People will get old, but books won't get old. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The earth is long, and the fragrance of books is still there.

And what do we collectors really get?

Lin Yi endured the inexplicable throbbing in his heart, and continued to look through the "book diary" in his hand, which was a person's life of collecting books and his perception of collecting books.

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Well, no matter who you are, when you see my book diary, you must also be a book lover, since you are a book lover, then you must be very curious about the classification of my book collection.

In fact, my book collection is divided into seven series, which seven series, as long as you love books, you will definitely know the books, and I won't say much here.

Among them, movable type is one of the 7 major plates. The four major inventions that China has never forgotten are both related to books, printing and papermaking. Paradoxically, however, the study of movable type in Korea and Japan is far greater than in China.

I have a collection of China's largest wooden movable type book "Wen Gong Ji", which was written by Hu Su in the Song Dynasty, and my collection is the collector's edition of the Qianlong Wuying Palace, which is the meaning of movable type, which was given by Emperor Qianlong. There were 138 books produced that year, of which 4 were woodcut plates and 134 were wooden movable type. I have collected 13 of them, all of which have been collected in the past few years, and there are various ways.

In my collection, I found that in the whole line-bound book, movable type accounted for a hundred proportions. This is a very strange question, China is the country that invented movable type, but movable type prints are inevitably rare. Later, when China and South Korea broke out in the "movable type controversy", I realized how valuable the editions I had were in my possession, and as long as I took them out, it would be ironclad.

The Song inscription is one of the more precious books in the collection. I don't have too many Song engravings in my collection, only seven or eight kinds of scattered ones, and most of them are fragments. The reason why the Song carved book is valued is because it is the earliest form of book we have seen, and it is a banknote book for a long time, and banknotes are very rare. The collection of books is like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, all of which are classified in major public libraries, and there are very few treasures in private hands. Nowadays, it can be said that it is difficult to find such a Song version.

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When Lin Yi saw this, he couldn't help but ponder, the reason why he had always collected books was because he liked books, and he liked the elegant fragrance of books, the refreshing fragrance of ink, and the beautiful handwriting of the woodcut stone carvings and lead prints---

But he never thought carefully about why he wanted to collect books and what was the point of collecting them.

Now, after reading this diary, Lin Yi understands that the original collection of books is still so useful. When our Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival were taken by others to apply for world heritage, when the things kept by our ancestors were taken away alive, we couldn't just watch and did something, and what qualifications did we have, there was evidence to say to those robbers: "These are ours!" ”

Tell them loudly that these ancient traditions, these ancient words, are all treasures left by our ancestors, do you want evidence? So take a look at the records in these ancient editions, look at these text excerpts, map albums...... It's ours after all, it's ours, and no matter how much you robbers try to rob it, you still can't snatch what has left our imprint.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi suddenly understood that the so-called book collection is not to hide and tuck, but to collect those ancient evidence and materials, and throw them out like an atomic bomb when they need to exert their power.

Blow him up, blow him up!

How joyful!

After venting the irrepressible excitement in his heart, Lin Yi continued to read the book diary---

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Well, that's the end of the day.

Maybe I'm a little verbose to say so much, but if you read these things, please understand, after all, people are old, and it is inevitable that they will be verbose.

Last but not least, how to collect old books. For so many years, I have collected used books like others, initially relying on collectors and the people, followed by antiquarian bookstores around the world, and then auctions.

Now the order is reversed. It may be the profit-driving behavior of society, the auction is the easiest to sell for a good price, the seller wants to sell at the auction for a good price, and the good things in the society are concentrated there.

The auction will raise the price of ancient books, and the advantage of rising high is that the good books in the house are willing to take out. The more I buy, the more good books I feel. I also bought a lot of good things back through auctions. The scholar Duan Yuci once wrote "Commentary on the Text", his first engraved book is called "Jingyun Louben", this book was engraved in the Jiajing period, and it is rare to get it so far. Because scholarship was also pyramid-shaped at that time, the initial circulation was very small, and the first edition was very small. I haven't seen "Jingyun Louben" for more than ten years, but in the past two years, I have seen two copies at the auction house.

