qin shi huang examines 120 catties of slips of paper every day.
Now, not only many varieties, and some smaller and smaller.Miniature book preservation and use is very convenient, if the 10000 kinds of each of the 150000 - word book put together, the total weight of it is about 5 tons, books’history.