Investigation and Research of Ancient Book Layout Culture on Chinese Sutras Edition -- A Case Study on the "Jiaxing Tripitaka" Formation

The case study in this research adopts the interpretation editions of Zibu (Philosophy Section) of Complete Library of the Four Treasures of Knowledge of Volume633, block-print edition of an ancient Buddhism scripture of Sutra Hall of Zhongdian of "Jiaxing Kuramoto" collections of National Library circulating from the regime of Emperor Wanli of Ming Dynasty to early Ching Dynasty. This research was conducted in essays derived from the comparison of documents. The focus is on the investigation of formation from modern design layout editing elements. With researches on Edition Study and related fields as a basis, we\´ve reached quantity statistics in the form of character alignment through actual observation, arrangement and documentation. We intended to come up with a principle of regularity for the formation of the Jiaxing Tripitaka engraved Sutras through the relationship between title of volume and arrangement in the formation. Below are research result: 1.) scripture title, names of translators, sub-title, the First Line of Article, the second line of article. It has been found this research that: the denomination principle was that the first character of the volume was used as the first character of the volume title and the first character of the first line of first page of each of 214 scripture contents were used as the initial character of subject titles. 2.) For translator names in 28 books, related names for each writing were presented in one line. Characters of the whole paragraph in 56 books were all aligned to the lower line of the bottom column with a space of one word laid up above. Translator names in 241 books were engraved in front of sub-titles. Most sub-title characters reached the top cell. As for the first and second lines of articles, most of them also reached the top cell.