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Rent in an apartment.

Lin Yi washed his hands and then carefully poured out a bag of Buddhist scriptures he had picked up.

It is fake to say that he is not excited when he saw so many antique scriptures. Before, Lin Yi was actually very excited at the scrap station, but he pretended to be calm and calm. Young people need to have good calmness, and Lin Yi felt that he had done a good job.

Looking at the thread-bound books covered with thread-bound books, Lin Yi felt like he was having a dream. In fact, he had never owned a thread-bound ancient book. The reason was very simple, first, rare, second, too expensive.

If we count it, the thread-bound book he had come into close contact with was the book "Tea Sutra" that Lu Yu saw last time when he went to the teahouse. Unfortunately, the book belonged to someone else, and he could only look at it with his hands.

But now, the thread-bound books all over the floor are all his own. Yes, these are all his. He can not only touch, read, but also sleep in his arms.

In fact, as long as you are a book lover, there is no one who doesn’t like thread-bound books.

Paperback is the "small jasper" in the book;

Hardcover books are the "lady of a noble family" in the book;

Line-bound books are the "peerless beauty" in the book.

Facing the "peerless beauty", as a man, who doesn't want to have a kiss on her beauty?!

Lin Yi is a man and a man who loves books, so he also likes thread-bound books very much. Not only him, but everyone who loves books loves thread-bound books. So much so that even many bookstores have begun to publish thread-bound magazines in large quantities, and the prices of new versions of thread-bound books are even higher, including "Four Great Classics", "Tang Poems and Song Ci", "Zeng Guofan's Family Letters", "Selected Works of Mao Taizu", etc., thousands or tens of thousands, which shocked countless people.

The world is reincarnation. Forty-six years ago, "line-bound books" was a symbol of Chinese old culture. With the slogan of "destroying the Kongjia Store", it was directly thrown into the toilet. More thread-bound books were found from every household, and miserably loaded onto a truck and a tractor, and directly pulled to the paper mill to make a paste.

Trucks after truck, thread-bound books carrying ancient Chinese culture were thrown into a mixer and stuffed into the toilet. The precious Yuan and Song versions of the book were turned into toilet paper and wiped their butts, and they became toilet paper and wrapped in fried dough sticks, and used as waste paper to pad the base of the table--

But now, these thread-bound books that originally included fried dough sticks, rubbed butts, and plastered table legs have become the "kings" of the entire old book collection industry.

Generally speaking, the cover and back cover of the thread-bound book are mostly made of porcelain green paper, and white marks are pasted on the cover. The inscriptions on the bookmarks and title pages are often stamped with red seals. The spine is sewn with clean silk threads, which is simple and fresh. The thread-bound book of multiple volumes is also made of cardboard and green cloth paste, and is equipped with cow bones. If it is more particular, it is also ivory. The thread-bound book is generally printed with rice paper or breasted paper, which can uniquely reflect the academic, artistic value and book binding characteristics. This kind of binding is easy to read, not easy to break, and is very practical.

In his famous essay "Miscellaneous Talks on Post-Sickness", Mr. Lu Xun talked about reading "hard-collar leather boots" that reading "hard-collar leather boots" is like holding a big brick in both hands. In less than a long time, his arms were sore and numb, so he had to sigh and put it down. So after I sighed, I went to look for thread-bound books." Line-bound books can be rolled up and read, and are easy to carry. Most of the thread-bound books are printed in large characters, and they are often separated by "black silk", that is, they use ink to make straight lines on paper, which looks convenient and is very popular among scholars.

In the early 1970s, when Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations were normalized, Mao Taizu even gave a set of thread-bound books "Chu Ci Ji Notes" as a state gift to former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. The Prime Minister was very satisfied. Now there are tens of thousands of thread-bound books like this. On Ba Jin's birthday, his friends wanted to give the elderly a meaningful gift. After thinking about it, someone came up with an idea to refine a batch of "Sutra Thoughts" thread-bound books, which were praised by the elderly. Now that the set of books is as high as thousands.

There is a saying in the collection industry that is called "no waste paper for a hundred years". In the 1930s, Lu Xun and Zheng Zhenduo carefully printed a "Peking Notes". Lu Xun said humorously at that time: "By the 30th century, it must be comparable to the Tang version." In fact, in less than half a century, this work of art has become a rare cultural relic.

Taoshu notes records---

In 2009, a first edition of the Republic of China version of the Republic of China version appeared at the Jiade Auction, and 130,000 yuan had been sold. In 1958, in order to mourn Lu Xun and Zheng Zhenduo who died in an airplane crash, he copied the book and changed it to "Beijing Book". To this day, this copy has become a rare and exquisite treasure. Some of the line-bound books with good quality for nearly three or forty years have already entered the art auction hall and sold impressive prices.

The auction records in June this year include: the 1977 edition of the large-character line-bound book "Records of the Grand Historian" with 30 volumes, with an auction of 345,000 yuan; the 1972 edition of "The Complete Works of Lu Xun" with a line-bound ten volumes, with a 230,000 yuan; the 1974 edition of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with a 32,000 yuan; the 1980s "Shizhuzhai Painting Book" was originally priced at a price of several dozen yuan and sold for 4,025 yuan.

Lin Yi closed his eyes. This is the past and present life of thread-bound books.

