Lin Yi inadvertently made a move and helped the Chen family identify the treasures in the family heirloom, in his opinion, it was just a trivial matter, but in the eyes of outsiders, it was super shocking. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Why? Because at the same time, he was present with senior appraisers from Taiwan's three major auction companies, all of whom were experienced and had super professional knowledge. But these people were defeated in the hands of Lin Yi and were slapped in the face by others.

Therefore, in just three days, Lin Yi's name spread throughout the treasure island Tibetan realm; This is not counting, because Lin Yi has helped the Chen family a lot, and the old lady Chen spoke, took out the collections that were ready to be auctioned, and asked the New Century Company represented by Lin Yi to give priority to the selection, and then put them out for auction when the New Century Company finished picking.

The New Century Company immediately selected 23 pieces from the hundreds of pieces in the auction, and Mrs. Chen sold them to Lin Yi at the best price. Lin Yi is very embarrassed about this, because after these 23 collections are shipped to Hong Kong, they can earn at least more than 30 million yuan when they change hands.

This move made the big auction companies cry, who would have thought that one day they would pick up the leftover bones that others had eaten.

Especially Christie's, the general manager Huang is even more unhappy, in his opinion, these things are all Lin Yi's ghosts, if it weren't for him, everything would be so perfect and smooth.

At this time, Lin Yi, who was slandered by countless people, started his journey of searching for books in Taiwan freely.

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When he came to Taiwan, as Lin Yi's intimate partner, Haitang took the initiative to create a book map for Lin Yi.

These days, Begonia is busy dealing with the affairs of the Chen family's collection, and has no time to take care of traveling with Lin Yi. Lin Yi was alone, carrying a satchel, taking a camera, and walking towards the holy land of Taoshu in Taipei according to the map of Taoshu.

Because of playing books and collecting books, Lin Yi is very familiar with the editions of books, especially with the rise of book collecting fever, traditional Chinese books from Hong Kong and Taiwan have become treasures in the mainland, and some are still contraband.

Readers are like this, the more they are not allowed to read it, the more they want to read it, and the more they are forbidden, the more they want to find a way to get it.

Because of this, many old connoisseurs who like to collect books regard the Hong Kong and Taiwan editions of books as a necessary tool for learning and researching knowledge. I think that the works published there will be more or less different from those in the mainland.

But, is that really the case?

It is true that when the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, countless cultural scholars came to the mainland from the mainland with them, including the five great writers, namely Hu Shi, Liang Shiqiu, Lin Yutang, Fu Sinian and Qian Mu. It can be said that these cultural masters brought all their knowledge and scholarship from the mainland to Taiwan, so that Taiwan has the confidence to inherit Chinese culture.

In addition, Taiwan has also done two things that are better for traditional culture, one is that Taiwan retains traditional Chinese characters, which is a very important tool when interpreting Chinese traditions. Another thing is that when the two sides of the strait were isolated at that time, Taiwan launched a movement to revive Chinese culture.

What is the Revival of Chinese Culture?

In the 60s of the last century, when the mainland was experiencing the "Cultural Revolution", Lao Jiang on the treasure island was very excited, and felt that it was an opportunity, if you destroy, I will build, so he made a decision to carry out a movement to revive Chinese culture in Taiwan. Began to let the people of Baodao read the Four Books and Five Classics, read classical Chinese, and learn traditional Chinese knowledge.

In the current view, the revival of Chinese culture was originally just a "willful thing" of Lao Chiang, but it played a great role in protecting and inheriting Chinese civilization.

Because of this, the academic works and historical works of Baodao in that era were very weighty, and in today's words, the "gold content" is relatively high, and they are all the works of masters. For example, Hu Shi's "Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy", Liang Shiqiu's "Essays on Yashe", "History of English Literature", and Lin Yutang's "My Country and My People", "The Art of Life", "The Wisdom of Lao Tzu" and so on.

