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A new store was quietly opened in Chang'an City, Zhang Ji Bookstore. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is no special publicity, it is on the edge of the Fumanlou Restaurant in the East City, and the façade is not big. Kong Yingda and Lu Deming came out of Fuman Building and accidentally found this bookstore.

"Didn't you have this store last time you visited?" Lu Deming, whose face was flushed, stopped and said.

Kong Yingda also looked at this small shop, "I really haven't seen it, it's better to go in and have a look." ”

Readers are always good readers, not to mention that Lu Deming and Kong Yingda are both a generation of Confucians. Both of them became famous as teenagers, and now they are both nearly fifty years old, and they are now both doctors of Taixue.

Just a few years ago, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, the general of Tiance, opened a literature museum next to the palace and invited eighteen celebrities to enter the museum, and he served as a bachelor of the literature museum as his own official. Lu Deming and Kong Yingda are doctors of Taixue, and they are on the sixth grade, because they are famous Confucians in the world, they were also invited into the Literature Museum and became one of the eighteen bachelors of King Qin.

When I entered, a bell rang.

"Welcome!"

There is a counter at the entrance, but it is not the same as the counter in a normal store. The counter was not high, only half a person high, and there was a person sitting in the back, and when he saw them come in, he immediately got up and greeted them with a smile on his face, and bowed down.

Kong Yingda nodded and replied, thinking that the clerk in this small shop was very good.

But he was soon attracted by the layout of the bookstore, passing through the counter at the door, the small storefront was lined with rows of bookshelves on both sides of the wall, and in the middle was a large wooden tabletop spread out on the ground.

"That's a lot of books!"

Lu Deming sighed, the tables on both sides and the desk in the middle were all filled with books.

A very good smell of ink permeated the room, which was the most familiar and smelly smell for the reader.

Kong Yingda was also a little surprised, there were indeed a lot of books in this bookstore. With so many bookshelves and desks, there must be at least a thousand or more books.

I hurriedly walked to a bookshelf and found that the books on it were not ordinary scrolls and albums, but books bound with thread, similar to albums, but bound together.

Books are lined up on shelves, with titles on the spine.

"This binding method is very good, especially the number of books with the title on the spine, which is good, and it is much easier to view."

"Mao's Poetry Biography"

Kong Yingda was surprised to find that the book in front of him was actually a biography of Mao's poems, which was written by Zheng Xuan, a master of Eastern Han Dynasty classics. This is a good book, Mao's poems are one of the classics of poetry, one of the Confucian classics, a collection of poems from the Zhou to the Spring and Autumn Period, compiled by Confucius.

In the Han Dynasty, there were Lu people Shen Peigong, Qi people Yuan Gusheng and Yan people Han Ying, collectively known as the three poems. But later, Mao's poems written by Mao Heng in the Han Dynasty were more widely circulated. Zheng Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty once annotated Mao's poems, which was to pass on Mao's poems.

For Confucianists, the Book of Songs is one of the Confucian classics, and Mao's poems are the most widely circulated version of the Book of Songs today.

opened the book, which surprised Kong Yingda even more, this book is so clean and tidy, the font seems to be in block letters but different, each word has equal horizontal and vertical thickness, beautiful strokes, and the glyph is rectangular, beautiful and beautiful.

Kong Yingda had never seen this kind of font, and after flipping through a few pages, he found that the whole book was in this font, and each word was the same size, as if carved out of a mold.

"Deming, come and see." Kong Yingda couldn't help but call Lu Yuanlang.

Lu Deming was also holding a notebook of Mao's poems in his hand, with an excited look on his face.

"These two books are exactly the same."

"yes, it's exactly the same, how is that done?"

The two of them each held a copy of Mao's poems, and then turned the pages to find that the two books were exactly the same.

"I've never seen this font before."

"I haven't seen it either, it's like block letters, but it's different."

The two of them stood there, their faces flushed with excitement. "Shopkeeper, come here."

Zheng An, the shopkeeper, is very calm, the bookstore has only been open for three days, and there are many customers who come in. Every time, these people are just as surprised and even excited as they are. Shopkeeper Zheng has also read some books, otherwise he would not have been arranged to be a shopkeeper in this bookstore. He could understand the shock of the guests, and he was just as shocked when he first saw the books.