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Looking back, Lin Yi sorted out the Buddhist scriptures he received, and they were -

The Diamond Sutra is a volume,

The Prajna Mido Sutra is a volume,

A volume of "Ten Thousand Buddhas Sutras",

The Book of Cause and Effect,

A volume of "Amitabha Sutra",

The Lotus Sutra, the first, middle and second volumes,

"Madhyavana Sutra" 40 volumes, two letters and 14 volumes...

The rest are the Great Prajna Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Great Wisdom Treatise, the Madhyamaka Sutra, the Yoga Sage, etc., with a total of 320 copies.

Looking at so many Buddhist scriptures, Lin Yi carefully checked and found that most of them were engraved in the Jinling sutras in the ninth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty.

The special period of Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty was a very strange era. The science and technology culture in China and the West exploded, and the book printing was blooming. Traditional engraving and printing technology was replaced by lead printing and photocopying technology. At that time, lead printing technology was generally used in paperback books, while photocopying technology was used to copy old thread-bound books, so that many versions of ancient books that were about to extinction had a large number of photocopying.

The photocopy is actually the "shadow" of the woodcut book, just like the Buddha's bone relics have "real bones" and "shadow bones". These photocopy books are the shadows of many precious ancient books. Therefore, there is a huge difference in price and value between the two.

Many times, some cunning book vendors like to use photocopiers as woodcuts to make high profits. For example, a woodcut book called "Yuanwen Xin Diaolong" can be auctioned for a high price of 2.03 million yuan at auction, but the photocopiers in the Republic of China are only 3,500 yuan on the market, while the photocopiers published in Shanghai in the 1980s were about 600 yuan. The price difference between the two is 100,000 miles, which is chaotic.

It is difficult to distinguish between woodcuts and photocopys. Only when some old experts take the things into their hands can they distinguish them.

First, let’s see if there are any ink marks of varying depths on the back of the paper. There must be any engraved version, and there are no shadow versions. If you don’t know, you can find two copies to compare the back of the paper and you will know immediately.

The principle is as follows: The engraved book is painted on the woodblock. Since the ink on the woodblock cannot be completely uniform, and the power of hand brushing is difficult to be completely uniform, the color of some characters or characters will penetrate to the back of the paper after the strokes of the ink, resulting in the color of the back of the book pages being different in the shade and very untidy. Photocopy books do not use the brushing technology, rely on light and shadow to image, and there is no concave and convex bottom surface for printing. The printed books are smooth regardless of the front or back, especially the back of the paper is very clean and tidy, and there will be no irregular partial characters passing through the paper.

Lin Yi did not have a deep understanding of thread-bound books, but he knew how to distinguish between photocopied books and woodcut books.

At this moment, Lin Yi took out a book called "Cause and Effect Sutra" and carefully observed the front and back of the book. Sure enough, the front and back of the handwriting were uneven, and there were still ink marks in some places. There was no doubt that these Buddhist scriptures were definitely woodcuts.

After understanding the way of engraving these Buddhist scriptures, Lin Yi will also know their potential collection value, needless to say, it has become more developed.

It is hard to find a woodcut book, let alone so many of them all at once.

I was excited, and a little excited, and I was so excited that I wanted to yell a few times.

Lin Yi has always been unlucky for money. Even though he already has more than one million in his hands now, who thinks it is too much? What's more, in this era when millionaires are as numerous as dogs, millionaires are walking together, and billionaires hide Beidou, one million is really too little. Only a rich man can drink a few bottles of red wine. One million is too weak. It's not enough to buy a big toilet in the capital.

So Lin Yi’s concept is very simple: picking up bargains, making money, constantly picking up bargains, making money, and constantly accumulating wealth until one day he can really be called a rich person...

Forcefully suppressing the surging surging inside, Lin Yi squatted down and began to carefully organize the treasure-like thread-mounted Buddhist scriptures.

320 books are not bad, but there are more than a dozen books that have changed shape and broken the spine because of being squeezed in the sack. There are also a few thread-bound books with some broken heads (upper part). Of course, insects and mold spots in the inner pages are inevitable. From Guangxu to now, for more than a hundred years, you can't make it as brand new and neat as the books in Xinhua Bookstore. Moreover, books are like people. When people get old, they will still have wrinkles and elderly spots. When books are old, they will also have moldy wrinkles and yellow spots.

Although I haven't played with books for too long, Lin Yi also clearly knows the most famous sayings in the collection industry of "quality affects price". In the old book industry, there has always been a highest level of playing books, which is "playing with the old as new", which means that although the person playing with old books is as pleasant as the new, the appearance of the old book is as beautiful as the new. It is called a treasure in your hand, and it is called a show-off, which is called antique, elegant and refined. No matter how you look at it, you are not a vulgar person. But if you are that broken book, smelly and moldy, no matter how much the book is worth, it seems that you are also picking up rags at a waste station.

This shows how important the appearance of old books is. It directly determines what level the owner of the book is.

In the past, when faced with these damaged old books, Lin Yi could only sigh and could not do anything. Spend money to repair the so-called ancient books to repair them, but it is probably impossible to get rid of them if there are thousands or tens of thousands. Or you just don’t have any skills. Instead of repairing them yourself, you should just keep them still by destroying them.

But Lin Yi is different now. He has the special ability to repair ancient books.

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