He completed two volumes of "national treasure-level" ancient books. Restoration of the Yuan-engraved medical book "Yongleiqianfang". In order to rejuvenate ancient books that are nearly 700 years old. This young man in his early 30s.

Ding Feng

is a "post-90s" ancient book restorationist in Nanjing Library html html html

not long ago

He completed the restoration of two "national treasure-level" ancient book

yuan engraved medical book "Yonglei Qian Fang"

repair "Yonglei Qian Fang"

repair. Source: Nanjing Library

repaired "Yonglei Qianfang". Source: Nanjing Library

In order to make ancient books that are nearly 700 years old, this young man in his early 30s

spent half a year

"Yonglei Qian Fang" has a total of 22 volumes

was written by Li Zhongnan, a doctor in the Yuan Dynasty

has nearly 700 years of history

has extremely high research value

Yuan engraved version "Yonglei Qian Fang" is rare in the past

only in Shanghai Library , Peking University Library and Nanjing Library have some residual books

2021

Ding Feng received the task of repairing 2 ancient books in Nanjing Library

Before repair

"Yonglei Qianfang" part of the book leaves have water stains and mold spots

part of acidification and brittle cracks

In addition

The mouth of the whole book is also broken

first contact with this precious ancient book of the country

Ding Feng said

I am quite nervous

but I am also determined to

do my best to repair it as before

Source: Nanjing Library

Source: Nanjing Library

"Repair" word, it is easy to say

Behind it,

, but you have to go through complicated processes

Disassembly the original book, and the problem is found is only the first step

0 Repair the remaining pages of ancient books

First, you need to To choose the paper that is closest to the original book,

,

,

,

, 0, suck the paper library,

, seldom choose the most suitable

, face the "national treasure" collection of

, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, The paper with similar color on the cover of the book is always searching for but cannot find

Ding Feng had to find another method

Chemical dyes have a great harm to the paper

Ding Feng decided to use chestnut shells, rubber bowls, and tea to cook dye

Dyour own dye

In order to cook a paper with similar color to the original cover

He tried more than a dozen times

For the part of the eyebrow of the book "Yonglei Qianfang" that has been acidified

Ding Feng uses vellum In all repair processes, the most important thing is to "slip"

is to use thin strips and paste on the back of the paper to piece together and fix the originally broken book mouth

In order to accurately piece the book leaves as before

Ding Feng decides

First print the leaf frame on the transparent repair board

splicing according to the size of the board frame

Ding Feng discovers

As early as the Qing Dynasty

, a restorator left traces on these two books

by marking the column and supplementing

This ancient colleague completed the information of the original book

so that later generations could also fully understand the original incomplete information

He thought this chance encounter with his predecessors was very interesting:

"It means that I and him (Qing Dynasty restorator)

cooperated to protect this book

but the time period was different."

ml0Ding Feng said that

Ancient Book Repair

is like racing against time

Repair

Another batch of books are aging

Always hope that I can be faster

In Nanjing Library Ancient Book Repair Center

and Ding Feng raced against time 12 people

They used professional skills and rigorous attitude

Do what they can do to delay the aging of ancient books