The prevalence of ancient book auctions has made the price of ancient books only high and not low, only rising and not falling, and it has also made me, a collector, no longer have too much energy and financial resources to deal with it.

Yes, I'm old, I'm no longer strong, and when I see that my favorite books can be stalked, I have to marry her. In order to settle the money for buying books, I went north to Beijing and Guangzhou in the south, running all the way to give speeches, to earn extra money, and to accept all kinds of money with a shy face. I lost the qualities of a scholar, but I got a room full of beloved books. One loss and one gain, so far I still can't tell which is higher and which is lower, and who is lighter and who is heavier.

I'm old, I'm sick, I'm dying.

If her daughter doesn't come back overseas--- maybe she will come back, and come back after I die, and I have no hope for her. After all, the water spilled by the married girl, although my thinking is not so feudal and conservative, but I still recognize this, she lives her own little life, and is not bullied by those foreign devils overseas, for me, this is the best expectation.

So what's my biggest bond?

It's this room full of books, the book collection system that I built with my own hands. I often wonder if if when I die, the hidden house that I have built will collapse in an instant.

The books I had painstakingly collected had all grown wings and flew away from me.

I'm a lonely old man, I don't have much hobbies in my life, I started collecting books at the age of 30, and now, it's almost forty thoughts, what kind of years is this? I asked myself, I love books like an obsession, I am a fan of books, so I am very reluctant to lose them all at once, for this reason, I am like Qin Shi Huang, how I hope that there is a magic medicine in this world that can protect me from immortality.

It's a pity that this extravagant hope has not succeeded since Qin Shi Huang, so I still have to die, and these books still have to be dispersed. As for how to disperse, I have thought about it, I will leave these books to the nanny who has served me for many years, she is a kind person, but also an illiterate woman, here you may wonder, why give these books to an illiterate person, the reason is very simple, only such a person will not treat these things as treasures, and only she can really help me to really "disperse" these books. But in the end I told her that if I wanted to go we must be dispersed together, she was an honest person and a good old man, and I knew that she would do so according to my will, and as for who the one who would eventually inherit my collection of books, I didn't care, and I couldn't care.

I'm tired and I want to sleep.

After collecting books for so many years, I have never slept soundly for a day. It's not because of this book that I can't sleep at night, or because I can't swallow that book. I've exhausted my heart and soul for them, and now, I'm finally free!

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The diary of the collection came to an abrupt end, and then looked at the back, which basically recorded in detail which books were harvested on which day, as well as the approximate names, bibliographies, and dates and editions of these books.

The handwriting is clear and clear, and the content is clear at a glance, perhaps because there are too many books, but in the end, because there is not enough paper to record, a thick kraft diary was bound, which together is the large diary in Lin Yi's hand.

If Lin Yi didn't know much about the two volumes of books before, then now, with this "book diary" in his hand as a guide, he seems to know all the books well.

In summary, in Professor Jiang's book collection system, there are more than 800 books and more than 15,000 rare books, including more than 30 books and manuscripts of the Song and Yuan dynasties and before, more than 100 volumes, nearly 10 and more than 150 volumes of the Song and Yuan Dynasty editions and Song, Yuan and Ming editions, more than 50 Ming editions and more than 150 volumes, the most Qing engraving editions, about 5,000 volumes, and the rest of the Republic of China editions and contemporary photocopies......

Although Lin Yi didn't know the market value of most of the rare books, what he knew, just those ancient books in the Qing Dynasty woodcut version, were worth more than 800,000 after hundreds of them--- which means that the 800,000 yuan that the aunt asked for was definitely a very low price. Maybe for her, she doesn't know the true value of these books at all, just like Professor Jiang said in his notes, it is precisely because she doesn't know that she will scatter without distress, from this point of view, Professor Jiang is really a caring person---

But as for himself, Lin Yi really couldn't tell his aunt with a clear conscience that 800,000 yuan was suitable and worth the price, so after a little thought, Lin Yi decided to make a final discussion with his aunt and negotiate the final price of this batch of books.

How much will she ask, and how much can Lin Yi give?

Does Professor Chiang know who these books will fall into......

It's all about fate! (To be continued.) )