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The Kang family, which was almost forgotten once upon a time, ushered in two young guests who are becoming popular in Baixi Official School today.

The mother-in-law visited the West Chamber the day before yesterday, and she came without being rude, so Mao Geng and Wen Yuan naturally wanted to pay a return visit. Of course, in addition to courtesy, the most important thing is the curiosity of Mr. Kang, the hero of the romantic story many years ago obviously should not be ignored. Mao Geng came to visit Mr. Kang with an inquisitive mood and comforted his gossip heart, Mao Geng felt that Mr. Kang should be able to find something, for example, he could dig deep into the story. The story of Mr. Kang and Granny Fu is a ready-made love theme, which will not lack sensational elements, and it only needs to be written with the romance techniques of later generations to write a love story with ups and downs in the heartstrings.

By the way, you can also ask about the book printing of Kang Lao in the Southern Song Dynasty, in this regard, Mr. Kang should have more say than the two gentlemen of the Wang family.

The two gentlemen of the Wang family may know everything about the book printing of the Jin Dynasty, but the Jin Dynasty can't catch up with the Southern Song Dynasty - well, it has to be called the Great Song Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty is called by later generations.

Unexpectedly, after arriving at Mr. Kang's house, he entered Mr. Kang's study, and now Mr. Kang has a lot of books in his collection, two bookshelves made of bamboo are full of books, and there are a bunch of books scattered on the table, and even a few books are piled up on the round pier, it seems that Mr. Kang lives in the pile of books all day long. This is a bit unexpected by Mao Geng, there are so many books, I'm afraid there are two or three hundred volumes, which is not an easy task for Mr. Kang, who is not well-off.

Granny Fu cleaned up the books on the round pier, greeted the two of them to sit down, served tea, said a few polite words, and went out of the study.

Mr. Kang said very little, but with Wen Yuan's presence, the scene would not be cold. After the scene, Wen Yuan tried to start the gossip topic, but he couldn't get a response from Mr. Kang. This Mr. Kang seems to be a little taboo about the past, or he has no interest in gossip at all.

Mao Geng looked at it, he couldn't disobey Kang Lao, and looked at Kang Lao's interest, as if he was a bookworm, so let's consult book printing first. So Mao Geng didn't beat around the bush, and directly asked Mr. Kang about the book printing of the Great Song Dynasty in this era. Mao Geng is a reformed person who returned to the south, and it is not strange that he is not familiar with the book printing of the Great Song Dynasty.

Speaking of books, Kang Lao became interested and began to introduce them one by one.

The Four Books and Five Classics are the mainstream books of the Great Song Dynasty, so at the beginning, Mr. Kang moved out a bunch of books such as "Shangshu Justice", "Rites and Justice" and "Spring and Autumn Zuochuan Justice".

Speaking of these two binding methods have shortcomings,The so-called folding is still left over from the Tang Dynasty,The Qing Dynasty in TV is that kind of binding format,It's nothing more than folding a long scroll into a stack"fold",Unfold it when you read it,Close it is a book。

Although the name of the butterfly costume is beautiful, there is something ugly about this binding method, that is, when reading a book, it will turn to the back without words. Because at this time, it was almost all single-sided printing, with words printed on one side and blank on the other. Single-sided printing actually has in later generations, for this single-sided printing situation, the binding method of later generations is to have the word side outside, fold it in half from the middle line, and then bind the opening side of the page, the back is sealed, so you can not see the back of the wordless.

The Song people also folded the word side in half at the center line, but the Song people bound the center crease, after the two pages were glued with paste at the center crease, the four half pages could be turned around the axis of the center crease, and the elegant literati of the Song Dynasty called this kind of book bound from the center crease called butterfly binding, which is really painful!

Mao Geng looked through these books and thought in his heart that if these Song books were left in the 21st century, it would definitely be a lot of wealth, but this was in the Song Dynasty, and these large-character Confucian books with gorgeous handwriting were really not Mao Geng's interest.

Mao Geng felt disappointed, hesitated for a while, and still asked:

"Mr. Kang, there are no sentences to read in these books, I don't know how to break the sentence when I read --- book?"

Mao Geng's question was not loud enough, Mr. Kang didn't hear it clearly, Wen Yuan repeated it loudly again, this time Mr. Kang understood, got up and looked for a breath on the shelf, found a book, and said:

"It's not that all books don't have sentences to read, Brother Mao, you see, this one has a sentence to read. As for the books of scripture and history, there has never been a printed version marked with sentence reading, and if you can't break sentences on your own when you read scriptures and history, then you don't have to expect any fame. ”

Mao Geng saw that the book handed over by Mr. Kang was very new, the title of the book was called "Yuan's Shifan", and the author was called Yuan Cai. This book is a family motto reader, with black spots of broken sentences, and the writing is also more popular, although it is still mainly Chinese, but Mao Geng also feels easy to understand. It turns out that the people of the Song Dynasty are not so pedantic, and they have long had the awareness of using punctuation, which is lonely and unheard. It can be seen that most of those who wrote time-traveling novels in later generations were self-righteous and blindly belittled the wisdom of the ancients.

Flip it again, now this book can not turn the back page of the wordless, take a closer look, it turns out that this book is not a butterfly binding, but on the opening side of the paste on the paste binding up, well, this is the same as the binding method of later generations, the ancients are also good at summarizing and improving.