Zheng An felt that these two guests today must be unusual, they were dressed extraordinarily, and their manners were gifts, and the most important thing was that these two people had a strong bookish atmosphere.

"Shopkeeper." Kong Yingda was very polite, "This book is not copied, is it?"

"This is an engraving book, and we are the only one in the world." Zheng An proudly told them.

"Oh, engraving? Shopkeeper, can you tell us more about it? Kong Yingda said with a smile, but her heart was even more excited and curious.

"Engraving printing is engraving, and then printing it like a seal." The shopkeeper's very concise introduction, this introduction is straightforward, so that the guests can understand the meaning, but will not reveal too much of the printed secrets.

"Sure enough, it's engraved in a mold, and I still have a question, who wrote this font?"

Many readers started out as temporary stickers to learn from those famous calligraphers. But some powerful people will also create their own style, form their own self, and even start a sect. And the font in the book they held in their hands was something they had never seen before, and it seemed to be in block letters but different, and it could already be called the style of the founding school.

"This font, called engraving printing, was created by our family Langjun specifically for engraving printing, so we are also used to calling it Xinzhangti characters."

"New Zhangti characters, is there another Zhangti characters?" Lu Deming was even more curious.

"There is indeed a Zhang font, our bookstore used a line block font when we first carved it, but although the line is smoother and faster, it is more difficult to engrave. Later, my family Langjun created the Zhangti character, which is similar to the block letter, but the strokes have thick changes, horizontal and vertical thickness, and there are decorative feet and serifs at the end, and the strokes such as dots, strokes, and hooks have tips. ”

"Later, my family Langjun improved the Zhang font, so that the horizontal and vertical thickness of the font is equal, which is more suitable for engraving, and the strokes are more beautiful and beautiful after printing. We called the original font the old Zhang Ti, and the later one the new Zhang Ti character. ”

Now Kong Yingda and the others are more interested in this person who can create engraving printing, and even specially create the old Zhang Ti and the new Zhang Ti characters.

"May I ask who your family Langjun is?"

'Zhang Sanlang of the Zhang family is also the head of Bailu Academy. ’

"Could it be Zhang Sanlang who wrote the three-character scripture?" Lu Mingde asked loudly, "Is it really him?" ”

Kong Yingda also felt incredible.

Zheng An smiled, "Our family Langjun not only wrote the three-character scripture, but also wrote the Zhang family rules that are famous in Chang'an, and even the Zizhi Tongjian compiled by him is also admired, and it is called the two major historical books that can be compared with historical records, and it is a book that must be read when reading history." ”

"It's really Zhang Wenyuan, hiss!"

Both of them couldn't help but inhale the cold air, this Zhang Wenyuan, is it a demon? Kong Yingda and Lu Deming are both doctors of Guozixue, and they both became famous as teenagers. But their teenagers became famous, Kong Yingda taught and taught in the township for ten years, at the beginning of the great career, participated in the imperial examination, and Ming Jingke High School, at that time he was already thirty-two years old.

After that, he served as a doctor of Hanoi County for several years, Yang Guangzheng was a Confucian official in various counties, gathered in the Eastern Capital, Kong Yingda debated with famous Confucians from all walks of life, won the championship in one fell swoop, and made up for Taixue Teaching Assistant, and truly became famous in the world. But at that time, he was thirty-six years old, and Lu Deming was also a prominent young talent at that time, but he was also in his thirties, almost forty years old, but at that time, he was a young celebrity praised by the world.

But compared with today's Zhang Wenyuan, he is a real young celebrity. It seems that this year is only twenty-two, and there are several books compiled, not to mention that now there are still engraving printing and the Zhang Ti characters of this founding school.

"I remember hearing that Zhang Wenyuan's calligraphy is very poor? A brush is unsightly. Lu Deming said suspiciously.

