The Feature Of Chinese Ancient Books-the Research Of The Format Of Chinese Ancient Books And Its Influence On Contemporary Book Design

History is touching the book gently which combine with oracle bone, bronze,stone, bamboo slips and silk while reading China’s ancient civilization recorded onthe natural world. The improvement and promotion of papermaking is the powerfuldriving force of the development of human civilization and ancient Chinese bookdecoration. As we all know, traditional Chinese culture is rational, which not onlydominated the ancient Chinese people’s world view, but also influenced the formationof ancient Chinese book decoration. Various kinds of ancient Chinese bookdecorations contain the full bodied ethnic feature, as well as explains deep content ofancient Chinese culture. Many thoughts of “Taiji”,“Yin and Yang”,“the EightDiagrams and the five elements” have been demonstrated by modern science. Gettinginspirations and quoting biological and universal signs from observing humanbehavior and nature, which is one of the traditional Chinese thought and one of thekey element to ancient Chinese book decoration. Ancient Chinese cultivatethemselves aiming to be harmony with nature, which is also the core idea of ancientChinese book decoration. Writhing from upper and right on the paper is the combinedproduct of anthropology and nature science in ancient time, which is also the trend ofbacking to the original nature in the contemporary book design.This article interprets the beauty of ancient Chinese book decoration byanalyzing certain traditional Chinese culture and compares it with certaincontemporary typical design cases as to practice better in current book decorationindustry by studying the traditional Chinese culture and thoughts, returning to theessence of books, we may prosper Chinese book decoration industry.