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Rent an apartment.

Lin Yi washed his hands, and then carefully poured out the sack of Buddhist scriptures he had picked up.

Seeing so many antique scriptures, it is false to say that he is not excited. Before being at the scrap yard, Lin Yi was actually very excited, but he pretended to be very calm and calm, young people should have good calmness, Lin Yi felt that he was doing very well.

Looking at a book bound by threads on the ground, Lin Yi felt like he had a dream. In fact, he had never owned a thread-bound ancient book for the simple reason that first, it was rare, and second, it was too expensive.

If you count it, the thread-bound book he came into close contact with is the Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" that he saw last time he went to the teahouse, but unfortunately, that book belongs to someone else, and he can only be greedy and can only touch it with his hands.

But now, all the thread-bound books all over the floor are his own, yes, these are all his, he can not only touch, read, but also sleep with him.

In fact, as long as you are a book lover, there is no one who does not love thread-bound books.

The paperback book is the "little jasper" in the book;

The hardcover book is the "ladies of the book";

The thread-bound book is the "peerless stunner" in the book.

In the face of the "peerless stunner", as a man, who doesn't want to kiss Fangze?!

Lin Yi is a man, and he is a man who loves books like books, so he also likes wire-bound books. Not only him, but everyone who loves books loves thread-bound books. So much so that now even many bookstores have begun to publish a large number of wire-bound publications, and the price of new editions of wire-bound books is even higher, "Four Famous Works", "Tang Poetry and Song Ci", "Zeng Guofan's Family Book", "Mao Taizu Anthology" and so on, thousands, tens of thousands, so that countless people are shocked by their big teeth.

Forty-six years ago, as a symbol of China's old culture, "thread-bound books" were thrown directly into the latrine with the slogan of "Down with the Confucian Family", and more wire-bound books were searched out from every household, and sadly loaded onto rack trucks and tractors, and directly pulled to the paper mill to be pulped.

Cartload after car, the thread-bound books carrying the ancient Chinese culture were thrown into the mixer and stuffed into the latrine, and the expensive Yuan Song version of the book became toilet paper to wipe the buttocks, became hand paper wrapped in fritters, and used as waste paper to pad the table legs -

But now, these thread-bound books that were originally wrapped in fritters, wiped buttocks, and paddled table legs have become the "kings" of the entire used book collection industry.

Generally speaking, the front and back cover of thread-bound books are mostly made of porcelain blue paper, and the cover is pasted with white signatures, and the inscriptions on the bookmarks and title pages are often from the hands of famous artists, often stamped with red seals, and the spine is sewn with white silk threads, which is simple and fresh. The multi-volume thread-bound book is also packed with cardboard and green cloth paste to make a "letter", accompanied by cow bone pins, and the one that pays attention to a little bit is also made of ivory pins. Thread-bound books are generally printed on rice paper or rough-edged paper, which can uniquely reflect the academic and artistic value and the characteristics of book binding. This kind of binding is easy to read, not easy to break, and very practical.

Mr. Lu Xun said in his famous essay "Miscellaneous Talks After Illness" that reading a dress book with "stiff-collared leather boots" is "like holding a big brick in both hands, and without much effort, my arms are sore, so I have to sigh and put it down." So I sighed and went looking for the thread-bound book. "Thread-bound books can be rolled up to read, and they are also easy to carry. Most of the wire-bound books are printed in large characters, and they are also often separated by "black column silk", that is, they use ink to make straight lines on the paper, which looks convenient and is very popular with readers.

In the early 70s, when Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations were normalized, Mao Taizu gave a set of thread-bound books "Notes on Chu Ci" as a national gift to former Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei, and Mr. Prime Minister was very satisfied, and now that set of thread-bound books is as high as tens of thousands. On Ba Jin's ninetieth birthday, his friends wanted to give the old man a meaningful gift. After thinking about it, someone came up with an idea to refine a batch of "Caprice" line-bound books, which were appreciated by the old man, and now that set of books is also as high as thousands.

There is a saying in the collecting world that it is called "no waste paper in a hundred years". In the thirties of the last century, Lu Xun and Zheng Zhenduo worked together to print a kind of "Peking Notebook". Lu Xun humorously said at the time: "By the 30th century, it will be comparable to the Tang version." In fact, in less than half a century, this artwork is already a rare cultural relic.

Taoshu notes record——

In 2009, a first edition of the Republic of China edition of "Peking Notes" appeared at the Guardian auction, which has been auctioned for 130,000 yuan. In 1958, in order to mourn Lu Xun and Zheng Zhenduo, who died in a plane crash at that time, this notebook was copied and renamed "Beijing Notebook". Today, this replica is a rare and exquisite treasure. Some high-quality thread-bound books from the past 30 to 40 years have been put on the art auction hall with impressive prices.

The auction records in June this year were: 30 volumes of the 1977 edition of the large-character line-bound book "Historical Records", which sold for 345,000 yuan, and the 1972 edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" with 10 volumes of the line-bound book, 230,000 yuan; 1974's "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", 32,000 yuan; In the 80s, the original price of "Ten Bamboo Zhai Paintings" was dozens of yuan, and it was sold for 4,025 yuan.

Lin Yi closed his eyes, this is the past and present life of thread-bound books.

