Many people have had sweet dreams. Some people www.biquge.info crave food from the sky, some people long to be buried in the wine field after death, and some people like Lin Yi are eager to one day be in the sea of books and have rare books.

I used to think it was a dream, but now, from the moment I open this door, the dream comes true.

Lin Yi never expected that this third floor would be a paradise filled with wire-bound books.

What does heaven look like?

Everyone's heart is different, but Lin Yi's is the scene in front of him--- the shelves are full of books, the fragrance of books is overflowing, the sweat is full, and it is antique.

It's exciting, it's so exciting, especially since these books are still Lin Yi's favorite thread-bound books! The beauty of thread-bound books cannot be described in words, just like a classical and elegant woman, like a shocking and pretentious dragon---

The aunt looked at Lin Yi strangely, and didn't understand what he was panting for? Is it tiring to go up from the second floor to the third floor?

"Young man, what's wrong with you, is there something uncomfortable, oh, yes, this room hasn't been opened for a long time since the professor died, it's inevitable that the air inside doesn't flow, it's a little breathless, it's okay, you just wait a while." The aunt said with great concern.

Lin Yi's cheeks flushed, and he scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "No, I was stunned, I didn't expect that there are so many books here, and they are all thread-bound books." ”

"Hehe, what's this, these books, I often come up to clean them, I've read too much, and I'm tired of reading them, only those of you who like to read will like it so much." The aunt is really incomprehensible.

Lin Yi knew that he didn't understand it when he talked to her too much.

"Auntie, can I take a look?" Lin Yi said embarrassedly.

"Behold, look, hehe, I brought you up to show you, look, I'll turn around." Auntie yawned, I don't know why, as soon as she saw these books, she became sleepy, so she habitually picked up the feather duster next to her and began to clean up.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, picked up a book from the shelf, saw that it was a clear carved book, picked up another one, or a clear carved book, and continued to read, the clear carved book--- which also had some contemporary photocopies, but for the time being, no Song and Yuan carved books and ancient books of the Ming Dynasty have been found.

After thinking about it, Lin Yi didn't feel funny, he was really greedy and insufficient, you know, now for the study of the editions of ancient books, it is generally said that the Song and Yuan dynasties must be called, and few people will talk about the Qing version. However, according to the strict definition of ancient books, about ninety percent of the current ancient books are Qing engraved versions, that is to say, Qing carved books account for the vast majority of existing ancient books.

One of the focuses of a book collection is content. Because, books are meant to be read by people, and this is what makes books different from other works of art. Although it also has an artistic carrier, there are also cultural relics. However, content is always the number one factor that determines the value of a book.

Counting from the feudal society, the two Han Dynasty, the Two Song Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty were the three major academic peaks in China, and Qing Studies was the highest peak among the three peaks. At that time, the content of the books could best reflect and be close to the scientific research method, and the Qing Dynasty, which was at the peak of its academic period, was also the reason for the high value of Qing engravings.

When Lin Yi thought of this, he couldn't help but sigh, this is the lack of people's hearts, most of these are clear engravings, for others, it is already a great book luck, but he is not satisfied.

Shaking his head, Lin Yi began to look through the second bookshelf, and the first thing he saw was "Daily Zhilu", which was collected by Kangxi Suichutang and written by Gu Yanwu.

Lin Yi remembers clearly that in an anecdote about Shulin, it was said that when Gu Yanwu wrote "Daily Knowledge", someone asked him how many volumes he wrote that year, and Gu Yanwu replied, "There are only a few articles, where can I get enough of the volume", which shows the difficulty of writing and the master's careful carving of the work. And these are the most attractive aspects of the ancient book version. The attitude of the ancients to do learning is very different from that of modern people, so the ancient culture has a much higher gold content than modern learning.

Lin Yi looked at another book, which was a more precious rubbish of "Han Liu Pingguo Stone Carvings". Lin Yi had seen it in a book, and it was said that this "stone carving" was found by a Qing soldier in the mountains and forests when he got lost when he was exploring the way through the Tianshan Mountains. Later, someone with a heart printed it down, so that the rubbing of "Han Liu Pingguo Stone Carving" was passed down to the world.

