Liu Haoxia
图书与情报. 2014, 34(04): 136-141.
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There are many m anually repaired Dunhuang manuscripts, some of which were repaired by the ancients. In addition to Buddhist manuscripts, some repaired manuscripts are folk manuscripts, especially about teaching materials concerned with schools in that times. The traces of the repaired manuscripts explain that: Firstly, repair work from the ancients is very fine, followed some principles, such as the source of the small paper which used to repair and the orientation of the character sides. Secondly, besides monks repaired Buddhist manuscripts, some restorers repaired the folk manuscripts. Thirdly, school education especially Monastic schools were very flourish during that time, needing a large number of Buddhist manuscripts and folk ones as teaching materials. The fourth, due to lack of substance and human resources, to produce new handwriting books was more expensive, so the ancients repaired the damaged manuscripts and reused them.