During the New Year's Day holiday, a series of cultural activities of "New Knowledge of Old Books, Reading and Enjoying the New Year" were held in China Bookstore. The series of cultural activities of "new knowledge of old books" covers different forms, such as book exhibitions, special exhibitions with characteristics, online live broadcasts, cultural lectures, etc. The old books, which have experienced many vicissitudes, gather in the Beijing Bookstore and are favored by readers.
In this series of activities, China Bookstore, together with Beijing Book Building, Wangfujing Bookstore and the Asian Games Village Book Building, jointly launched the exhibition and sales of fine old books. The old books section of Beijing Book Building is dominated by Chinese and foreign classics, covering foreign literary works such as "Four Masterpieces", "Human Comedy", "War and Peace" published by the People's Literature Publishing House in the 1980s; Wangfujing Bookstore has prepared a wide range of used books with good quality, including traditional culture series, classical literature series, foreign classics series, children's picture books series, more than 100 kinds of nearly 1000 books; The Book Building of the Asian Games Village displays more than one thousand books of literature, history, biographies and ancient calligraphy for readers to read and purchase.
Entering the Beijing Book Building, the exhibition and sales area of fine old books is located on the east side of the first floor. For readers who are used to buying new books, the arrival of old books even surprised them. Ms. Zhang and her friends came to the bookstore to buy books and accidentally found old books on display. "These books look very similar to many of my books and look very friendly." Sometimes, readers who often patronize the old book stalls look up and down excitedly, just like treasure hunting. There were also senior collectors at the scene. Song Lixian had collected 20000 books, of which more than 80% were literature collections. Pointing to volumes 2 and 7 of Lu Xun Research Materials on the bookshelf, he said that it was quite difficult to collect 24 volumes. He also picked up Liu Shaotang's book "The Beans and Melons in the Shed Are Like Silk in the Rain", which was first published and printed in November 1987. Now it sells for 30 yuan, and he thinks it is worth collecting. "One good book is one less." He has always adhered to this philosophy.
Boutique old books in Beijing Book Building, Wangfujing Bookstore and Asian Games Village Book Building all come from China Bookstore, and there are various wonderful special exhibitions waiting for readers in various bookstores of China Bookstore. At the first issue periodical exhibition of "era memory" excellent literary works held by Liulichang Branch of China Bookstore, Qi appeared in October, Zhongshan and People's Literature, showing readers the literary creation charm of contemporary Chinese writers and evoking people's memories of the times. Dengshikou Branch of China Bookstore held the "Warm Winter Nostalgia" comic book exhibition and sales activity, and more than 100 kinds of old comic books brought readers into a wonderful world in their hands. According to the staff, the 1956 version of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Historical Paintings is an old color comic book, which is not easy to keep. In the front store of the China Bookstore, the exhibition of "classic newly printed comic strips" was held, and there were many award-winning works by famous artists such as Liu Jiyou and Wang Shuhui, such as "The Monkey King Beats White Bones Three Times" and "The Story of the Western Chamber", as well as classic film comic strips published by the China Film Press, such as "Blessing" and "The Lin Family Shop".
What is worth mentioning is that the exhibition of ancient books on edition held by Dengshikou Branch of China Bookstore is a good opportunity for professional book lovers. According to the staff, there are more than 100 kinds of old books of ancient book edition in this special shelf exhibition, such as Random Stories of Book Selling (1982 Edition of Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House), Textual Research on the Works of Women in Past Dynasties (1985 Edition of Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House), Introduction to Edition (1989 Edition of Bashu Publishing House), and Shulin Qinghua (1957 Edition of Ancient Books Publishing House). "These provide a wealth of reference materials for those who are interested in understanding the book versions and development characteristics of various historical periods," said the staff. (Lu Yanxia)
