Chapter 356: Straight to the Letter
The three-storey library is five rooms wide.
That is, there are five rooms on the first floor, which are separated by hollow carved partitions, and there are passages about one meter wide at both ends of the partitions for people to walk around, which makes the five rooms both separated and connected.
In the middle of the first floor is the lobby, with the main seat and guest seats lined up on the left and right sides.
There are two rooms on the left and right sides, and in the rooms are rows of bookshelves hanging from the ceiling to the floor, and there is a passage between the two bookshelves for one person to pass through.
The staircase to the second floor is located on the far left of the first floor, which is one-third the size of a room, and is separated by partitions and bookshelves to form a compartment.
It is about two meters wide and ten meters deep, and the staircase is five meters deep.
In this way, there is a case and a seat behind the staircase, and there is also a case and a seat in front of the staircase, which can be regarded as two small offices.
Liu Chenxing's office is in front of the stairs, and through the open door, you can walk directly into the courtyard.
Don't look at the office is not very big, it is a small house with a width of two meters and a length of five meters, about ten square meters, but the interior is very elegant.
The case set up on the back wall is a long case with red carvings, and the mat spread on the floor is also a delicate jade.
One end of the desk was only a meter away from the staircase, and although there was a small bookshelf against the wall, anyone who went up and down the stairs could almost certainly pass under her nose.
Therefore, this office seat is comparable to the gatekeeper of the library separation.
The archives and collection of the history museum are managed by four canons, and the small offices at both ends of the staircase should be the place where the canons work.
Her guess proved to be right.
Soon after Liu Chenxing settled down at the staircase on the first floor, a miscellaneous eunuch carried a case to the small office inside, and after asking the reason, she learned that Sun Dianshu gave her his office, and Sun Dianshu had to move this new set of desks and go to the inner office to live with a Dianshu surnamed Zheng.
No wonder Sun Dianshu said in the previous sentence just now that the first left and right across the courtyard was the office of the officials, so she didn't bother, and then said that every time she wanted to take a book, she had to register it for him, and it turned out that Sun Dianshu's office was next to her on weekdays.
Also, the Library Pavilion is such an important place, how can she rest assured that she is guarded by a non-staff member of the History Museum.
Liu Chenxing smiled and shook his head, she came empty-handed today, and there is nothing to place, there are miscellaneous eunuchs in the history museum, and the good pen, ink, paper, and inkstone don't need money, and they are placed on the four-storey small bookshelf on the side, and they also said that they are out of order is, of course, if you feel that this set of pen, ink and paper inkstones is not very handy, you can also change to other places of origin and quality of pen, ink and paper inkstones, and Liu Chenxing felt that he was getting rich, and good quality pen, ink and paper inkstones were used casually.
However, looking at this neatly cut rice paper, layer after layer on the bookshelf, there was a guess in his heart, so he couldn't wait to splash the ink immediately, Liu Chenxing couldn't put it down and touched the snow-white and delicate rice paper on the bookshelf, and started with the history museum collection that he had been thinking about since yesterday.
Sun Dianshu and Zheng Dianshu, who had never met, were not there, only the miscellaneous eunuchs were standing guard in the courtyard, and there were only two miscellaneous eunuchs cleaning in the library pavilion now.
In other words, now that she is the big guy here, she can go to the second and third floors of the library pavilion to open her eyes without alarming Sun Dianshu and them.
However, there is no need to sneak around, and it is even more ugly to be caught, you have to go to the second and third floors to have a look, and it is also in front of Sun Dianshu and them, Liu Chenxing will not wander around, and go directly to the middle few lines of bookshelves that Sun Dianshu said can flip through one or two to take a look.
Books from the Middle Ages are completely different from the "album-style" style of books in modern times.
Before this dynasty, it was widely popular to use bamboo books, even though there are still many bamboo books in some places at present, so although the society has developed so far, papermaking has improved a lot, and bamboo and wood chips have finally been replaced by paper, but the people of the time still store books according to the old rules, and the bamboo books have become "scroll" books one by one.
So, what appeared in front of Liu Chenxing's eyes was a bag of bookshelf, a pile of piles, a shaft, and a column similar to an exam paper.
Paper is fragile and easily damaged, and these "scroll-style" books are indispensable in cloth bags for books.
The mouth of these cloth bags is open, and it can be seen from the mouth of the bag that there are five or ten scrolls inside.
Looking at the dense cloth bag, as well as the five or five book scrolls that show the mouth of the bag, Liu Chenxing is very nostalgic for modern books, and he can know what each book is at a glance.
Fortunately, there are still labels hanging on the scrolls of these exposed pockets, which indicate the content and order of this volume, so that they will not be blinded by smearing.
Liu Chenxing picked up a label and looked at it, started with a heavy one, and then took a closer look, that's right, a bookmark made of ivory!
Today, witnessing the gorgeous style of the history museum from the inside to the outside, Liu Chenxing was already uninterested in the ivory label, and determined that the bookmark was ivory texture, so he carefully bookmarked the text, only to see the book: "The History Museum of "Book of Zhou: Hundred Official Chronicles". ”
Seeing the words, I can't help but raise my eyebrows slightly.
It seems that she is really related to this history museum.
Open a book at will, and you can read the records of the history museum of this dynasty.
Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Shen family, established the state of Qi.
The empress changed the dynasty and changed the Great Qi to the Great Zhou.
Therefore, this volume of the History Museum of the Hundred Official Chronicles should be a new compilation after the empress ascended the throne.
Now that you have taken it out, take out one of the scrolls that record the history of the museum from the cloth bag.
Modern people born after the eighty-five years should have a common memory, primary school textbooks will be wrapped in book covers, this scroll is also, the back of the rice paper for writing is framed on a layer of off-white cloth, and there is another ribbon tied on the book cover made of this layer of cloth.
For this style of books, Liu Chenxing has been reading for ten years, and he has long been familiar with it, but he has never seen such a delicate one, so he can't help but untie the ribbon carefully and seriously.
Then, she pinched the head of the cloth book cover with her right hand, and slowly unfolded her left hand, and saw a line of neatly written regular script on yellow rice paper.
"In charge of the history of the country, it is not false and beautiful, it is not evil, and it is straightforward. The auspiciousness of heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, the division of mountains and rivers, the order of Zhaomu's succession, the matter of the ritual music division, and the government of rewarding and abolishing the revival are all based on the living notes and the political discipline of the times. It is hidden in the house. ”
In just a few words, the existence and role of the history museum jumped in front of me.
It does not flatter or hide evil, but only objectively states the facts.
Heaven and earth, sun and moon, mountains and rivers, inheritance of the temple...... The things of the world are recorded.
Liu Chenxing's hand holding the scroll couldn't help but tighten, and his heart was surging.
This is the History Museum.