It can be said that the works written by these older generation writers are the best of the best, and they are also the Hong Kong and Taiwan editions that many bibliophiles dream of. As for some other Hong Kong and Taiwan works, only those that can be seen by collectors are the works of more famous Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts masters, such as Gu Long, Sima Ling, Zhuge Qingyun and so on.

Therefore, not every book in the Hong Kong and Taiwan editions is a good collection, and it also needs to be carefully selected, so that you can slowly find treasures from the books.

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Lin Yi enjoyed the fun of shopping for books, so he carried his backpack to the first destination--- Eslite Xinyi Bookstore.

As a 24-hour bookstore, the bookstore is almost the first of its kind in the world, and most of it is located in a large and bustling shopping mall. I don't know how this store has survived for nearly two decades.

Eslite has many branches in Taiwan and more than a dozen in Taipei, and the most famous should be the head office that Lin Yi patronized at this time.

Because it lives next to Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, the largest department store in Taipei, it seems that Eslite Xinyi is also a shopping mall. It's the same feeling when you walk in, because the first and second floors are commercial counters, and until the third floor is the real bookstore, and then there are office stationery.

The Eslite store is very large, and the entire floor is full of books, which is similar in layout to the Xidan Book Building and Zhongguancun Bookstore in Beijing, as well as the defunct Third Pole, and is no longer the traditional kind of bookshelf counter placement. But there are special stools for readers to read books here, and they are open 24 hours a day, and no one will come and interfere. Lin Yi thought to himself; This is probably the main reason why Eslite is famous.

After Lin Yi went in with his satchel, he took a general look, and they were all the latest published Chinese books and magazines, of course, many of which were not seen in the mainland. I wanted to buy a few copies, but after looking at the pricing, I dispelled this idea--- no matter how good or bad the books in the mainland are, but there is an advantage that it is cheap. The Hong Kong and Taiwan editions of the book cost more than 100 for the thicker ones, and sixty or seventy for the thinner ones.

What's more, Lin Yi is really not interested in these new books, for him, the most attractive thing is those used bookstores that exude the atmosphere of ancient books.

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According to the map of Taoshu in his hand, Lin Yi came directly to Guling Street.

For Lin Yi, his understanding of Guling Street comes from a movie called "The Juvenile Murder Incident on Guling Street". The film is good, especially Zhang Zhen when he was young, he was already very literary and artistic at that time, it is foreseeable why Wong Kar-wai will like him so much in the future. But that's not the point, the point is that Guling Street is the largest used book market in Taiwan.

Legend has it that the second-hand bookstores and second-hand bookstalls on Guling Street are lined up one after another, and they will definitely not lose to the second-hand book market in Panjiayuan on the mainland in terms of scale. Many Taiwanese cultural celebrities have searched for books here, such as Bai Xianyong, Li Ao and others.

In particular, Li Ao once wrote in his book, "Since it is a necessary place to go to and from school, I don't need to be guided, so naturally, I turned visiting the used bookstall into a daily rest and entertainment, and almost all the pocket money given by the family went into the pocket of the owner of the used bookstall." During the period of martial law, the old books on the mainland in the 20s and 30s were all banned, and the second-hand booksellers were afraid of getting into trouble, so they often hid these hard-won oddities, and the old customers who were not familiar with them would never show them easily. They have been in the business for a long time, and even if they don't have much knowledge of editions, they also know very well the business scriptures of rare things, and a copy of "Life Interview" written by Xiao Qian (Cultural Life Publishing House, 1947 edition), priced at a few hundred Taiwan dollars, is a common thing. ”

It can be seen that the second-hand book market here is almost the same as that on the mainland, and Lin Yi even fantasizes that he can find some unexpected treasures here, but when he really arrived at Guling Street, he found that those fantasy second-hand bookstores were nowhere to be found, only a few snack bars and coffee shops, or those that sold bubble tea......

Where's the second-hand book market?!

Lin Yi was dumbfounded. (To be continued.) )