"My family Lang Jun is really not very good at writing calligraphy, but that's because when he used to study with the monk Master Sanzang, Master Sanzang taught him to write with a quill pen, so although my family Sanlang is not good at calligraphy, but he is good at hard pen calligraphy. This font is actually a hard pen font. ”

"Hard pen calligraphy?"

The two of them looked down at the font on the book in their hands, and there was indeed some truth. The horizontal and vertical thickness is the same, and the brush word is really not very good to write this font.

"Shopkeeper, how many copies of this Mao poem are there?"

There are three hundred and five poems in the Book of Songs, so it was also called three hundred poems in the past, and it was listed as a scripture in the Han Dynasty. Mao's poems have been passed on, and Mao's poems have been annotated, so the number of words is a lot, and when Zhangjia Bookstore was engraving and printing, punctuation marks were added, and the typesetting was sorted out, making this complete set of books more than 200,000 words.

The whole book is still divided into 20 volumes according to Zheng Jing Mao's poems, each with more than 10,000 words.

"These two guest officers, our book is sold in sets, a set of twenty volumes, one volume per volume, a total of twenty copies. The price of each set is 12,888 yuan. The shopkeeper replied with a smile. This price is set by Saburo, there are zero and whole, and the average volume is more than 600 yuan.

It's quite expensive, but if you compare it with the price of hand-copying, it's much cheaper, and it costs 1,000 yuan to ask a special scribe to copy a volume, and 20,000 yuan to copy 20,000 yuan.

The books in Zhang Kee Bookstore are quite cheap.

Kong Yingda can afford to buy it, but it's still expensive when you think about it. It's nearly thirteen dollars, how can ordinary people afford to buy it.

"We can also provide book rental services." Zheng An said in a timely manner.

"Rent?"

"That's right, you can rent a set or a single roll, a single roll is only five dollars a day, and a set of rent is a hundred dollars a day. You can rent for up to seven days at a time, but you need to pay a deposit for renting a book, and if the book is damaged, defaced or lost, the deposit can be withheld according to the situation. ”

Kong Yingda and the two think that this rented book is good, ordinary readers can rent the book back in separate volumes, and then copy it, if they copy it quickly, copy one volume a day, each volume only needs to be rented for one day, and it is only five yuan, and twenty volumes are rented back in separate volumes, and it is only one hundred yuan. A hundred times cheaper than buying a book.

"Do you want to rent or buy?"

Kong Yingda himself would prefer to buy a set and go back to collect, he has read this book several times, and the more he reads it, the more he likes it, the line binding, a complete set of books and a wooden box. And every book has a table of contents page, a page number in the sub, and these books actually have punctuation.

The most important thing is that the book is clean and tidy, he read a few articles carefully, and did not find a single typo.

A work of conscience.

"Buy a set."

"I'll buy one too."

Nearly thirteen sets, but neither of them hesitated.

Kong Yingda thought that maybe he could let the students of Guozi School come here to rent books and copy them back, and the version of Mao's poems in this store is very good.

"Shop, do you have any other books?"

"At present, we also have the Three Character Sutra, the Thousand Character Script, the Three Thousand Years of the Upper and Lower Chapters, and the three volumes of the Zhou Ji Five Volumes of the Zizhi Tongjian, as well as the Lotus Sutra, the Forty-two Chapters Sutra and the Tao Te Ching." The shopkeeper is like a treasure.

Kong Yingda asked the shopkeeper to take each set and look at it, and finally couldn't help it, and bought a set of all these, even the Buddhist scriptures, this engraving book is really good, he wants to buy it back and collect it.

"Shopkeeper, if there is a new volume in the back of the Zizhi Tongjian, you must come and inform me."

Holding the eight volumes of Zhou Qin in the Zizhi Tongjian, Kong Yingda did not forget to tell the shopkeeper that he would notify him as soon as there was a follow-up volume.

There was a little embarrassment when checking out, Kong Yingda and Lu Deming bought a bunch of books by themselves, and when they settled the accounts, they got more than 30,000 yuan, and neither of them had so much cash with them.

"Put this book here first, and I'll go back and get the money right away." Kong Yingda asked Lu Deming to do it for him, and then he hurriedly ran home to get the money. (To be continued.) )