Lin Yi suppressed his excitement, these are not books, they are all treasures, history, and precious historical materials.

But how many people really know the true value of these ancient books?

Not to mention anything else, there is a widely circulated story in the collecting world, saying that in the 80s of the 20th century, in a fellow villager's house in Shandong Province, someone took a copy of "Yongle Dadian" as a shoe with a sole.

Now the National Library has just spent 8 million yuan to buy a copy of the "Yongle Canon", and if the person who made the sole of his shoes knew the news, he would probably vomit blood and die---

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Lin Yi wandered in this ivory tower built of thread-bound books, browsing countless thread-bound ancient books, and gradually, forgetting the time, the location, and even more so where he was and what he was doing.

At this time, the cleaning aunt was anxious, and she was embarrassed to plan Lin Yi, Lin Yi was quietly reading books, flipping through thread-bound books, this posture was always awe-inspiring. Professor Jiang, who used to be knowledgeable, is also like this, preferring to read quietly by the bookshelf.

However, the aunt finally couldn't hold it back, so she coughed and said, "Young man, what do you think of watching it for so long?" ”

When Lin Yi heard the voice, he came to his senses, and only then did he understand where he was, where he was, and what he was going to do.

Smiled a little embarrassedly, Lin Yi said to his aunt: "There are too many books, I am dazzled." ”

The aunt smiled, "I know this, you readers, you are too stupid, as long as you read, you forget everything." ”

Lin Yi smiled, "So now, so many books...... How do you count it? "It seems to be a bit of a headache.

The aunt suddenly said: "By the way, I remember that Professor Jiang has records, and he has registered all the books he bought, you can take a look." ”

"This is not a private thing, it is inconvenient for us to ......"

"It's okay, Professor Jiang is a good person, and he will be very happy if he knows that his book is in the hands of someone who loves books like him." The aunt seems to know the deceased Professor Jiang very well.

Lin Yi smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll take a look at his private records." ”

People have a desire to peep.

When Lin Yi got the thick leather notebook, a strong sense of snooping surged in his heart, after all, it recorded everything about a book lover, and the process of buying and reading books recorded most of his life.

Lin Yi gently opened the kraft notebook with his hand, and on the title page of the notebook was a line of words: Tibetan Book Diary.

Open the first page: I don't know when I fell in love with books, but the ancients said: People are not stupid and cannot be friends, and they have no true feelings. People have no habits and cannot be acquainted, and they have no true anger. For example, I only liked collecting stamps and the like at first, but I had a lot of hobbies through various opportunities. In the end, it precipitated into single-mindedness: love books.

Looking back on the past, when I first started teaching at the school, a used bookstore reopened on the way, and I took a fancy to a set of the Republic of China version of "Oracle Bone Chronicles". The boss offered 580 yuan, so he bought it for almost two months' salary. Later, I read a report in an old newspaper about Zheng Zhenduo going to Hong Kong to buy antique books in the 50s of the last century, and I was very shocked. These may have been the reasons why I fell in love with collecting books. However, I think that when a person can tell the truth clearly, there is already a distance from the truth. Actually, I don't know why I came to the road of collecting books.

Everyone goes from budding to maturing in the collection. At the beginning of my book collection, I didn't know how to classify them, I didn't know the difference between the first engraving and the reprint, and I didn't know the difference between the series and the single engraving.

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Seeing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but be in awe, at least this Professor Jiang is a real lover of books, and he is a senior in the book collection industry, but it's a pity that a big collector like this is hidden in the city, but few people know it, maybe it wasn't for his death, and this upper and lower layers of "Tibet" would not let him see it.

This is definitely a collection of books like a treasure in the mountains, and this Professor Jiang is the world's master who guards and owns these treasures.

Lin Yi has an extremely respectful mentality, just like a kid who has just set foot in the rivers and lakes, looking through the peerless cheats left by a martial arts senior, it is that kind of solemn and serious.