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Looking back, Lin Yi sorted out the Buddhist scriptures he received, which were-

"Diamond Sutra" volume,

A volume of the Prajnamita Sutra,

"Ten Thousand Buddha Sutra" volume,

A volume of the Book of Cause and Effect,

"Amitabha Sutra" volume,

"Myoho-renge-kyo" upper, middle and lower, three volumes,

The Great Nirvana Sutra (40 volumes, 14 volumes of the Second Letter......

The rest also include the Great Prajna Sutra, the Huayan Sutra, and the Treatise on Great Wisdom, the Middle Treatise, the Yogi Treatise, and so on, totaling 320 copies.

Looking at so many Buddhist scriptures, Lin Yi carefully checked them, most of them were engraved in Jinling in the ninth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty.

The special period of Guangxu at the end of the Qing Dynasty was a very strange era, with the explosion of Chinese and Western science and technology culture, and the blossoming of book printing, and the traditional engraving technology was replaced by lead printing and photocopying technology. At that time, lead printing was generally used for paperback books, and photocopying was used to reproduce old wire-bound books, so that many copies of ancient books that were about to become extinct appeared in large quantities.

Photocopies are actually the "shadows" of woodcuts, just as the Buddha's bone relics have "real bones" and "shadow bones", and these photocopies are the shadows of many precious ancient book editions, so there is a world of difference between the two in terms of price and value.

Many times, some cunning booksellers like to pass off photocopies as woodcuts in order to make high profits. For example, a woodcut copy of "Yuan Journal Wenxin Carving Dragon" can be auctioned at a high price of 2.03 million yuan, but the photocopy of the Republic of China is only 3,500 yuan at most in the market, and the photocopy of Shanghai ancient books published in the 80s is about 600 yuan. The price difference between the two is 108,000 miles, which is staggering.

It is difficult to distinguish between woodcuts and photocopies, and it is only possible to distinguish them if some old connoisseurs have them in their hands.

First of all, look at the back of the paper to see if there are ink marks of different shades, the engraved copy must be there, and the copy copy will never be. If you don't understand, you can find two books and compare the back of the paper, and you will know it immediately.

The principle is as follows: the engraving is brushed out on the woodblock, because the ink on the woodblock can not be completely uniform, and the power of the manual brush is also difficult to be completely uniform, so some words or the strokes of the word are inked, and the color will seep into the back of the paper, resulting in different shades of color on the back of the page, which is very untidy. The photocopied book does not use brush technology, relying on light and shadow imaging, and the printing does not have zài concave and convex bottom surface, and the printed book is very smooth regardless of the front and back, especially the back of the paper is very clean and tidy, and there will be no irregular part of the word through the paper.

Lin Yi didn't have a deep understanding of thread-bound books, but he knew how to distinguish between photocopies and woodcuts.

At this moment, Lin Yi took out a copy of the "Cause and Effect Sutra", carefully observed the front and back of the book, and sure enough, the handwriting was uneven on both sides, and there were ink stains in some places, there was no doubt that these Buddhist scriptures were definitely woodcuts.

Understanding the way these Buddhist scriptures are engraved, Lin Yi also knows their potential collection value, needless to say, developed.

It is hard to find a woodcut book, let alone collect so many at once.

I was excited, and I was a little excited in the excitement, and I wanted to roar a few times excitedly.

Lin Yi has never shied away from the thirst for money, even if he now has more than one million in his hands, but who hates more money? What's more, in this era when there are as many millionaires as dogs, multimillionaires go in groups, and billionaires hide Beidou, one million is really too little, less is enough for rich people to drink a few bottles of red wine, and one million is too empty, and it is not enough to go to the capital to buy a place with a big toilet.

So Lin Yi's concept is very simple, pick up leaks, make money, keep picking up leaks, keep making money, and keep accumulating wealth, until one day he can really be called a rich man......

Forcibly suppressing the surging surging in his heart, Lin Yi squatted down and began to carefully sort out those treasure-like thread-mounted Buddhist scriptures.

320 copies, the condition is not bad, but more than a dozen of them have changed shape and the spine is broken because they were squeezed in a sack. There are also a few thread-bound books (the upper part) are somewhat damaged, of course, the inner pages are moth-eaten, mildew, these are also inevitable, from Guangxu to the present, more than a hundred years of things, you can't make it as new and tidy as the books in Xinhua Bookstore, not to mention, books and people, people have wrinkles when they are old, age spots, books are old, they also have moldy wrinkles, and they also have yellow spots.

Although he has not been playing with books for too long, Lin Yi also clearly knows that "quality affects price", a wise saying in the collecting world. In the line of old books, playing books has always had a highest realm, that is, "playing old as new", which means that although the play is an old book, the quality of the old book is as pleasing as new. But if you have that broken book, stinky and moldy, no matter how much the book is worth, it looks like you're picking up rags from a scrapyard.

This shows how important the quality of old books is. It directly determines what grade the owner of the book is.

In the past, in the face of these damaged precious old books, Lin Yi could only sigh in vain, helpless. Spending money to let those so-called experts in repairing ancient books repair it, there are not tens of thousands of estimates that they can't get down; Either you don't move, you can't do it, it's better to leave it alone than to fix it yourself and cure the deaf person into mute and destroy the whole book.

But now Lin Yi is different, he has a special ability to repair ancient books.

If the ability is not used, it will be invalid when it expires.