The Repairing Of The Analects Of Confucius—A Qing Dynasty Book

China invented papermaking and printing at the earliest and even now it has a lot of printing books from successive dynasties. With printing and publishing of ancient books, reparative skills are developing rapidly.Reparative skills have survived a mass of ancient books.Along with widespread application of modern science and technology in historic preservation, the traditional handicrafts get much more intimate with the modern science and technology. It is an inexorable trend to detect,repair, and protect cultural relics by modern technology. The safety of traditional handicraft and the accuracy of modern technology supply each other steadily, which plays an important role in protecting and repairing cultural objects.This reparation is a part of The Analects of Confucius which is a thread-bound edition from Qing dynasty. The Analects of Confucius is a standing book in the rural areas of northern Sichuan. A number of damages present to this book such as mustiness, breakage, faulted margins, marred by mice, etc. The content of this book is not exceptional; however, its application might have special material value in studying rural teaching material and researching rural education from the late Qing. This reparation is going to employ modern science and traditional handicraft, adopt modern instrument in material analysis and character mensuration. All the strategies are to choose appropriate reparative material, verify the antiquarian material precisely, determine reparative process reasonably and ensure the whole reparative process have valid methods to rely on. The reparative process, in the meantime, will use the traditional adhesives to reinforce the frame, which could make the safety of the ancient book and the reversible operation certain. This reparation could help me know the traditional reparative technology well and inspire me to do a beneficial exploration about repairing ancient books with modern technology.