Keep reading the diary---

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Now, if I want to talk about how I got those books, after all, there are so many books, as a university professor, I can't buy them all from a regular bookstore, after all, I'm not a rich man, let alone a super rich person.

Here, we have to talk about the edge of the book.

How to hide books, in the process of blind touching, there are times when they are crooked, but most of them suffer by themselves. In the 80s, some of the "Cultural Revolution" assets were "refunded and compensated", and I bought some books through this channel. Once you are familiar with the person in the refund office, you will have the contact information of the person who has obtained the refund. Their house is a whole shelf of books, and the family doesn't understand the children because the old man has passed away. It's all sold with several shelves of books. Before the "Cultural Revolution", everyone who had books was everyone, and ordinary people did not have books at home. During the "Cultural Revolution", there was originally a large mansion, but because of the raid, the house given was very small, and several generations lived in a small house. When the book is returned, there is no place to put the book, so I am willing to sell it if I give some money. Today, it seems that I have bought quite a few good things in this way. From this point of view, collecting is a matter of chance. It's hard to build a scale by just buying one by one. A person should not talk too much about talent and hard work, in fact, the acquired patronage is also very important.

The collection should have a teacher's inheritance, I have a long history of blind buying, not touching the way, there are more than ten years. Later, I also came into contact with some old book collectors, although they do not have a lot of cultural knowledge, but they have been in the book industry for so many years, and they know which books are rare. Once, an old gentleman told me to buy a clear engraving book, but I thought it was nothing, it was better to have a clear engraving book. In fact, this is "The Complete Works of Zhao Zhiqian", which I later learned that it was very rare.

The real start of systematic collecting was in the early 90s. In 1991 and 1992, I began to systematically read academic history and read some things from my predecessors' book collections, such as the things of collectors in the Qing and Ming dynasties, and gradually realized what is a good thing.

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Seeing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but exhale, fantasizing about that good era, thread-bound books can be seen everywhere, like cabbage on the street, picking a handful, the Song and Yuan versions are the most basic, and the Ming version can also be wanted, as for the Qing carved book, the Republic of China lithograph, the quality is slightly worse, and they are all hypocritical, but now, even if it is a tattered thread-bound book, it is held in the hands of many people as a treasure, hoping to sell it one day to make a lot of money. If you want to buy books, buy real rare books, it is difficult and difficult.

The times are different, and when people realize the value of these rare books, the era of collecting for many book lovers will come to an end, unless you have wealth, you can sit on the book city.

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In order to collect books, you must have a huge amount of capital support, and at first, I did not realize it, but as the price of ancient books became higher and higher, I realized that my expenses were very unbalanced. Often, a month's salary is not enough to buy a few books, and at this time, I began to use my brain to find ways to start earning those blockages and copper stenches that I once hated.

How? I started working part-time at other universities, I started giving lectures all over the world, I started publishing all kinds of academic works, but I accepted some innocuous gifts and gifts.

I became more and more worldly, spending nearly a million a year on books to support my insatiable desires.

Bibliophiles have a mission to try to protect the ancient books as much as possible, to repair the broken ones, and to make good sets so that the books will not wear out. Some of these books are thousands of years old, and I have only lived for a few decades, and I have only a small part of the history of the book collection, and to put it bluntly, I am only a host of these books, and when I grow old, they will find a new owner who loves them.

People will get old, but books won't get old.

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

And what do we collectors really get? Maybe I won't understand until I die---

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Let's click!

Lin Yi couldn't help but shed a teardrop.

yes, what do we really get in the end as collectors? Those treasures, beloved, like the collection of books in the flesh of the heart, end up only treating us as hosts for a long century, they temporarily stay with us, and when we grow old, they remain the same, when we have wrinkles, when we have pain, they are still like that, safe and sound. When we're lying in a hospital bed and buried in a coffin, it's time for them to go, cartons, bundles, boxes, stacks...... Keep looking for new hosts and find the next person to love them.

In this world, the most infatuated people are book lovers!

The most ruthless thing in the world is those books! (To be continued.) )