Mao Geng nodded and praised:

"It's a very good book, and it's very well bound." This time, the voice of praise was a little loud.

When Mr. Kang heard Mao Geng praise him for his good books, he stroked his beard as if he was praising his children:

"I bought this book last year, and it's a new book. The binding of this book is called the back of the bag, and after the back is wrapped, it is naturally better than the butterfly binding. ”

Mao Geng flipped through the book again, and felt that the fly in the ointment was that the book was also engraved too big, and each word was only afraid that it would be bigger than the No. 1 word in later generations. According to the standard of 6o thousand words is long enough, the shortest novel in such a printing method needs at least 3ooo pages, which is five thick books.

As soon as he thought of this, Mao Geng couldn't help but regret:

"It's all good in this book, but it's a pity that the --- is too big to engrave that word, and it would be better if it were a little smaller."

Mr. Kang smiled, and then took out a pocket-sized book from the back room, which immediately made Mao Geng dumbfounded. The size of the book is only a quarter of the normal book, and the small characters on it are only afraid that they are only the size of a small No. 5 word, but the number of words is counted, and a page is printed with 300 words, if it is the format of a normal book, a page can be printed with 12oo words, and stereotyping can do this, I am really unconvinced!

The book has a long title - "Taixue New Combination of Lianzhu Sound Rhythm Ten Thousand Volumes of Jinghua", the author is called Li Zhaoxi, and according to Mr. Kang, this is only one of the first sixty volumes, and the last eighty volumes, which were written by Li Xiangzhi. This set of 140 volumes covers almost all fields such as astronomy and geography, economics and politics, life and craftsmanship, and can be regarded as an encyclopedia of the Great Song Dynasty. Mao Geng was shocked and learned that the Song people called this kind of pocket book a towel box book, which could have been lightly stuffed into the towel box of ancient men's makeup, so it was called a towel box book.

What's even more amazing is that there are more pocket-sized miniature books than this towel box, called the entrainment book, which is a sharp weapon for candidates to cheat in the field, and the words on the entrainment book are so small that you can imagine.

It's a pity that there are only two incomplete sets of these 140-volume masterpieces in Xinhua, and Mr. Kang finally got five of them, which are regarded as treasures, and it is the first time in many years that they have been taken out to share with outsiders.

From this moment on, Mao Geng had even more respect for Mr. Kang. This old gentleman, looking at his bookish appearance, is really a typical bookworm, except for reading, he doesn't listen to things outside the window, which is really not simple.

After determining that Mr. Kang was a scholar-type figure, Mao Geng was more open, so he further consulted about white wax, and according to Mao Geng's plan, he used the thin leather paper to soak in white wax, and the wax paper produced by zuò should be able to meet the requirements of stereotyped printing.

Unexpectedly, what Mr. Kang revealed shocked Mao Geng again.

First of all, Fuguoxi's stocking of ash insects to harvest ash was originally due to a sentence from Kang Lao, who also read it in a book.

In addition, wax paper has long been available in this era, but it is only used as a lantern, and Mr. Kang also quoted Su Shi's poem "Shu Yaowen's Drama at Night": "Push the door into the room and read vertically and horizontally, and the wax paper lantern shakes mica." ”。 In this way, the Northern Song Dynasty had wax paper.

Mr. Kang talked about the differences between beeswax, white wax and black wax, which once again gave Mao Geng a long insight. It turns out that the earliest wax was taken from worker bees, and a kind of wax secreted by worker bees was called beeswax, and candles were made of beeswax in the Sui and Tang dynasties. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the yield of ash produced by the medical family was higher, and there was a special stocking of ash insects to collect ash wax. Later, it was discovered that there was a waxy membrane in the fruit of black oak wood, so this vegetable wax also began to be used to make zuò candles.

It seems that this Kang Lao knows a lot, of course, these things he understands are useless in the field, it's a pity!

This time, Mao Geng's interest in Kang Lao became stronger. Wen Yuan inquired and learned that Kang Lao and Fu Granny had two sons and a daughter, the son was taken away by Kang Lao's father when he was born, and the other daughter married back to the Yao family, and the remaining two old people lived in this Baixi official school and depended on each other. Kang Lao has books as his companion, but he doesn't feel lonely, but he makes his mother-in-law's life too lonely, no wonder Grandma Fu is so concerned about the new group of young boys and girls.

At this point, Mao Geng has a new idea, Mao Geng is determined to package the venerable Kang Lao, and make Kang Lao a model figure of the Great Song Dynasty, the key words of the packaging will involve: love, national harmony, education, dedication, Ming, the first four points Kang Lao itself has, just a little bit of rendering, as for Ming, just put his two Ming An on the head of Kang Lao, and future generations will not do this!

Hopefully, this will have an unexpected effect.

Note: The first set of Taixue New Combination of Beads and Sound Rhythm Ten Thousand Volumes of Jinghua is 6o volumes, and the latter is 8o volumes, a total of 14o volumes. Song carved towel box, jute paper, gold inlaid jade, yellow silk corner, book cover for colorful brocade, beautiful and exquisite. It is collected in Shandong Library, Beijing Administration of Cultural Relics, and National Library. Lost 23 volumes.

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