Subsequently, Hu Yang and the others met a very strange stall, the reason why it is strange is because the objects on the stall turned out to be pages of books, which looked a bit old.

The audience in the live broadcast room was dumbfounded.

In the past, when I was studying, the books I graduated from were all sold on the basis of pounds, but here I actually counted the money on the page? This is completely beyond everyone's expectations!

The stall owner said that for 100 yuan a page, you can pick it at will.

Fuck it! 100 dollars a page? Why don't you go to heaven?

"One hundred yuan a page?" Even Viagra thinks this is a sky-high price!

Hu Yang explained with a smile, asking everyone to think from another angle, the kind of ancient book that costs hundreds of thousands, that is, dozens of pages, and an average of tens of thousands of yuan per page! This 100 yuan per page seems to be acceptable.

Belch!

It seems right to think so, but it just feels weird.

"Are these pages collectible, like porcelain shards?" Andy couldn't help but ask.

Indeed, these pages, which look like porcelain shards, are how much a piece is a piece. However, as far as everyone knows, once porcelain is broken, its value plummets, and books are the same, right?

Hu Yang smiled: "Actually, since ancient times, there have been people who have collected and are very enthusiastic about the pages. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was a saying that 'a page of Song version, a tael of gold.' ’。 The Song edition of the book is priced by page, and the whole book can be said to be priceless, and bibliophiles are still flocking to it, drunk and obsessed, and it has reached the level of worship. ”

He told everyone that the most expensive books in the world are not those printed with gold leaf, silver leaf, and even inlaid with jewelry, but the books engraved in the Song Dynasty - Song edition books.

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the famous bibliophile Mao Jin hung a book collection in front of his library building "Jigu Pavilion" in order to obtain the Song version of the book, indicating that one page of the Song edition would be acquired for two hundred.

Although it does not specify the acquisition currency unit of two hundred, even if it is not gold or silver, even if it is copper coins, it is enough to be jaw-dropping.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Dashao, a scholar, was also an enthusiast of Song edition books.

He learned that someone had a Song version of the "Later Han Dynasty", and there was also Lu You's inscription handwriting in the book, which was extremely precious, and he was very eager to own this book.

The owner of the book declared: "The price is not negotiable, you Zhu Dashao want this book, and you can only exchange it for a beautiful maid by your side." ”

When everyone heard this, they were speechless, exchanging beauties for beauties? Are all the printed books of the Song Dynasty so precious?

"The craze for collecting Song editions of books is still going on to this day, and it is still priced on a page, with the lowest price of a page of Song editions being 10,000 yuan, and a book of dozens of pages must reach more than one million.

More than 10 years ago, at an auction house in Beijing, a one-page Song edition was sold for a sky-high price of 49,500 yuan. You can imagine, more than ten years ago, what was the concept of 50,000 yuan?

And in the current auction market, a page of high-quality Song editions can even be auctioned for millions of sky-high prices. Hu Yang smiled.

There are many reasons why the printed copies of the Song Dynasty are precious and cherished by everyone.

After years of wars between Song Liao, Song Jin, Song and Yuan, most of the Song editions were destroyed in the war, and the number of books handed down was extremely limited.

In addition, the Song edition of books and periodicals is exquisitely engraved, elegantly bound, lively and changeable, full of aesthetics, and has extremely high appreciation, research and collection value.

"In the final analysis, the reason why the Song version is precious, in addition to being rare, is exquisite. ”

The people who participated in the engraving of books in the Song Dynasty were also very special, mainly royals, officials, and scribes. A higher level of cultural accomplishment enables these people to have a better aesthetic level, so they will have a higher pursuit in the layout, binding, paper and ink of the book, which is what we now call 'exquisite'.

Most of the writers of the Song Dynasty wrote good calligraphy, and most of the skills of the carvers were passed down from generation to generation, so the Song version of the book well retained the form of various regular scripts of the Tang Dynasty.

The second is the use of paper and ink. The papermaking technology of the Song Dynasty was quite mature, so the Song Dynasty would also choose the best possible quality paper for the paper.

In terms of ink, the "thick black and dull" pine smoke ink was born in the Song Dynasty. The Song version of the book, which is as big as money, black as lacquer, and white as jade, embodies the elegant and simple aesthetics of the Song Dynasty in every place.

It's about binding. In the era when books were still hand-copied, they could be continued page by page, and they could be connected together at the end anyway, so there were scrolls or folded ones.

Song Shu uses a very beautiful "butterfly suit": the paper with the text printed is folded in half face inward, and then the middle seam prevails, all the page numbers are aligned, and the paste is pasted on another package of backing paper, and finally cut into a book.

A group of people listened and were dumbfounded, hearing for the first time that the pages of a book are so valuable.

Everyone looked at the pages on the stall and paid more attention. In case, if you're lucky, you come across a page or two of the Song version, and you'll be rich!

"Aren't the pages of the Ming and Qing dynasties far inferior to the Song edition?" someone couldn't help but ask.

You must know that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the degree of cultural development was higher than that of the Song Dynasty, especially the literature of the Ming Dynasty, which was no worse than that of the Song Dynasty. Let's not talk about the Qing Dynasty! The literary prison engaged in by the Qing Dynasty can be regarded as a relatively dark period in Chinese history.

Hu Yang thought for a while and said, "The printed version of the Ming Dynasty is okay, but the Qing Dynasty's is worthless." During the Ming and Qing dynasties, books were gradually commercialized and began to enter the homes of ordinary people, which is generally a good thing.

During the Song Dynasty, books were still very precious and could not be used by ordinary people, so the books of the Song Dynasty took the route of high-quality products.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, reading became a common thing in many families, so it was impossible to play all high-end ones, and books gradually became secularized.

During this period, there was an explosion of theatrical, illustrated, and embroidered books, and the authors were not limited to the elite, and basically they could engrave books if they had money.

So, not only is the printing not so particular, but the quality of the content can't keep up.

Then, the books of the Ming and Qing dynasties are naturally far inferior to the Song version. In fact, the Ming and Qing dynasties were imitating the Song version, but it has always been imitated and has never been surpassed. ”

For the Song version of the book, the Chinese have a complex. From the "Song Dynasty" in the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, to the "Shadow Song" after Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, to the "Song Dynasty" at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "Shadow Song" in the Jiaqing period, the "lithographic photocopy" in the Republic of China, to the "Chinese Reinvention Rare Book" in previous years, and then to the recent high-definition "imitation" of Huabao Zhai, all of which are imitating the Song version of the book.

Only then did everyone know that the Song version of the book was so awesome.

For the Song Dynasty, everyone's feelings are very complicated. What the Song Dynasty could do was not only the economy, but also literature, and the military ability was so weak that everyone didn't bother to complain.

But if you want to say that the Song Dynasty was militarily weak, there were many famous generals, and a national hero like Yue Fei, who was famous through the ages, was the weak Song Dynasty in everyone's mouth.

The Song Dynasty set the glorious tone of Chinese porcelain for nearly 2,000 years, which are all inherited by the Song Dynasty to future generations.