Chapter 289: A Library of Significance!
Lin Xuan followed Zhang Ming out of the house, at this time there were not many people in the tribe, it was almost evening, some people were preparing dinner at home, some people were hunting outside and had not come back, for thousands of years, that is, every time the small world was opened, when someone outside entered, the people in the tribe would come back very completely...... Even Gongsun Mu Gongsun Ye, or Ji Qiu are not tribesmen......
Lin Xuan didn't know anyone in the tribe, and Lin Xuan and they had been here for a month, and the people in the tribe were not surprised by them, so everyone did their own thing, and there was no intersection, only occasionally they would say hello when they saw one or two familiar faces......
Lin Xuan's house was not very far from Gongsun Luohua's house, which was the largest in the entire tribe, and it was six stories higher than the two old houses next to him......
"The collection of books of the elders of the past dynasties is in the house of the elder of Luohua, and the bottom two floors are the residence of the elder of Luohua, but the upper six floors are the collection of books, and the elder of Luohua said that if the books are full, you can continue to increase the height, and this is what the past dynasties have done, at the beginning, the most central room was only three floors...... "Zhang Ming pointed to the room in front of him and said: "The number of houses of the elders of the past dynasties is different, and at the most time in history, there were twenty clan elders in the same period. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Ming paused, sighed and said: "After every clan elder dies, his house will be demolished, but only this one room, after continuous renovation and continuous heightening, has been preserved...... Elder Luohua said that the training was to keep it until they walked out of this space...... It's a pity that the disadvantages of the Heavenly Realm reached by the blood crystal are too great, and it can only increase the lifespan by a hundred years, that is, there are two lives, but it will still die...... Except for the first few Heavenly Realms to enter, the later Heavenly Realms were all reached through blood crystals, but the first Heavenly Realms to come in disappeared after the Heavenly Realm was born here, and there are only three Heavenly Realms left until now......"
"Everything in this still has a story...... Lin Xuan said with a smile.
"Yes, no matter what it is, as long as you are old, there will be some stories ......" Zhang Ming nodded and said: "Let's go, let's go in, this room of Elder Luohua is permanently open, no matter what time it is, anyone in the tribe can come here to read it......"
"Okay!" Lin Xuan nodded, and followed Zhang Ming into the room, the furnishings in the hall were very ordinary, and there was no extra decoration...... There was a big table.
"The first floor is the place where the meeting is held, the parents of each family come back here for the meeting, and the second floor is the house of the elder Luohua, let's go directly to the third floor, which is the first batch of books recorded by the elders, which is very interesting...... However, the text is relatively old...... Except for Li Xin, no one else could understand it...... "There were two stairs in front of him, Zhang Ming pointed to one of the stairs on the left, indicating that he could go directly to the third floor......
"Well...... There is still a big difference between the early Chinese characters and the present, and it is not easy for you to understand the traditional Chinese characters, those oracle bone inscriptions...... Now the experts of the state have not yet recognized the whole ...... I don't know much, Li Xin is interested in this area, she knows a lot...... Is she on the third floor?" Lin Xuan asked as he walked up the stairs with Zhang Ming.
"No, she started on the third floor, but she said that reading those books was a bit difficult, and she was more interested in the history of the Ming Dynasty, so she was on the seventh floor. The three floors are all historical ...... before the Spring and Autumn Period," Zhang Ming said with a shrug.
As they spoke, they came to the third floor, just like the library, with rows of bookshelves lying across the room, and it seemed that the collection was extremely rich...... Lin Xuan stood at the door of the third floor, stunned, and muttered, "These are all the histories before the Spring and Autumn Period? There are hundreds of thousands of copies at such a simple glance...... This...... If these old guys in the department see this, they won't be crazy? That's a lot more than the national collection......"
"Actually, it's not much, you should think about how long it was before the Spring and Autumn Period to the time of the Yellow Emperor, the Spring and Autumn Period was already the last year of the Zhou Dynasty, and there was the entire Zhou Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, the Xia Dynasty, and the tribal era in front of it...... These books are not much......" Zhang Ming said indifferently.
"You don't understand, you don't know how scarce the country's records of the ancient times are, after thousands of years of war, most of the things recorded in the ancient times have long been wiped out, plus the writing was not developed at that time, so there are very, very few books that have been handed down, and one of the books in it is circulated, it will cause a shock in the academic world, it is a shock...... Lin Xuan looked a little excited, this is the real history, Lin Xuan felt that he was so close to history for the first time......
"Is that if you want to read here or go to them?" Li Xin is on the seventh floor, Brother Lu is on the eighth floor, Jiaxin and Muyin are more interested in Sui and Tang, and they are ...... on the sixth floor," Zhang Ming asked.
"Let's take a casual look at it first, and then look at it layer by layer...... This is a treasure......" Lin Xuan said with a light sigh.
"Then see for yourself, I've gone to the fifth floor, and I'm still interested in the Three Kingdoms...... Hehe...... "After speaking, Zhang Ming continued to run up the stairs......
Lin Xuan smiled, walked into this library, and picked up a book at random, the text on it was very strange and very difficult to understand, but Lin Xuan still read it with relish, this is a book that records the rhythm of the Di Yao period, mainly reflecting the Chinese music Shao of the Di Yao period...... The music that made Confucius unaware of the taste of flesh......
Putting down the books in his hand, and then shuttling back and forth on the big bookshelf, there are still some tribesmen reading in the library, most of the tribesmen are more interested in two periods, one is current affairs, that is, contemporary things, they are eager to understand what is happening outside, and the other is the era of the Yellow Emperor, that is, the era when their ancestors were outside...... So the first layer is still for some people......
Let go of the third layer, and go up to the fourth layer, according to Zhang Ming, this is the history before the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, the Spring and Autumn Period to the Western Han Dynasty, this layer of knowledge is more rich than the first layer, how to see it, the books here are obviously thicker, and many of the books on the first layer are scrolls made of animal skins, and there are a lot of bamboo slips in it...... It seems that the way they record is still in line with the outside world...... After all, they were a group of cultivators, and when it came to creativity, they still couldn't catch up with the crowd outside.
Walking to the fifth floor, I saw Zhang Ming lying on the ground on all fours, reading a book and reading very attentively, smiled, this layer is almost the same as the previous layer, but the history of this layer has advanced to the Sui Dynasty, in fact, the longer the time period is recorded, the shorter the time period is, one is that the text is richer, and the other is that the outside world is getting more and more exciting, and there are more and more things that can be recorded......
The sixth layer is from the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Song Dynasty, Lin Xuan saw that there was already a large amount of paper in the books inside, and those books were getting thicker and thicker, and he didn't see Jiaxin and Mute, it was estimated that they were in a corner.
The seventh layer is from the Yuan Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there are already a few one-volume sets of books on the bookshelf, and I saw Li Xin, but Lin Xuan didn't bother him, and when he walked to this floor, Lin Xuan was suddenly a little moved, these clan elders in this small world really did something earth-shattering......
Walking to the eighth floor, at the door, I saw Lu Ran leaning on the door frame with a smile, as if he was waiting for Lin Xuan: "How is it, how do you feel when you come up this way?"
Lin Xuan breathed a long sigh of relief, pulled the corners of his mouth and said: "For Huaxia, these six-story books are priceless, and the value of them can be measured by no money, I took a look at it casually, not only history, but also many precious literary works that have been lost, and the value of these six-story buildings is even more than Xuanyuan Sword for the country!"